Looking at China, there are only a handful of families that have truly inherited their heritage for more than a thousand years, namely the Kong family in Qufu, the Zhang family in Jiangxi, and even the Zhang family is hundreds of years behind the Kong family.
In particular, the legacy of the saints of the Confucius family provides a natural guarantee for the inheritance of the Confucius book collection. If there are books written by saints and sages for thousands of years, then the most likely one is the Confucius family.
Walking among the bookshelves, the smell of books hit my nostrils. Many of the classics were in disarray. Fortunately, the Confucius family took great care of these classics, otherwise many classics would have disappeared from the world due to various reasons during this period.
The footsteps stopped in front of a bookshelf. The classics on it were even more damaged. Kong Wen was sighing at the side: "Most of the classics stored here are from the Tang Dynasty. Because of the long time, many of them have been damaged. Fortunately,
My Kong family will send special personnel to maintain and copy these classics that show signs of damage. In this way, even if the originals are damaged, at least there will be copies."
Chu Yi nodded slightly. In any case, the Kong family's move played a certain role in the inheritance and protection of Chinese culture.
Further forward, there are volumes of classics rolled up from bamboo slips. Even these bamboo slips look quite old, and the color of those bamboo slips is extremely dull.
Yan Qi pointed to the bamboo slips that occupied a large area and said: "These are the classics from the Qin and Han Dynasties collected by two families. However, these bamboo slips are also seriously damaged. Fortunately, the contents have been copied and preserved by ancestors. These bamboo slips are also
Not many people read it.”
Chu Yi sighed lightly: "There will always be wars in China every hundreds of years. I don't know how many classics have disappeared in the wars. The Confucius family has preserved many classics, including classics on farming, medicine, astronomy and geography. Chu will send special personnel later.
Come here to sort it out, copy it, and engrave it, so that it can be spread all over the world. I hope that the Kong family can open the door to convenience!"
Kong Wenzheng heard the words and said sternly: "I heard that the General Manager likes to collect classics, and even publishes many unique copies. The rare books are passed down to the world to benefit students all over the world. For such a grand event by the General Manager, I, Kong, will naturally follow in the footsteps of the General Manager. I wish
Assist the General Manager in publishing classics."
You don't need to think about it to know that what Kong Wenzheng said is definitely not true. In this era, knowledge also represents identity and status. Although these families' monopoly on knowledge is not as strict as before, many unique and rare books are indeed mastered.
In the hands of these families who have inherited it for a long time, they have never passed it on to outsiders and regard it as family heritage. Countless precious classics in China have just been cut off from inheritance and disappeared in the long river of history.
It would be strange if these people would be willing to take out the unique classics secretly stored in the family and pass them on to the world. However, the Kong family did not dare to offend Chu Yi when facing Chu Yi. Although these classics are said to be precious, they are good.
Chu Yi did not want to print all the unique classics and spread them to the world, but selected and printed classics on Chinese medicine, agriculture, astronomy, geography, etc.
In comparison, people of the Confucian family naturally value those precious Confucian classics. As for these medical books, agricultural books and the like, they can be discarded in comparison. Since paying for some insignificant classics can
To gain Chu Yi's favor, why not do such a good thing?
Chu Yi casually opened some classics, and as expected, there was no response from the altar of luck in the sea of consciousness. Needless to say, many of these classics were named after great Confucians and sages, but in fact, more of them were copied by later generations.
Well, as for the original handwriting of the sages, it was either hidden by the Kong family, or it had been destroyed by time.
Kong Wenzheng had been secretly paying attention to the changes in Chu Yi's expression. Seeing that Chu Yi showed no interest in these classics, Kong Wenzheng became a little worried.
According to the information collected by the Kong family, Chu Yi was very fond of many sages' classics, so he specially led Chu Yi to this area.
There are many classics of sages stored here. Chu Yi took a lot of them from the bookshelf. Unfortunately, Chu Yi just looked through them and put them on the bookshelf. This made Kong Wenzheng react very badly to Chu Yi.
I don't understand.
Just when Kong Wenzheng was full of doubts, Chu Yi glanced at Kong Wenzheng and said: "Mr. Kong, the Kong family has passed down poems and books for thousands of years. Chu once heard someone say that there are some poems in the Kong family's collection.
I wonder if Mr. Chu would be so honored to look at the classics handwritten by the sages?"
Kong Wenzheng couldn't help but be startled when he heard the words, with a look of surprise on his face. He realized in his heart that it was not that Chu Yi was not interested in these classics, but that he was originally interested in the classics of the sages.
When it came to the original books of the sages, Kong Wenzheng was naturally hesitant, but in just a moment, Kong Wenzheng made a decision.
As the elder of the Kong family, although it was a bit excessive for him to lead people to read the ancient books of the sages, if this person was Chu Yi, even Yan Shenggong Kong Wenshao would definitely not stop him.
