China News Service, Shanghai, October 1st (Zhang Jian) Recently, a century-old house in Songjiang, Shanghai "transformed" into a bookstore, which attracted widespread attention.
This 100-year-old three-year-old residential house, renovated by five like-minded local artists, is full of "babies" and is now named "Weijue Bookstore", which is open to the public for free.
There is only one rule, you can only watch it if you don't sell it or borrow it.
Yang Shaojiang, founder of "Weijue Bookstore" said: "In our current era, the way of reading has been diversified, and many paper books are idle. After moving here, I found that this problem has caused more people's concerns. Resonance. There will be many people donating, even some retired teachers and young people, we will register one by one, and invite donors to write a few words on the book, future readers will feel these words when they see it. Lovely".
It is reported that this old house is located in Cangcheng Old Street in Songjiang. When you push the door to enter, the courtyard is deep. You walk along the bluestone slabs, and there are moss and green bamboo on both sides.
Jiang Jianxin, the co-founder of "Weijue Bookstore", introduced that this old house belongs to the dwellings left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The owner of the house, Wang Ziyi, used to be a local calligrapher. The "Weijue Bookstore" is also full of book fragrance. .
"Weijue Bookstore" has more than 10,000 books in its collection Photo by Zhang Jian
"The word 'weijue' comes from a poem by Zhang Yan, that is, a dream is undiscovered, and the short sundial in three winters is shocking. 'weijue' is to look back and see how time flies, we are all' After 70', let's look back and look at the things we read and played with when we were young. We took them out and put them on display in the 'Weijue Bookstore' to share with everyone. meaningful things".
The reporter learned that according to the industry characteristics of the five founders, "Weijue Bookstore" covers five categories including arts and humanities, garden flowers, film and comics, pictures and photography, and folk costumes, and currently has a collection of more than 10,000 books.
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