The Republic of China Commercial Press typeset edition of "Speaking of Gao", compiled by Tao Zongyi
The book is also dramatic. A book lover went to an article I had written a few years ago related to Shuo Gao, discussed with me the total number of editions, and then sent me these four large books. Although this is a republic of China typeset, it is so good in appearance and intact, and it is also expensive today. The gift of the teacher and friend was mainly a new work, and this book friend gave such a valuable book, of course, I could not accept it, when he asked me for an address at that time, he only said that there was information to send, I did not expect him to send such a version, and did not leave his own address. I explained to him many times in WeChat that the friendship collar, the book should be returned, but it insisted on not giving the address, I had to say that I already had this version, but the other party said, since there is, let me send people at will. It was overwhelming to me.
I consulted with the book giver, and even so, I wanted to thank him in this column, but the other party still did not agree, and after repeated explanations, he said that it was okay to write a book, but not to name it. Even so, I remembered that Lu Xun once referred to Qian Xuantong as "Jin Xinyi", and later learned that this name was originally Lin Qinnan's innuendo of Qian Xuantong in the article "Jingsheng", and later Qian simply used it to call himself, and Lu Xun also called it Qian. Therefore, I followed this law and called this book donor Song Hongyu.
Since it has received such a valuable book from Teacher Song, of course, it is necessary to read it carefully, and the title page of this book indicates that the base copy of the book is "according to the Ming Banknote", and the typeset version is preceded by the preface written by Zhang Zongxiang, which first mentions that the book "Saying" has two version systems:
One hundred volumes of "Speaking of Gao", compiled by Emperor Ming Taozong. The present world is one hundred and twenty volumes, which are compiled by Qing Shunzhi Ding Hai Yao An Tao Jue, of which the errors are indomitable. For example, as contained in the "Catalogue of the Four Libraries", after the nine kinds of "Spring and Autumn Latitude", one "Spring and Autumn Latitude" is selected; in addition to the "Qingzhuo Gao Discussion", there is another "New Theory of Heng Huang"; the "Old Affairs of Wulin" of The Careful Andy is divided into nine parts; The Duan Chengshi "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" is set up in three places; and Chen Shichong's "Notes on Suiyin" is subterfuge the second item. Wang Kui's "Li Hai Collection", whose person Yu Zongyi is a descendant; "Miscellaneous Secrets" is published by Yang Shen, and his books are juxtaposed. All these articles, as stated in the "Four Libraries", are enough to prove that it is not the original of nancun, and it is ridiculous to mess with it. Qianjia's predecessors often sighed at the death of "Saying Qi" and died in The Dragon, wouldn't you forgive me!
It seems that the one hundred and twenty volumes of Tao Jue's compilation of "Saying Theory" are more popular, but this book is too much wrong, far from being as close to the original appearance of the book as a hundred volumes, but the one hundred volumes that have been handed down to later generations are basically Ming banknotes, but each Ming banknote is defective, in order to be able to allocate a hundred volumes of "Saying Theory", Zhang Zongxiang has made great efforts, which he said in the preface:
Since the winter of the eighth year of the Republic of China, the main Beijing division library, to see the fragments of the library Ming banknote "Say Gao", holding the school engraving, then "Yungu Miscellaneous Records", the inscription is also marked with three names: one bid "Yungu Miscellaneous Records"; one with "Shoushan Gongyue", marked "Gengyue Records"; one with "The Beginning of The Joint Sentences" and other twenty-five articles, not "Records of Eastern Qi", and Yun "Song Xu Guan Zhi". Fabricating the title of the book, pseudo-labeling the author, then what else is more than enough. Because it is a wish to return the old south village, but the non-Ming banknote is not enough, and the Ming banknote must not be coveted. If they are encountered, they are not all complete, and they are wrong and simple, and those who are heavy will borrow the school, and after reading it for six years, it will become a complete book. The words and phrases in it do not dare to be altered, and if they are not based on a good book, they will be proofread with the banknote, and choose the good one and follow it.
