"Carrying the Raw Edge Book to the End", written by Chen Zishan
Printed by Grass Heron Culture Company on June 28, 2020
During the Shanghai Book Fair, I met Mr. Chen Zishan at the booth of the Zhejiang Ancient Books Society, and he came to preside over the new book launch of Mr. Zhou Limin and Mr. Shen Ding'an, and when they met, he gave me this book. The book is 32 large, and the binding method is a sewing horse riding nail, much like the Chinese loose-leaf anthology that became popular in the world thirty years ago. The 60-page, full-color print contains a large number of books, which are bound in a way that, as the title suggests, is all raw.
Teacher Zishan in the book 'Xiao Yin' narrated the late 1920s, the rise of the rough edge book in China, it can be called this foreign book form was first accepted and advocated by the Zhou brothers, Lu Xun called himself "Mao Bian Party", and his early translations almost all have raw edge, under the initiative of Lu Xun, many new literary artists have produced the raw edge book, but by the late 1940s, the raw edge book began to decline, but it did not disappear, such as the fifties and sixties and the late Cultural Revolution, there are raw edge books appeared, and the "Poetry Journal" was founded in 1957. There was a raw edge book in the beginning.
After the reform and opening up, the raw edge book was rejuvenated, and many rough edge books came out, and Teacher Zishan himself also had a preference for the raw edge book, and he had long serialized articles related to the raw edge book in Shanghai's Wenhui Reading Weekly.
Some of the books collected in this book are rough edge books from the 1920s to the 1980s, such as the first one of the representatives of the new literary rough edge book, "Hometown", in addition to the "Zhou Zuoren Letters" published by the Qingguang Bookstore in July 1933, etc. Most of these rough edge books are rare to see, and from the perspective of book shadows, the quality of these books is excellent, but in my secular understanding, it seems that Lu Xun's "Collection of Extraterritorial Novels" is more rare, but it is not included in this book, and I think this part of the rough edge book is the personal collection of Zishan Teacher. Turning to the small lead in front, sure enough, as I guessed.
As Teacher Zishan said, in recent years, the raw edge of the book is very popular, and at the instigation of the publishing house, I can't avoid making some of it. Although in my eyes, more than half of the rough edges made in the mainland are half-finished works of books: only the final trim of the book has not been made, but even so, it still cannot stop people's love. Of course, for how to make the rough edge book more authentic, those experts like Zishan teacher must have made corresponding discussions, so this book also includes some historical materials for the study of raw edge book, and the first in the list is the manuscript of Tang Tao's ""Humble Beauty" - Talking about the Rough Edge Book and the like" at the top. The manuscripts of famous artists themselves have collecting value, not to mention the historical materials dedicated to the raw edge book, which shows that Teacher Zishan not only likes to make raw edge books, but also likes to collect corresponding historical materials.
Of course, the main body of this book is the rough edge book produced by Teacher Zishan over the years, but the main works collected in this book are his works, and it is a pity that the books he compiled are not included in them. But from this book, I also learned some information that I had not paid attention to before, such as the first rough edge book in Zishan's masterpiece, which was his seventh book "The Sound of Books on the Sea" published by Nanjing Southeast University Press in 2002, and since then, Zishan teacher has at least one kind of rough edge book almost every year. Judging from the summaries he wrote for each book, he also believes that the production of these rough edge books is becoming more and more refined, which also shows that the ranks of the Maobian Party are still expanding. However, the volume "Carrying the Rough Edge Book to the End" given to me by Teacher Chen Zishan is not raw edge, and in my understanding, his book should all be made into a raw edge book in order to match the name.
"Old School, Gossip Literati Old Things", by Zhou Limin
Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, July 2020, the first printing of the first edition
This book is one of the "Silverfish Literature Cong" planned by Xia Chunjin and Zhou Yinying. During this year's Shanghai Book Fair, a new book launch of "Silverfish Wencong" was held, and this time a total of two of the series of books were printed, "Old School" was one, and at the invitation of Meng Zhou Yinying, I specially rushed to participate in this conference, and met the author Mr. Zhou Limin at the meeting, Xia Chunjin gave me this book, and I immediately submitted it to Mr. Zhou for signature.
