author Zhang Shirong
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
the colorful cultural world
I love to see the book of small people since I was young, and I did not think that when I was more than 30 years old, I had been engaged in a period of time and small book related industries. It was in 60s of last century, it was a difficult period of life. The government called on the masses to produce self rescue. My family belongs to a difficult family. The mother is a street cadre. The director of the Wei Xi resident committee has sent her a personal business license to let her rent a small book. Mother was an artist, not learning, now, let her do this industry, even the name of the small people do not know, how to deal with the reader?
at this time, I fell out of Ji'nan, and help the mother of every book number, please read the book according to the number, this method works very well. After the operation, there are dozens of readers who can earn one or two yuan a day. Recalling 1966, it can be said that the golden age of Ji'nan and even the whole country leased the book industry. At that time, there were more than a dozen small bookstores in the new market and the people's shopping mall in Ji'nan, such as Peng's door to the new market victory cinema, the home of the East neighbour of the Tian Qing theater, the home of the western neighbour of the Chinese cinema in the people's Mall, the Wang family of the southwestern neighbours, the Zhang Jia of the hall and the West Street of the new market, the local mountain of the people's store, the two road and Wei Dynasty. There are small bookstores in the home and other places. At the same time, there are still many mobile booklets. Many small bookstores and stalls have relatively fixed readers. During holidays, there are so many readers that there are always scenes of full seats. Some readers are not seated. Most of the shops near the theater are audience of movie theaters. They use the ten or twenty minutes before the show to read some small books to kill time. Every time after school, the students will concentrate on patronizing these shops and stalls. All readers, young or old, are seeking knowledge or enjoying leisure in their little books.
the small man book industry has repeatedly flourished
in the 20s of last century, Shanghai World Book bureau published the book of "journey to the west", "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms", "the list of gods" and other small books. Among them, there are 768 pictures in the Three Kingdoms, and the 32 picture is a set, which is divided into 24 episodes. Later, Ji'nan's small bookstores and stalls, in addition to the Shanghai literature and Art Book Bureau, the World Book bureau published and published by the few sets of classical literary works, as well as other books and paintings compiled by other Shanghai books, such as "Tianmen", "Xue Dingshan's sign West", "Xue Rengui's sign East", "the eight immortals over the sea", "the water margin one hundred and eight will"... ... The quality of these little books is quite high, and they are painstakingly drawn by painters such as Zhu Runzhai and Zhou Yunfang.
the rent of the book at that time, when using old coins, a copper coin was read. For example, the "Three Kingdoms" is the 24 set, is 24, each of the small books are wrapped around the kraft paper, neat and wearable, and the book is written with the name of the original book and the number of books. Later, I used coins to read a little book and pay a penny.
after the liberation of Ji'nan in 1948, the Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of culture banned the unhealthy old man's book, and introduced various new books in time to meet the requirements of the times in Shanghai. Ji'nan's leasing industry is booming and its readers are increasing. By the 60s of last century, there were hundreds of bookstores in Ji'nan, including Xinhua Bookstore and all kinds of rental bookstores. Every new edition of the small book, especially the good books of the theme, painting and writing, may even appear in the Xinhua bookstore. The bookstore and the reader must wait in line for renting. To this end, the larger leased bookstore, with several or even dozens of new books, can satisfy readers' need to read. In this period, many people are popular with Ji'nan readers, including Zhao Hong Ben, Sun Wukong three dozen white bones, Wang Shuhui's "West Chamber", Zhang Leping's "Sanmao vagrancy", his "mountain village change", "Qu Yuan" in Liu Dan residence, Liu Jiyou's "chicken hair", and Liu Jiyou's "chicken hair" Letter, Ding Hao and Cheng Shifa's "Lao sun GUI society", Gu Bingxin's "reconnaissance of the river", Dai Dunbang's "the upper beam", and the "story of the traffic station" in China.
"the Cultural Revolution" before and after the change
a proletarian cultural revolution, the great situation of the Ji'nan small book market is written off. The bookstore and other "poisonous grass" books in Xinhua Bookstore were all shelves. The owners of the rental bookstore in Ji'nan were scared away by the sudden turmoil. The door of each shop is filled with a variety of big character newspapers, which are not only "sweeping the cow ghost" and "breaking the four old", and the names are all "Red Guards", "revolutionary revolutionaries" and so on. Many of the small bookshops are being ordered to shut down, some have been sealed up and some have been criticized. Countless small books were sealed up, confiscated, and concentrated. So many people watched with pity as the pile of books was burned away. After the
ten year Holocaust ended, the publishing and publishing of the small man's book was flourishing, and the Xinhua Bookstore in Ji'nan continued to supply a new edition of all kinds of outstanding small books. Later, a collection of small book collections has sprung up everywhere. Unfortunately, there are more collectors and fewer readers. Thinking of the past, the old Ji'nan's booklet and the rental bookstore, the situation can only become a memory of nostalgia.