Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Ma Li
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Xia Chengtao's diary is not unpublished.
As a predecessor, "Tianfengge Xuezi Diary" is an abridged version excerpted around "learning words", which is more specialized and is not very "friendly" to ordinary readers. In addition to adding a large number of unpublished diaries, the "Complete Compilation of Diaries" also restored the abridged contents of the "Tianfengge Xuezi Diary" according to the manuscript, and corrected the errors caused by the transcription of the "Tianfengge Xuezi Diary".
All the diary manuscripts collected today are the original copies of this full compilation, rearranged from beginning to end, with a total word count of more than four million, more than twice the volume of the Tianfengge Xuezi Diary (about 1.7 million words). From the perspective of time dimension, it has been extended from the original thirty years to seventy years.
In the "Complete Compilation of diaries", Xia Chengtao recorded the important nodes of diary publication.
[April 4] Cloudy. Ching ming festival. In the morning, Dr. Han came and traveled to the North Sea with his companions. This is the second time in spring, the apricot blossoms have just bloomed, and the willow eyes have been released. Lunch at the Beihai Restaurant. Three o'clock. Measure blood pressure one hundred and fifty/eighty. Zhe Ming wrote a letter saying that the remittance had not been received, that is, thirty yuan was remitted. Shi Ji saved the letter and said that he wanted to publish it in his diary.
[April 29] Sunny. At 9:00 a.m., Wen Weng came by car, carrying Yu and Wen to tour the North Sea. "On the Release of Weng Zi" sent a sample to Li Xueying. Following Shi Cunweng's instructions, he heard and recorded the "Diary of Tianfeng Pavilion Academic Words" (October 1 to December 30, 1931), which is now sent to Shi Weng.
In 1981, at the suggestion of Shi Jingcun, Mr. Xia copied parts from his diary and published it in the inaugural issue of Lexicology under the title of "Tianfengge Xuezi Diary", which became a best-selling column after it was published.
The inaugural issue was too hot for Xia Chengtao to buy himself, so he wrote to Shi Jicun: "When "Lexicology" came out, there were many people who asked for it, but they could not buy it, and they regretted it. Next time, can you print it slightly to meet the needs of word friends from all over the world? ”
Originally, the diary was intended to be serialized, but due to publication reasons, it was only published for 9 months of the two years, and it was stopped.
At the critical moment, Xia Chengtao's disciple Liu Yaolin wrote a letter.
July 12, 1980: Sunny. Go downstairs for a walk in the morning. Xiao Chuan wrote a letter, tomorrow afternoon Beihai restaurant word friends for Shi Sting to save dust. Letter from Xiao Mei. Xia Nai came to talk. Dr. Sui Liangpeng came and pulled out a bad tooth for Yu. In the afternoon, Liu Yaolin came and said that he was newly transferred to the deputy editor-in-chief of the Zhejiang People's Publishing House, and he wanted to give a collection of poems to be submitted before the end of September.
On this day, the names of many big coffee appeared in the diary, Shi Jingcun, Xia Nai, and Xia Chengtao also pulled out a tooth. But our focus is that the Zhejiang People's Publishing House wants to publish a collection of poems by Xia Chengtao.
In 1982, the Zhejiang People's Publishing House published Xia Chengtao's poetry collection Tianfengge Poetry Collection, with Liu Yaolin as the editor-in-charge. In 1983, the Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House was established, Liu Yaolin was the first president, he consulted with Mr. Xia, collected and printed the diary, copied a total of 10 years of diaries from 1928 to 1937 (actually 9 years, 1933 diaries are missing) as the first episode, named "TianfengGe Xuezi Diary", officially published in December 1984.
Shi Jicun was simply "envious and jealous": "The first time I read this well-printed "Diary", I felt really sad in my heart. If my Lexicology could be published according to my wishes, from 1981 to now, at least sixteen issues have been published, and Xia Lao's diary should also be published. And now, the two-year diary has not yet been published, and the ten-year diary has been printed in a single book. Wouldn't it be a very sad thing for an editor of a journal? ”
On December 19, 1984, Xia Chengtao received a letter from the diary fan Shi Jiecun, and he copied the letter behind the diary. "The Diary of Tianfeng Ge Xuezi" was given to him, and this book is extremely valuable, not only the history of modern words, but also a good work of diary literature. Under the lamp, I am impressed, thank you."
