Macao Journal of Literature and Informatics, Nos. 24 and 25, edited by Tang Chun-chieh
Published by the Macao Society of Literature and Information in December 2019 and June 2020
Both issues of the journal were received at the same time, both gifted by Mr. Deng Junjie, and both issues have articles that I like to read. For example, in the twenty-fourth issue, Wang Chuanlong wrote "The "Plate Crack Connection Method" in the Registration of Ancient Books" written by Wang Chuanlong. The article mentions that when major libraries in China are registering the editions of ancient books on the line, the bibliography of the edition items is mainly based on the cover page, the tablet, the preface, the hall number, the seal, etc. If these items are missing, it will take time to check other versions, and the verification method is mainly to compare the versions with the above publication items. Wang Chuanlong pointed out the drawbacks of this method of bibliography, citing the problem of at least a dozen reprints of the Selected Works of Ye's Hailu Xuan Zhu Mo overprinted edition in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong, and the reprints of the Seventeen Histories of Jiguge also had the words "Jiguge" and "Mao's Original".
The traditional version of the identification, in addition to the above basis, mainly through the font, famous Tibetan seals and paper comprehensive consideration, the text respectively pointed out the shortcomings of each identification method, and then proposed the "plate crack connection method" he invented, saying that this identification method is influenced by the identification of oracle bones, when Guo Moruo, Dong Zuobin and others were classified by the place names, stem branches, virgins and other items in the oracle bones, the same type of oracle bones are roughly the products of the same period, or unearthed in the same place.
Wang Chuanlong believes that the vast majority of China's line-bound ancient books are engraved prints, the plates gradually crack in the process of use, according to the order of brush printing time, the earlier the brush printing of the plate cracks, the fewer the cracks, and the plate cracks are the physical characteristics of the engraving itself, "where the version with the same plate cracks, it must come from the same source", even if the first engraved first print, although there is no plate crack, but there will be a small gap in the bar line, the lack of strokes on individual glyphs, etc., the same can be used to use the plate crack connection method.
In fact, in the process of identifying the version, this method has long been familiar to the industry, in the past, this method was used to identify whether a line-bound book is a movable type book or a carved version, because the former will not have a plate crack problem, and the other is to use a plate crack to identify a book that belongs to a certain edition, but this identification method mostly stays in the aspect of experience summary, and it is dredged and written, Mr. Wang Chuanlong's article is the first one I saw.
In the twenty-fourth issue, there is also Hu Shanbing's "Six Interpretations of the Letters of the Republic of China Poet Qiao Dazhuang". The article first introduced the life of Qiao Dazhuang, in the past I mainly focused on his achievements in seal engraving, because his print score is quite sought after by the market, after reading this article, we noticed that Qiao Dazhuang had served in the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government, at the same time as Lu Xun and Gao Buying, in 1935, he went to the Art Department of National Central University as a part-time professor at the invitation of Xu Beihong, and in 1940, he was hired by Wu Shuyi, transferred to the National Central University Normal College Professor of the Department of Chinese Literature, teaching lexicography, and later because of the courtesy of Lu Zhihong, president of National Taiwan University, In 1947, he went to the university as a professor of the Department of Chinese, and the head of the department, Xu Shousheng, was unfortunately assassinated, and Qiao Dazhuang took over this position as the second director of the Department of Chinese of National Taiwan University.
Hu Shanbing was a man with a heart, and the twenty-fifth issue published his "Reasons for the Self-Sinking of the Republic of China Poet Qiao Dazhuang", which mentioned that in May 1948, Qiao Dazhuang returned to Nanjing from Taipei on the pretext of visiting relatives, stayed for a few days and then went to Shanghai to live in the home of his daughter Qiao Wujian. During this period, Qiao Dazhuang checked the mail and hoped to receive the new semester letter of appointment from NTU, but for many reasons, the school did not send most of the teachers' letters of appointment, and a few days later Qiao Dazhuang went to Suzhou alone, stayed at the Suzhou Taikoo Hotel, wrote a suicide note here, sent it to Qiao Wujian, and then sank himself under the Meicun Bridge outside The Pingmen Gate in Suzhou.
