Zhao Longjiang
The COVID-19 epidemic is rarely visited, and I can look through several books I have bought before, including "Li Ciming Research" (by Xie Dongrong, published by the National Library Press in July 2016), "Li Ciming Chronology" (by Zhang Guili, published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in August 2016), "Yuemantang Bibliographic Certificate" (Zhang Guili's Note, printed by Zhonghua Bookstore in September 2013), and a recently purchased copy of "Li Ciming's Letter to Pan Zuyin" (compiled by Gu Qing and Feng Song, printed by China Bookstore in October 2020). The reason why I care about Li Ciming is because twenty years ago I accidentally got a copy of qianjia scholar Qian Daxin's "New Record of Ten Driving Fasts and Raising", which is engraved in the ninth year of Qing Jiaqing, and the book is very ordinary, but when I see the seal on the end of the volume, I know that it was once a relic of Yuemantang, and this is still a book that Li Ciming, the owner of Yuemantang, has self-approved and proofread.
Li Ciming was born on December 27, the ninth year of Qing Daoguang (己 ugly), and died on November 24, the twentieth year of Guangxu (Jia Wu), a native of Huiji (present-day Shaoxing), Zhejiang, also known as Aibo (㤅: love of the original character), yueman, also known as Xiachuan, small character 莼客. It is said that he was intelligent and studious from an early age, had excellent endowments, worked in poetry as a teenager, and was well-known in the countryside. However, he was not happy in his life in the examination and career path, and he did not meet the exam many times. The right path is uncertain, so I hope to change my fate through donations. When he was thirty-one years old, he traveled north to Beijing, during which he experienced many grievances, and Mother Li learned that the donation had not been completed, and sold dozens of acres of land, and entrusted people to send the donated funds to Beijing, but unexpectedly the money was misappropriated by others. It was not until the second year of Tongzhi (1863) that Li Ciming, after making up the balance of the donation, had to be the alternate Langzhong of the Household Department, and he was thirty-five years old at this year. During his stay in Beijing, Li Ciming was able to expand the scope of contacts at the Zhou Zupei Xiangguo Mansion, and after meeting Pan Zengshou and Pan Zuyin's father and son, he made many scholars and celebrities. Tongzhi returned to Zhejiang in the fourth year (1865). Unwillingly, he took the township examination again, and in the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), he was ranked twenty-fourth. The following year, he left home again for Beijing, and after four more meetings and failed the first place, he finally took the examination in the sixth year of Guangxu (1880) and became the 100th zhongjinshi, when he was over fifty years old. Ten years later, in the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890), Li Ciming supplemented the imperial history of Shanxi Province, and he was already sixty-two years old. Four years later, Li Ciming fell ill and died.
Li Ciming was repeatedly frustrated in the examination hall, and he was not very happy in the official arena. Some researchers said that Li Ciming's official position has not been high, so the salary is very low, and other sources of income are also limited, because the donor officials have hollowed out the family foundation, "After middle age, he is really very difficult to expand." In order to maintain the façade of a so-called 'famous scholar', he adopted a cynical attitude and disguised his attachment to the meritorious name Kodi with self-pretentious purity, which can be seen clearly in his diaries and poems" (excerpted from "Yuemantang Reading Secretary Publication Instructions", Zhonghua Book Company, March 1963, New Edition 1 Print).
As a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Li Ciming's extensive reading was also quite well received at that time. He once said in the "Preface to the Initial Final Edition of the Poetry Collection of Baihua Daige": "The poems written in his life are worth thousands of poems, the books he has read and the deeds he has done, the history of the scriptures and the barnyards, the Brahmanas, and the songs and songs are all involved in and imitated, and the history he has learned is a little general, and it is seen that the author has ancient texts, there are words, there are lefu, there are miscellaneous sayings, miscellaneous examinations, magazines, and the comprehensive is a note, and what he is proud of is like a poem, which is poetry, tracing back to thousands of hundreds of families in the Han Dynasty, the source, the positive change, the oddity, the truth and falsity are all in the chest, and they are all the best to learn... (Excerpted from The Collected Poems of Bai Hua Dai Ge, published by zhonghua bookstore in August 1939), it can be seen that his profound knowledge, in addition to his own talent, was accumulated through unremitting and closed-door practice. Some researchers said that the largest amount of Li Ciming's daily expenses is to buy books, and he often has relevant records of buying books in his diary. At that time, Tao Chengxing once wrote that "(Li Ciming)' all diaries have a detailed description of the origin and author of the acquired books, and if they can inherit the biography of Chao Chen Ershi, they will not allow Zheng Tang of Zhou Fu to read the secretary" (Tao Chengxing, "About the Collection of Yuemantang", published in the semi-monthly issue of "Ancient and Modern" forty-nine issues). Buying books and reading books is the norm of Li Ciming's life, and it has become the most proud and happy thing for him since he was a child.