Zhang Zongxiang went through some hard work and then handed it over to the Hanfen Building of the Commercial Press for typography and publication, which is the book I got. The above quotations are typeset in front of Han Fenlou's "Sayings of The Scriptures", but looking through Zhang Zongxiang's "Essays on the Tie Ruyiguan", there are several other quotations made by the author for the book "Sayings", which are explained more carefully, such as the one of the poems of the falling "Peng Shu Dong", which first said: "Where this book collects six kinds of Ming banknotes, it begins to become a complete Bi", specific to which Ming banknotes are used, which are listed as follows:
One is a fragment of the Beijing Normal Library, (3rd, 4th, 23rd to 32nd. No year number, blue grid white cotton paper, the book is extremely tall, like a long wanjian writing. The first is the collection of Mr. Fu Yuanshu of Jiang'an. Mr. YuanShu's book is composed of three kinds of Huiming banknotes: one Hongwujian banknote, one Hongnong Yang banknote, and one series of Tang banknotes. The books are incomplete, the book is estimated to dig and fill the beginning and end of the volume, make up a hundred volumes, and all the number of ink and pen volumes given to them, without Zhu School, and those who do not conform to the contents of the catalog, are moved up and down, moved forward and made up, and the ability to divide is extremely severe. Among them, the Hongwu banknote is the oldest, the articles before and after the book, the error is at most, and it is speculated that it is recorded from the Nancun manuscript. The manuscript must be in the style of a coat, after falling off, posterity casually paste, so there is this error. Hongwu banknotes and Yang banknotes have inscriptions at the back of the book, and the series of books has these three words in the heart, which is exactly the same as the usual series of books. The first is the HanfenLou collection, which seems to be a Wanli banknote, and there is no shortage of volumes, and there is a catalog in front of each volume. The table of contents of the present day is written from this book. By the twenty-second volume, the eighty-sixth to the ninety-sixth volume, all five kinds of banknotes were missing.
The above list is the five kinds of Ming banknotes of the "Sayings", and regarding the sixth kind, Zhang Zongxiang first said the following two sentences in this trek: "There are also fragments of the "Sayings" hidden in the Jade Sea Building of Mr. Wensun Zhongrong, who has been visited and must not be understood, so that it is difficult to meet in this life." He then went on to write:
He was ordered to supervise Zhejiang Studies. Before leaving, Mr. Yuan Uncle's entertainment room, there is a book estimate to bring the Ming banknote "Say Gao", after reviewing, the missing volumes are there. Hurried south, too late to borrow money. Mr. Yuan Shu went to Zhejiang to see the tide, and even took it to the south to see the fake, and he had to complete the book. Great affection and friendship, what a feeling!
From this, Zhang Zongxiang listed the six kinds of Ming banknotes he used to proofread the "Sayings", and after that, he also had a long text to explain the errors found in the proofreading process and the corresponding wonderful points, which shows that Zhang Zongxiang has made great efforts for the publication of this book. The book that comes to the Commercial Press HanFenLou should be the closest to the original appearance of the known "Sayings".
Perhaps it is a hundred secrets, some people still point to Zhang Zongxiang's collation is also wrong, Pan Jingzheng's "Reading Secretary of Yanlou" includes "Photocopy of saying the order", the end of this preface is 1988, and Han Fenlou's "Saying" was published in 1927, the difference between the two is more than one nail, and Pan Jingzheng is also a version of everyone, of course, he has more understanding of "Saying". Regarding the transmission of the version of the book "Sayings", Mr. Pan said in this preface:
"Sayonara" was originally not passed down. The number of hundred volumes can be found in Ming Yesheng's "Shuidong Diary" with clouds: "I have recently heard that the hundred volumes of "Saying Qi" still exist in his home. Ninety percent of the alteration, to take the place do not know how? Is it also an unfinished book? According to Ming Du Qiong's "Three Redundant Pens" Yun, "The seventy volumes of the Shuo Gao are in the last thirty volumes of the Songjiang people's "Baichuan Xuehai". In the ninth year of The reign of Ming Hongzhi, Shanghai Yuwen Bo wrote the preface to "Saying The Scriptures" that "the manuscript of the hand has been completed in thirty volumes, and it is supplemented." "It can be proved that his book was originally a hundred volumes, and the Ming Chenghua Jian Yu clan obtained its manuscript, and less than seventy volumes were removed, and the Ming banknotes that are circulating today are all manuscripts after the reign of Hiroharu Chenghua, and the so-called hundred volumes are all re-recorded copies of the Yu clan, not the true face of the original book."