Mr. Zhou's new work is divided into three parts, mostly telling the stories of literati in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and he intertwines similar topics to outline the true disposition of the literati of that era in a comparative way. For example, one of Mr. Ji Xianlin's articles titled "How Can Camels Speak Human Words" tells how Ji Xianlin is a bull-forked bully, although Mr. Ji claims that he has been studying in elementary school, middle school, university until studying abroad, no matter what the exam is, but when applying for the university, only Peking University and Tsinghua University were reported, and what is more convincing is that these two universities have admitted him. Mr. Zhou also quoted a passage from the article "Zhang Zhongxing in My Eyes" written by Ji Xianlin to illustrate how difficult it was to be admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University in that era, and said: "Comrade Xiao Ji was bullish that he spent so much effort to get into Peking University, and in the end he did not go, but chose Tsinghua, because it was more convenient for Tsinghua to stay in the West. Sixteen years later, he returned to Peking University and simply became a professor. The recommender is the more terrifying Master Chen Yinke. ”
But the refinement of xueba, in addition to being born smart, the encouragement of the day after tomorrow is also very important, Han Yu said that "there is Bole in the world, and then there are thousands of horses", "then" the word "then" is used very well, about Ji Xianlin's "then", should be The Crown Prince Shoupeng. In 1926, Ji Xianlin was admitted to the Attached Middle School of Shandong University, and Wang Shoupeng was then the director of the Shandong Department of Education and the president of Shandong University, and the attached middle school was of course also under his control. At the end of the first semester, Principal Wang proposed that if the average score of the first place in each class exceeded 95 points, then he would personally write a fan and a couplet to reward the student, and rarely, Ji Xianlin was the only one with an average score of more than 95 points.
Zhou Limin said that the couplet given to Xiao Ji by the Zhuangyuan Award was "Talent Stretch Linfeng Jin, And The Spirit Hides Xiuyun", and the upper paragraph is "Envy Lin's Old Brother Ya Xie". At that time, Wang Zhuangyuan was more than 60 years old, and this old brother was only 16 years old, for this kind of encouragement, Zhou Limin thought that it was much more powerful than fighting chicken blood, and later Ji Xianlin also said that whether it was out of vanity or a sense of honor, he was determined not to be a bad student again, otherwise it would be too humiliating. Although Ji Xianlin was born a good piece of steel, he said in the article "My Primary and Secondary School": "I didn't like to study at that time. I value the classroom and the teacher far less than my interest in toads and shrimp. I don't know if it was a humble remark, but I'd rather believe that The Leader's encouragement to him changed his life.
The above is about how the xueba is refined, the next article talks about how the tutors in the university cultivate the xueba, such as the article "What is the pair of pairs", talking about the 1932 Chen Yinke suggested that Tsinghua University add "pairs" to the exam questions, this suggestion caused students to scold, and even appeared in the newspaper, and later Chen Yinke wrote an article for this to fight back against people's doubts about him, he insisted that pairs can test whether candidates can distinguish between virtual and real words and their applications. And to detect how much students read and so on.
For example, Jiang Liangfu wrote about Chen Yinke in the "Remembrance of Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies": "Listening to Mr. Yinke's class, I can't help but feel ashamed that foreign literature is too poor. I don't understand the Hindi, Balinese, and many strange words he quoted, even in English and French, and my roots are also poor. It can be seen that Master Chen will use the interchange of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign languages in class, for example, when he speaks the Diamond Sutra, he uses more than a dozen languages to compare, and there seems to be nothing incomprehensible about such a character to test students in the traditional way of pairs. It seems that when he is a student, it is not easy. So much so that Zhou Limin sighed, there is no considerable foundation, who dares to choose Chen Yinke's class.
But there are also people who occasionally feel good about themselves, Zhou Limin transcribed Zhu Ziqing's record in his diary on March 23, 1933, he and Chen Yinke took the graduation exam of graduate student Zhu Yanfeng, because Zhu Jun felt good about himself, so the following story occurred:
After the exam, Mr. Zhu yanfeng asked Zhu Yanfeng in class how he realized how he had taken the exam, and Zhu thought that it was still good, and Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's not necessarily." "Because of the saying: When preparing a problem at the time, it is more difficult to be common, so it is not asked, that is, how to purify the body after the great solution in the Middle Ages. Zhu Chi did not make a sound, and Mr. Shao replied: According to the Vinaya, wipe it with a cloth. The old monk used the cloth of the back, and the young monk washed it. The gentleman did not hear anything at first, and he expressed his deep approval.
