This book is a collection of essays by cultural relics expert Shen Congwen on the study of ancient Chinese cultural relics. Shen Congwen devoted the first half of his life to literature; the second half of his life to cultural relics, devoted his passion for love and beauty to the study of cultural relics, and achieved outstanding results comparable to his own literary achievements. Every antique is a continuation of life, not only connecting life and death, but also harmonizing life; every antique is the precipitation of time, carrying five thousand years of Chinese ingenuity, magnanimity and spirituality. The theme of the book is "ancient cultural relics", supplemented by precious pictures of cultural relics, showing the beauty of cultural relics from different eras. This book not only explains horizontally the classification of calligraphy and painting, jade, ancient mirrors, porcelain, carriages and horses, etc., but also discusses the development and evolution of cultural relics vertically with time as the axis. It is Shen Congwen's painstaking work in the study of cultural relics in the second half of his life.
本书是文物研究专家沈从文关于中国古代文物研究的文集。沈从文的前半生献给了文学；后半生投身于文物，把满腔爱与美的热忱投入到文物研究上，取得了与自身文学成就比肩的卓越成果。每一件古物，都是生命的延续，不仅连接了生死，也融洽了人生；每一件古物，都是时间的沉淀，承载着中华五千年的匠心、气度和灵性。全书以“古代文物”为主题，辅以珍贵的文物图片，呈现出不同时代的文物之美。本书既有横向上对书画、玉石、古镜、瓷器、车马等分门别类地阐释，也有纵向上以时间为轴论述文物的发展演变，是沈从文后半生文物研究的心血之作。
本书是文物研究专家沈从文关于中国古代文物研究的文集。沈从文的前半生献给了文学；后半生投身于文物，把满腔爱与美的热忱投入到文物研究上，取得了与自身文学成就比肩的卓越成果。每一件古物，都是生命的延续，不仅连接了生死，也融洽了人生；每一件古物，都是时间的沉淀，承载着中华五千年的匠心、气度和灵性。全书以“古代文物”为主题，辅以珍贵的文物图片，呈现出不同时代的文物之美。本书既有横向上对书画、玉石、古镜、瓷器、车马等分门别类地阐释，也有纵向上以时间为轴论述文物的发展演变，是沈从文后半生文物研究的心血之作。
