Is Feng Jicai a novel or an essay in Sibao Engraving?

(1) a flower-like conjecture in my heart was reduced to ashes in Sibao.

② In the four woodblock printing bases of the Song Dynasty, Jianyang, Fujian Province has been shouldering the heavy responsibility of spreading civilization on that land. Other lettering centers, such as the capital of song dynasty and Hangzhou, always rise and fall with the war and the changes of Kyoto. Only Jianyang, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, has been going from the Middle Ages to modern times. I like the folk feeling of Jian 'an Book. From the beginning, it served the people, which also integrated the reading interest and aesthetic concept of the ancestors into the workshop. Since the Ming Dynasty, the carved books in Hangzhou and Suzhou, as well as the rising Jinling School and Huizhou School, have flocked to literati, while Jian 'an Book has always stubbornly adhered to its commonness. Stories, jokes, unofficial history, medical books, medicine books, divination and books specially designed for children's enlightenment are all popular books in Jian 'an Edition all the year round. In today's view, the simple temperament cultivated by this folk printing house is the unique aesthetic character of Jian 'an Edition.

However, the real blessing of Jian 'an Books is that it still retains a hometown of block printing-Bao Si. Most of the ancient seal cutting bases in China are empty, leaving only this "living fossil" of Jian 'an. Does it still exude the fragrance of books, ink and civilization?

(4) Bao Si is located in the west of Fujian, backed by Wuyi Mountain, far away from the sky. This kind of place is the hiding place of history. However, modern magic is boundless, and the ancient town has become lively in recent years. However, to my surprise, the workshop and mansion of Zou, a famous family of stamp collectors who shocked western Fujian for two hundred years, are still intact here. One hundred and forty houses, large and small, have formed a typical Hakka residence-"nine halls and eighteen wells". In Bao Si, half of these houses are used for living and half for printing books. However, no matter what the accompanying host told me, I can't imagine the strange and elegant scene in the past.

If you pay attention, the thin curved rafters, wooden arches as light as birds, painted brick carvings, painted white walls, and some historical elegance. But people who live in this old house have long turned a blind eye to this. History has gone so far that you can't even see the back. The tall walls are all rotten, the surface is peeling off and the bricks are pulverized; The bricks on the ground were crushed at least half a century ago; Windows and doors are fragmented, or have already been replaced in a nondescript way; Sundries are piled up in every corner, and weeds and vines are intertwined. The only thing that can witness that this used to be a printing house is a heavy stone jar in the middle of some yards. It is carved from a whole piece of lapis lazuli and has been polished by years. At that time, the printing house was used to store ink, but now there are piles of coal or vegetables covered with boards; Some abandoned it and accumulated half a tank of black and smelly rain.

Living in this crowded, sticky and decadent space is a torment. Especially when all kinds of luxury houses flash by on the TV screen, people will be eager to escape, eager for the early arrival of modernization and treat them as garbage. Is this the inevitable fate of the last "living fossil" in the ancient country that invented printing?

It should be said that there are still some local people who are willing. They transformed Zoujia ancestral hall into a small museum, displaying ancient books collected from the museum and various tools, such as paper cutting, book printing, book cutting and binding. And the origin, evolution, workshops and related figures of the woodcarving in this place have been investigated and sorted out, and outlined in this small exhibition hall. But when I asked about the current version, the answer shocked me-there is only one complete version! Isn't this fertile ground that has produced thousands of books in Qian Qian exhausted, and even several sets of books can't be found?

Today, ubiquitous antique dealers still go to villages and towns in northern Fujian and western Fujian to collect ancient books and editions. Bos are poor, so they will naturally change them into money. It is really sad that culture is despised by its own master.

It is still a mystery when engraving printing began in Bao Si. However, as the origin of Jian 'an edition, it naturally belongs to the category of the origin of China woodblock printing history. Especially in the Song Dynasty, Bianjing fell, the capital moved south, the cultural center moved south, and the printing industry blossomed everywhere in northwest Fujian, the birthplace of Nanzhi. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jian 'an Books covered the land in the south of the Yangtze River, which was also the heyday of Bao Si. However, in the19th century, western lithography and lead printing technologies were introduced one after another, and block printing in Bao Si declined. From the system of great civilization, the inheritance of Chinese civilization has not been broken; But in many specific cultural contexts, we often have a sense of loss!

Attended in Liancheng, Longyan, Quanzhou and Xiamen, and specially went to the antique shop to observe the scattered situation of Jian 'an library tickets. Unfortunately, books that you can't see in Bao Si are easy to see in these stores. However, a dealer said to me, "you can't buy Amin edition at a high price." I believe what he said. Subject to financial constraints. In these fertile cultural fields, antique dealers abound, but experts are rarely seen.

⑾ The existing bookstores in Bao Si will not last long, and the surviving versions of ancient books among the people will soon become extinct. At this rate, the final result is that our ancient country, which once invented printing, will no longer have a "living witness"?

⑿ So, who will save Bao Si?