Hu Shanbing said that after the founding of the Republic of China, many literati and scholars who died by suicide in the first half of the 20th century did not see each other, during which time Wang Guowei's self-Shen Kunming Lake and Qiao Dazhuang's self-Shenmei Village Bridge gave people the feeling of "different generations and same sorrow". The article quotes Xiang Da's "Analysis of the Life and Death of Qiao Dazhuang, Head of the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University", which divides the mentality of intellectuals at that time into two categories, and writes about the former:
At the turn of the old and the new, the ones who feel most miserable in between them are the so-called intellectuals. There is a school of thought that is neither nostalgic for the old nor suspicious of the new, as if at a loss. Then the weak-willed woman lives on earth, and the strong-willed simply lives on her own. For example, Mr. Wang Jing'an belongs to the latter first-class people.
Regarding the latter, this article states:
There is also a faction that is also dissatisfied with the old ones. But he did not have the strength to improve the old, nor did he have the courage to accept the new, and always lived in contradiction. Unfortunately, on this wandering road, I was stimulated a little, and I was unable to reconcile this contradiction, and I still had a conscience, and at this time, I could only put this helpless life to an end.
Xiang Da then said, "The death of Qiao Dazhuang can be classified in this category. "Why did Qiao Dazhuang sink himself?" Summing up the remarks of his predecessors, Hu Shanbing believes that the main reasons for self-sinking are "sudden mourning for death," "National Taiwan University did not send a letter of appointment," and "felt guilty about the participation of the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China in the second son's division.", but he believes that the researchers ignored a problem: In early 1948, after Qiao Dazhuang returned to the mainland from Taiwan, he lived in the home of a student in Nanjing for several days, and this student seems to have failed to fulfill the etiquette of a thorough teacher for Qiao Dazhuang, which may also be the reason why Qiao Dazhuang has no nostalgia for his birth. Later, Zeng Kesong is quoted as saying that this student is Jiang Weisong. After that, Hu Shanbing analyzed this statement, and he believed that Jiang Weisong was actually very respectful of Qiao Dazhuang's disciples, so why was there such speculation? Obviously, there is another reason for this. Hu Shanbing's neglect allowed me to understand some of the situation of the intellectuals at that time.
Ye Xianyun's article "The "Book Collection" in the History of Ancient Book Collections" talks about the strange phenomenon of successive bibliophiles in addition to the collection of books, but also in the name of "book collection", the text mentions that Su Shi used this title for the first time, he served as the Hangzhou Tai Punctual in the second time, he gave Qian Gong the title of "Qian's Book Collection", and then talked about the Lingyin Book Collection and Jiaoshan Book Collection founded by Ruan Yuan, in addition to the Fenghu Book Collection in Huizhou, I have visited these places, but I have never been to the Anting Book Collection, which is the reminder of this article. It gave me a new target to search for.
"Wu Yifeng Character Study Nine Discernment Manuscript Banknotes", (Qing) Wu Yifeng
East China Normal University Press, October 2020, 1st edition, 1st printing
This is the responsibility of the editor Shi Runmin donated, the book is 16 open, two volumes, a total of 558 pages, the price is only 148 yuan, in today's soaring price, this price is close enough to the people, but such a professional book, want to print is not large, how to reduce the cost to such a low, do need to consider all aspects.
Although this book is printed in black and white, but because it is not bottomed out when revising, it retains a lot of version information, which is the most beneficial for version identification, the only small drawback is that each cylinder page is not lined with white paper when scanning, resulting in the effect that you can see the reverse word of another page through the back of the paper.