This "New Record of the Ten Driving Fasts" has twenty volumes, and the remaining three volumes, one letter and eight volumes, and the old letter is bound. The title of the book was written by Qian Daxin, the nephew of the author Qian Daxin, who is said to be the first person to seal the qing dynasty, and Ruan Yuan, who was also a Qianjia scholar, wrote the preface, and the author prefaced it. At the beginning of the preface page, there are tibetan names and seals, from top to bottom, "Yuemantang Collection Book Seal" (Bai Wen), "Sharp Instrument Read" (Zhu Wen), "Guoxing Yude" (Zhu Wen), "Yanchang Library" (Zhu Chang), "Ciming Private Seal" (Bai Wen), of which "Yanchang Library" Zhu Wen single line long seal, should be Li Shengduo Mu Xixuan collection of books for the seal, according to Mr. Zhang Yufan in the article "Li Shengduo and His Collection", "' Mu XiXuan is the general hall name of Li's collection, in addition, Li's books are stored separately according to the nature of the books, and these libraries also have names. For example, the Tibetan ancestors' testament is called 'JianchuTang', the Tibetan Imperial Seal is called 'Ganlu', the Tibetan Ancestors' Relics are called 'Guxin Pavilion', the Tibetan Teacher You's Ink is called 'Liqing Pavilion', the Tibetan Scriptures and Celebrity Inks are called 'Two Jin Dynasties, Six Dynasties, Three Tang Dynasties, and Five Dynasties Miaomo Xuan', and the Tibetan Lead Stone Photocopy Books are called 'Yanchang Library'. Li Shi's own books are called 'Fan General Pavilion', the place where he dives is called 'Shizi'an', and the place where he lectures with his children is called 'the room of peace and foolishness and keeping the covenant'. In addition, 'Lu Jia Guan' is also an important hall number of Li's collection" (excerpt from the "Appendix" of the book "Mu XiXuan's Collection of Inscriptions and Bibliographies", Peking University Press, December 1985). But among them, the seal of "Fruit Xing Yude" does not know who it belongs to. On the home page of the "General Heading" there is a "Ci Ming" (Bai Wen) and "Yue Man Tang Lord" (Zhu Wen) on each side. The first page of volume I has two seals: "Huiji Li's Sleepy Study Building Book Seal" (Zhu Wen) and "Wang Li Instrument Seal" (White Text), and then the second to eighth volumes, each volume has these two seals on the first page, and under these two seals there is an extra party "Ci Ming" (White Text). In addition, at the end of the second, third, seventh, and eighth volumes, the seal of the book of the king's sharp weapon is covered with the seal of "Xiaochuan Shuzhai" (Zhu Wen), and at the end of the fourth volume there is "Li Shubo Reading Secretary" Zhu Wenyin. In Mr. Xie Dongrong's book "Research on Li Ciming", there is such a text description: "Li Ciming is fond of plutonium printing, he once said: 'Also quite fond of using the mark, every time I read this logistics is not often, I don't know whose hand it falls in the future, the snow and mud claws, less karma, but also let future generations know my name, and Han Shi got these volumes, it is not easy, today to leave this memory, not for a while, not to take it for himself, that is, to pass it on to others, or not to destroy it, this is also a habit of unforgettable people also' So it seems that the main purpose of Li Ciming's seal is to show that this book was once collected by himself. Therefore, the preface, table of contents, volume end, end of the book and other positions of the collection are often stamped, and the seals used are often different. Therefore, looking at its collection of books, the prints are numerous and the content is different. This can also be regarded as a distinctive one among the ancient Chinese bibliophiles. (Li Ciming's Study, pp. 72-73) These seals of varying sizes, in addition to adding color to his collection, can also allow future generations to understand the general circulation information of this book.