Zhu Yanfeng felt that he had done well in the exam, Master Chen smiled and said to him that he had prepared a question, and later felt that this question was too difficult, so he did not embarrass Zhu, after the exam, Master Chen instead raised this question to Zhu: How to wipe his ass after the people's congress in the Middle Ages? This question really made Zhu Yu choke, and Mr. Shao replied next to him, according to the Vinaya, the old monk used a cloth to wipe his ass, but such a hand paper obviously did not conform to the spirit of economy, and the cloth after use was taken by the little monk to wash it, and then used it next time. What else can I say about learning to do this?
Zhou Limin will also talk about the relationship between teachers and students in the text, such as Wen Yuanning writing an article pointing directly at Wu Mi's sore spots, and Qian Zhongshu, although He is a disciple of Wu Mi, does not rebuke Wen Yuanning's text, but also talks about the old man of Zhitang who gives the impression of being peaceful and diluted, but he directly writes an article to bombard his teacher Zhang Taiyan, and even says such words in the text: Mr. Old Man, there are not many days to come, and he is willing to love himself and cherish the name. Later, Zhitang regretted Meng Lang at that time, and he posted in "Yusi" that "it was inevitable that it was a little disrespectful", and Zhang Taiyan still had contacts with Zhou Zuoren later. How to interpret zhitang's mentality? Zhou Limin's article was quoted next to him, and then he wrote his attitude towards the matter:
I love Zhitang is also like this, to be a person must have a principle of right and wrong, even for "my teacher", otherwise, it is a small city servant, who still loves to read his articles? Students respect the teacher, it is natural, but with the teacher as the master, every day can only memorize the quotations, in front of the teacher cough do not dare, this is not respect, awe.
Mr. Zhou Limin's article makes people read with an indescribable sense of pleasure, he has both his own ridicule and his own distinct attitude, can point out the subtle meaning behind each event in a grass snake gray line like a hook and sinking way, although the tone is ridiculous, but the ideological nature is not damaged at all, and his ability to control words impresses me.
"Wang Duan's Footsteps", (Qing) Wang Duan's Footsteps, Zhong Miaoming and other point schools
Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, May 2020, the first printing of the first edition
On August 16, 2020, I held a dialogue with Mr. Zen Shuqing, director of the library, and Mr. Chen Yi, director of the Shan Headquarters Department, in Zhejiang Library, which was broadcast live on Station B. Several friends in Zhejiang heard that I went to Zhejiang to hold a lecture, and they all proposed to come to the scene, and I explained to everyone that this was not a lecture, just a nonsense chattering on the screen, and if the friend came to sit below, it was just like a puppet and did not make a sound, it was simply a kind of kidnapping. When the friends heard my explanation, they laughed. But some people still came to the scene, one of them was introduced by Chen Yi, it was Mr. Zhong Miaoming, Director Chen introduced, Mr. Zhong is a scholar and bibliophile in Xiaoshan, has an in-depth study of Zhejiang literature, because the field equipment is ready, I can not ask Mr. Zhong for help, and he gave this book as a gift.
This book is one of the "Zhejiang Wencong", the publication of the Wencong I have understood last year, this is the largest publishing project of the Zhejiang Ancient Books Society in recent years, Mr. Zhong and other point schools of this book can be included in the series, it can be seen that the quality of its point school is good, and this book has more than 250,000 words, the point school project can be imagined.
From the "Preface", it is learned that Wang Duanlu was born as a jinshi and chose Shu Jishi, but his life deeds are very little recorded, and even the years of birth and death are deduced by the point schoolers, the main reason is that Wang Duanlu's works have been circulated to a rarity, and through the point proofreading of Mr. Zhong and others, this has enabled more people to read the works of the original author, which is a matter of merit.
In fact, Wang Duanlu's father was more famous, and his father was Wang Zongyan, a famous bibliophile in the Qing Dynasty. A few years ago, I went to Xiaoshan to find Wang Zongyan's library building, the 100,000-volume building, but my small article did not talk about his son Wang Duanlu, if I could read the "Wang Duanlu Collection" that Mr. Zhong and others ordered at that time, I think that the humble article would be richer.
From this book, it can be seen that Wang Duanlu has a wide range of interests, and his writings will also involve some bibliophiles and specific edition issues, but his "Records of Heavy Papers" is more like a collection of palms, because the content involved in the book is various. For example, during the revision of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" in the Qianlong period, Dai Zhen and Qian Zai's dispute, Wang Duanlu did not evaluate who was right and who was wrong in this controversy, but only said the following paragraph:
Xiushui Qianshi Shi Shilang carried the envoy to pay tribute to Yao Ling, returned to Beijing, Yao Ling when in Pingyang, not in Puzhou, Feng Zhi Shen Rao, its sparseness is more or less according to Li Daoyuan's "Water Classic Notes" to quote "Chengyang has Yao Ling, Yao Mu Mausoleum, there is the Zhongshan Lady Ancestral Hall", and Jie Zhiyun "examination of the land examination, xian is sparse" language as the left evidence. In the same year, Lu Zhaogong's scholar Wen Bi wrote two articles to refute them, which were published in the "Collected Works of Baojingtang". Gai Shilang works in poetry and painting, and the examination is not his strength, this omission is particularly strong, it is advisable to go up to the court to discuss and the next to recruit the accusations of Confucianism.
