My art is too advanced.

Chapter 319 The Fate of Ancient Books in Turbulent Times! (Seeking monthly votes!!!)
In short, he really did go to various libraries to read books.

He reads extremely fast, almost condensing the parts of knowledge he doesn't understand and writing them down in his notebook, which is perfectly fine. But there are basically no books he hasn't seen or knowledge he doesn't know.

Therefore, I basically only memorized some obscure things.

In short, it's all about knowledge.

A month later, he returned to Peking University.

"Teacher Zhou is back? How was your time at the libraries?"

"It's alright. I've read most of the famous ancient books, and even some lesser-known but well-written books on philology. I even went abroad once, but most overseas libraries already have their contents on display, so there's no need to visit them directly."

Things are generally more open overseas.

Many ancient books come with photos of the pages, which you can then browse through one by one without having to go to the book in person.

"Actually, I think we should be more open here. After all, knowledge is the property of all mankind, and having more backups may reduce the risk of these things being buried in the past."

“We are also doing this work,” Director Li said. “In fact, the southern province has already released a large number of ancient books. Although they are not complete, they are still very valuable.”

"Moreover, libraries in various provinces are gradually opening up, taking photos of those items, and then releasing them."

"After all, this requires a huge project and it's impossible to finish it in a day. That's unrealistic. So we need to protect these things to prevent any mistakes."

"In fact, electronic ancient books will be a major focus of the next phase of ancient book collation."

"It's just not widespread yet."

Zhou Yue nodded. He felt this was also very important. After all, it only required releasing some photos. This knowledge was indeed a treasure for all mankind, because it wasn't just them who were studying it. There were also sinologists overseas, and neighboring countries were also vigorously researching sinology.

They also have a large number of ancient books that have been preserved, of course, we won't go into how they came to be.

In fact, the loss of ancient books is a very normal thing.

After all, China also has its turbulent times, and some book collectors naturally want to sell their collections.

If a country can't afford to buy these books, but foreign countries can provide a large sum of money to fund them, then ancient books will naturally flow out of the country. After all, the first and second generations of book collectors may have accumulated a lot of their life's work and don't want to sell it.

But who cares about the fate of these things in the future? They can't even survive themselves, why would they want to protect these books for generations?
That's simply unrealistic.

People are always more important than books.

Even most of the time, money is more important than books.

So once these books are sold, they're sold. People who work on collating ancient books might feel bad about it, but there's nothing they can do about it.

Therefore, it's hard to talk about these things during turbulent times; many books were leaked out and there was nothing that could be done.

At the top, the top leadership changes every few days, and the money approved is better used for military spending.

So, let's talk about books.

Most of them were destroyed by war and then lost in war.

There is.

The difference between an expert and a novice.

Take the Dunhuang scrolls, for example. If you put a Taoist priest in charge of guarding them, and your superiors don't value them, but others are willing to pay a high price to buy them, then they will definitely be sold to someone else.

So say it.

Those who understand the circulation of these ancient books will feel heartbroken about their loss.

But who can know the fate of these ancient books?
In fact, there is more turmoil after turmoil.

Even if these ancient books remain in China, they may not be able to be preserved completely intact. A large portion of them might even be damaged.

Then it's hard to say what will happen.

It's not necessarily a bad thing for these things to flow out of the country. After all, even if they flow abroad, you can still see what they look like. But if they are destroyed, then they are gone forever.

Everyone knows that Song Dynasty books are valuable, but a large portion of them are simply bought up directly.

So, ancient books.

Organizing ancient books.

This is knowledge passed down through generations, and nowadays we can probably only rely on the ancient books and works at hand.

Therefore, Zhou Yue felt he should still mention it to the School of Literature, since he still had influence, and at least within the School of Literature, he could still mobilize a lot of connections.

For example, Dean Chen, and Director Li in front of us.

They are all top figures in this field, capable of having influence with those above them.

Of course, it was just a suggestion; as for the fate of these ancient books and other things, he had no idea.

Previously, these were private book collectors, but now most are public libraries. Of course, there are still some private ones, but the top-tier books have basically gone to the public.

He nodded after hearing what Director Li said.

"I think so too. We've released a lot of books here, and a lot of books have been released outside. This is a pretty good fate for the organization of ancient books and for the continuation of their lives."

"Why is Teacher Zhou so distressed about these books? Has he really gained something from reading them?"

“Yes, I have three notebooks full of notes!” Zhou Yue opened the notebooks.

It was filled with dense text.

This includes some ancient Chinese characters and some ancient Chinese texts.

There are also the more interesting parts of the ancient books he has read.

"I know these are insignificant to a dictionary, but the rest are all in my head. Next month, when it will be two months, show me your current results, and then we'll discuss them."

"it is good!"

For the past month, scholars from the linguistics departments of Jinghua University and Ningbo University have been busy with these matters.

They each assigned text.

Even without much prior knowledge, starting from scratch is not difficult, since there's only so much to learn in linguistics.

They're all laid out there; they might be studying a particular period of time, like the rhymed texts of the Tang Dynasty, identifying some phonological knowledge within them.

Some people study the Book of Songs.

This is also normal.

But connecting them from ancient times to the present is actually not difficult.

Now we'll see what they've accomplished over this period.

Zhou Yue still felt very relaxed.

after all.

Although he was coordinating things, most of the work was done by Dean Chen and Director Li. Both of them were experts in the field and had completed countless national-level projects. He had no reason not to trust them!

(End of this chapter)