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There Is No Such River in Yugong
At 2:17 in the morning, Xi Yanbai, an ancient book restorer, discovered that a page of the Northern Song Dynasty official engraving "Shang Shu Yu Gong" was flooding. The water only covered the paper, not the tabletop; but the sand poured out from the heart of the page that was written thousands of years ago. In order to save the original copy, he uncovered a patch of paper from later generations and stood on the old path of the Yellow River in the seventh year of Xuanhe's reign. Here in Heyin Co
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Bianshui Leaves Blank
In the afternoon when it was not raining, we first heard the sound of water in the archives room. Chi Guanlan, an ancient book restorer, discovered seven blank pages in an unknown Song Dynasty fragment. The blank spaces are not moth-eaten or faded ink, but rather like someone neatly digging out a piece of Bianjing's fate from the paper. What's even more strange is that every time he uses professional methods to restore a fiber on the back of the paper, a comment written only to him will appear o
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