The first page of volume I has two seals: "Huiji Li's Sleepy School Building Collection Seal" (Zhu Wen), "Wang Li Instrument Seal" (White Text)
The "General Heading" home page is written on each side of "Ci Ming" (Bai Wen) and "Yue Man Tang Lord" (Zhu Wen).
Volumes 2 to 8, the first page of each volume is "Huiji Li's Sleepy School Building Book Seal" (Zhu Wen), "Wang Li Instrument Seal" (Bai Wen), and "Ci Ming" (Bai Wen)
"Xiao Chuan Shu Zhai" (Zhu Wen)
"Li Shubo Reading The Secretary" (Zhu Wen)
According to the author of "Li Ciming's Research", Li Ciming liked to inscribe the title of the book on his own collection, and he quoted Li Yueman's own diary as an explanation, believing that the purpose of the inscription was "to treat it as a table of contents and facilitate review." In fact, there is also a role, that is, it is also possible to practice calligraphy, because the inscription must be neat, and the writing is naturally very serious" (Li Ciming Research, p. 72). It seems that it is not only this "New Record of Ten Driving Fasts and Raising", Mr. Xie Dongrong, as the author of the head of the Ancient Books Library of the National Library, relies on the collection of Li's Yuemantang collection and Li's diary, and what he says should be based on evidence. Speaking of Li Ciming's writing of the title of the book for the collection, this "Yangxin Record" is an example. Li Yueman sealed the page in the first volume of this book, using the seal book as "Mr. Qian Zhuting's Ten Driving Zhai YangXin Record a total of twenty volumes of the remaining three volumes" and using the letter "Yang Xin Lu" and the number of volumes, the beginning and end of the content and the number of articles, and then the covers of the books followed the inscription "Yang Xin Lu" and the corresponding number of volumes, the beginning and end of the content and the number of articles. In addition, this Mr. Yueman marked each book in the order of the Bagua Azimuth, and eight volumes were written in order: Qianyi, Hui II, Li III, Zhen IV, Yan (Xun) V, Kan VI, Gen VII, and Kun VIII.
On the first cover page of the first volume, Li Ciming used the seal book as "Mr. Qian Zhuting's Ten Driving Zhai Yang New Record, a total of twenty volumes and three volumes", and used the letter "Yang Xinlu" and the number of volumes, the beginning and end of the content, and marked the number of volumes as "Qianyi"
Looking at the old collection of this Yuemantang, in addition to the "tired prints", what impressed me was his batch of school ink. Old scholars like Li Ciming, who were knowledgeable and knowledgeable, studied diligently all his life, dabbled in four books, read more books and left more knowledge, and his pen and ink kung fu made people unforgettable. At that time, most of the people in Vanke were good at making fly-headed small kai, and Li Yueman made small and delicate instructions between the eyebrows and lines of this book, where there were eighty-five articles and more than 8,300 words, which was really eye-opening.
