Book stand proud of the city(tān shū ào bǎi chéng)

Book stand proud of the city

It refers to the wealth of book collection or the deep love of books

[source] Li Mi of the Northern Wei Dynasty read a lot and had no intention of becoming an official. He spent all his family property on collecting books. The volume of the book he carefully examined and revised was 4000 volumes. He has a famous saying: "my husband holds thousands of books, why does he face all the cities in the south?" That is to say, as long as there are ten thousand volumes of books, why do you have to be an official in charge of a hundred cities. See biography of Li mi in the book of Wei.

Chinese PinYin : tān shū ào bǎi chéng