Door number and context: Recommended reading of "No. 56 Xixi Road"

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Hangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city. We not only have a rich historical and cultural heritage handed down from Wuyue and the Southern Song Dynasty, but also have characters and events that have stood in the annals of China's modern and modern history. "No. 56 Xixi Road" published by Zhejiang University Press is a collection of memoirs about a small cultural landmark in Hangzhou. While inheriting the Culture of Song Yun, we must not ignore these figures and their cultural heritage written into China's modern and contemporary history.

No. 56 Xixi Road was originally just an ordinary house number in Hangzhou, but because it once lived here dozens of respected old professors from the former Hangzhou University, it became a cultural landmark and became a historical building in Hangzhou.

I was born in Hangzhou in 1956. That year, Zhejiang Normal College began to build school buildings and teachers' dormitories in the pine field not far from here, of which the teachers' dormitories were built in the north and south of Xixi Road. In 1958, the Zhejiang Provincial Government decided to merge Zhejiang Normal College into the newly established Hangzhou University, and the newly built Xixi Road Teachers' Dormitory became the Teachers' Dormitory of Hangzhou University. In 1957 and 1958, 14 dormitory buildings were built here. Later, it was expanded successively, and there are still more than 30 dormitories in the north and south of Xixi Road. In 1982, the Hangzhou Municipal Geographical Names Committee named this teacher's dormitory Hangzhou University New Village. The house number at the gate of the new village is 56 Xixi Road. In August 2008, the Hangzhou New Village Complex was announced by the Hangzhou Municipal Government as the fourth batch of historical buildings, believing that the building "reflects the historical context of the evolution of modern architecture". In September last year, the Hangzhou Municipal Government decided to list the Hangda Xincun area as a historical and cultural district. At present, restoration is underway there.

Since 1958, dozens of highly respected professors of Hangzhou University have lived in Hangzhou University New Village, such as Xia Chengtao, a famous Dunhuang scholar, Jiang Liangfu, a famous historian of literature and history, Chen Li, the founder of industrial psychology in mainland China, Bai Zhengguo, a famous mathematician, Wang Zhen, the founder of modern Analytical Chemistry in China, Wang Chengxu, the founder of Chinese comparative education, and Chen Qiaoyi, a famous historical geographer. They carried out academic research here, wrote books and lectures, taught and educated people, and dispelled doubts and puzzles, leaving behind many stories of the popular population, so that this ordinary teachers' dormitory compound carried the literati feelings and academic spirit of these old gentlemen, and became a temple of knowledge and a guiding light admired by generations of Hangzhou University students and even Hangzhou citizens.

From March 1978 to January 1982, I studied in the department of Chinese of Hangzhou University, and I came to No. 56 Xixi Road many times to ask the teachers for advice. Last year, my college teacher Tang Xun and his daughter Wei Min co-compiled this collection of memoirs that recorded the stories of Hongru Shuo's life, research, and governance in The New Village of Hangda.

From this book, we know the touching stories of the gentlemen who were once familiar. When Mr. Jiang Liangfu studied in Paris, he gave up his studies and traveled day and night, copying, photographing and depicting the Dunhuang stone inscriptions and scriptures that were lost in his hometown, which deepened his myopia by 600 degrees. Mr. Xia Chengtao loved to read when he was young, and often read around the clock in the library, and said: "The word 'stupid' comes from 'ben'. Stupidity is my capital for learning. During the period when Sun Xizhen was overthrown, he did not forget to use the opportunity of the criticism meeting to disseminate foreign literary knowledge, and turned the criticism meeting into a foreign literature class. At 6 o'clock in the morning of the second day of the Chinese New Year, Mr. Xu Bukui knocked on the door of the student's home in order to provide the student with the thesis materials. These touching bits and pieces make us stand in awe of my husband.

Just now, the reader read aloud the poem "Old Tree, Big Tree" written by my classmate Wang Ziliang specifically for this book. I very much agree with the point he makes in his poem. The old gentleman in Hangda New Village is undoubtedly an old tree, and we are the fresh branches and leaves emitted by this old tree. Under the careful teachings of the gentlemen, we also grew from young leaves to thick trunks, supporting the vast sky. The old tree and the new leaves together are the complete image of Hangda New Village - a towering tree that will always maintain its youth. As Zhang Kefu, an alumnus of my history department, wrote in the recommendation of this book, "Today, Hangzhou University no longer exists, Hangzhou University New Village has been empty, Hongru ancestors have left us one after another, only the figure of Mr. Zhang kefu has remained in our minds, become a part of our lives, and been taught for life." The teacher is like a mountain, never dare to forget! ”

Last weekend, qianjiang evening news restarted the "context" series of reports after a decade. The first representative of the Geng continuum context introduced was Professor Mao Zhaoxi, who once lived in the new village of Hangda. In the city where we live, there are many cultural landmarks like 56 Xixi Road. They are not just a few old houses, but also the cultural imprint left by decades, centuries or even thousands of years of historical development, which is the context of our city. Approaching these cultural landmarks and reading these historical heritages will undoubtedly help us to know Hangzhou and Zhejiang. This is what "No. 56 Xixi Road" means to us.

This article is a shared speech at the 2022 Library Night Gala of Zhejiang Library on the evening of April 23, 2022.

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