Li Yueman's small and delicate notes
I noticed that at the end of the twentieth volume of this book, there is a short trek by Li Yueman: "I have not read it on the day of the Tenth Month of October, and I have read it in the Chunming Mansion House Yue Man Sheng" (Zhu Fang), and at the end of the volume in the "Records of Yangxin Yu", there is another saying at the end of the volume: "Zhu Ting Zhan Shi This book is precisely examined, and it is necessary to follow the difficult study of the chronicle and the rizhi record, and it is not within reach of it." The rest of the records are more uncertain words, and the latter volume is particularly numerous, but the contouring of one ear is preferable, and at this moment there is no other choice. In October, he hoped that the Yueman scholar Li Cimingzhi would be able to know" and print "Ciming" (White Fang). The Yuemantang Reading Book quotes Li Ciming's diary in four places that record the relevant contents of the "New Record of the Ten Driving Zhai Yang", the earliest of which is also the first day of the tenth month of The Beginning of October): "Reading Qian's Daxin's "New Record of the Ten Driving Zhai Yang" at night is a work of notes at any time, not as good as the "Rizhilu" and "Moth Art Compilation" Books, and the examination of the ancient meaning, the search for the Anthology, and the Transmission of Zhuo Zhuo can be transmitted..." ("Yuemantang Reading Secretary", Zhonghua Bookstore, March 1963, New Edition 1, 1 Print, 1169 pages). Xianfeng Jiwei (1859) May 17, is the date of Li Ciming's first entry into Beijing, according to Zhang Guili in the "Li Ciming Annals", Li Ciming "from the beginning of May 10 days to the first day of October to the first day of October", it is known that Li Ciming read the "Ten Driving Fasts and Yang Xinlu", should be on the beginning of May 17 to a certain period of time after the arrival of the Beijing Division, until October of this year (old calendar) to read. Li Ciming, who had just arrived in the capital, could not go to the ministry because of repeated reports of donations and was refuted, but fortunately his friend Zhou Xing praised Pan Zengshou and Zhou Zupei, and obtained an errand at the Zhou Zupei Mansion to subsidize his livelihood. Judging from the "Annals of Li Ciming", at first Li Ciming temporarily lived in Zhou Xingyu's office (at this time, the two had not yet made enemies), probably because of the difficulties of life, as evidenced by Zhou Xingyu's diary: "In recent years, the capital has a hundred things to be expensive, and the word Cao cao has no livelihood except for the rice..." (see "Ou tang Diary" Xianfeng 9 August 22, "Ou Tang Diary · Diary of Gull Tang" Hebei Education Publishing House January 2001 edition). From Zhou Xingyu's diary, it is also possible to roughly understand the daily life of his friends such as Li Ciming after entering the capital in the ninth year of Xianfeng (1859): "Since entering the capital, the prosperity has decreased, and the guests have closed their homes all day long, and they have fun with the papers of the sons in the Ji Zhao Zhai; otherwise, they return to the inner chamber and make fenyu the old village chores and stunt each other." As for the square silk bamboo, quyuan qinzhu, after the qingyu qingyu, the screen is slightly exhausted" "Today and the shuke on the money law, very acceptable, because it is remembered that the Yitai official pays attention to the country is the one" "Arrived in the capital for more than forty years, all day Dumen escaped the summer, but read the Tang and Song Dynasty novel miscellaneous books", "the night is very cold, and the People's Tales on the Body Text" "The Shuke narrates Chen Defu's evaluation of the poetry of the neighbors, taking the first, the Second, the Ji Zheng second, Guo Yunxuan editing (Song Tao) and the second, Wang Pingzi ranks fifth, Yu such as Li Taoxian and Yang Zi Gong are not with the Moon Dan", "The Shu Ke occupies the bone plate, Counting the questions about the gains and losses of the present branch, the words are very auspicious, and the pingzi is also occupied, and the worries have to be turned into happy words" "Look at the list of topics, Wang Pingzi is in the vice list, and the cockroach is frustrated again, sighing"... (See Diary of The Gull Hall, Vol. 3)
Twenty volumes of li yue man short trek
Outside the border of the "Self-Prologue" page of the "New Record of the Ten Driving Guards", there is a line of small characters that read: "Gengshen In August, he looked at Shanyin Chen Shouqi Zigu clan to borrow it." This is the inscription written by Chen Shouqi after borrowing it, not only is there only this line of inscription after the view, he also left a few ink pen eyebrow notes in the book. Chen Shouqi (陈寿祺), formerly known as Yuan, Zi zigu (字子谷), a character shanshi, was a member of the Xianfeng Sixth Year (1856) Jinshi, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and a member of the Punishment Department. When Li Ciming first entered the capital in May of the ninth year of Xianfeng, he was also praised by Chen Shouqi and made him friends with some famous people in the capital, including Pan Zengshou and Pan Zuyin's father and son. The name of Qi Weng