As for the collation of the Ming banknotes, Mr. Pan also mentioned Zhang Zongxiang's efforts for this, and at the same time said that the collation was "laid down by Han Fenlou, and scholars attached great importance to his books", and then Mr. Pan put forward the following criticism: "Unfortunately, Zhang's revision is not refined, the labels are heavy, and they are mixed with the works of the Ming people." For example, volume 84 "Qian Genealogy", 87 "GeGu Treatise", 97 "Book of Persuasion", "Collection of Effects", etc., should not be owned by the original book. From this, it can be seen how difficult it is to learn the ancient books, Zhang Zongxiang has done his best to use so many Ming banknotes, and his results are still wrong. Pan Jingzheng also pointed out that in addition, there are many kinds of Ming banknotes that have survived, and some of them are more successful than those used by Zhang Zongxiang.
The difficulty of developing a catalogue version is that it is inductive reasoning, and the proofreader can only come to a more correct conclusion by reading all the versions of a book one by one. Why can't we say an absolute word, because some versions of the ancient books have been lost in the process of circulation, and the similarities and differences between the contents of the lost books and what they have seen are obviously difficult for the proofreaders to know. This industry can indeed be called a difficult thing.
Tao Zongyi's compilation of the book "Sayings" is indeed very valuable, although the book is only a hundred volumes, but it contains more than a thousand kinds of ancient books, so it can be seen that Tao Zongyi's collection of books is rich, but for some reason, Tao Zongyi did not copy these thousands of books into the original book one by one according to the original written title, otherwise, only one hundred volumes of "Saying" is absolutely not allowed to contain more than a thousand ancient books, so many books He only excerpts fragments of them, such as the famous "Search for God", the original book has as many as twenty volumes, and only eighteen excerpts are recorded in the "Sayings". Another problem with the "Sayings" is that many contents are re-emerged, such as the "Old Story of the Ciliu Clan" in volume 36 of the book, and the "Seventeen Affairs of the Ming Emperor" in volume 52, in fact, the content of the two books is exactly the same, and it is not known whether it was Tao Zongyi's mistake or the error produced by the book in the later process of copying.
But even so, some of the ancient books included in the "Sayings" have been lost, so only this book can let posterity glimpse the auspicious light, such as the "Records of The Customs of Zhenla" written by Yuan Zhou Daguan, which is the only work written by the existing contemporaries about the living conditions in the Angkor era in Cambodia, in addition to many important historical materials from the book, so the Siku Guanchen praised the book in the summary, saying: "The ancient books are not passed on to the present, and the fragments of the broken fragments are often there, so that the trivial matters are sometimes slightly flawed, and the solid is also the source of the sea." ”
It is precisely because of the important value of "Saying" that Zhang Zongxiang made great efforts to sort out the book so that it could be compiled into the best book, but as mentioned above, its hundred secrets are sparse, and there are still problems in the book. And Mr. Shi Xianming's "Zhang Zongxiang's Revisited Discussion of Zhang Zongxiang's "Talking" is also pointing out Zhang Bao's mistake. For example, Zhang Zongxiang claimed that Fu Zengxiang's Collection of Ming Banknotes was composed of three kinds of Ming banknotes, and the first of the copies he matched was the "Hongwujian Manuscript", and Shi Xianming verified What Fu Zengxiang said in the Bibliography of Shuangjian Lou Shan: "The one hundred volumes of the Shuo Gong, the Ming Codex, the Hehongnong Yang Ben, the Hongzhi Yi Ugly Ben, and the Book Series Tang Ben are three kinds of matches. From this, it can be seen that fu Zengxiang's self-proclaimed three ming banknotes do not have Hongwu ben, but there is a Hongzhi ben, so it should be Zhang Zongxiang who mistakenly wrote the Hongzhi ben as the Hongwu ben. However, Fu Zengxiang also said in the Bibliography of the Zhizhi Biography of the Tibetan Garden:
One hundred volumes of the Shuo Gao, Ming Tao Zong Yi Collection. Ming Dynasty, four kinds of combinations, the sub-records are as follows: Ming Shu Tang Writing Book..., Ming Hongnong Yang Clan Writing Book..., Ming Hongzhi Eighteenth Year Writing Book..., Ming Writing Book..., Yu Zang. Later, his friend Zhang Junzongxiang decided according to this school, and then added a little to his book, and handed over Han Fenlou to the world.
Fu Zengxiang explicitly said that there were four kinds of Ming banknotes with the "Sayings" that were "Yu Zang", and Zhang Zongxiang made corresponding revisions based on this book, which is the origin of the HanFenlou typeset version.
