Carved book "Left Mountain Yuefu"
Less than a year has sold more than half
"This is the old version of the new brush series of engraving books, can actually see in the book fair, too worthy of collection!" Yesterday, the exhibition area of Guangling ancient book engraving and Printing Society was crowded, and from time to time, some people sighed.
The reporter noted that the exhibition of "Chinese engraving fine book series" old edition new brush series, binding is consistent. Among them, a carved book named "Mountain Yuefu", 4 open rice paper wire packaging, open the outside box, two books neatly placed. Written, "Treasure the old edition, rare brush printing", open the page, you can smell fresh pine smoke ink. It is understood that this is a collection of words from the Yuan Hao-ask at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and Guangling Ancient Book Engraving and Printing Society retains its old Tibetan plates in the Qing Dynasty. "We used to print it out in the 1980s and a lot of people liked it." According to the staff, the old version of the brush printing book has been out of stock for a long time, this time, it is the limited brush printing of the boss of the original Guangling Ancient Book Engraving and printing Society and the existing double museum.
"This is the second edition of the book, the first edition was released last year, and more than half of it has been sold in less than a year. The sales are quite good." Site staff introduction.
The reporter saw that in addition to the "left mountain Yuefu", the carved books on the booth of the Guangling Ancient Books Engraving and Printing Society also have "Peiping Chronicle", "Peach blossom Fan", "Song Ci three hundred" and so on. The font of these books is elegant, the ink color is uniform, vivid and elegant, and behind each book, the painstaking work of the master craftsman is condensed. Compared with ordinary thread-bound books, the price of these block printed thread-bound books is also 10 times higher.
Why is it a collection?
Master, limited, pure manual can not be copied
Why are Yangzhou's block printing books favored? Sun Yefeng, vice president of Yangzhou Guangling Book House, introduced that the most important part of engraving books is engraving. At present, the Palace Museum now has more than 230,000 blocks of carved blocks, most of which are carved in the Qing Dynasty. Yangzhou, as the birthplace of Chinese engraving printing, has increased the arrangement and collection of engraving plates, and the Shuangbo Museum alone has more than 200,000 ancient books of Ming and Qing Dynasties. "These classic ancient book plates themselves have a high cultural heritage value, using them to print books, the collection value is self-evident."
Since most of the engravings left behind are made of wood, which will be eaten by insects or oxidized, it is very difficult to preserve, so the engravings of ancient books that exist today will suffer damage. "These sheets are consumables, and no more than 200 pages are brushed at a time." Sun Yefeng introduced, "So every printing, the version is unique."
In addition to the use of ancient books printed into books, Yangzhou engraving book printing, but also the use of famous writing samples, famous carving production, the combination of famous skills. It is usually made of pear wood, written by Rui Mingyang, a professional writer of Chinese contemporary block type, and carved into plates by Chen Yishi, a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage block printing techniques. Then, it is made of rice paper, pine ink and natural mineral pigments, handled by hand and mounted with brocade correspondence sets, which highlights the "fine" of Yangzhou block printing.
"The fine carving process is very slow, a master craftsman can carve up to five or six crosses a day, the process is delicate and delicate, and the cycle is long." Sun Yefeng said that precisely because of its pure manual and non-replicable characteristics, the distribution is rare, and it is even more precious.
Outstanding collection value
The price of block books has increased nearly a hundredfold in a few decades
"The people who buy carved books are mostly Tibetan bookstores and bibliographers, and these books are usually sold to cities such as Beijing and Shanghai." Sun Yefeng introduced that the domestic sales of wire bound books "vane" - Chinese bookstores every time as long as Yangzhou new carved books, they will order to Guangling Books. "Wei Li, the first folk book collector, is also a fan of Yangzhou carved book collection."
"A pure hand-made engraving book with saturated colors and rounded lines is a work of time and effort, a witness to history. It has a 'soul' and is worth treasuring." Sun Yefeng said that in today's collection world, engraved books have become a new favorite. These engraved printed books, which inherited the ancient method and were well designed and made, have rich document value, collection value and academic value. A lot of professional collectors of block printed books think, "They are collectible history, we buy block books to collect."
"Ancient books are easy to wear, raw material costs and labor costs are also rising, so the earlier the engraving printed books are more valuable, and some of the former engraving printed books are now 'sky-high'." Sun Yefeng said that in addition to collection and preservation, block printing books have more value-added functions, and the appreciation is stable and lasting. "In the 1970s and 1980s, we printed a carved book, which has now entered the auction market. A set of books that cost several thousand yuan at that time has now fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars, which has increased nearly a hundredfold in a few decades."
"Engraved books are the luxury of the future." There are domestic engraving book collectors so summed up.
"Chinese block printing technology has a history of more than 1,000 years and has been well passed down in Yangzhou." Yesterday, a fan of carved books who came from Shanghai specially said that for many people who love classical literature, the Guangling Ancient Books Engraving and Printing Society is very special, because it is one of the few institutions in China still printing thined books.
Zhu Shisheng, president of Guangling Ancient Book Engraving and Printing Society, said that today, the function of engraving and printing is no longer just information dissemination, but more cultural inheritance. The precipitation of culture, the efforts of masters, and the special charm endowed by years have achieved the charm of Yangzhou carved books. In this era of cultural Renaissance, it is a "pearl" for sale in the collection world.
