There are still tidbits in the human world - Xie Guozhen and Shi Jingcun's "Golden Stone Jiao"

Xie Guozhen sent a letter to Shi Jie

Pipe Jiping

In recent years, some of Mr. Shi Jingcun's collection of books and letters have often flowed into bookstores and auction venues. A few years ago, I bid for a batch of letters in a small auction, all of which were sent to him by Mr. Shi's friends, including the lexicographer Qian Zhonglian, the historian Chen Xuandong, and the translator Zhou Xuliang, a total of more than 20 letters. It was three years in the auction back, but because of the miscellaneous chores on weekdays, it has not been sorted out. I remember that in the auction at that time, there was another manuscript of Shi Jingcun's "Golden Stone Cong" that made me "salivate", the starting price was less than 10,000 yuan, my psychological price was set at 30,000, and in the bidding process, it was raised to 50,000, but it still couldn't be taken, and I watched it run away for sixty thousand and spend it elsewhere. Last year, I got a friend's recommendation and received a letter from Xie Guozhen to Shi Jie, which should also be Mr. Shi's home deposit, it is reported that Xie Guozhen's letter to Shi Jie Cun is more than three or five, and now most of them have flowed out, this is one of them.

Mr. Xie Guozhen is a well-known expert in the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and in his early thirties, he wrote and published monographs such as "Examination of Late Ming And Qing History Books" and "Examination of the Party and Social Movement at the Time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", the latter of which was praised by Lu Xun for "hooking up the literature and working hard". Xie Guozhen revered Lu Xun all his life, but when he was young, he did not get the opportunity to visit, and he was embarrassed, but he was praised by Lu Xun at a young age, and Lu Xun also recommended his "Examination of Northeast Streamers in the Early Qing Dynasty" in the article, which is also worthy of his lifelong pride. In addition to his status as a historian, Xie Guozhen was also a bibliophile, edition bibliographer, and epigrapher. His fast is called "Guati An", which means that in the process of collecting some rare books and ancient books, he is too precious to buy, and can only pick up some fragments that others do not look up to. He said that "it's like buying melons, people get some sweet melon treasures, I just pick up some guati." In his later years, Xie also wrote a self-described poem: "Reunite with the impotence of the prosperous world, sit on the green felt and live a lifetime; waste the years and waste years, and pick up the melons and melons." This is naturally all his humble words, the so-called sweet melon bitterness, in fact, each has its own achievements, not to mention Mr. Xie's achievements are fruitful, is it "Guati" can cover?

More than ten years ago, I bought a copy of the Guati Anthology, and although I read several of them, I was basically not impressed. This time, I obtained a book from Xie Guozhen to Shi Jiancun, so I found a collection of essays to re-read. In order to understand the relationship in the reading letter, he also borrowed a thick volume of "Mr. Shi Jicun's Chronicle" from Brother Andy to read it, in order to find a little clue as soon as possible.

Xie Guozhen and Shi Jicun are "friends of the Golden Stone", and both gentlemen have a habit of collecting and studying the Golden Stone script. Although Mr. Xie is four years older than Mr. Shi, it seems that Mr. Shi dabbled earlier in the collection and research of jinshi, and wrote a lot of works. As early as the 1930s and 1940s, Shi Jingcun already had an interest in visiting monuments and collecting gold stone rubbings, and by the 1950s and 1960s, he was more diligent in the collection of gold stones, and after the 1980s, he successively published "Records of Water Classics", "Beishan Collection of Ancient Records" (1989), "Golden Stone Cong Dialects" (1991), "Tang Stele Hundred Selections" (2001) and so on. Xie Guozhen is an expert in ancient book editions, he once said that "Yu yu book inscriptions, Su Dun is good", it can be seen that in the early years, he also liked the golden stone stele, and in the early and mid-1970s, it was the period when he vigorously collected and studied the golden stone stele. For example, Mr. Xie has two poems, "Title Qiupu Zhou's Jimu with Song Paper Refined Stone Collection of Han Wei Shi Jing Remnant Stone", poems and inscriptions Yun:

The voice of the old friend is still like a look,

There are posthumous editors outside the Kaiyang Gate;

The world will not die with me,

The flowing water mercilessly passes away.

Short stars short night,

The cicada wings are still far away like fog shadows;

Poor forty-five years,

Judah Mozi forever.