Regarding Wu Yifeng, my previous followers have been his bibliophilic achievements. Twenty years ago, when I first went to Suzhou to find the library, under the leadership of Mr. Jiang Chengbo, I witnessed the ruins of Wu Yifeng's former residence, which had become a modern community, but there was an antique archway at the entrance, and a horse stake was exposed on the side wall of the alley. The stigma of the horse stake is carved with a small lion, and the three sides of the lion have been surrounded by cement, so its front shows the struggle of the little lion, which is impressive.
Before this book, there is Wang Youmin's "Wu Yifeng and the Nine Discernments of Character Learning", the article first introduced the life of Wu Yifeng, mentioning that Wu Yifeng had a poor family since childhood, but he was addicted to books, and before the age of 14, he had stored a cup of books, but when he encountered the famine in Wuzhong, he had to sell books for rice. Later he began to collect books, and at the age of 18 thieves stole all his possessions. Later, Wu Yifeng went to the Tao family to work as a tutor, and with a little spare money, he began to collect and copy books extensively, with a collection of more than 12,000 volumes. In the fifty-second year of Qianlong, Wu Yifeng went out on a tour and entrusted the books in his home to a friend for safekeeping, but the entrustment was not good, in the fourth year of his travels, these books were sold one after another, and when he returned, the ten thousand volumes of books had disappeared, and at this time Wu Yifeng carried forward the perseverance of the bibliophile and collected the books for the fourth time at the beginning of his old age, and after hard work, there was a considerable collection of books, which was admirable.
I did not know that Wu Yifeng also studied calligraphy in addition to the collection of books and poetry creation, although he once mentioned in the "Sunzhitang Miscellaneous Notes" that he had written a book "Eight Discernments of Character Science", but because there was no publication, it was passed down, so posterity thought that the book had been lost. A few years ago, Mr. Wang Youmin made a master's thesis, and happened to see the manuscript in the library of East China Normal University, and he wrote this discovery into the book "Wu Yifeng Research - Qianjiagu Su Academic Strategy", so that people knew about the existence of the manuscript.
However, the museum recorded the "Nine Discernments of Character Studies" as banknotes. Wang Youmin found that the handwriting of this book was similar to other Wu manuscripts he had seen, so he suspected that it was a manuscript, but he did not say an affirmative word. A few years ago, Cao Datie's old collection appeared in the auction hall, among which there was a copy of Wu Yifeng's "Bibliography of Daiyunlou", because I wanted to get the book, so I carefully read through the details of the book, and its handwriting was exactly the same as Wu Yifeng's "Nine Discernments of Character Science", so in my foolish opinion, this "Nine Discernments of Character Studies" held by the Library of East China Normal University was indeed Wu Yifeng's manuscript. Now the manuscript has been photocopied and published, giving Wu Yifeng more evidence for identifying his handwriting.
Selected Notes on Ancient Poems of Zoucheng, Selected Notes by Zhang Yanling
Jiangxi High School Publishing Co., Ltd. January 2019 1st Edition 1st Printing
This book was donated by Mr. Zhan Bin, vice president of the company, with a small 32-open hardcover, a design of a bare ridge, an outer vertical insert waist seal, an inner page for easy access to the flat exhibition, and a photocopied selection of Mr. Zhang Yanling's handwritten "Mencius" in the book.
The book has no preface, there is a "Preface to Labeling" in front of the book, the author said that in the 1980s, he was invited by the director of the county history office at that time to compile a selected poem, select zoucheng people to create and write Zoucheng's works, the book is titled "Lou Lou's Hometown, Kong Mengsangzi - Selected Poems of Famous Artists of All Generations", the author also said that this topic has a stupid feeling.
