Also idle bookstore, located in Guiyang City, a bookstore. "Virtue is not idle, small virtue can also be in and out" is the origin of the name of the bookstore, the meaning of which is deep, perhaps "reading" is similar to "morality", virtue is a must, but the choice can also be diverse.
This bookstore in the corner of the city, a small space contains more than 2,000 kinds of books, ancient rare books, second-hand resale, and gifts from friends, all of which have achieved the owner's "greed" for books and become part of the bookstore collection.
When he first met the shopkeeper Mi Zhiqiang, he was sorting out the books on the shelves, and the slow movements were very much in line with the lazy rhythm of the afternoon, and also gave him more elegance. Mi Zhiqiang, who faces the camera, in the words of his book note, said, "I was surprised that I actually had the side of Cimei and Good Purpose." ”
In mi zhiqiang's words, he was grateful that the book had saved him. "If I hadn't read, my fate would have been more ups and downs than it is now, and reading would have made me more at ease." This calmness is like Mi Zhiqiang's frank acceptance of his identity as a loser, but reading has allowed him to find the value of his own existence and allowed him to accept his life calmly. Whether he succeeds or not, no matter what kind of role he exists as a character, Mi Zhiqiang's full spiritual world is no longer bound to the shackles of his external identity.
Regarding the original intention of opening a bookstore, Mi Zhiqiang told us a story. There was once an elder who was sure that there was a set of books that he would not open to read again, so he transferred this set of books to the Yexian Bookstore, and when he left, the old man reluctantly said: "Only when the books go to the bookstore and can be read by everyone, I am worthy of this book." The pathos of the separate scenes made Mi Zhiqiang feel the deep friendship between the book and the owner, "When I came back to read this set of books, each book was wrapped in kraft paper, and the missing pages were carefully glued, I think this book must have given the old man the strength and happiness to spend a difficult time, and the contrast with the current sadness is really moving." ”
People and books, or a simple story, contain Mi Zhiqiang's simplest and most sincere feelings about books and bookstores - like, which is why he opened a bookstore. As he said, "I never felt that the relationship between people and books was the relationship between people and things. "Mi Zhiqiang prefers to accept books like a respectable friend who will never bother you, for him, there may be some books with profound content, like a towering mountain that cannot be easily crossed, but he is happy during the climbing process." This is why people are not afraid of death, but also conquer many mountains and rivers. Mi Zhiqiang sighed.
"The atmosphere of reading always allows people to discover their own humility and smallness." Mi Zhiqiang felt that a writer could write a book in his lifetime, and it was worth it for him to consult a writer's life's work with very little money. In Mi Zhiqiang's eyes, the reading atmosphere is crucial to reading this humble "art".
If one day, opening a bookstore becomes a sentiment, and reading becomes something that can be shown off, in a sense it is the sadness of books. Just like the form of punching cards in the "net red bookstore" today, in Mi Zhiqiang's view, this is useless for reading. "Reading should be a widespread, long-lasting act, and if people only think about reading on a certain day, come to the bookstore and take a few poses and take a few photos and then go away." For Mi Zhiqiang, punching cards to take pictures can only beautify people's appearance, and to decorate the heart, books are the best cosmetics, it can beautify or even purify people's minds, filter out the dirt of human nature, change people's arrogance, extremism, if everyone treats books as amiable and respectable friends or confidants, their spiritual outlook will undergo qualitative changes.
In the 7 years of Guiyang, Mi Zhiqiang said that he did three things, thinking of store names, opening bookstores, and moving bookstores. And bookstores and books have long been the whole of his life, reading is a desire for him, is about the desire to learn, the desire to take root, is a way of life that feels the temperature of time again after years of precipitation. In the days that followed, Mi Zhiqiang will continue to seek comfort in books, and then pass this comfort through yexian bookstore, so that more people can obtain valuable peace in their complicated lives.
In the future, for the persistence of reading, Mi Zhiqiang has always had a desire - a pure reading environment. At the door of the Yahisa Bookstore, there is a poem from the French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) in The Art of Poetry: Et tout le reste est littérature – all that remains is literature.
Intern reporter / Jiang Chengxi Yang Ganqi Zeng Xin
Intern Editor/Qian Zhang
Editor-in-Charge/Chen Meng Review/Chen Lijuan