The completion of a book has so many internal facts, and it is difficult to revise ancient books, which can be seen from this. When writing this article, I felt even more cautious when making a judgment, because it is even more difficult for my generation's knowledge and vision to look forward to The Back of Fu Zengxiang and Zhang Zongxiang's generation. The book donated by Teacher Song Honghong not only gave me a Republic of China version, but also reminded me to be more cautious when writing. From this point of view, Teacher Song benefits me a lot.
"From the Heart: Commemoration of the 70th Birthday of Mr. Wei Minghua", edited by the Editorial Department of Xiyue
Mr. Wei Minghua of Yangzhou is a friend who has known each other for many years, and by last month he turned 69 years old, according to local customs, do nine not ten, for this reason a group of teachers and friends in Yangzhou held a grand seventieth birthday party for him, I was invited to participate in this meeting, but I was unable to attend the meeting in other places, missed this elegant collection, and I always have some regrets. Fortunately, a few months ago, I wrote an article for this purpose, which has been submitted to Brother Minghua, and in the previous paragraph I saw him send out photos in the WeChat circle, and the humble article has been included in the "Collection from the Heart", and I have also seen the birthday wishes of other friends.
Recently, I received two "Collections from the Heart" given by Brother MingHua, one is a special bamboo box book, numbered No. 3, and the other is a raw edge book, numbered No. 5, and I am grateful for my friendship.
Flipping through this interesting collection of birthday celebrations, Brother Ming Hua said in the preface that this birthday celebration was inspired by Chen Zishan and Xue Bing. Last year, Brother Wang Jiaju of Suzhou held a seventieth birthday party for Mr. Chen and Xue Er in Nanjing, when Brother Ming Hua also came to attend, so at the instigation of friends, he also held a birthday party this year and printed this commemorative collection at the same time. In fact, if you think about it, it is indeed more meaningful to produce such a commemorative set than to eat and drink a lot. The common disease of book lovers always hopes that everything should leave historical materials, in fact, publishing books is one of the important historical materials.
The book is edited into five divisions, the first of which is "Guan Shan's Message", which is a commemorative article written by friends from all over the world for the seventieth birthday of Brother MingHua, among which Chen Zishan wrote "A Business Card of Yangzhou", in which Mr. Zishan referred to Wei Minghua, Xue Bing, and Wang Jiaju as Wei Jiangdu, Xue Jinling, and Wang Gusu respectively, and Wang Jiaju said more clearly in the text: "Minghua is an expert in Yangzhou culture, and Mr. Xue Bing in Nanjing, and Mr. Xue Bing in Nanjing, and Bu Yu, are jokingly called the 'Iron Triangle' of Jiangnan culture. ”
Of course, the iron triangle in the TV series has more social influence, Zhang Guoguo, Wang Gang, Zhang Tielin together do not know how to act in hundreds of episodes of the TV series, in fact, this did not cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue, so it can be seen that the acting skills are superb, even if they appear from time to time, it will not be disgusting. Although the iron triangle of the book industry is stacked with stacks of books, it is still loved by book lovers. For example, the writings produced by Brother Minghua, according to Mr. Zishan:
Brother Ming has been engaged in writing for half a century. He is quick in his thinking, his writing is strong, the more he writes, the better, from the publication of his debut work "Yangzhou Quyi History" in 1985, he has launched seventy-one kinds of collections of long and short lengths, which is really not easy. When I saw the bibliography of his works, I was really shocked, because what the ancients said about "works and other bodies" was used on him to truly live up to its name.
I don't know if stacking these 71 books together has exceeded the height of Brother Minghua, even if it has not reached such a height, it is just around the corner. And from this collection, I also read information that I had never learned before, such as how Brother MingHua knew Wang Jiaju, and Brother Jiaju naturally had to explain this problem in "MingHua's Small Notes":
I just remember that in the mid-nineties, I was an editor in Suzhou Magazine, editing his manuscripts in that dark north room. At that time, he did not use a computer, and the manuscripts were all handwritten, three hundred square meters per piece of paper, sometimes a dozen sheets, thick stacks, stuffed in envelopes, registered and sent. His writing is decent, and has the flavor of a right army, and he should have worked hard to pass the post. As for the article, it suits my appetite and comes just in time. At that time, Mr. Lu Wenfu was the editor-in-chief of the magazine, and his principle was not to write about Suzhou and not to be published, and MingHua came to this magazine, so he wrote a set of cultural phenomena comparisons between Suzhou and Yangzhou, such as "Yangzhou Foot, Suzhou Head", talking about the customs of the Ming and Qing dynasties; "Yangzhou Tune, Kunshan Cavity", talking about the origin of opera in the two places; "Yangzhou Knife, Suzhou Piece", talking about the counterfeiting of antiques in the two places; "YangPan, Su Yi", talking about the cultural similarities and differences between the two places. Because of his complete knowledge structure, exquisite writing, and scale of writing, in my opinion at that time, he was really a rare and good author.