Although Wang Duanlu believed that the study of evidence was not Qian Zai's strength, he still believed that "Shilang had fifty volumes of the "Collection of Stones and Stones", and his paintings were particularly precious to Ru Lin, so Shi Jia made a false deception, and the fakes were mixed, and there was no truth in a hundred." From this, it can be seen that Wang Duan's practice is fair and does not cover up the strengths of people. However, Wang Duanlu preferred to record some worldly feelings in the text, such as he mentioned that Xiao Shan yidi would stage "Mu Lian Saving Mother" in the summer month, describing such a play as "dancing gods and ghosts, exhausted of form", so that the taishou Li Hunt at that time banned it, even so that this kind of drama did not disappear in the local area.
Why is Xiao Shan so keen on this play? Wang Duanlu said that he accidentally found the reason from "The Story of the Cliffs", and it turned out that the local performance of this play was to prevent the occurrence of locust plagues. The book said that there was a locust plague in Kangxi one year, and when the locals staged "The Legend of Mulian Saving Mother", they did not think that there were locusts focusing on the scene to watch the play, and the villagers said that this was a god to watch the play, and sure enough, a few months later, the villages around the township suffered from the locust plague, and only the village was spared.
What a miracle to give the locusts a show to avoid disasters. Judging from the narrative, Wang Duanlu also half-believed in this, but he still held an attitude of preferring to believe in it. For the word measurement, he also likes to record it in the text, which shows that he is also interested in this matter, but the person who recorded the word measurement can measure different results of the same word, which is magical:
Renhe Zhao Dachuan measured the characters Wu Shan, Qianlong Ji Jie, Yao Mishan Chong got the word "death", da frightened, Dachuan Yue: "What is the matter with the jun asking?" "Meritorious name." Okawa said: "In the middle of the bizhong, the previous painting is the first place, and the next sunset has its own shape, which can be congratulated." Yao Guo then received the recommendation. Some people who asked about marriage also picked up the word "death", Okawa said: "Yoshi, the next night already has the shape of a yang, the previous painting is a pair of yang yang to the old also." There is also the word "one" to ask the sick, Okawa said: "Will die, one is the last pen of the word 'life', and the word 'death' begins with the pen." "His man soon fell ill.
The same is a "dead" word, but the result is completely different, the person who solves the word can break the word into different structures, so as to predict different results, so what is the word measurement? I don't understand, or don't talk nonsense.
Wang Duanlu himself was born into a jinshi, but he was quite sympathetic to the state of mind of the person who fell first, and he said in the text: "The feelings of the lower part are the most difficult to entertain, but the village tried to solve the problem, and there is no reason for me to lose it." When the test is deposed, the relatives and friends are extinct, the servants hang their heads, the gold is exhausted, the sac is depressed, the hometown is uprooted, and the sky is ended. Such a desolate situation is really unbearable. ”
I remember that there is a sentence in the "Augmented Sage Text" that "the poor live in the downtown area and no one hears about it, and the rich have distant relatives in the deep mountains", which is similar to the situation after the fall of the first place. But it is precisely because he has passed the meritorious name that he knows some of the details very well, such as him: "Any new soldier who releases brownness will be worshiped in the Guozijian, and he will be worshiped on the seat of the day offering wine, and he must not move, and according to legend, if he moves his head, he will harm the yuan, and the left and right hands will hurt the eyes of the list." ”
It seems that being the president of the Central Party School is not an easy task, and it is also necessary to practice the immovable skill of fixing the needle of the sea god, otherwise it will hurt the first three people, and such records are the most puzzling, and at the same time, the author's attitude to some issues can be understood. However, Wang Duanlu's taste seems to be different from most people, when Su Shi risked death to eat pufferfish, the cuan waited for Su Shi to evaluate the taste of the puffer fish with an expectant gaze, whether it was the world's freshest, but Dongpo was half speechless, which made the cuan uneasy, and after repeated questioning, Dongpo said "it is worth dying."
