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Ye Shengtao recalled in his later years that in the mid-20s, when Zheng Zhenduo was working at the Shanghai Commercial Press, he crossed the Fourth Road to see the old book shop, and his legs involuntarily stomped in, holding the old book when he came out, and even said what manuscript and what engraving he found, "it was so good that he got it."
△ Lu Xun to Zheng Zhenduo Codex
"I went to Beiping to teach, and the bookstore in Liulichang couldn't cut off my footprints." Zheng Zhenduo said in his "Miscellaneous Notes on Visits" that it was after he was hired as a professor at Yenching University in September 1931. "One day, I happened to pass through the Qing Secret Cabinet and purchased several kinds of paper, which was very happy. I think that compared to what I got in Shanghai, the engraving color is much smarter. ”
He and Lu Xun had a good relationship with woodcuts, and in the spring of 1933 they reunited in Shanghai to talk about The Beiping Notes, which Lu Xun thought was worthy of a visit and became a monograph. After returning to Pingping, he revisited the note paper and tried to brush the note sheet. The article "Miscellaneous Notes on Visits" records the experience of his visits, which is huge and detailed, allowing us to appreciate the general situation of the business of the South Paper Shop in that year.
△ Qi Baishi made a note
From the Qing Secret Pavilion to the west, the first one in the north of the road is the Chunjing Pavilion, there are many qingjun poems, such as Chen Shizeng's writing, a few strokes, the strokes are elegant, better than the ten bamboo zhai, Luo Xuan notes. Wu Zhiqiu, Jin Gongbei, and Yao Mang's father's Tang paintings and brick notes, and the notes on the monuments of the Western Regions, etc., are all overjoyed.
Further west from Chunjing Pavilion, the first one is Song Hua Zhai, the sample book contains eight flowers and fruits made by Chen Shi, Chen Banding and Qi Baishi made brushstrokes and tones similar to Chen Shizeng, and their bold smearing can represent the modern literati painting tendency.
△ Wu Waiting autumn painting note
Although Songshizhai is an old façade, it sells Western-style note paper, that is, the Chinese paper is dyed with alum water, which can be written with a fountain pen, and most of the paintings are folk scenes such as greeting relatives, lifting a car, dancing lights, pulling a car, etc., the brushwork is poor, and Zheng Zhenduo believes that it is detrimental to the beauty of Chinese painting.
Yi Wenzhai did not have any new style of painting notes, they were all the works of Li Bolin, Liu Xiling, Dai Bohe and Li Yuru who were popular in the late Qing Dynasty, and the paintings were auspicious, festive scenes and popular coloring of flowers and birds.
Visiting the Liuli Factory again, Zheng Zhenduo is east from the Qing Secret Cabinet, and the north of the road is RongBaozhai, which is the largest note shop in the Liuli Factory, and the antique and new notes are engraved. There are Lin Qin Nanshan Water Notes, Qi Baishi Flower and Fruit Notes, Wu Qiu Qiu Plum Blossom Notes, and Qi and Wang Zhuren's cooperation of Nongshen Notes, Decameron Notes, etc., and the engraving is more refined than the Qing Secret Cabinet. There are also arch notes that imitate the prince. He spent half an afternoon in Rongbaozhai shopping for notes and talking about printing notes.
From Rongbaozhai to the east, through the Changdian intersection is Haiwang Village, through the Haiwang Village to the east, there is Jingwenzhai in the north of the road, which is also a big note. In the afternoon, the sun shone faintly on the blue-cloth-covered table, and there was an indescribable tranquility. Zheng Zhenduo flipped through the sample book with a pleasant mood and found four Qi Baishi character notes, imitating the Eight Mountain People, and the tone of his expression was superior. Wu Waitqiu, Tang Dingzhi and other 20 cooperative plum blossom notes, very interesting. There are also Luohan notes and ancient Buddha notes of the Qing Dao people, Yao Mang's father, Wang Mengbai, etc., as well as ancient and colorful Yi ware notes.
There is Ronglu Hall in the south of Jingwenzhai Road, which is very large, but it has been in decline and has not been printed for a long time. There are also thin notes, scattered and scattered, dusty, as if no one has asked for a long time. According to the pattern, ten must be one, and all of them are dark and discolored, and the cover shelf has been unknown for several years. The owner of the house must have white hair, is more than seventy years old, and his spirit is shining, and he can talk about the past and listen to it. After searching for nearly an hour, only Man Qing made a few notes. Ronglu Hall to the east, near the east gate of the factory north of the Bao Jin Zhai, the poems are the old type of the Guangxuan era, the best ones are rare, only Zhu Liangcai was selected as a few notes.
Out of the east gate of the Liuli Factory to the south, into the Yangmei bamboo street, the eastbound road north chengxingzhai there is a lady Leng Xiang as a moon ling note, and there is a female painter Miao Sujun who ghostwrote for Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty to make a flower and bird note, but the note is incomplete, and only seven moon order notes remain. Then eastbound there is Yi Baozhai, many of the notes are displayed between the windows, and more than ten flowers and birds have been selected by Wang Zhao, and they are not complete.
Zheng Zhenduo visited the Liuli Factory three times in a row, and successively sent lu Xun more than 500 kinds of notes, and he selected more than 330 pieces, and printed them out as the "Beiping Notes".
Review: Yu Fanghua