Li Yihao published two or three things

In the early spring of March 1981, the Second Conference on The Planning and Planning of the Collation and Publication of Ancient Books was held at the Jingxi Hotel, and I met Comrade Li Yihao for the first time. I have heard it before: I don't remember if when my eldest brother returned to his hometown of Taihu Lake in Anhui Province in 1941, he heard that there was a villager who crossed the river to join the Fourth Lord (New Fourth Army). The eldest brother secretly visited lao Lei, a farmer who lived not far away, and the two talked about many things about the New Fourth Army. The eldest brother was very mysterious at that time, and at that time, contact with the New Fourth Army was to beheaded. I only vaguely remember that the eldest brother said that there was a Li Yihao among the four masters.

When I met Li Yihao, people called him Elder Li, and by this time he was old and fat. However, the report on ancient books, with a Sichuan tone, was very energetic, and there was such a momentum that the participants also felt energetic. After the report, he walked up to the participants with a large pipe, and I also went up to talk to him, and I did not forget to ask him about the New Fourth Army.

Elder Li grasped the collation and publication of ancient books in Beijing very tightly. On June 3 of that year, less than two months after the Ancient Books Conference, Elder Li asked me to report. I went to his office of the Central Liaison Department of Wanshou Road, and Li Kan and Zhao Shouyu of the Zhonghua Bookstore were present. At this time, I said that because when the ancient books were held, I visited many representatives from Beijing and other places -- all of them were experts in literature and history who were familiar with ancient books, which was very beneficial to our selection of topics, the organization of drafts, and the review of drafts, and I also selected several drafts. Elder Li listened happily, smoked a large pipe, and interjected from time to time. Remember when he said "Rehe Miza" can it be done? I said of course it was good. After that, I went to the history department of Peking University many times to find Chen Qinghua and asked him to collect information. This is the most important event in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, Li Lao's writing in the "Summer Resort Diagram Sequence" is "If XianFeng died in the summer resort, and Li Tongzhi and the killing of SuShun were all premeditated here." At that time, Cixi and Prince Liugong of Xianfeng's brother joined forces and fought fiercely with the eight ministers of Sushun who had been entrusted with their orders at the summer resort. Is it just that Cixi's conspiracy succeeded, plus Old Qiyi? After the arrest of Sushun in Miyun, the situation was getting worse and worse under the dictatorship of the Nala clan. This is a good topic, we did not grasp the book.

In the future, I think Mr. Li wants to do something for others, even a little, he will try his best to do it. In 1983, he gave us his treasured "Qi Zhen Palace Words", and later sent Chen Shizeng's "Beijing Customs Map". Both times were fruitful, especially since the Beijing Customs Map was reprinted in 2005.

Elder Li was the leader of the Planning Group for the Collation and Publication of Ancient Books of the State Council, and in those years he often heard people say that he had participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Long March, or Guo Moruo's introduction to the party. But sometimes I remember him saying at the ancient book conference: "I meet like the British Parliament, I can listen or not." I always remember that because I don't think it's ordinary. Thinking about this carefully is to respect the participants, but also to remind the moderator of the meeting that what you say should make people willing to listen.

In this way, I feel kind to Elder Li. In January 1983, we held a symposium at the Chongwenmen Hotel, and on a cold day, he also came. The first question is "How are ancient books selling?" "I just write books and sell them, which is embarrassing." Fortunately, the old gold who managed the distribution said: "The book is selling well. Ancient books in Beijing are selling well. Elder Li was very relieved to hear it. It turned out that just after the "Cultural Revolution", ten years did not print books, only sold one kind of book, people need books!

In October 1985 and May 1986, I went to Li Lao's house twice. When I went to the single-door courtyard near the city wall (now the second ring road) of the Dongcheng Gongyuan, I saw only flowers and trees supporting the sparseness, and there were many shelves in the newly built house. The first time I can't remember what to do. The second time I remembered that Elder Li wanted to write an article about advertising for the Literary and Art Newspaper. I talked about a big black monkey on the black monkey cabinet of the Beijing hat shop, a large antler hanging on the door of the Wanchuntang Ginseng Antlers, and a primary advertisement. Qianmen Chessboard Street is surrounded by Ming Dynasty shops under pretenses. Qing Dynasty Xisisha pot shop sells sacrificial white meat, the tables and chairs in the shop are made of white wood, there is a guise called "noon without waiting", it is sold out in the morning, it is carefully advertised.

Elder Li attaches great importance to the talents of ancient book collation. As I know, at the 1982 meeting, Shanghai scholar Hu Daojing, who lived in Room 304 of the Jingxi Hotel, edited "Mengxi Pen Talk" and Hunan scholar Zhong Shuhe edited the "Toward the World" series of books that were invited by Elder Li. There is also my little compatriot Kong Fanli, who shared the same class in Taihu Lake, Anhui Province, from the spring of 1939 to the summer of 1943, and has received help from Elder Li many times, such as Elder Li extending his reputation for Fan Li and writing the book title "Fan Chengda Annals". At this time, Fan Li was a teacher at Beijing No. 3 Middle School, living in a hut next to a small coal plant in Yude Hutong, Xicheng. After Elder Li knew, he thought of allocating a suite of Fan Li. Elder Li's secretary, Shen Xilin, was also worried about this matter and consulted with me. It is necessary to get the ancient books group to work in separate rooms, and it is actually listed as zhonghua bookstore. Fan Li also came to ask for my opinion. I also helped Fan Li come to Beijing, but considering whether this would affect his writings, he was working on sansu collections, chronology, and so on. I asked him to make his own decisions, but he hesitated and finally did not go to work at zhonghua bookstore. Later, he spent a lot of money to buy a house in DaxingHuang Village, and the medical conditions were also lacking, and he missed a good opportunity.

