The reporter learned that Jiang Xun, the founder of Model Bookstore, poet, book binding designer and engraving collector, died in Beijing on January 16, 2022, at the age of 51 due to accidental death. Due to the epidemic situation, everything is simple, and the time of the memorial service is to be determined.
In 2014, Jiang Xun founded the Model Bookstore Yangmei Xie Street Store, committed to creating the most beautiful reading space in Beijing. In 2017, the Model Bookstore Tianqiao Art Center store opened (it has been closed due to the epidemic). In 2018, the Model Bookstore Financial Street Art Center store opened (it has been closed due to the epidemic). In 2019, the Model Bookstore Poetry Space Store opened, becoming the first church bookstore in China and the "most beautiful bookstore" for netizens to punch each other. In 2021, Model Bookstore Source Bookstore and Model Bookstore Friendship Bookstore will open one after another.
"He died unexpectedly while moving books in the warehouse." Jiang Xun's wife Xing Na told reporters. At present, she is trying to maintain the normal business of the model bookstore: "Because Jiang Xun once said before, 'If I am gone one day, I hope that the model brand will always be there.'" ’”
"Jiang Xun has put a lot of effort into these six stores." Xing Na revealed that during the epidemic last year, in order to maintain the normal operation of the bookstore, they sold a house of more than 200 square meters in Guozijian.
She wrote in an article in remembrance of Jiang Xun: "Model, 'mold' is the meaning of word mold, 'fan' is its tray, we are still an independent bookstore based on engraving printing and design." During the epidemic, in order to keep 6 stores, we even sold the house where we had lived for many years. Because I always wanted a house for 6 bookstores to be worth it. My husband, Jiang Xun, is a painter by birth and has the persistence and persistence of an artist. Bookstores should be our spiritual home and the most beautiful scenery of the city. Books, poems, engravings were all the sustenance of my husband for the first half of his life. Whether the model bookstore is there or not, please believe it – our insistence on reading. Engraving, the reflection of civilization. Please don't treat it like a pile of waste wood, please pass it on well. Maybe we can't recreate the Wenjin Sculpture Museum, but it's still where our dreams began. I still remember the excited expression on my husband's face every time he came home holding a copy. This may be what every book lover looks like. In any case, please continue to pay attention to the development of physical bookstores, Jiang Xun once wanted to accompany this bookstore to go through 40-50 years, but it is clear that the sky is not what people want, he has entered the paradise of books. ”
Jiang Xun, character Da Lai, number Da Lai resident, born in February 1970, Shenyang, Liaoning. Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, it has held dozens of large-scale art exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and other places over the years. In recent years, he has focused on book cover design, designed more than 1,000 kinds of book covers and related products for the State Council State Administration, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Finance, the National Library, the National Museum, Union Medical College, Zhonghua Bookstore and other units, and his works have been selected for many times in the domestic book fair, and won the "First China Publishing Government Binding Design Award", "China's Most Beautiful Book" and other awards.
He likes to collect and appreciate ancient books and engravings, especially in the study of ancient engravings, and is the collector with the largest collection of ancient engravings in China. In 2009, in cooperation with the National Library of China, the Wenjin Sculpture Museum was established, which is free to the public all year round and presides over the research and publication of hundreds of ancient books. He is currently the Deputy Secretary-General of the Binding Art Committee of the China Publishing Art Committee, the Executive Director of the Wenjin Sculpture Museum, and the Artistic Director of Boiling Rain Mountain House.
(Source: Beijing Daily client)