Yu both hid the zhou jimu han jin remnant graphite book, Shao Liangdi fu for Mr. Ji Mu used Song paper to refine the Han Wei stone scripture remnants, Wang Jing'an wrote a stone scripture map by hand, and examined the location of the stone scripture fragments in detail, the ink is as new as new, and even the treasure is also. Ji Mujing identification, like to hide the stone, sorry to be tired of the chaos, Qi Luo is fried, occasionally sick and dead, forty and five years old, Gai and Zhang Gaowen are the same age. The disciples have a family lineage, luxury, and have not been able to learn what they have learned, sorry! However, his lifelong hobbies, accumulating stones and hiding pottery, leaving them as the resources for future generations to govern their studies, and there is a gap between them and the rich bourgeois langs who store gold and jade treasures. On the evening of August 12, 1972, the summer was sleepless, and the night could not sleep, showing the old collection, remembering the old friends, re-recording the inscription of the last sentence, not feeling the cool breeze, the heat was reduced.

Zhou Jimu is named jin, and the room name lives in Zhencao Hall. Gong calligraphy, rich collection, especially xi Tibetan Han Wei two Jin stele carved rough stones and ancient pottery, ancient springs, etc. "Shao LiangDi" was Zhou Jimu's nephew Zhou Shaoliang, also a literary historian who studied ancient cultural history with Xie Guozhen. The most important part of Mr. Xie Guozhen's Jinshi collection is derived from the old collections of Zhou Jimu, Chen Jieqi and Wu Dayi, who tried to write a poem "Inscribed On the Old Tibetan Chinese Ware of the Chen Clan in Weixian County and Other Expanded Texts" on New Year's Day 1975:

School reform is a lot of trouble,

Why bother?

The rivers and mountains are endlessly blue,

There are still tidbits left in the human world.

At this time, Mr. Xie was more than a year old and had his leisure time, so he regained his old good and began to sort out and examine the golden stone tablets, which were collected into a book to preserve a copy of the cultural essence of the motherland for future generations. He has an inscription written on October 28, 1976: "... Inheriting the care of the Party and our organization, compassion for the old and old, so that the rest can be temporarily rested, and Yu Nai can re-reason with history, learn from the old and learn the new, and sleep in it. Wind and rain and cold and heat are not unaware of their labor. In order to cure the historical relics of the two Han Dynasties and the pre-Qin Dynasty, the first to get the Remnants of the Qin Han Wadang, the successor to the Qin Han Wadang, and then to wumen to obtain He Kunyu and Ding Shaoshan to carve stones for the Tuoba Langtai, the Qin Wadang found under the stage, the Qin Wadang found under the stage, the Tuoba Wu Zhai, there are Qing Qing inscriptions, and the Wadang Tuo Tuo, which is hidden by the Chen and Wu families, is gathered in one room, and each Mozi, not unhappy, is saved with the collection, so that the relics of the sages will not be lost, and the preparations will be used to save the province, and it is also a grand event. ”

Familiar with the background of this stage, and then interpret this Codex from Ye Xie Guozhen to Shi Jiecun, it is relatively clear and smooth.

Mr. Cun Cun's seat: It is from Mei Weng to the big letter, through the seed cut. The late friend Mr. Zhou Jimu once used his ZhaiZhai Tibetan pottery and Ji mu Zang kui to expand all the Han and Jin stone shadows, and now in Shanghai, he also received this Tibetan Deng, Shu Chengbi, he has asked Gu Qian's brother to write the inscription, after writing it, he should still consult the two Chinese characters, and for the study of Jinshi is the father outside the door. I have admired it for a long time and will definitely visit it. Sincerely

salute

Xie Guozhen on VII. sixteen

This letter has not signed the annual payment, but from the polite tone and wording of the letter, it is estimated that the two gentlemen have not met before, especially the sentence "Admired for a long time, will be visited", if there has been a follow-up, it will not be said. According to the Chronicle of Mr. Shi Jingcun, in 1976, "on August 7, Xie Guozhen (Gang Lord) came to visit Mr. Shi's apartment." On this visit, Shi Jicun gave Xie a copy of "Golden Stone Hundred Songs," and Xie Wrote to Mr. Shi the next day to express his gratitude: "When I talked quickly yesterday, I had to listen to the teachings of The Golden Stone, and gave him a great work of "Golden Stone Hundred Songs." I thought that this visit was probably the beginning of the engagement between the two gentlemen with gold stones. According to the subsequent exchange stories, it is most likely that Mr. Xie's letter was written on July 16, 1976.

Because on March 6, 1977, according to the Chronicle of Mr. Shi Jicun, "Mr. Xie Gang wrote a poem and inscribed "Xie Gang Lord Obtained The Watten Inscription Extension 180 Pieces of Paper, Chen Qizhai Yi Wu Shu Zhai Also, both in two volumes, Xu Borrowed more than the moon, and inscribed a poem to return to Bi", which corresponds to the sentence in the letter "Now in Shanghai, I see this Collection and Receive It". The first time I saw the word "Zangdeng" was unclear, and it could not be traced. Until I read "Waden" Fang suddenly realized, here "Deng" is to be used as an ancient artifact solution.