was Zeng Shu (曾绶), the prince of Taifu Wengong (太傅文恭公子也), who lived in the Capital Division with the rank of Four Pin Qing (四品卿) and was a good soldier in his work and poetry. Since entering the capital, Chen Shanshi called It yu Lingzi Boyin Bachelor, Bachelor Shi Zhi Haidian, see my hometown people, number inquiries and give. Not long after, Qiu Weng suddenly came to visit and gave him a visit, but he did not see him. The next day, the book came, suo yushi and his brother-in-law's poems, and the poems with various inscriptions were returned, and the prizes were even awarded..." (see Li Ciming's diary quoted on page 78 of the Annals of Li Ciming; for Li Ciming's interaction with Pan Zuyin, see also "Li Ciming's Letter to Pan Zuyin" "Pan Jing as a Preface"). Li Ciming and Chen Shouqi have a special relationship, the two were born in the same year, both close friends and cousins. According to Xie Dongrong in the book "Li Ciming's Research", Chen Shouqi's mother, Li Shi, was the grandson of Li Ciming's uncle. According to Xie Dongrong's diary of Li Ciming's diary on May 25 of the second year of Tongzhi's reign, Li's commonly used Tibetan seal "Huiji Li's Sleepy Study Building Book Seal" is from Chen Shouqi's hand: "Shan Shilai, for the engraving of a seal, Wen Yuehui Li's Sleepy Study Building Book Seal." (See both in "Li Ciming Studies" p. 68) Of the two, Chen Shanshi was born first, Li Yueman called him a cousin, and two of them sang and proved their poems: in the first year of the Tongzhi Dynasty, Chen Shanshi returned to Zhejiang to find his mother, Li Yueman composed the golden song lyric "Cousin Chen Shanshi abandoned the official and entered Zhejiang from the sea road to find his mother to send two songs" as a gift, and Chen Shouqi replied with the golden song lyrics "壬戌春暮線 sailing to find his relatives Li Yueman's cousin's cousin Li Yueman's cousin's cousin Yi Yun Hezhi" (Li Ciming Chronology, p. 94). Chen Shouqi died in April of the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867) at the age of thirty-nine (Li Ciming's Annals, p. 127).
Chen Shouqi borrowed the inscription he wrote down after reading it
Li Yueman likes to read, his family has a history of self- learning, when he was young, he inherited the books collected by his ancestors, he was diligent in exposition, and he was also keen to buy books and store them every day. Li Ciming once said in his diary: "Giving sexual pleasure books, that is, buying them privately at a young age, is a poor family, and so far it has not been able to sweat cattle and horses in the collection." In life, there is no other hobby, going in and out of the living, nothing more than the emperor in the book, a drink and a food, not this unhappiness, there is a book that must be read, that is, if it is a matter of deep shame, it is often a dream. (According to Tao Chengxing's "About the Collection of Yuemantang" quoting Li Ciming's diary) Reading the "Li Ciming Chronology" and the "Yuemantang Bibliographic Evidence", etc., can understand the general way li Ciming obtained the book, mainly to purchase and receive gifts. In the early years of his home, the Shen's Taste Of Scripture Hall in Huiji City was a place where he often went, and after coming to the capital, if he had a little surplus, the factory bookstore was also a place where he was happy to patronize his leisure time, but his salary was limited, and his daily expenses were often limited, coupled with the surge in property value, making his livelihood increasingly difficult. Therefore, most of the books purchased by Li Ciming are ordinary versions, and it is obvious that he pays more attention to the text content of the books. In the collection of books in Yuemantang, the gift of friends is an important part, as Li Ciming's friendship has become more and more extensive, he hopes to grow in fame, after the age of forty, especially after his second entry into the capital, there are often people who visit and donate books, including acquaintances and friends, scholars and colleagues, there are also disciples and juniors, and even bookstore merchants, etc., most of these gifts are new publications at that time. Sometimes Li Ciming would also use exchange to obtain books, that is, "to have something easy to have", to exchange useless or repetitive books for books needed. In addition, there are some cases where books are used instead of polishing pens, that is, writing epitaphs, Shinto tablets, etc. for friends, and the other party pays books as a thank you, although such examples are rare. Then there is the "Sleepy Study Building" where his ancestors left in his hometown, which is also the room where he studied at home in his early years, it is said that the collection of ten thousand volumes, xianfeng ten years (1860) Taiping army attacked Hangcheng, Shaoxing, sleepy school building together with the Li clan residence destroyed by soldiers. I once imagined that I could not rule out that this "Yangxin Record" came from the old collection of the Sleepy School Building, and Li Ciming carried it into Beijing when he first went north, thus avoiding the burning of the army, but this is only my personal subjective conjecture, and there is no definite text to support it.