On December 26, 1984, Xia Chengtao received a manuscript fee of 40,□□ yuan from the Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House. "Four hundred?" Xia Gong couldn't remember clearly for a moment, and it was expressed in □□.
In 1992, the Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House published Xia Chengtao's diary from 1938 to 1947, namely "Tianfengge Xuezi Diary" (II).
The baton of this stack of diaries was handed over to another disciple of Xia Chengtao.
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Without any explanation and preparation, father Wu Zhanlei did not wake up.
Go in and say one last word. The doctor said he might not have heard.
Wu Bei hoped that her father would hear. In his ear, she spoke of the compilation of the complete diary of Mr. Xia Chengtao.
Out of the corner of my father's eyes, tears flowed down.
Doctor, he could hear. The daughter turned and said.
You can rest assured that what you didn't do, we'll do for you. The daughter continued.
Wu Bei knew that what her father was most worried about was the Complete Works of Xia Chengtao.
In 1997, Wu Xionghe, Wu Zhanlei, Wu Changyun and others presided over the publication of the eight-volume "Xia Chengtao Collection", millions of words, jointly published by Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House and Zhejiang Education Publishing House. Among them, the first, second and third parts of the "Diary of Tianfeng Pavilion Words" were integrated into one. Wu Zhanlei is responsible for specific editorial work.
There is a news report on Douban on April 24, 2004. Title: Wu Zhanlei recounts the enunciation of Xia Chengtao and his complete works. "At 7 o'clock this evening, Mr. Wu Zhanlei, a well-known scholar and editor of the Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, will elaborate on the style of Xia Shi in the multi-functional hall on the second floor of the municipal library."
He told the readers in the audience that the "Diary of TianfengGe Xuezi" is far from being the whole picture of the diary, but only an abridged version, and the notes have been deleted a lot, and Xia Chengtao's diary in his early and late years is even more neglected. Although "Xia Chengtao's Collection" won the National Book Award, he has always regretted: "The 8-volume edition does not include all of Mr. Xia Chengtao's writings, and there are more important and richer works that have not been published." ”
At the same time as the reform of the publishing system and the shortage of funds for sorting out and publishing, the "complete collection" plan had to retreat to the second place. In his plan, the grander complete works of Xia Chengtao had fifteen volumes and as many as six or seven million words. Xia Chengtao focused on two words in his life, one was Jiang Kui and the other was Xin Qiyi. The results of the study of Jiang Kui have been "Jiang Baishi Ci Chronicle School", while the study of Xin Abandoned Disease has always refused to be easily revealed. On the eve of Wu Zhanlei's graduation from university, he resigned to Mr. Xia, and the teacher took out a line-bound Commentary on Jiaxuan from the bedroom and said, I will give it to you later.
After Xia Lao's death, Wu Wuwen, the master's mother, left a large bag of materials to Wu Zhanlei, including the commentary on the Jiaxuanzi, as well as the collection of poems that Xia Chengtao and himself co-annotated in the 60s (which could not be published for various reasons).
Therefore, just after compiling the 8 volumes, Wu Zhanlei proposed to compile the whole collection.
For the next 8 years, he has been running around for this matter, looking for funds and talking with the Wenzhou municipal government. In the spring and summer of 2004, with the help of Mr. Jin Jiancai and Zhang Ruyuan, the Wenzhou Municipal CPPCC finally agreed to the following year's funding to help this matter.
In 2005, everything was negotiated and the publisher drew up a contract.
When he was hospitalized in Hangzhou, someone came to see him. Teacher Wu, you treat well, relax your heart, and when you are discharged from the hospital, the contract can be signed.
During the hospitalization, he was worried about this matter. He said that after being discharged from the hospital, I would first finish Mr. Xia's work. This is his plan after retirement.
At the end of the news of the book club, the reporter left an unfinished ending: "On the evening of the spring day, I went to chat with Mr. Xia, and the gentleman with a calm temperament and a gentle temperament sat in a rocking chair, and his body swayed leisurely one after the other, shaking while speaking, humorous and funny, solemn and humorous." And when he stopped leaning forward and backward of his body, Wu Zhanlei knew that it was time to bid farewell to Mr. Wu..."
