古籍，是指未采用现代印刷技术印制的书籍。图书在古代称作典籍，也叫文献，兼有文书、档案、书籍三重意义。

Ancient books refer to books printed without modern printing techniques. In ancient times, books were called classics, also called documents, which had the triple meanings of documents, archives and books.

随着时间的进展，将记事类文件加以编排，供人阅读，并达到传播知识经验的目的，便形成了一部图书，图书的内容日益增多，载体趋向多元，制作技术不断改进，为了方便阅读，产生了“简册”、“卷轴”、“册页”、“线装书”等不同的装帧样式。

As time progress, will remember choreography class files, for people to read, to achieve the aim of spreading knowledge experience, formed a book, in increasing the content of the book, and tends to carrier, continuously improve production technology, in order to facilitate reading, the book of "Jane", "scroll", "manual", "book thread-bound book" and so on the different binding style.

在西方人的观念里和词汇中，“善本”就是珍贵的、值钱的、罕见的传本，这实际上是以“珍本”概念替代了“善本”的含义。时代久远，传世孤罕的书籍，自然珍贵。

In the concept and vocabulary of westerners, "rare books" are precious, valuable and rare copies, which actually replace the meaning of "rare books" with the concept of "rare books". Long time, handed down lonely books, natural precious.

中国的古籍在数量上以用汉文撰写的为最多。此外，还有用满、蒙、藏、彝等兄弟民族文字撰写的，也是中国的古籍。只是因为整理这些用兄弟民族文字撰写的古籍需要另外一套专门学问，在方法上也和整理汉文的不尽相同，因此通常所谓整理古籍只限于汉文的古籍。

In terms of the number of ancient books in China, Chinese is the largest. In addition, there are also ancient Chinese books written in the languages of Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi and other brotherly ethnic groups. It is only because the sorting out of ancient books written in other languages requires a different set of expertise, and the methods are different from those in Chinese, that the so-called sorting out of ancient books is usually limited to ancient books in Chinese.

此苏轼选集保存完好，字迹清晰，为难得一见的古籍，经济价值仅仅是其的表层价值，实际上最重要的价值是它内容中所含有的无可争辩的文献证据价值。在各个领域中，古籍善本都有无可估量的作用。

This Su Shi anthology is well preserved, with clear handwriting, and is a rare ancient book. Its economic value is only its surface value. In fact, the most important value is the indisputable documentary evidence value contained in its content. In each field, rare ancient books have immeasurable role.

我们即使不讲学术地位，不谈社会影响，仅就价格、经济角度来谈，古籍善本也是高价位、高层次。现在古籍善本没有达到这个地位，说明古籍善本所蕴藏的经济潜力远远超过瓷器、书画、玉器，因此现在投入古籍善本的收藏是一个良好时机。

Even if we do not talk about academic status, do not talk about social influence, only in terms of price, economic point of view, rare ancient books are high price, high level. It shows that the economic potential of rare ancient books is far more than that of porcelain, painting and calligraphy, and jade. Therefore, it is a good time to invest in the collection of rare ancient books.