Ancient bookstores were called bookstores. The word "book boss" originated in the Han Dynasty. In addition, each dynasty also had the names of book forest, book shop, book shed, library, bookstore, book shop and book classics shop, which carved and sold books. These names, in addition to being collectively referred to as book shops, were collectively referred to as book shops after the Song Dynasty. A bookstore, first seen in the Qingming Qianlong period. In the modern history of China, bookstores are also called bookstores.
Spread ideas. Various classes, political parties, social organizations and even schools often use publications as an important means to spread their ideas and opinions. Judging from the history of modern bookstores in China, in the 1960s of 19, the Qing government set up official bookstores in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces 10 to print some collated and carefully revised ancient books, with the aim of promoting Confucianism and maintaining feudal rule. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, Kang Youwei and other reformists set up Xue Qiang Bookstore in the capital and published books on reform, which was suppressed by die-hards such as Empress Dowager Cixi. At the beginning of the 20th century, the democratic revolutionaries headed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen set up bookstores such as Today's Mirror Bookstore, East Mainland Bookstore and National Studies Society, and issued a large number of anti-Qing books such as Revolutionary Army and Violent Return, which made ideological preparations for the Revolution of 1911 that overthrew the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty. 19 19 after the may 4th movement, industrialists and intellectuals such as,, Yun, and Chen Duxiu all opened bookstores to spread new ideas and new cultures.
Popularize culture. Bookstore is an indispensable link to popularize and popularize scientific and cultural knowledge. The key measure to popularize culture is to set up education, and the textbooks needed for various educational undertakings should be supplied by bookstores. Since 1980s, China's state-owned bookstores have issued more than 2 billion textbooks every year, accounting for more than 1/3 of the total book sales in China. This is a huge distribution project. Only through strict investigation and statistics and scientific organization and supply can we ensure that books are delivered before class, one for each person. Bookstores all over the country widely distribute scientific and technological books and academic, cultural and literary books, which have played an important role in promoting economic and cultural construction and improving people's cultural level. Bookstore workers in China insisted on going to the countryside, took the initiative to care about the needs of agricultural production, and provided targeted agricultural technical books, which promoted the development of production.