Across all the publishing subcategories, there is one category that has a different content** and value from regular books, and it may have been lost for a long time, returned to life after a vicissitudes of life, or it may have been buried underground for thousands of years before being rediscovered. They are as fragile as a candle in the long river of history, which has been almost annihilated by countless winds and rains, and has survived to this day thanks to the care of many people. 
The value of the collation and publication of ancient books lies not only in the rarity and preciousness of their contents as historical relics, but also in their importance and uniqueness as academic materials and carriers of cultural inheritance. The more than 30 million precious documents and ancient books collected by the National Library are the spiritual wisdom and spiritual wealth of the people of the past generations, and those writers are still telling and expressing them today. From oracle bones, Dunhuang testaments, rare ancient books, gold and stone rubbings, maps, and "style thunder" picture files to ancient books in ethnic languages, manuscripts of famous artists, and rare books in Western languages, how should this vast number of classics survive to this day?
Texts are not dead, they need "wings".The life of a book is awakened by the reader. Only when it is read can the value be realized. Ancient books are cultural relics, but they are still books in essence, and only when they are known to everyone can ancient books realize and continue the value of their existence. As Zhang Zhiqing, executive deputy director of the National Library of China and deputy director of the National Center for the Protection of Ancient Books, said, more than 30 million classics are not "dead", and there are many ancients in them who are discussing and telling stories that have happened in the pastAnd who will endow them with the emotion, value, spirit and imagination of today?Especially in the era of information technology, the content generation mode and content dissemination carrier have undergone tremendous changes. With the advent and popularization of the Internet, the era of user-created content has arrived, and people have begun to create and publish content directly on social networks, from blogs and Twitter to Jinjiang literature, starting point literature, and then to today's Douyin and Xiaohongshu. In the past year, artificial intelligence has swept the world, and the speed and volume of AI creation have far surpassed that of humans, opening a new era of content creation. Are ancient books still valuable in the era of artificial intelligence?Is it still necessary to preserve, organize and publish ancient books?What happens when those yellowed texts gradually turn into simple ancient bamboo slips?Yang Hao, an associate researcher at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Peking University and deputy director of the Digital Humanities Center at Peking University, believes that no matter how much content created by artificial intelligence is, it is also an imitation of ancient classics, and no matter how vivid the imitation is, it cannot change the essence of imitation. Ancient books are the root of Chinese civilization. "People in modern society should not be enslaved by technology. Ancient books are our roots, and the more we want to blossom and bear fruit in technology, the deeper our roots will be. According to other data, of the more than 200,000 ancient books in existence, only 80,000 have been digitally scanned and nearly 40,000 have been digitized. According to expert statistics, from 1949 to 2019, nearly 3 ancient books were restored, sorted out and published in China80,000 kinds, it may take 300 years to restore all the existing ancient books, and if artificial intelligence technology is used to assist in the restoration and sorting, it will be completed in about twenty or thirty years. In this context, the digitization of ancient books is becoming more and more urgent and significant. 
It is understood that with the use of digital technology, 100,000 rare books (pieces) of rare books in the "Chinese Ancient Books Resource Library" of the National Library can appear on the readers' desks at any time. In October 2022, the beta version of the ancient book digitization platform "Classics of Ancient Books" developed by ByteDance and Peking University was officially launched, and the two sides jointly integrated OCR technology, automatic punctuation, named entities and other artificial intelligence technologies. Intelligent technology is accelerating the preservation and protection of ancient Chinese resources. Le Li, executive editor-in-chief of Tomato**, said: "We especially hope that Tomato can do its part in the protection and inheritance of ancient books. To this end, Tomato has introduced more than 2,000 ancient books through its cooperation with 'Reading Ancient Books'. For example, classics such as "Twenty-four History" and "Yongle Canon", as well as ancient books such as "The Outer History of Confucianism", which users are familiar with, can now be searched and read on the Tomato platform. In the first month of the project's launch, a total of 150,000 people searched for keywords of ancient books, of which more than 50,000 users read the content of ancient books. "Easier access and wider dissemination may be the value and charm of information technology in the protection and inheritance of ancient books. In the digital environment, once the content is generated, the speed of dissemination is very fast, and the assistance of artificial intelligence technology can be said to "give wings" to the development, protection and utilization of ancient books.