Coincidentally, Xie Guozhen's batch of "Waden rubbings" obtained on the Shanghai wanton, Shi Jingcun actually saw it before Xie and wanted to earn, but because of the bargaining problem and hesitated a little, he was first boarded by Xie Guozhen. There is a passage in the "Chronicle" that Mr. Shi said: "In the summer of 1976, Yu zaiyunxuan saw a new package of expanded books, all of which were ancient Texts, and the bargaining price was not agreed, so he ignored it. Thinking that no one wants this thing, a few days late, it should be for me. On the tenth day, further on, this bag has been purchased for Xie Gang and regrets it. Later, the two gentlemen met and talked about this matter, and it turned out that this package of rubbings was a fragment of the ancient Kuedeng tablet that Chen Jieqi had hidden with characters, and the whole of the rubbing was given to Wu Dayi, and there were more than one hundred and eighty pieces of paper with Chen inscriptions on it. This is something that Wu Da Li's family has scattered, and there is probably no second book in the world. Xie Guozhen obtained the title of the pool into two volumes, and asked Gu Tinglong to take it to Mr. Shi after the inscription. Shi Jingcun admired Xie Yiguan and asked for "stay in the cold fast for One month, and Return to it for the inscription poem".

Shi Jingcun's inscription poem "Chronicle" is not recorded, I checked him to get it, the poem is a five-word law:

Qilu swept the soil, and Zhou Qin plundered the ashes.

The Dao exists in the remnants of the tiles, and the inscriptions of the ancients are on the stage.

Jinshi opened a new domain, and sent a farewell talent.

The second relic rhymes, which makes me feel low.

The inscription was written in March 1977, the year after Xie Guozhen wrote this letter and met him. The "Mei Weng" mentioned at the beginning of Xie Guozhen's letter is Mr. Zheng Yimei. I once asked Zheng Youhui about the history of daughters, she said that in the late 1970s, Mr. Xie had a lot of contacts with his grandfather, and every time he came to Shanghai, he would come to our house to sit down, and sometimes he would go to lunch. Then it is very likely that the initial handover between Xie and Shi was through the thread led by Zheng Lao, so there is a sentence that "it is transferred from Mei Weng to a big letter, through the seed cut". Zha Zheng Youhui edited the "Handwriting of Zheng Yimei's Friends and Friends", one of which was the end of a letter from Xie Guozhen to Zheng Yimei in the late 1970s, and also attached a sentence "To Shi Jiecun's brother's letter, I also hope to seal it and send it on behalf of him", which can be seen that Mei Weng has forwarded the letter more than once or twice.

Xie Guozhen died in Beijing on September 4, 1982, when the transmission of information was slow, and a check of the "Diary of Zhaosu" shows that Shi Lao only received the obituary on September 12, when the diary "received the obituary of the Lord, that is, sent a message of condolence to his family" to him.

That is to say, since July 1976, when "Mei Weng transferred to the big letter", the direct contact between Xie and Shi Erlao was almost six years.

Finally, by the way, Xie Guozhen's calligraphy. Xie Guozhen was admitted to Tsinghua Guoguo College in 1925 and entered a group of Guoxue masters such as Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei with the first place score. He has an article recalling tsinghua classmates, saying that "in the time of history, I still do not abolish chanting, and after my homework, I am still engaged in Linchi." His calligraphy, starting from the Northern Wei Dynasty, also studied Sui and Tang dynasty monuments. After graduating from Tsinghua University, Xie Guozhen accompanied Liang Qichao to the "Drinking Ice Room" in Tianjin, assisted in the compilation of the Dictionary of Chinese Books, and served as a tutor for Liang Qichao's two daughters. At this stage, he met with Liang Qichao in the morning and evening, and benefited a lot from the subtlety. Its calligraphy is the most influenced by Liang Qichao, Fang Jun is clear and clear, angular, even if some inscriptions and rulers are written, they are also thick and elegant, and the atmosphere is ancient.

Xie Guozhen was highly regarded by teachers at Tsinghua Guo college. We all know that on June 2, 1927, the day before Wang Guowei tossed Kunming Lake, that is, on the evening of June 1, Xie Guozhen, Liu Jie and other students chatted idly at Mr. Wang's home and asked for benefits, and Mr. Wang also wrote a fan for Xie Guozhen and inscribed a seven-word poem by The Late Tang Dynasty Han Wei in italics. It is said that Wang Guowei returned after going out the next day, deliberately changed the "brother" character of "brother" on the inscription fan to "brother" directly with a heavy pen, and then calmly walked to the kunming lake of the Summer Palace... This masterpiece, Xie Guozhen has always cherished around, forever.

Source: Wen Wei Po