By means of high magnification, a beautiful regular script calligraphy is clearly visible. Li Gen Ogawa oxygen collectors Wang Lin and his antiquarian book. A report from our correspondent in Rugao city tells of a collector who traveled from Amoy with a thin antiquarian book. What makes this book feel novel is that, inferred to be from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it features brush manuscripts unexpectedly large in 4D capacity. Not only is the calligraphy writing rigorous, but the writing is small, with an average of 20 words per square centimeter.
Mr. Wang Lin, involved in the collection industry for many years, owns an antique shop in Rugao city. He has found a treasure that always makes him very excited. Yesterday, reporters visited his home to see the items in his collection. It is a rice paper line punching binding ancient book.
According to Wang Lin, on the afternoon of March 14th, a middle-aged woman, claiming her ancestors were teaching people, held a book and said she wanted to sell it for 1000 yuan. Upon opening, he found this book was very old, but not the same as ordinary or antiquarian books. Inside, there were tiny handwritten script fonts, which he had never seen before. After bargaining, he eventually bought this book for 600 yuan.
This book is 26.5 cm long, 12.5 cm wide, with angular deformity pages. The yellow rice paper contains 600 characters, vertically written in 10 lines, with 60 pieces of paper making up 120 pages. The first ten pages are "teeny kaishu" "Analects of Confucius" directory, followed by tiny text. Behind the "Analects of Confucius," there are a large number of classical Chinese articles, making it difficult to find out their main idea and source.
Local provincial Calligrapher Association member Mr. Cai Guozhu of Rugao City read this book and identified it as an initial Qing manuscript. The inside pages of the book are arranged in straight-line root words. Through high magnification, the reporter saw the book's tiny calligraphic writing, smooth and neat in style. This is from hand writing, yet even without confusion or kerning, each page of the paper presents such a style, letting people realize at once the ecstasy when writing "I."
Mr. Wang Lin says that now common in ancient books on writing, small style of calligraphy has "very small characters," and this book can be called "small mosquito head." In accordance with the font size calculation, a square centimeter area can contain 20 such Kai words. This is a collection of similar items rare in the industry.
This ancient book lacks a cover and back cover, nor does it include introductory text, leaving authorship and time period unclear. Mr. Wang Lin hopes to receive expert guidance to uncover the mystery of the ancient book. (Guo Xiaochuan Li Gen)