元末《辍耕录》是部长达30卷的大书,人们也许不知道,如此巨著竟是积叶而成的。当年,作者陶宗仪在江苏教书时,工余还耕种几亩地。每次下田劳动,他都带着笔墨。休息时,想起自己平日耳闻目睹的珍闻轶事等,便随手从树上摘些发黄的老叶,记在上面,晾干后放在瓮里,积满后就埋进地里。这样日积月累,整整过了10年,积了几十瓮树 At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, “stop cultivating records” is a ministerial volume up to 30 volumes of big book, people may not know, so huge is actually made of leaves. That year, the author Tao Zongyi teaching in Jiangsu, I still cultivated several acres of land. Every time he goes to work in the fields, he carries the ink. At rest, remembering the anecdotes and so on that he saw on weekdays, he readily picked yellowish leaves from the trees, recorded them on the table, dried them and placed them in an urn, and buried them in the ground. This over time, after a full 10 years, plot a few dozen trees