Buy books like a mountain? Look at how the ancients visited bookstores.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Sheng, the son of Xingyang, went to Chang 'an to take the exam. He fell in love with Li Wa, a famous prostitute in Chang 'an at that time, and they fell in love. Zheng Sheng was addicted to beauty, ruined his career, was punished by his family, and lived on the streets. Li Wa felt sorry for her old love, resolutely saved herself, and encouraged Zheng Sheng to continue her studies. According to Taiping Guangji, Li Wa "ordered the car to travel and rode with it. To the south of the flag pavilion, there is a grave-sweeping ceremony for students to choose, go to the market and pay 100 yuan to return home. Learn by letting students abandon all their troubles. "Translated, that is to say, Li Wa pulled Zheng Sheng out of the road, passed by a bookstore to buy Confucian classics, and made Zheng Sheng buy books crazily, no matter how much it cost, so that Zheng Sheng quickly began to study hard. In fact, the "Tomb Shop" recorded in the article is a bookstore specializing in Confucian classics. As you can see, in the Tang Dynasty, bookstores were everywhere in the street. So, when did the ancients start visiting bookstores? Bookstores appeared in the Western Han Dynasty and appeared in literature. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty exclusively respected Confucianism, bookstores came into being, because of "making the world count books" and the requirements of the official selection system such as examinations at that time. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, emperors were "very elegant". At this time, Luoyang, the capital, is the most prosperous place for bookstores. According to the biography of Wang Chong, when Wang Chong was young, his family was poor and he had no books. He often visits Luoyang Bookstore to see the books he sells. He can recite it when he sees it, so he learned a lot of school words. " Wang Chong was able to read "A Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" in Luoyang Bookstore, indicating that there were many kinds of books sold in the bookstore at that time, and the opportunities for literati to enter and leave the bookstore were greatly increased. The prosperity of society in Sui and Tang Dynasties also became an important stage of bookstore development. During this period, the distribution of bookstores was not only wider and wider, but also larger and larger, and a number of booksellers and booksellers dealing in calligraphy and painting also appeared. The two emperors in Sui Dynasty liked to collect different books in folk bookstores, and Historical Records recorded that Emperor Yang-ti "liked to collect different books". The two fathers and sons' hobby of collecting books constituted a rich collection of books in Sui Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was one of the most prosperous periods of China's cultural classics. As early as the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong sent people to "buy all the books in the world", and selected those with more than five products to write for calligraphers and hid them in the inner library. After the Anshi Rebellion, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to inspect calligraphy and painting many times, so some people said that the books of past dynasties were "not rich in Sui and Tang Dynasties" ("History of Song Dynasty, Art and Literature"). This is inseparable from the widespread rise of bookstores in the Tang Dynasty. There were many bookstores in the Tang Dynasty, among which the bookstores in Chang 'an, Xijing, Luoyang, Chengdu and Yizhou were the most prosperous. The opening story of Zheng Sheng and Li Wa also happened in bookstores in the Tang Dynasty. This is the source of the bookstore we visited today. Readers buy books like a mountain. Is it similar to the emperor's bibliophile?