I don't know how many precious ancient books Elder Li helped salvage. I only know that in 1984, he studied the Dream of the Red Chamber and suggested that experts go to Leningrad to retrieve The Russian banknotes circulating in the Qing Dynasty. But he didn't think that as long as it was an ancient book, it was all good, and it had to be published. For example, he did not approve of photocopying the Siku Quanshu. Quite simply, in 1932, the scholar Hong Ye was glad that there was no photocopy at that time, and Hong Ye said that the books collected in the "Four Libraries" had already been printed, and there were more than 9/10. In the mid-to-late 1980s, the punctuation of ancient books was far better than the "Four Libraries" without punctuation and not easy to read. Probably Elder Li also made careful calculations for the organs, and wanted to produce thousands of sets of "Four Libraries and Complete Books", and the large and small organs, schools, and cultural units rushed to buy and spend a lot of money in order to compete for face, I am afraid that in the end few people will seriously read them, will they not waste useful funds? For example, our publishing house spent 5,000 yuan to buy a set of Taiwan-printed "Four Libraries", stacked in a large room, I went to see it twice, and the double-lock sealed book was covered with dust.

Based on Elder Li's opinion, I also wrote an article entitled "Should the Four Libraries be Reprinted", which was published in guangming daily on June 19, 1988, and fully explained the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides with the dialogue between A and B. Later, I heard that Elder Li mentioned this article and asked who wrote it. At that time, I was helping in the Chinese bookstore, using the pen name of "Zhong Chu", and Li Lao thought that he was a person from the Zhonghua Bookstore, and he could not find anyone to ask. In fact, I haven't said anything wrong with "Four Libraries". Today, I saw Li Lao say in the "Ming Zhengde Ben Yang Wenmin GongJi": Ming Yang Rong's book "belonged to the 'smoked' type of book in the Qing Dynasty, and the eighth volume "Pinghu Song" and the eleventh volume "The Order of Yang Zongdao" had biased language. "It is the proof of the destruction and destruction of ancient books in the four libraries, but unfortunately I have not been able to point it out in a researched way like Elder Li.

Li Lao was born in 1904, I am 21 years younger than him, and I miss him like I miss my father and brother. Respecting him as a veteran of the battle from birth to death, with a firm conviction in communism, he was still worried about the shortcomings of the times in his old age: "For more than a decade, somehow, it has created an atmosphere contrary to this (referring to Deng Tuo's abandonment of the nomination of the Central Committee), which is really difficult to say. "It's a pity that I haven't talked about basic skills all these years."

Reading Li Lao's "The Collection of Strikes" (published by Zhonghua Bookstore), I realized that he was a poet and lyricist with power and talent. "In the past forty years, yunling has complained, and the color of the Anhui Mountains is too cang", and so heavy feelings, he will not forget his comrades-in-arms and martyrs who have been wronged for thousands of years.

Li Laoxi collected books and thus read a wide range of books. I read "Xu Xia's Travels" and saw that Xu Shi went to Lijiang, Yunnan Province, as a guest of the Mu clan, and I did not know the beginning and end. Li Lao examined the original Western Regions of the Mu clan, named "Ade", and gave the surname Mu to Lijiang Toast in the early Ming Dynasty. List the twenty-second generation of the Mu clan, and the person who helped Xu Xiake was Mu Zeng, whose characters were white and wrote "Cloud Light Ink", that is, he instructed Xu Shi to approve it. Mu Zeng's five-generation ancestor, Shu Qing, was named after Yang Sheng'an in Yunnan. It was learned that Yang Sheng'an influenced several generations of the Mu clan to rejoice in literature.

And I read "A Motif" (Sanlian Bookstore Edition, this article cites Li Laowen from this book) and felt happy and came to the spirit. What a beautiful text that made me read and want to read. Li honest essayist, may wish to copy a paragraph:

"Qi number - qi number is a history of derailment, which degraded Comrade Yan Ming to Jinan, and later simply surrendered to the 'Qing Room' until 1974. At this time, not a single needle was allowed to be kept, let alone a knife used for engraving. Before 1949, I didn't use my effort to engrave the seal because I couldn't take care of it. These years without engraving a stamp are completely passive and mandatory. I am sorry that he has not engraved a party seal in all these years, and I pity that he has not done what he can do for the party and the people during this time. There may be such a idle chapter in his heart - 'Long breath to cover up the sniffles, mourn the hardships of the people's lives!' ’”

Elder Li wrote about his old friend, Qi Yanming, a classmate in the thirteen-member study class in 1975. Starting from the engraving of the old friend in 1919, the engraving shows Qi Yanming's life, and the writing is moving! (Zhao Luo)

Guangming Daily (November 9, 2007)

Source: Guangming Daily