Original title: buy a book after taking photos! Chongqing wanghong second hand bookstore has published the new rules of clock in, which was once published in people's daily
There is a second-hand bookstore in the second-hand goods market on Zhongxing Road in Yuzhong District. Not only did it appear in the people's daily, but its unique 'messy' style attracted many citizens and tourists to take photos and punch in. Sometimes it took a long line to get in. Last week, Wang Miyu, a 70 year old shopkeeper, made a rule that taking photos is OK and buying an old book after taking photos. This kind of "overlord clause" not only did not arouse the antipathy of the photographers, but also attracted a lot of repeat customers, looking for him to recommend books.
What kind of bookstore can be published in people's daily
At 3:00 p.m. on December 3, at the entrance of a bookstore in area C on the second floor of Zhongxing Road, there was a line of young people waiting to take pictures. The bookstore is a big place, less than 11 square meters. Most of the area is occupied by piles of old books, and the space to settle is about 3 square meters. The bookstore is 3.5 meters high. From floor to ceiling, it is full of old books, including humanities, geography, teaching aids, science and technology, and fine arts. To get the top book, you have to climb up a ladder. "All kinds of books are piled up irregularly, but they have a unique aesthetic feeling! They are just works of art!" Liu Ruoyan, a girl who works as we media in Chongqing, poses among the books and asks her friends to press the shutter.
"Hey, it's old books, where's the beauty?" Wang Miyu, the owner of the shop, smiles indifferently, but there's pride in the smile. He said that some second-hand bookstore owners regard books as treasures and are not allowed to move around. 'I never will. Books are open. Wang Miyu didn't classify the books into different categories. They were all piled up on the simple bookshelves made of angle steel. Which book readers like to take away directly. 'Readers should look for books as they please. It's like meeting a lost friend, which is fate. "Wang Miyu was very careful. The books on the upper layer were not bound, so that even if the stack fell down, it would not hurt people.
On July 12, this year, people's Daily published a news picture of the store, entitled "the temperament of the bookstore". There was also a saying: "the bookstore is not only a place to buy books, but also a spiritual world hellip; & hellip; different bookstores have different temperament, which brings different reading feelings to readers. '
Wang Mi Yu didn't know it. When a young old reader saw it, he bought a copy, mounted it in the picture frame, and brought it to him in the shop. Wang Miyu knew that he had published a newspaper in his bookstore. Naturally, he was a little proud. He hung the picture frame with the newspaper on the door outside the store, the most conspicuous position.
There is a second-hand bookstore with a large scale in Chengdu. When the boss saw the people's daily report, he called and said, "Lao Wang, there are tens of thousands of second-hand bookstores in the country. Your bookstore is probably the smallest, but it has been published in the people's daily!"
In fact, Wang Miyu is not very surprised, because since this year, students from Chongqing University, Chongqing Normal University, College of Posts and telecommunications have come to the store to shoot and do programs. Lu has continued to have local and foreign photographers come to take photos, and some have won prizes in photography exhibitions. A photographer from Hong Kong, China, earnestly said to Wang Miyu, "Mr. Wang, your bookstore has a unique temperament. I like it so much. '
Last two hundred thousand books have been saved
Wang Miyu didn't seriously think about the temperament of his bookstore before. He is 70 years old. He is a laid-off worker of Chongqing construction company. His education level is not high, and he has not graduated from junior high school. In March 2000, he borrowed money to open the bookstore, purely to make money to support his family.
He has been in charge of the bookstore for nearly 20 years. He never closes on weekends and only closes for five days during the Spring Festival every year. When he was in charge of the shop, he used to open a book, read a few pages slowly, and annotate the places he liked. Gradually, he also fell in love with reading. When I was young, I couldn't afford to read, but now the room is full of books, which makes up for my regret. '
Some of these books in bookstores are taken away by readers when they move, some are collected from booksellers, some are bought from scavengers, and some are bought from waste collection stations. 'it's a pity to see good books sold as waste paper. The value of books is much higher than their weight. Some people call him 'the Savior', which he likes to hear. After the books were bought from the purchasing station, Wang Miyu had to clean them up and mend them simply. Some of them had to glue the cover and back cover of their own body, and some of them had to be disinfected with alcohol.
Wang Miyu said that if you sell 30 books a day on average, it is conservatively estimated that it will sell 10000 books a year. In the past 20 years, it is equivalent to a county-level library of 120000, and he is like the director of a library. He found the greatest pleasure in reading books and dealing with readers. He likes to discuss current affairs or the contents of a certain book with readers, and he will actively recommend books for readers until they choose the right book and leave satisfied. He was proud of a former director of the Political Department of the civil aviation flight Institute of China, whose surname was Liu. When he came to Chongqing, he ran to his bookstore every day. He picked up a large pile of old books and came to say goodbye to him when he left. He felt respected and needed by others.
You have to buy a book to punch in
In recent years, with the Internet and e-books, fewer readers come to the second-hand bookstore to search for books. His bookshop was unexpectedly popular and became a popular "scenic spot" for young people to take pictures. It was so crowded that he was a bit caught off guard.
Young people are keen on taking pictures around his bookstore, which makes Wang Miyu feel proud, but also a little uneasy, a little unspeakable. He also knew that the number of people who went to take pictures exceeded the number of people who bought books in online bookstores such as zhongshuge. He said he hoped the book in his store would not only be a special background decoration photo, but also decorate people's souls.
More and more people came to take photos, which also affected the normal business of the bookstore. At first, Wang Miyu was a normal receptionist, but he couldn't bear to take photos. Almost all of the people who came to take photos never stopped working. At most, hundreds of people came in one day. So some readers suggested to him to collect money to take photos. He didn't think it was appropriate. If he just collected money for people to take photos, he was uneasy. Later, some readers came up with an idea: after taking photos, they had to buy an old book. "Wang Miyu adopted it, and it has been implemented since last week. "I also hope to remind young people to read less mobile phones and more books!" everyone readily agreed. So the young people who came out of the bookstore with their cameras were all holding an old book in their hands.
Wang Miyu thinks that selling books is selling knowledge. We should not only sell books, but also make everyone love reading. Now that his bookstore has become a "Internet celebrity", Lao Wang is more confident. He is also going to open an old library called 'abandoned Library'. "Abandoned books" means abandoned old books. In Chongqing dialect, it means "go to the library". He wants to remind everyone to read more books, not just to take pictures in the bookstore.
"Lao Wang, you are the last one to leave work again!" at 5:00 p.m., after the closing time of the second-hand goods market on Zhongxing Road, the security guard helped to urge several times, and the readers who still stayed in the store to take photos were reluctant to leave. Wang Miyu pulled up the shutter door and turned off the light. Behind him, tens of thousands of books were lying quietly in the dark, waiting for the people who came to find them.