At the birthday party of Mr. Xue and Mr. Chen Er last year, Mr. Luo Wenhua of Tianjin talked about many anecdotes about Brother MingHua, and at that time I wondered why he knew so much, but when I read Luo Wenhua's "Bright Moon Yuanying Wei Minghua" from this book, I understood the reason for it. During the summer vacation of 1986, mr. Wenhua was studying at Peking University, and then he and some of his classmates went to Yangzhou for internship, and the project of their internship was to collect folk customs, Wenhua brother wrote: "Mr. Wei Minghua is one of the instructors of our internship. At that time, he was only in his thirties, but he was already a backbone figure in Yangzhou's cultural circles. "It turns out that there is such a cause, which only sees the early debut of Brother Minghua, the sincerity of people, and it is no wonder that his friends are all over the world."
The second part of the book, "Sangzi Beijie", is a commemorative article written by the locals of Yangzhou to Brother MingHua, while the third part, "Mingbian Interview", is an interview with Brother Minghua by different people, the fourth part, "Old Title Gift", is a poem written by a literati for Brother Minghua, the fifth part, "Private Customization", is a catalogue of MingHua's writings, and there is also a catalogue of articles published by Wei Minghua in various newspapers and magazines from 1977 to 2018. And the sample newspapers I received from the prose I published in various places were discarded casually, and after a few years, it was very difficult to compile such a catalog and find it. This habit of Brother MingHua is quite comparable to "my friend Hu Shizhi". In the "private customization" column, there is also the "Wei Minghua Self-customized Chronology", which was written from the age of one to 2018, in my opinion, this is the custom chronology favored by traditional literati, and this kind of historical material provides detailed information for future generations to study.
Although Brother MingHua claims to be a "Self-Defined Chronology" but not a "Chronology", it shows that his work is quite ancient, and these practices of his have inspired me, and it seems that when I am 70 years old, I may as well follow suit.
"Letter from Zhou Shuhan to Monday Liang", edited by Zhou Jingliang, Wang Guichen, Meng Fanzhi and Wang Dawen
This book was donated by Mr. Wang Dawen. In the past thirty years, Mr. Wang Guichen has published a number of celebrity codex collections, but in the past, most of the publishers were in the form of line-bound books, and those I saw were basically self-printed, and now when I receive the book, it is a hardcover color print, and the change in form shows that more people are paying attention to the celebrity codex.
The book is preceded by a preface by Zhou Jingliang and Wang Guichen. Mr. Zhou's preface is extremely simple, and it talks about the situation of the codex received in this book: "Mr. Guichen has delivered the thirty-nine passes of the legacy of his ancestor Han Weng, the eighteen passes of his brother Jue Liang, the four passes of his father Han Weng's legacy, and the nephew Qirui of his father Han Weng's legacy of Jingliang, and the second pass of his nephew Qirui's collection of his father, Han Weng, and delivered it to the Guangdong People's Publishing House for printing. Mr. Wang Guichen's preface is a retracement of the process of his acquaintance and interaction with Mr. Zhou Shuhan, although I have heard him tell this story several times, and now when I read this preface, I still have a lot of feelings:
Mr. Zhou Shuhan is a highly respected ancient book editionist and bibliophile. In 1953, when Yu Beibei was in the province, he had the honor of meeting Mr. Zhou at the Jinmen Tianxiang Shopping Mall Bookstore and receiving the guidance of the version of the study. I remember this old event more than sixty years ago, and I still remember it. After Ding You's words were blamed, he did not dare to wait with him, and it was not until the late 1970s that he had the opportunity to ask him for peace. Mr. Is humble and generous, and in his later years there are many books, tempting to learn endlessly, and Guichen has benefited a lot. Because of his dealings with Mr. Zhou Shuhan, he knew his heir Mr. Zhou Liang. Mr. Ichira was a scholarly and humble historian. He was fifteen years old, always caring and loving, teaching by example, and being fortunate to be noble.
