Suddenly, the old man excitedly patted the armrest of the chair and laughed loudly.
"That's right! If I'm not mistaken, the paper used for these two pages should be a kind of bamboo paper produced in Meizhou, which is under the jurisdiction of CD Prefecture Road in the early Southern Song Dynasty! Xiao Jing, do you remember anything?"
Yang Jing said, "Grandpa, are you talking about the Seven Histories of Meishan?"
Grandpa smiled and nodded and said, "That's right! If I'm not mistaken, the paper used for these two pages should be the paper used by Jingdu Jingxianmeng when he presided over the printing of Meishan Seven Histories! Everyone in the world knows that Song Shu engravings are precious, and the pinnacle of Song Shu engravings is Meishan Seven Histories. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the Shu version was the best engraved version of the entire Southern Song Dynasty, and the Meizhou version was the best Shu version. However, later, when the Zhejiang version and the Jian version came up, the status of the Shu version gradually declined, mainly because the road in and out of Sichuan and Shu was too difficult to travel. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the Shu version was even lower. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the bamboo paper used in the Shu version was mostly a kind of bamboo paper produced locally in Meizhou, and in the Ming Dynasty, the paper used in the Shu version was mostly Jiajiang paper. Here, this is Meizhou paper and Jiajiang paper."
Grandpa pointed to the two samples in the book and said, "Look at the difference! Although the technology of Jiajiang paper was invented in the Tang Dynasty, it became popular in the Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Jiajiang paper was not well-known. At least as far as I know, the Seven Histories of Yinmei Mountain engraved by Jingdu Jingxianmeng was not made of Jiajiang paper. So, if my inference is correct, then these two pages of Huajianji are likely to be engraved in Song Shu."
After a pause, the old man took off his reading glasses and laughed, "Xiao Jing, you may have picked up a big bargain! If these two pages of Hua Jian Ji are really carved in Song Shu, their value is inestimable, especially the Song Shu carving in Slender Gold script, which is really rare."
Yang Jing also laughed, "Grandpa, actually when I bought this book this morning, it was because I felt that these few pages were not right, so I spent 10,000 yuan to buy this book. And it's not just these two pages that are wrong, there are a total of five pages in this book..."
Hearing this, my grandfather's mouth opened wide.
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