Less than a year after the news was published, he and Mr. Xia met in heaven. On February 2, 2005, Wu Zhanlei died of illness.
In December 1984, Xia Chengtao engaged in academic and educational work for the 65th anniversary celebration, Wu Zhanlei and Xia Chengtao
The father left suddenly, and the family kept a part of Xia Chengtao's manuscript. The mother looked sad.
Your father, spent too much energy for Mr. Xia. The two of you don't do this thing again. She said to the two children.
Wu Bei first knew Xia Chengtao's name from her grandmother.
Grandma often mentioned a person to her, and in Pujiang dialect, she pronounced: 幺塞塞,幺塞塞.
Who is this "Systa"? Grandma said, it is Xia Chengtao, Mr. Xia.
July 31, 1961: "I got the book of Wu Zhanglei (Note: Wu Zhanlei's original name was Wu Zhanglei) and sent a number of poems, which was very good." There are very few students who have their own match";
September 9, 1961: "In the afternoon, I went to the museum with Wu Zhanglei and borrowed two volumes of "Hai Ri Lou Za Cong" and one volume of "One Spoon of Fahai" for the Zhonghua Bookstore. The autumn shade of the West Lake is picturesque, and the lotus flowers have been released under the lonely mountain. On the way, he talked a lot with Zhanglei";
December 19, 1961: "Xiwu Zhanglei came to talk for a long time and handed over the "White Stone Notes" to supplement the thirty-odd articles. Show the "Lexical Examples" and the "Cilin Year". Zhang Lei (Note: The diary manuscript is recorded as Zhang Lei) advised him to improve scientific research and not to be distracted by popularization work";
February 18, 1962 ": "Xiwu Zhanglei came, Yun Weiyu visited Zhang Lengweng (Zhang Zongxiang), please come to the hospital, feel his enthusiasm";
Xia Chengtao had no biological children, and Wu Changyun was a stepson (Wu Wuwen's son). Grandma said that Mr. Xia liked your father very much and wanted your father to be a righteous son.
However, the father is the eldest son, and the grandmother feels that the eldest son is not suitable for adoption, and finally does not agree.
In the summer of 1977, Xia Chengtao and his stepson Wu Changyun were at the Chengde Mountain Resort
When my father was 15 years old, my grandfather died. During his father's studies at Hangzhou University, Mr. Xia was not only his tutor academically, but also gave a lot of care in life, "so in my father's heart, Mr. Xia is probably not only his teacher, but also a father's emotion in it." ”
In the first volume of the Complete Diary, two photographs were published. On December 5, 1984, a freeze-frame, Mr. Xia shook hands with everyone and laughed.
In 1984, Mr. Xia Chengtao was engaged in academic and educational work for the 65th anniversary celebration
The diary of the next day (December 6) was written by Wu Wuwen, the diary of Xia Chengtao in his later years, most of which was ghostwritten by her. This is a newspaper clipping of the guangming daily page, cut into an L shape along the layout and pasted on the notebook. The first paragraph of the newsletter: The 12 units of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Hangzhou University jointly held a celebration meeting in the auditorium of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing yesterday to congratulate Mr. Xia Chengtao, a well-known educator on the mainland and known as the "generation of word generations", for the sixty-fifth anniversary of his academic and educational work.
Xia Chengtao's 1984 diary manuscript, Wu Wuwen's daido
On that day, several students from Hangzhou rushed to Beijing. In his later years, Xia Chengtao did not remember many things. At the celebration, I mentioned Wu Zhanlei - Wu Zhanlei, I know, is my favorite student. Mr. Xia said.
At this moment, later, Wu Zhanlei talked to the two children many times.
In the afternoon after the press conference of the "Complete Compilation of Diaries", Wu Bei sat in the ancient conference room in Zhejiang, where her father worked, and shed tears when she thought of this.
Xia Chengtao has many famous students, just to name a few: Zhu Shenghao, who translated Shakespeare, Ren Mingshan and Jiang Lihong, linguists, Chen Congzhou, a garden architect, Xu Shuofang, an expert in opera novels, and Qi Jun (Pan Xizhen), a famous Taiwanese essayist (who wrote the famous "Orange Red"). And those who inherited the lexicography of Mr. Wu and became a family are Wu Xionghe and so on.