Mr. Yiliang once gave a number of letterheads written to him by his father, Mr. Zhou Shutao, and asked Yu to have the opportunity to publish them. This matter is not a matter of thought, and it is toothless and unforgettable. Mr. Jingliang, the youngest son of Mr. Yu and Mr. Zhou Shuhan, was very close, and the two of them agreed, and Mr. Meng Fanzhi sorted out the annotations, and asked the Guangdong People's Publishing House to officially publish it.
In fact, the more emotional one is the first letter from Zhou Shuhan to Monday received in this book, which was written on May 19, 1952, and the content is as follows:
I went to Tangshan on the ninth, and on the 13th I confessed to all the staff and workers, bowing my head and confessing guilt. Because the confession is relatively clear (thorough) and the attitude is sincere, the employees are allowed to pass the customs and suggest that the government be lenient. Since then I have gone from ghost to human. Beijing Library's "three antis" do not know the end? Zhao Wanli did not know whether the problem was serious? I have now decided to donate all the books (rare and ordinary books, foreign language books) to the government, and I intend to designate them for Beijing Tuye. Er still has a book box here, and if there are any people in my book, I hope to decide to do it early.
Seeing such a text, I am afraid that the word "shocking" is difficult to cover. Mr. Zhou Shuhan is a modern book collector and was once the vice mayor of Tianjin, and such a situation really makes people know what to say. Real history is so cruel that it is more than just hard to look back on.
Regarding the completion of this book, Mr. Meng Fanzhi made an explanation in the "Explanation":
Mr. Bing Shen Xinzheng, Mr. Xu Shu came with the plates of the circular letters of Mr. Han Weng Zhi Yiliang and Mr. Jue Liang to Mr. Yi Liang, who were photographed by Mr. Xiang Zi Wang Gui lao, and Mr. Jue Liang to Mr. Yi Liang's father and son brothers, presenting the scenery of Lao and Yu, and yu dai as Dong Li and the editor, hoping to pay for it and use the power of the publishing agency to spread it widely. General Han Weng sent a letter to Mr. Yi Liang, the collection of the three families, all forty-five links. From one side to another, the slushy claws reflect the general life of The Benwong in the months and thirty years from the early 1950s to his death on February 14, 1984. The content of the letter, or father and son talking about books and studies, or talking about recent social news and family affairs, or recounting recent situations, or remembering the past generation, interspersed with national events, not only a generation of cultural historical materials, but also a generation of social historical materials and life historical materials.
Carefully flipping through this book and looking at these familiar handwritings, I also realized the attitude of the older generation towards the world and the rigor of learning. However, of course, I paid more attention to looking for content related to books in it, but I inadvertently turned to Mr. Zhou Shutao's relevant text on the printing paper of ancient books. On June 14, 1981, he wrote to Zhou Liang:
Yongzheng, Qianlong, and Jiaqing three dynasties printed books in the inner government, mostly using "flowering paper" and "flowering list paper". Recently read Pan Jixing's "History of Chinese Papermaking Technology", the only one has not reached the origin and raw materials of this paper (is wood or bamboo), I don't know if any acquaintances can inquire about it in detail?