Anyway, the Kong family has made up their mind to entertain Chu Yi well no matter what the price, and they will definitely not refuse Chu Yi's request if they can do it.
It was nothing more than reading the original books of the sages, and there was no loss for the Kong family, so Kong Wenzheng made a decision in the blink of an eye.
With a slight smile on his face, Kong Wen was facing Chu Yi and said: "My Kong family does have a collection of classics handwritten by sages, but most of these classics are mottled and eroded by the years, and many of them are dilapidated to the extreme.
My ancestors of the Kong family ordered people to copy it and then carefully kept the original in a secret room. No one was allowed to touch it under normal circumstances, for fear of damaging the treasures of our ancestors!"
Chu Yi narrowed his eyes and chuckled: "Oh, it seems that Chu is not blessed with such eyesight!"
Kong Wenzheng heard the words and said quickly: "The general manager is joking. With the general manager's erudition, there are few people in the world who can match it. Naturally, he is qualified to read the classics of the sages."
Kong Wenzheng couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. If he hadn't reacted quickly, the general manager might have changed his face immediately. For such a great god, the Kong family simply couldn't afford to offend him. If he got evil because of this problem
As for Chu Yi, then he is the biggest sinner of the Kong family.
While speaking, Kong Wenzheng led the way to Chu Yi and said, "General Manager, follow me!"
Chu Yi nodded slightly, and saw that Kong Wen was leading the way first, passing through a group of bookshelves, and saw an incense table and a stone statue in the middle of the library. Just looking at the stone statue, Chu Yi could recognize it at a glance.
Statue of Confucius, the sage of Confucianism.
Kong Wen stepped forward to straighten his clothes, bowed respectfully to the statue, and then pressed his hand hard on the incense burner, causing a slight vibration.
I saw the statue of Confucius moving slowly, and an entrance about the size of a person appeared on the ground.
Chu Yi's library is not in one or two places. It can be said that the design of the secret rooms is almost the same, and most of them are built under the library.
Kong Wenzheng was the first to walk down the stone steps. Chu Yi walked in slowly with his hands behind his back. At first glance, Chu Yi discovered that this underground stone room was actually larger than the Songyang Academy and Zhu family secret rooms he had seen.
There are many stone pillars supporting the entire secret room, and the surrounding walls are made of bluestone. Not to mention other things, just to build such an underground secret room, the amount of work is not something that ordinary families can bear.
However, compared to the huge Kong family, this project is really nothing to be honest. After the rewards of the past dynasties, the Kong family has more than hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land alone, and there are at least tens of thousands of tenants who rely on the Kong family to make a living.
With just one household, he could easily recruit thousands of young people to work for the Confucius family.
However, when Chu Yi saw the many bamboo slips stored in the secret room, he also understood why the Kong family's underground secret room was so large.
There are really too many bamboo slips. You must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period and even the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was no silk paper, and all classics and works were recorded on bamboo slips.
Sometimes a single classic requires tens of thousands of bamboo slips, which are piled together and require half a room to fit in them.
There is a saying that people are rich in wealth, and there is also a saying that people are rich in knowledge. What they mean is that these classics are recorded on bamboo slips, and their storage and transportation are extremely consuming of manpower and material resources.
It seems that this underground secret room has a vast space, but in fact, if you really want to talk about it, it can't store too much. After all, these bamboo slips take up a lot of space.
Kong Wen was walking to a neatly arranged bamboo slips and said: "Master, please take a look. This is the fragment of the Spring and Autumn Annals compiled by the sages. It is thousands of years old and has already been incomplete!"
Chu Yi nodded slightly. After all, Chu Yi had read a lot of poetry and books, and of course the books recording Confucius were indispensable. Confucius taught throughout his life and had many disciples, including seventy-two great sages and revised the Six Classics. However, Confucius had more
It is a revision, Confucius said it himself but did not write it down. Even the Spring and Autumn Annals were compiled and compiled by his disciples and even his disciples after Confucius passed away.
None of the Six Classics of Confucianism, "Poems", "Books", "Li", "Music", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn" were written by Confucius, so Chu Yi never thought that he would see Confucius's handwriting.
Classics written by.
Of course, if what Kong Wenzheng said is true, and the incomplete "Spring and Autumn" in front of us is really written by Confucius's disciples and his disciples, then this "Spring and Autumn" must contain great luck. After all, many of Confucius's disciples are sages.
, great scholar.
Slowly stepping forward, Chu Yi took one of the bamboo slips in his hand. It could be seen that the bamboo slips had been at least a thousand years old, and even the writing on it was somewhat blurry.
"Spring and Autumn" is written by Lu Shi, who wrote it, and Confucius recorded and hid it to pass on to later generations! Such a history book has actually gone beyond the scope of a history book and has been regarded as a Confucian classic by literati of the past dynasties.
Just when Chu Yi took the bamboo slips in his hand and slowly unfolded them, the writing on them came into view, and as expected, the altar of luck in the sea of consciousness shook slightly.
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