Xia Chengtao's favorite of the three disciples, the first being Zhu Shenghao. In the diary, "Zhu Sheng" appeared many times, always lamenting that this person was really talented, that is, his body was too weak and he failed the physical education exam.
The second is Ren Mingshan; in the late period, it is Wu Zhanlei.
Wu Zhanlei was not a graduate student of Xia Chengtao, and some people wondered why he wanted to sort out the "Diary of Tianfeng Pavilion Scholarly Words" and the eight-volume collection of works.
In 1959, Wu Zhanlei was admitted to the department of Chinese of Hangzhou University. After graduating in 1963, Mr. Xia asked him to continue his graduate studies, but his family could not support him. After graduation, he went to work at the Zhejiang People's Publishing House, and as the eldest son, he wanted to earn money to help his mother support the family.
Although we have worked, we can see in the diary that my father and Mr. Xia are still in close contact.
Mother may have heard some voices and firmly opposed Wu Bei to do it. She said, your dad worked hard, and you two don't do it anymore.
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On March 11, the launch of the new book "Xia Chengtao's Complete Diary" played some videos, the figure of her father, interspersed with old shadows of the past, she saw for the first time.
Wu Bei did not participate in the process of preparing the complete diary of his father, "I did not ask at all, he did not let me do it, I will not do it." Her ins and outs of the diary amounted to a blank piece of paper.
She and her brother moved the family diary to her father's office, which was taken over by Shang Zuowen, an assistant to Wu Zhanlei, who was in charge of Zhejiang Ancient Social Security. Later, Zuo Wen was transferred to hangzhou publishing house, and Wu Bei worried that the manuscripts left in Zhejianggu would be lost. In 2009, Wu Changyun said, Wu Bei, I have full authority to entrust you to transport all the materials from the Ancient Books Society to you and keep them by you. Your father is gone, and the publication of the complete diary collection is probably up to you.
She suddenly remembered the farewell to her father.
"Rest assured, we'll help you finish what you didn't do."
She said this so that her father could relax his heart and be able to walk with peace of mind. At that time, I didn't have time to think about it, and I didn't know that I would actually do it.
She thought of the words again. My professional study is lexicology. She thought, it had to be done.
The ten boxes of information received from the Zhejiang Ancient Society are large and chaotic. On some of the bag of documents, my father made a classification and wrote "the bottom draft of the TianfengGe Xuezi Diary" and "the draft of the Tang and Song Dynasty Ciren Chronology" and so on. When Wu Bei was sorting it out, she found that the diary was flawed.
Xia Chengtao's diary dates from the first day of 1916 to August 13, 1985. The surviving manuscripts of the diary are preserved in three places today.
One, in the Wenzhou Library (five volumes). At that time, Mr. Xia was stored in the place where his uncle You Stopped the Water, and before Mr. You died, he asked his son You Ruyue to donate it to Wentu.
Part of it is temporarily stored in Wu Bei's "Listening to the Wind Building" (thirty-six volumes).
Mr. Chang Yun, do you still have a diary at home? She called Wu Changyun.
You wait. When Teacher Zhu Hongda and your father went to Beijing to collect their diaries, they made a catalog. I'll show you.
When she looked at it, she was in a hurry, so much less, which meant that the first draft of the previous transcription and proofreading was to be overturned and redone.
Wu Bei had severe allergic rhinitis, old manuscript pieces of paper weathering, she constantly sneezed, shed tears, wore a mask, goggles in the summer, and put on a long sleeve to make it hypoallergenic.
She finished her initial diary mapping and began tracking down the lost diary. She thought that it was very likely to be in Zhejiang University.
Hu Kexian asked: Wu Bei, what are you looking for?
The batch of diaries I was looking for Mr. Xia should have another batch. She said.
"The ancients said that the father's debt is still paid, and if the manuscript with my father's signature is missing, I feel that I am also responsible."
In 1990, Xia Chengtao died for 4 years.