Kaihua paper was originally a precious paper used for the printing of books by the Qing Dynasty court, and in recent years, the Institute of Ancient Book Protection of Fudan University has organized many discussions on this, which has made some things clear and clear. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhou Shuhan had been paying attention to the material problem of this paper more than 30 years ago. The Pan Jixing mentioned in his letter is an expert in Chinese paper research, and I have read many monographs such as "The History of Chinese Papermaking" written by him, and at the Sino-French cultural exchange meeting held by guotu more than ten years ago, I was able to hear his lectures on ancient paper, and thus got to know Mr. Pan Lao, and what is rare is that this book contains Mr. Pan Jixing's reply letter to Mr. Zhou Liang on December 1, 1983. Therefore, the letter involves the material of the civilized paper, so I quote it in full as follows:
Mr. Ichira: Thank you for your letter, because I went south to hold a meeting, so far I have returned, and I apologize for the delay. The "walnut vine" contained in the "Miscellaneous Records of Shuyuan" is probably a clerical error of "carambola vine". According to this object, the Actinidia Chinensis Planch is a wild perennial vine of the family Lycaenidae, and its fruit is delicious, which can occasionally be bought in Beijing, and we used to see it everywhere in Henan Gan school. Its leaf leaching fluid is sticky and slippery. When making paper, this juice is put into the paper tank and combined with the pulp, so that the fibers can float evenly in the groove without sinking, and the paper with uniform thickness and tight interweaving can be copied out. Therefore, it is actually a floating agent, which is another invention of the Chinese. As early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, this object was mentioned in the Zhou Mi (1232-1030) "Miscellaneous Knowledge of Decoction". Hongzhi's "Huizhou Fuzhi" (1502), "Tiangong Kaiwu", "Physics Xiaozhi" and so on are also mentioned. "Carambola vine" or "sheep peach vine", but not called "walnut vine". Rice paper is now produced and is still in use. The first three chapters of the Manuscript of the History of Papermaking are devoted to this object. "Civilized paper", or "peach blossom paper", can be produced, but due to the small number of users and high cost, it is no longer produced. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Niandian edition or other good books were mostly printed on this paper. In addition to the starfruit vine, it can also be used with yellow marshmallow root leaching, Jiangxi Lianshi paper uses this, and Japanese washi paper uses this. Paper workers are called "Paper drugs" because they specialize in treating "paper diseases" with uneven surfaces. Don't repeat. i.e. Ode to Dong An. Panji Star
In fact, Mr. Zhou Shuhan's discussion of the civilized paper is more than one, and he talked about this matter in his letter to Zhou Liang on June 29, 1981:
The "flowering paper" has almost disappeared since the Daoguang, somehow. Or lost due to papermaking technology. Mr. Pan has traveled to the domestic papermaking base, and he hopes to inquire again. I once saw in a book that he recorded in detail the type, quantity, and place of origin of the paper used by the Ming Si Li Supervisor (I can't remember clearly), which seems to have the name of "list paper" (I don't know if it is "blossom list"). I can't remember the title of the book, can you check it for me? Or ask Mr. Poon. The paper used for printing books is the most difficult to verify the place of origin, and it can only be based on the black and white color, the thickness of the quality, and the breadth and narrowness of the grain.
In response to Mr. Zhou Shutao's question, Mr. Pan Jixing first said in his letter:
Professor Ichira: Thank you for your letter. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the raw materials of "flowering paper" varied, mostly mulberry skin or bamboo fiber. This kind of paper is white in color, and it is thin, and it is finely crafted, suitable for printing, but this kind of paper is no longer produced. At the end of this month, Beijing will hold a symposium on domestic handmade paper, and I will call for the resumption of the production of traditional brand-name paper. However, this kind of paper, both (that is) makes it difficult to open the market, because the user is a minority after all, and the market is mostly machine paper. At present, the rice paper also does not live up to its name, because there is too much grass pulp in it.
This passage is still about the raw materials of civilized paper. An important feature of civilized paper is that there is no grain, and on the problem of the pattern of the civilized paper, I have also heard the opinions of many experts, some people think that the civilized paper actually has a grain, but the pattern is lighter, it is difficult to identify with the naked eye; some experts say that the pattern of the civilized paper is actually a tic-tac-toe network, so some people have tried, using gauze as a paper curtain, it seems that the test results are not successful. Although Pan Jixing did not talk about the problem of the pattern of the civilized paper in this letter, he said the following:
As for those who talk about the mechanism paper with hand-stitched grain, this book was invented by the Japanese and exported to China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, hoping to exclude China's domestic paper. Therefore, in the last years of Guangxu, Shanghai had learned this method from Japan and copied it successfully, and it had been decades since China had made this paper. The production method is very simple: a layer of ordinary manual paper scraping can be caused by adding a layer of ordinary hand-made paper bamboo on the metal mesh of the long-net machine. It can also be made of a protruding pattern or pattern in the metal mesh, which is called "watermarks" in the West. This type of paper is still produced in the United States, Japan, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom for use as stationery.
Originally, the key point that people used to distinguish between handmade paper and mechanical paper is to see if it has a grain, reading This passage of Mr. Pan, it seems that this definition can not be established, because the machine can also make the pattern, I think this passage at least for the identification of paper, there is a reminder.
Mr. Zhou Shuhan's self-solemn collection of books is famous for the Song and Yuan editions, but I read his different view of the collection in this book: "Most of the books compiled before and after the Book Selling Doll Are collected by Sun Dianqi for Lun Ming. The Book of Lund does not know where it is now. I thought it was no less important than song and yuan. If the stars are scattered, they are not valued. "At that time, Lunming's collection was mainly to collect Qing engravings, the purpose was to continue to supplement the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", so most of the books received were published after the Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and few such books could be included in the rare books, but Zhou Shuhan had a unique insight, thinking that the value of Lunming's collection was no less than that of the Song and Yuan editions, and such a grand vision really impressed my generation, and this is one of the biggest gains I got from reading this book.