Online literature revitalizes ancient books, a dialogue between ancient and modernAs books that have been precipitated by time, ancient books are just distant from people in this era for various reasons. From the perspective of professional fields, the current protection of ancient books can be roughly divided into three categories: original protection, regenerative protection, and inheritance protection. Priori preservation is the preservation and restoration of ancient books themselves;Regenerative protection refers to the photocopying, reconstruction, digitization or miniaturization of ancient books, so that ancient books can continue to exist through other carriers and facilitate preservation and disseminationInheritance protection refers to the transmission of knowledge, stories, and ideas in ancient books through the carrier of "people". 
According to professionals, in the past ten years, people have gradually found that due to the protection of cultural relics and other considerations, the protection of the original nature of ancient books will have certain restrictions on the dissemination of ancient books, which has some contradictions with the cultural transmission attributes of ancient books as books. In this context, the revitalization of ancient books, that is, the important role of inheritance protection, is highlighted. In May 2023, in order to allow obscure ancient books to be presented in a richer form in the public eye, the National Library (National Center for the Protection of Ancient Books) and Douyin's Tomato ** launched the "Ancient Books Revitalization, Inheritance of Books" historical ** essay campaign, hoping to present the historical moments or classic stories in ancient books to the world in a richer and more popular way. The combination of easy-to-understand online literature and obscure ancient books has attracted a lot of attention in this innovative attempt to break through the "dimensional wall", and a total of more than 30,000 works based on ancient books have been collected for recreation. On December 25th, the essay contest officially ended, and 15 award-winning works including "The Biography of Poyang Lake Jun" (from "Zi Buyu", author: Zuo Broken Hand) were selected. 
Shen Xiaojuan, Dean of the National Library Research Institute (Business Management Office), and others presented awards to the winning authors, Zheng Xiaoyou, associate research librarian of the National Library of China and doctor of the Department of History of Peking University, believes that the form of "ancient books + online literature" can improve the dissemination effect of ancient books, which is of inheritance significance. "The reader has read the ** created by everyone, such as the adaptation of "The Outer History of Confucianism", he may not know the details in "The Outer History of Confucianism", but he will have some understanding of the title, author, background knowledge, etc. I think it's very important to preserve ancient books in a way that is closest to the way people learn them. "The work "Ruthless" that won the second prize in this essay contest is based on "Peony Pavilion" Created as a blueprint, the author Ren Huanyou said: Many people talk about the initial impression of ancient books is that they think it is very obscure, and some people think that ancient books represent more old-fashioned stories, but in fact, ancient books are like time capsules in glass jars of ancient people, in the form of words to the time at that time in a slow and romantic way to slow to us, thousands of years these ancient books are like fragments scattered in time, the more we collect, the more we understand, the more it can restore the information of that era. The activation of ancient books, especially in combination with the form of online texts, is like putting a beautiful packaging bag on the outside of these glass bottles - in a form that is more acceptable to the public, making ancient books easier to understand and closer to the aesthetics of modern readers. As a free reading product under Douyin, Tomato ** is committed to providing readers with a high-quality reading experience, and in the process of working with Peking University to build a "Classic Ancient Books", it is gradually found that more and more young people are becoming interested in ancient books through relevant reading on the platform. "So we also began to think about whether we can go further in the popularization and dissemination of ancient books as a digital reading platformFor example, through online literature, more stories in ancient books can reach contemporary young people. Le Li, executive editor-in-chief of Tomato**, said. Indeed, online literature, as a form of popular literature, has a large audience. Introducing online literary creation into the scope of ancient book protection can enable authors and readers to actively and correctly understand history, make use of ancient books, and achieve a virtuous cycle of high-quality creationThe addition of ancient books can greatly enrich the knowledge and cultural dissemination value of online literature. It is reported that all the award-winning works of this essay collection can be read on the Tomato **app, and some of the works will also be published in the form of physical books. Tomato ** will collect works related to the content of ancient books for a long time, and will not only give priority to the publication of high-quality works, but also recommend excellent works to be stored in the National Library. In the future, Tomato ** will also explore more forms of cooperation with the Office of the National Center for the Protection of Ancient Books, and try to make attempts in high-quality repertoire and short plays based on ancient books. "As a platform for 'reading' books, we have been working hard to make every book visible to those who need it, and ancient books are no exception." Leli said.