2021 "Scholarly Family" | Fang Jixiao Family

"If you like to read, you are replacing the lonely light of life with a moment of great enjoyment." This is a famous quote by the great French Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu. Fang Jixiao's family is the practitioner and beneficiary of this famous saying. Three generations of the same church, a family of five, all like to read, collect books, books full of rooms, and enjoy harmony.

Fang Jixiao is a literary and historical scholar who combines writers, bibliophiles, and celebrity handwriting collectors. Since 1982, it has begun to collect the handwriting and books of celebrities in modern and contemporary Chinese culture, and so far the family has collected nearly 10,000 handwritings of modern and contemporary Chinese celebrities, including Chen Duxiu's manuscripts, Wen Yiduo's paintings, Zhu Ziqing's letters, etc.; more than 10,000 volumes, including ancient books, manuscripts, and signatures of cultural celebrities such as Mao Dun and Zhu Ziqing. Using the collection, these first-hand materials, immersed in the study of China's modern and modern literary history, have published more than 500 literary works in major newspapers and periodicals in China, and have successively opened columns in newspapers and periodicals such as Beijing Evening News, Beijing Chronicle, Expo Books, Xicheng Wenyuan, and China Calligraphy Daily. Since 2000, he has published 16 books, the main works are: "Peking Opera Comes from Here", "The Fate of 40 Old Artists in Tianqiao", "Old Ink - The Handwriting and Past of Century Scholars" (six episodes) and so on. Sort out 5 parts, such as "Mr. Chen Duxiu's Posthumous Manuscript" and "Puyi Batch SchoolBook". Using the celebrity handwriting collected by the family, "Red Notes - Exhibition of Cultural Celebrity Handwritings for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China" (sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Xicheng District Party Committee in July 2019) "Peking Opera Comes from Here - Commemorating the 230th Anniversary of the Emblem Ban Jinjing Peking Opera Documentation Exhibition" (Hosted by the Xicheng District Literary Association in May 2020) "Red Streamers in the Central Axis - Handiwork Exhibition of 100 Cpc Members in the Literary and Art Circles" (Tianqiao Impression Museum hosted the Centenary Of the Founding of the Party: July to October 2021).

Under the influence of Fang Jixiao, family members are very fond of reading. The hostess, Wang Jianrong, a retired math teacher at Beijing No. 4 Middle School, likes to read literary works and red biographical books, and almost all of the books in her family collection are bought and read by her.

Fang Jixiao and Wang Jianrong have only one son named Fang Tao, and like their mother, they majored in mathematics at university. Under the influence of his parents, he loves to read and has a special love for Chinese and foreign history books. He often went to bookstores to buy history books, and was very familiar with China's modern and contemporary history, talking about the national heroes and patriots in history.

Fang Tao's wife, Lu Li, who can sing and dance, is the backbone of literature and art in the unit, and because of her excellent work performance, she gloriously joined the Communist Party of China on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the party. She has good reading habits, not only willing to delve into business books, but also likes to read red biographical books, and also helped her father write a biography of his military experience.

Fang Zichen is a third-grade student. He is the youngest member of Fang Jixiao's family. He was raised by his grandparents. When he learned chinese from Yaya, his grandfather taught him to learn To read Tang poems, and at the age of three, he could already recite dozens of Tang poems. From the age of four, Fang Zichen liked to let his grandfather read story books to him, for this reason, his parents often took him to the book building on rest days and holidays, buying books suitable for him and the children he liked, after buying them, some books Grandpa would read to him, after going to school, he learned Hanyu Pinyin, some drawing pinyin readings, he read them himself. Now, he has systematically read Aesop's Fables (Pinyin Reading), Grimm's Fairy Tales (Pinyin Reading), Sherlock Holmes (Elementary School Edition) and so on. Grandpa has the habit of keeping a diary, and Fang Zichen has also learned to write a diary since the first grade, recording his learning experience and reading experience.

Fang Jixiao's family has insisted on subscribing to the Beijing Evening News and the China Reading Daily for many years, as well as publications such as Book Digest, Beijing Chronicle, and Essay. Every night, the family of five is distributed in the study, living room, and living room, and under the light, reading, reading newspapers, and flipping through magazines, which indicates that the hard day is coming to an end and a new day is coming.

Reviewer: Pan Qiwen

Editor: Sun Min Zhang Zixin