Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Yang Jing
In September this year, the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, which will be held at the doorstep of their homes, will touch the mood of every citizen. The pace of the Asian Games is getting closer and closer, and Zhang Xuegen, a senior newspaper collector in Hangzhou, is recently preparing a special newspaper exhibition - the sports games on the old newspaper, "just determined the time, planning the middle of next month, the venue is the Hangzhou Qiantang Calligraphy and Painting Research Society on Zhongshan Middle Road, as a special event for the asian games." ”
The family has a collection of more than 20,000 newspapers and periodicals
The time spans 337 years
Zhang Xuegen, a native of Hangzhou, 69, is now the vice president of the Collective Newspaper Branch of the China Newspaper Association, a member of the China Collectors Association, and a member of the Hangzhou Writers Association, and has been collecting newspapers for 26 years. Entering his home, 24 bookcases were not only piled with books, but also collected more than 20,000 newspapers and periodicals. Among them, there are more than 100 kinds of newspapers in the Qing Dynasty, more than 600 kinds of newspapers in the Republic of China, more than 10,000 kinds of newspapers in Zhejiang since the founding of New China, 40 key topics in the collection of newspapers, more than 200 kinds of magazines of the Republic of China, more than 2,000 kinds of founding issues of literary and historical magazines, and more than 8,000 kinds of literary and historical books, spanning 337 years.
"I started my newspaper career in June 1996." At that time, Zhang Xuegen was the deputy director of the office of Hangzhou Iron and Steel Factory, reading different newspapers every day and often submitting articles to major newspapers and periodicals, and the secretariat of the Zhejiang Enterprise Newspaper Association at that time was located in Hangzhou Steel.
One day, a relative and a child asked someone to look for the newspaper, and found Zhang Xuegen. He helped the children find more than 200 kinds of corporate newspapers, and at the same time, he also enjoyed the fun. "Today's news is tomorrow's history, and reading history makes people wise, so I think it is a very meaningful thing to collect newspapers."
Therefore, from the newspaper "Hanggang Bao" around him, he began to collect, and in the past 26 years, he has successively found more than 20,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals, the oldest of which is the "Di Bao" of the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi (1685).
"I have the trial issue and inaugural number of your Qianjiang Evening News, and it is estimated that few people know what the newspapers of the Qing Dynasty look like. "Di Bao" is the earliest newspaper in China, and the entire Zhejiang people may be the only one. I saw Zhang Xuegen take out a stack of yellowed paper and old newspapers full of age from the blue folder of the bookcase, each newspaper was wrapped in plastic bags, arranged in chronological order, the first three copies were kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the "Di Bao".
The reporter saw that these old newspapers of the Qing Dynasty were the size of books and printed into books, "These "Di Bao" were specially used by the imperial court to transmit documents and political information on the government and politics, mainly publishing official government documents such as the emperor's decrees, the ministers' chapters, and the decrees published by the imperial court. Because the di newspaper was originally copied by the imperial court, and then posted at the palace gate and copied publicly, it is also called the palace door copy and the yuanmen copy, which is actually the earliest way of news release. ”
As time went on, newspapers grew larger and thinner. The "Declaration", published on June 16, 1880, resembled the size of the Qianjiang Evening News, and as soon as it was opened, a newspaper had only one piece of paper, and the two sides were printed for more than a meter long. In the Republic of China period, in addition to the vertical arrangement, it was not much different from the current newspapers and periodicals, "The most valuable of these newspapers was the Jiaqing Eight-year "Di Bao", which was bought back for thousands of yuan at that time." Although my collection of "Di Bao" is not as old as some newspaper friends in China, it is more valuable because one of the "Di Bao" has been collected by celebrities before and stamped with a personal seal. ”
There have been eight old newspaper exhibitions
A sports theme is planned for the first time
"In late February, I received a call from my old friend Ruan Zhenya, vice president of the Hangzhou Qiantang Calligraphy and Painting Research Society, who proposed that I take the time to sort out the old newspapers on sports games collected over the years and make a newspaper exhibition for the first Asian Games in Hangzhou." Later, after more than 10 days of white and black, and turning boxes and cabinets, more than 100 newspapers related to sports games in the long history of nearly 100 years were sorted out on Zhang Xuegen's desk.
National Day newspaper exhibition, the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the red documentation exhibition for the centenary of the founding of the party... Prior to this, Zhang Xuegen held eight theme exhibitions of old newspapers, and the theme of sports games was tried for the first time, "I divided them into six parts: various sports reports before the founding of New China, the first to fourteenth National Games, the Asian Games, the Olympic Games, various special sports events and sports newspapers, and from these old newspapers, we can see the development process of the mainland's sports and the enhancement of national strength." ”
For example, the "All Zhejiang Communiqué" published on December 1, 1912, had a front page with "Zhejiang Sports School Renewal Enrollment Advertisement". Zhang Xuegen looked up relevant historical materials and learned that it was founded in September 1912, founded by Wang Zhuofu, and the school was located in Hangzhou. The school was later renamed Zhejiang Sports College, focusing on military sports, especially military gymnastics and boxing, until 1933, a total of 26 sessions, more than 1,000 students graduated. Some sports history experts believe that the school was the first sports school opened in China at the beginning of the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, and its educational performance has been recorded in the history of sports. "This Zhejiang Sports School Enrollment Advertisement published in the "All Zhejiang Communiqué" published 110 years ago has only a few words, but it is silent than sound."
On September 15, 1927, the third issue of "Jingwu Pictorial" published in Shanghai, the third page published a collective photo of Guangdong swimmers, the text description is that "the mainland in the previous Far East sports swimming have failed, but the majority of participants in this session is the most important." Recognized as the predecessor of the Asian Games, the Far East Games were initiated by the Philippines, Japan and China, and were held in these three countries for ten years from 1913 to 1934.
After the founding of New China, the first National Games were held in 1959, and 7707 people participated. From September 1, the Sports Newspaper was changed from a Tuesday newspaper to a daily newspaper as the conference journal, reporting on the progress of the Games.
"The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou this autumn, and I believe that Hangzhou will definitely dedicate a sports and cultural event with Chinese characteristics, Zhejiang style, Hangzhou charm and wonderful scenery to the world." As a citizen of Hangzhou, we are looking forward to it. Zhang Xuegen said.
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