In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), Li Ciming died, and his son Li Chenghou (formerly known as Xiao Xuan, the son of Li Ciming's younger brother Hui Ming, who later became the heir yueman and changed his name to Xiao Ju) returned to Shaoxing with the Yue man collection. In the seventh year of the Republic of China, after the death of Li Chenghou, Li Zhongjun and his friend Xu Wei arranged the collection of books in Yueman at the checkpoint, copied and sealed them, a total of 28 boxes, more than 9,100 volumes, and more than 200 kinds of books in the inner hand- batch of hand-proofed schools, about 2,700 volumes. After several twists and turns, it was finally purchased by the Beiping Library for 12,000 yuan. Regarding the migration process of the overall collection of books in Yuemantang, Tao Chengxing's "On the Collection of Yuemantang" is detailed and does not contain a record. However, according to Xie Dongrong's book, "according to the interview archives of the National Map, on March 6, 1777, the Republic of China purchased the Yueman Collection, totaling 792 books and 9,027 volumes, at a cost of 12,000 yuan..." "There was still a certain gap between the number of books in the collection at that time and the 9,615 volumes recorded in the Nanjing Library's "Bibliography of Yuemantang", indicating that not all of the books were purchased at that time. The author once compared the catalog of the collection with the book "Bibliographic Evidence of Yuemantang" compiled by Dr. Zhang Guili, and found that in addition to many sporadic books that have not been found in the collection, the entire sub-department of the sixteen books of the medical family category and 157 books have not been included in the collection" "In the books purchased, there is a book engraved by Qing Guangxu Twenty-four Years (1899) West Lake Academy", which is not Li Ciming's collection, and perhaps mistakenly mixed Li Chenghou's books into it" "In addition to this bulk purchase, the National Library has also successively collected the books of Yuemantang through other channels, such as ...... This shows that Li's collection of books was gradually dispersed before the seventeenth year of the Republic of China" (Li Ciming's Research, section IV, "Scattered Books", pp. 75, 76). The difference between the 9,615 volumes recorded in the Guotu Li Ciming collection and the 9,615 volumes recorded in the Nanjing Library's "Bibliography of Yuemantang" is as high as 588 volumes, which means that before the Li clan and friends inspected the Yueman collection, there was a phenomenon of loss of books, and even before Li Chenghou's death, the collection was already missing, which was also possible. In the "Annals of Li Ciming", Zhang Guili once quoted Wen Wei's "Yue Guo Chunqiu" of November 22 of the Republic of China as "Yue Man Private Ride": "To taste the words of the townspeople, the son of Yue Man, after returning to Li Ciming, has no permanent property at home, and his food is difficult, but at the end of Guangxu, he collected four porridges in his old home with his hands, and received thousands of dollars... In a certain year of the Republic of China, with the daughter of epilepsy died, looking at her mourning, the irritation was too much, and she was also infected with Disease, and the son-in-law's family was urgently returned, and the hundred remedies were cured, and when they were healed, they suddenly drowned themselves in one day, and it can be seen that the heirs of yue man have also been weakened. (Li Ciming's Annals, p. 17) Although it is a rumor in the township, there is also a real possibility. In addition, Tao Chengxing mentioned in the article "On the Yuemantang Collection" that the Yueman collection had already been sold in the Hangzhou Bookstore before it was sold to the Beiping Library: "Thirteen years later, Zhu Zhenzhuang (that is, Zhu Zongyuan, who wrote the Dazhige poem), said that the Hangzhou Bookstore already had the Book of Yueman, and the network continued to scatter..." Mr. Lun Zheru, a modern bibliophile and scholar, also had a similar account: "Mr. Ciming, Mr. Li Shubo, died in the middle of Guangxu, and his family returned to the Beiping Library with more than 9,000 copies of the Yuemantang Testament. Each book has a proofreading, especially the main book of scripture. In the past few years, the Hangzhou Bookstore has repeatedly used the