In May, two of his students, Zhu Hongda and Wu Zhanlei of Hangzhou University, went to Beijing to take Mr. Xia's manuscripts from Wu Changyun, Xia Chengtao's heir, most of which were diaries, a total of 70 volumes, and Wu Changyun personally issued a list:
The Collected Words of the Heavenly Wind Pavilion (volume 1)
The Fifth Lineage year of the Yongjia Xia Clan (1 volume)
Xia Gong's diary (with detailed years and volumes, not listed here)
This list is accompanied by Wu Changyun's description, signature, and Zhu Hongda's pen and Wu Zhanlei's signature, dated May 26, 1990.
Zhu Hongda transferred 23 of the 70 volumes to Wu Zhanlei for the purpose of sorting out the second and third parts of Xia Gong's "Diary of Tianfeng Pavilion Scholars".
On June 23, 1990, Zhu Hongda wrote to Wu Changyun:
Of the seventy copies of Xia Gong's diaries that he brought back, twenty-three of them had been transferred to the warring brothers when he was in Beijing, and he sorted out the third volume of the "Diary of The Heavenly Wind Pavilion". On the third day after I arrived in Hangzhou, I handed it over to the Chinese Department of Information For proper storage, please explain it.
Therefore, the other 47 volumes, Mr. Zhu Hongda, are stored in the Chinese Department of Hangzhou University. This is the third place of the diary: the reference room of the School of Humanities of Zhejiang University (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang University), which has 37 volumes (the whereabouts of the other ten volumes are unknown).
Wu Zhanlei also left words:
Mr. Xia Chengtao's diary (1947-1972) has twenty-one volumes, one volume of "The Fifth Year of the Xia Family", and one volume of "TianfengGe Dictionary", a total of three volumes, which I am responsible for sorting out and keeping temporarily.
May 29, 1990 Wu Zhanlei
Of the 23 volumes of manuscripts that Wu Zhanlei took away, 21 were diaryed, which were later temporarily stored in Wu Bei's home. The other 15 "extra" diary manuscripts, Wu Bei made an explanation in the "Examination of Xia Chengtao's Diary Manuscripts": "It was the father who received from Mr. Wu Wuwen and Mr. Wu Changyun. At that time, Wu Dared to go to Beijing with Wu Zhanlei, and Wu Wuwen said to Wu Zhanlei, After you have sorted it out, you will keep this manuscript as a souvenir.
In the last volume of the Complete Compilation of Xia Chengtao's Diary, there is an appendix, which is a table made by Wu Bei: "List of Manuscript Editions of Xia Chengtao's Diary and Publication Status".
She made a record of the layout of the 70-year diary from 1916 to 1985, including the names of the diaries at each stage, the time of the start of each volume, the layout of the folio, the existence and publication of the books, etc., which was extremely informative.
At the same time, as an insider, she made an account of the circulation of these precious manuscripts in the past few decades, especially after Xia Chengtao's death to the present, so that they could know where they came and went, and what they saw in the end." (Note: This form was originally made in 2016 and was attached to the article "Examination of the Manuscripts of Xia Chengtao's Diary" (published in the thirty-fifth series of Lexicology), and after this revision, it is placed at the end of the book)
In addition to the five diary manuscripts now hidden in Wentu, the diaries scattered in two other places, two boxes, were finally reunited 34 years after Xia Chengtao's death.
In the appendix, Wu Bei recounted a scene -
The manuscripts, which were hidden in Zhejiang University and Tingfeng Building, were returned to Mr. Wu Changyun in person on the morning of December 24, 2020 in Room 1015, Humanities Building, West District, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, and were attended by Zhu Hongda, Wu Changyun, Lou Hansong, Hu Kexian, Tao Ran, and Wu Bei. The diaries that were once hidden in these two places are now in the custody of Mr. Wu Changyun in Beijing.
【References】
"The Complete Diary of Xia Chengtao" wu bei editor-in-chief
"Mr. Xia Chengtao's Words" Wu Zhanlei
"Mr. Wu Zhanlei Memorial Collection" Edited by Wu Bei and Wu Dang
"Xia Chengtao's Diary Manuscript Examination" Wu Bei
"West Lake Mandarin Duck Song - Remembering Wu Wen and Xia Chengtao" is solemn
"Long Yusheng and Xia Chengtao's Interaction Examination" Wang Haiyang
"Wu Zhanlei Details the Teacher Xia Chengtao and His Complete Works" Dan Wen
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