Books and bookstores have magical charm for me.
The next day, I appeared at 85 Tonggelin Road with great expectation. It was May, and the courtyard on one side of the road was lush, reflecting the spire of the church under the bright lights.
I like books and bookstores. If the bookstore is more valuable, then I have no resistance at all. My happiness exploded before I entered that door.
Full name of bookstore: model bookstore? Poetry space
It is said that it was contracted by a literary couple and then modified. Its predecessor was the Episcopal Church of China. After reading the story before and after the modification, the hardships have their own descriptions.
I thought that model meant example, but it was actually the original meaning of the word. "Ink" is a movable type and "Fan" is a container.
Her husband, Jiang Xun, is the founder of the model bookstore, the collector with the largest number of woodcuts in China, and also a poet and publisher.
Jiang Xunzhen's ancient woodcut prints are displayed in the bookstore, and a corner of the bookstore is reserved for a full set of woodcut printing machines for readers to experience woodcut techniques.
This explains the word "model" Although it was the original intention, I saw the boss's two stores and felt that it was not too much to follow the example of bookstores.
There are towering domes and colorful stained glass in the gate, each of which deserves careful study. The retro wooden floor makes you feel the texture of time passing through time, and the bookshelf on the wall shines with wisdom, moving before reading. Initially, the location of the church baptismal pool was designed as a reading table. In the bar deep in the church, there are handmade coffee and tea, and the semi-circular bookshelf at the back is the most beautiful scenery. There are exquisite and even out-of-print books here, and it is a gathering place for art coffee and books. There are not many people, sitting in the corner reading and drinking in twos and threes or alone, enjoying a good time.
Looking up, you can see the combination of Beijing-style woodcarving and European-style dome, which shows the difference. The church building itself makes people feel solemn, and turning into a bookstore makes people awe books. Scenery not available in other bookstores.
People who love books here will feel like a lifetime ago, and they will feel that reading is a spiritual baptism, a dialogue between the soul and heaven, and it adds a sense of sacredness and warmth. Being in it, I feel that the bookstore perfectly interprets the poem of Argentine writer Borges: "I have been secretly imagining that heaven should be like a library."
Model bookstore? Poetry space mainly involves classical literature and history, poetry, art books and writers' autograph books.
There are many old books with a sense of the times on the shelf. For example, 193 1 the first edition of Tiger Collection published by Xu Zhimo of Shanghai Crescent Bookstore, 1920 the first vernacular poetry collection published by Hu Shi in the history of modern literature and so on.
The unique dome and depth of the church make the bookshelf tunnel-like, extending time and years, quiet and ethereal. Sunlight seems to penetrate time, see through the world through painting, and dust dances beside it ... the sacred light reappears. ...
The model bookstore has several branches in Beijing and has been to two. The previous store was at No.31Yangmeizhu, Xie Jie, and it was also delicious.
If you used to live in the front door,
Then there is a sacred light shining here.
Jiang Xun said in an interview: Art is God's short-term spiritual comfort to mankind. Maybe this statement is not comprehensive, but I think it makes sense. People can't live well without spiritual comfort. So does the existence of books.
Even.
Even if you don't go to the bookstore to buy books or read books, the world will light up if you are infected with the taste of books. ...