title of the book of the Hangzhou Bookstore to ask for a heavy price, and it seems that it is not complete. (According to the Chronicle poems of the Book Collection since Xinhai, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, September 1990) These all show that it was no secret that the Yue man collection was scattered in the Hangcheng Bookstore before it was transferred to the Beiping Library. Incidentally, Wang Liqi also said in the "Notes on the Compilation of The Book of Reading in Yuemantang" that he and his friend Su Jikuan both had Li Yueman's hand-approved books: "For thirty years, I have read the Li books collected by the Beijing Library, generally have a Jianduan record, and I have seen the Li hand-approved books collected by the deceased Mr. Su Jikuan, and I have also received several kinds of Li hand-approved books, which are quite convinced that Li's reading is idle and has made a lot of achievements, such as the "New Language of the World" collected by the Beijing Library and the "New Record of ten driving fast cultivation" collected by Han Zhai ...", "A Brief Record of Reading in Yuemantang", Tianjin People's Publishing House, December 1980), it can be seen that although Li Yueman's collection is sold as a whole in the Beiping Library, some of them are still in exile.
This "New Record of ten driving fasting and raising" removes the ink marks between the books and the lines, and also leaves several signature clips, including a copy of "Hao Langao Yixing and Wang Boshen's Attendant On Sun Qing's Book", which is also a fly-headed fine letter, and from the handwriting style, it is Li Yueman's handwriting. The other few pieces of signature paper written with a hard pen are unlikely to be the handwriting of People of Li Ciming's time, and whether they are Wang Liji's handwriting cannot be determined.
The seal of the "Yanchang Library" on the book indicates that this book was once collected by Li Muzhai (Li Shengduo), but it is not known when and where it was obtained. Some articles say that he was embarrassed in his late life, and the collection of books was scattered one after another. After his death, most of the books in the collection were sold by his son Li Huan and the puppet government of Peiping. After that, the books were handed over to the Peking University Library for preservation, and a small number of Li Muzhai's old collections were scattered in the factory. Except for this rectangular seal of the "Yanchang Library", there are no other traces related to Li Shengduo and his Mu Xixuan in this book. Similarly, when this book entered the Xiaochuan Bookstore, Wang Liqi did not leave a written record of the passage of the book. However, in the book "Traces of the Heart of the Past - Self-Description of Wang Liqi" (Shanxi People's Publishing House, December 1997 edition), I saw a passage related to this book: "My collection of books is not only large, but also quite refined, about 30,000 volumes. Later, I moved from the second floor of the red to the Peking University Professor's Dormitory, No. 39 East Forty Articles, and the books alone moved back and forth several times. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, students from the nearby Fifth Middle School rebelled and wantonly destroyed, and I was afraid that my book would suffer. The next day, I handed over the two large bookcases of my good books to the People's Literature Publishing House, and the publishing house drove the books from the two bookcases together with the bookcases. These books include: "Mahayana Great Compassion Fendari Sutra" Several Dynasties Sloppy Sutra Folding (numbered in a thousand characters, with accompanying letters and meanings, and supplemented at the end of the three volumes of the Lai Dynasty) 'Three Years of Heavenly Saints' (1026)..." After a series of good book titles, I finally saw the words "Li Ciming's Hand-approved "New Record of the Ten Driving Fasts". Fortunately, this batch of school books has not faded with the years, and Wang Liqi used special means to preserve this old object of Li Yueman.
Mr. Wang Liqi passed away on July 25, 1998. After about half a year, I saw this book in the bookstore, which should have been from the Wang family. This "New Record of Ten Driving Fasts" has been collected by several famous scholars, and then I was lucky enough to buy and store it.
Editor-in-Charge: Zheng Shiliang
Proofreader: Liu Wei