As a gourmet, Dongpo can give such a supreme comment, and future generations of gourmets of course have to go forward to eat puffer fish to death, but Wang Duanlu said: "Yu in Qingjiangpu, once ate puffer fish, about the taste of crab, and tender more than that." "Eating puffer fish can eat crab flavor, if he said this at the time, I don't know if the store will have twisted his nose." It is most appropriate to apply it here, but it is precisely because of Wang Duanlu's unusual taste that Fang has recorded so many interesting palms, and if there is no Zhong Miaoming and others for this hard work, it is difficult for me to read such a wonderful text.
Peking University Library Book Catalogue, edited by Peking University Library
Typeset edition of Peking University in the 37th year of the Republic of China
At the beginning of August this year, I went to Confucius's old book network to sign the raw book of the new work "The Trace of the Academy", and met with the teacher here. Since the epidemic, I have rarely seen friends, so it is quite pleasant to be able to sit together and chat on this day. After the autograph was completed, I sat down in his office and saw that the floor was full of open cardboard boxes, and he said that it was all valuable historical materials he had bought, wired books, paperback books, and codexes, and the breadth of the teacher's vision had always impressed me, and he was still arrogant during the epidemic, which made me lament that he had superhuman courage.
Teacher He believes that there are many historical materials that will soon disappear if they are not purchased as soon as possible, so he strives to collect such books in order to make corresponding arrangements and leave an important record. He said that with the passage of time, such historical books became more and more difficult to collect, and then he casually took out this volume of "Peking University Library Book Catalogue", he said that through this book, we can see that there were not many real rare books in the Peking University Library collection at that time, but only later because of unremitting efforts to collect extensively, it has today's grand scale. The book he took out was signed by Hu Shi with the inscription "Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Peking University." Flipping through the preface of the book, it turned out to be a catalogue of good books exhibited at the 50th anniversary of Peking University, but I had never noticed such an exhibition catalogue before. I was interested in reading this book with my teacher, and I gave it to me, but I repeatedly resigned and did not get it, so I gladly returned.
The preface to this "Book" was written by Mao Zhun on December 12, 1937, and the preface mentions that the museum still has some good books, which are not included in this catalogue because of the venue restrictions, but the preface also says: "This is it, compared with the good books compiled by Mr. Zhang Yulou for the library in the twenty-first year of the Republic of China, it has almost doubled." "In six years, the number of good books in Peking University has more than doubled, which shows that that period was one of the periods when Peking University received the most books. The preface mentions that most of the books in this exhibition were selected by Mr. Zhao Wanli and Wang Chongmin, and pointed out that Mr. Zhao's selection was mainly selected from the old collection of Li Shengduo's MuXixuan, of which the Japanese version was selected by Mr. Su Bai, and the selection of the rest of the collection was by Wang Chongmin.
The three gentlemen mentioned above are Taishan Beidou-style figures in the catalog version world, and the rare books they selected certainly have their own characteristics. At the same time, Mao Zhun said that the book catalogue is accompanied by President Hu Shi's "Notes on water classics" exhibition, and Mao Zhun explained that this catalog is not only an important guide for those who study the "Notes on water classics", but also tells readers how to collect materials and use materials.
Although the paper of this book has been brittled off, I still read it to get a glimpse of the concept of rare books at that time. The catalog is classified by version, listing the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing engravings, and I am particularly curious about which books are included in the Qing engravings, because in their time, the Ming editions were commonly visible, and the Qing editions must have their characteristics if they could be selected. The Qing edition is followed by banknotes, novels and operas, followed by Japanese engravings and the catalogue of the exhibition "Notes on the Water Classics".
This catalogue is compiled in capital letters, the number of volumes, followed by small print versions and volumes, and the second line begins with a small print note of the author, author's date, edition, and the characteristics of the book, and also notes the chapters in the book to illustrate the transmission process of a certain book. This method of compiling the catalogue of rare books has been used by later generations, especially the compilation style of the "Beijing Library Bibliography", which is exactly the same as this book.
Flipping through this book can indeed appreciate the rigor of the compilers, from a few simple summaries can understand the transmission of books, such as the "Su Wenzhong Gongji" in the Song carved version, although it is noted that only the fragments of the page remain, but still the record said that this fragment is "Song Meishan carved nine lines of large characters, cabinet library book." There are many kinds of people who indicate "Cabinet Library Books" in the book record, which shows that among the "eight thousand sacks" scattered by the Cabinet Library, there are many rare fragments of the Song edition, which have been preserved through the unremitting efforts of some bibliophiles, otherwise they have become soul return paper. So every time I see a book like this, I feel how strong that generation's sense of responsibility for the country is.