"History of Chinese Paper Collection", by Li Yimin and Wang Anlin
In terms of content, the scope of this book is very wide, involving engraving and printing, calligraphy and painting, public opinion maps, comic strips, stamps, banknotes, stocks, sparks, cigarette labels, food stamps, examination papers, marriage certificates, photos, rulers, etc., covering a wide range of books, which is the leader in similar books.
The two authors of this book, I have known each other for many years, Mr. Li Yimin was the editor-in-chief of "Collection" magazine, and some of my articles were published in this journal, so I had more contacts with Mr. Li, and at one time I was addicted to the collection of food stamps, and Mr. Wang Anlin at that time was also committed to this.
Flipping through this book, you can see the footprints of your past. In the late cultural revolution, comic strips gradually became popular, and at that time, there were still some comic strips in lithographs of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and it was through reading such books that I became interested in history. When I was in middle school, I liked stamp collecting, so I held a small exhibition in the school, such an exhibition at that time was quite novel, and it also attracted interviews from reporters, and the publication of the newspaper allowed me to get acquainted with the old man Bao Weimin of Shanghai, and in my correspondence with him, I learned that Mr. Bao lao opened a spark shop in the 30s of the last century, and when I corresponded with him, he was only a teenager, and the old man was more than eighty years old, I bought a lot of sparks from him at the beginning of the last century, I remember that the price at that time was 3 cents to 5 cents a piece, It is this kind of interaction that has broadened my horizons.
I remember that the most expensive stamp at that time was "Big Red", because a philatelic collector who knew him at that time used this stamp to exchange a color TV set with Hong Kong people, and the price of this TV set was more than two thousand yuan at that time. A stamp can be exchanged for a "large piece", which makes friends sigh. Up to now, the price of this ticket has long been tens of millions, which also shows that there is no forward-looking sign.
Because of the wide range of his interests, the various categories involved have not been able to achieve achievements, and then later returned from Bo, mainly spending energy on book collection, and the interest in collecting other categories has gradually faded. Reading this monograph today, I instantly feel that I am dozens of years younger, and at the same time, I also feel that I have not learned to integrate and cast all kinds of paper products in one furnace.
"Love Red Print", by Li Yimin and Li Xinyu
About twenty years ago, I went to Xi'an to meet Mr. Li Yimin, and met Mr. Li Xinyu, the son of Mr. Li, during the banquet, Li Yimin introduced that his son also has a good collection of books, and hopes to worship me as a teacher and make greater efforts in collecting books. Of course, I didn't dare to, but I accidentally met a good friend, of course, I was very happy, so I had a long-term relationship with him, and then became a close friend, since then, every time I went to Xi'an, I directly looked for Li Xinyu, and no longer bothered Mr. Li Yimin. It is precisely for this reason that I call Li Xinyu a brother and a brother, and Mr. Li Yimin has grown up a generation invisibly.
As early as the beginning of the exchange, I knew that Li Yimin was a famous philatelist, especially in the study of philatelic history, there were many monographs, but over the years my interest shifted, did not continue to engage in philately, so I knew less about this aspect, but the memory of decades ago could not fade to no trace, for example, when I was young, I had heard of many philatelic people who were thunderous: Ma Renquan, Zhang Baozijun, Zhao Shanchang, Ju Qiaqun, etc. These people's big names can only look up to me at a young age. At that time, the favorite story of philatelists was the red print small print when the red print small characters were one yuan sifanglian, and in 1927, Zhou Jinjue spent 2500 taels of silver to buy these four stamps and became the king of Chinese mail.
Although this story sounds exciting, I know very little about the story related to red stamps, and now reading this monograph co-authored by Li Yimin and Li Xinyu father and son has given me a systematic understanding of the history of red stamps. In the preface written by Mr. Liu Jianhui, former director of the Department of Postage Stamp Management of the State Post Office, the reason for the red stamp is described in a highly generalized language, while the preface written by Mr. Sun Shaoying, the first director of the China Stamp Museum, tells the relationship between Zhang Baopingzhi and Zhang Baozijun.