The book catalogue will also correct some misjudgments of predecessors, such as "The Case of Mr. Cangya Jinshi", which is included in the Ming inscription, and at the same time noted in small print: "This book was determined by the predecessors to be the yuan ben, and now it is viewed in paper and ink and the construction of the work, and it is actually a Mingcheng and Hongjian engraving." It can be seen that Mr. Zhao Wanli does not reject the wind and hope, he relied on the characteristics of the times of paper and ink, he decided that this book is not a yuan engraving, and although it is popular to determine the version by scientific methods, the experience of the predecessors should still be inherited. Perhaps it is people's habit of elevating their own collections, and the same "Mr. Cangya Golden Stone Case" that appeared in an auction company a few years ago is still marked as a "yuan engraving".
In terms of volumetrics, this book has the largest number of inscribed and the least inscribed, and I pay the most attention to which inscribed editions he has written. For example, there is the "Golden Stone Case" engraved by Lu's Yayutang during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, in terms of content, it is the same as the previous "Mr. Cangya Golden Stone Case", and the book engraved by Yayutang is not rare, so why is Mr. Zhao included? Looking at the notes in small print, it was originally Gu Qianli who approved and proofread this book according to the yuan engraving and the old banknote. Gu Pi was already widely valued in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is obvious that this book can be included in this book, not because of the version, purely because of Gu Pi, but there is no column of "Batch SchoolBook" in this book.
There is no Proofreading of the Qing Dynasty, and there are also records in the book, such as the "Tongzhitang Collection" engraved by qing Kangxijian, which is a separate collection of Naran's character, although this book is rare, but it can be included in this heading, and there are other reasons, the small notes of this book say: "The character of virtue is crowned in the world, with long and short sentences bearing the heavy name, this volume six to nine as words, and he carved the text, there are similarities and differences, which can be compared." Although Mr. Zhao Wanli is a famous bibliographer, he is also a lexicographer, because he studied lexicology with Wang Guowei.
The book is accompanied by the "Library Summary", so that we can understand the early history of the Peking University Library, and the "Outline" records the memorabilia of the collection, which lists the experience of the library in obtaining a whole batch of ancient books, such as the thirty years of Guangxu, the Baling Fang's Bilinlang Museum donated a large number of books, the Republic of China purchased 5389 volumes of Mr. Ma Lian's collection of novels and opera classics in the twenty-sixth year, and the 28th year of the Republic of China's Pseudo-Provisional Government of Beiping purchased 58419 volumes of Books from Li Shengduo's Muxixuan Collection, "Pulled over to Peking University for safekeeping, this batch of books in the Song and Yuan periodicals, manuscripts, There are many fine banknotes and Ming and Qing dynasty rare books", which can be said to be the largest number of rare books in the history of Peking University Library. Yu Wai also lists a number of records of books donated by collectors to Peking University, which shows that most of Peking University's public libraries are based on important old collections of important bibliophiles and build their rare book collections.
"Walking on the Study" and "Finding Reason" are the same notebook
When I went to the Confucius subnet to sign the humble work "The Trail of the Academy", Mr. Liu Hong, the person in charge of the new book of Kong Net, took out some notebooks and asked me if I had these, I said that I had seen one before, but the cover color was different, at that time and the teacher was present, he immediately took out several kinds to give to me, and the teacher said, although this is not a book, but it is also a kind of cultural creation related to my book, and it is also a souvenir to keep it.
Both of these books are published by Dolphin Press, when Mr. Yu Xiaoqun was in charge of the society, he was a rather affectionate publisher, in order to meet the preferences of some book lovers, he would change some publications into multiple tricks, such as several of my books, some published ten kinds of covers, but I have only seen a few of them, in order to cooperate with the new book distribution, Dolphin Club also produced some of the same notebooks, but I did not know that these notebooks have so many different color covers. I remember that at that time, some people criticized the many books published by the Dolphin Society, and it was impossible to buy, and I remember that Mr. Yu calmly told me at that time that now everyone complains that there are many varieties, and one day it is impossible to get so many varieties. Sure enough, after President Yu retired, Dolphin Society changed its publishing direction and never saw this kind of publishing marketing method again. And these notebooks given to me by my teacher are also a special souvenir in the history of Chinese publishing.