Thirty years later, the author thought that the book published at that time had many unsatisfactory points, so he selected the book and annotated the selected poems. The author said that he did not let go of any of the allusions, whether it was used explicitly, implicitly or chemically, he had to annotate them one by one to find the original source. However, this practice is easier said than done, and the author also mentions some important poems, because he can't find the source of a certain sentence, he can only give it up, he cites a sentence in Jin Yunpeng's Zhushou text: "Thousand three hundred households, no taboo Qi Guofeng", the author said:
I think Qi Guoli was a short-lived monarch who was killed soon after he came to power. This example is not suitable for birthday celebrations. There is a Wei Xin Lingjun whose name is "Good Man" whose name is Wu Jie, but his story is in the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, and Wei, and has no intersection with the State of Qi. Both roadblocks are related to the State of Qi. So I re-read the "Qi Taigong Family" in the "History", "Tian Jingzhong Completed the Family", "qi language" in the "Chinese" and "Qi Ce" in the "Warring States Policy", and did not find it, so I browsed the "Yanzi Spring and Autumn". I thought in my heart that it would not be an allusion to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but I still browsed the "Book of Qi" and the "Book of Northern Qi".
For the sake of a sentence, I have checked so many original texts, and the result is still nothing. However, the author felt that the historical figures mentioned in this article were very important, so he did not abandon them, but told the truth in the annotations that he did not find the original text, and could only be "qualitatively clever". This attitude of ignorance is most appreciated. When I write some books, I often encounter this situation, constantly entangled between taking and giving up, and now reading this passage of Mr. Zhang, it gives me enlightenment: Some allusions that I can't understand, if I really can't find out the source, and the text can't be bypassed, it is better to make such an explanation, so as to ensure the integrity of the manuscript, and there will be no embarrassment of forced interpretation.
Flipping through the main text of the book, I could hardly find familiar verses, but I saw Wang Anshi's "Lonely Tong". I remember when I was in junior high school, I liked the sentence "Ling Xiao does not bend to himself, and he has an open heart in this poem", and now the horsetooth disciple has a long burden, and he feels that "the old roots are strong, and the yang and the leaves are more yin" have the taste of the old Ji Futuo and the ambition of a thousand miles.
My knowledge of Zoucheng is only that this is the hometown of Yasheng Mencius, and there are also many poems in this book, such as Gu Yanwu's "Gurudwara Temple". For more than ten years, I have visited Zoucheng twice, both to visit Mengfu, Mengmiao and Menglin, and there are many documents related to them in the book, and if these poems were not collected and annotated by Mr. Zhang Yanling, I am afraid that few people would know about them. For example, the first article in this book, "Xi Gong Cao", is selected from "Kong Congzi", which is rumored to have been written by Confucius, although the author believes that it is "suspected to be a false trust", but it is still selected into this book. The first few sentences of the poem are:
Zhou Dao is weak, and Li Le is late.
If wen and wu have fallen, will I return?
Confucius's remarks are mainly found in the Analects, and I have not really read his poems. But this poem is written too bluntly, although it does not resemble the master's work, but because of its name, it is also reminiscent. I don't know why President Zhan Bin gave me the book, maybe he wanted me to relive the work of Song Yongya.
Changshu Library, vol. 61, edited by the Editorial Board of Changshu Library
National Library Press, December 2019, 1st edition, first printing
This is a gift from Mr. Nan Jiangtao, the responsible editor. One day last year, Mr. Nan told me in WeChat that Changshu was going to publish the library, and the people included were rare historical materials related to Changshu, and he learned from other articles that I had a ming-engraved copy of the Hangchuan Collection, and this book was an orphan book, and the cover had Weng Tonggong's ink pen inscription, so he hoped to include the book in the "Changshu Library".
More than ten years ago, a number of old collections of Weng Tonggong appeared on the market, and this was one of them. Weng Tonggong wrote on the cover of the book: "Written by the ancestor sheng yu of the clan. From overseas, future generations to protect. Guangxu 壬辰 December with Gong Jingji. It can be seen that Weng Xiangguo's access to this book is also not easy. From this, I also learned that the author of the book, Weng Yingxiang, was the ancestor of Weng Tonggong, and although the Hangchuan Collection was only two volumes, it was accompanied by a volume of "You Wuyi Mountain", and it was not recorded, so I brought this book with me. Changshu is the hometown of books, there are many local friends, there have been many people who said that they were interested in this book, so they took the opportunity of the compilation of the "Changshu Library" to scan the whole book and send it to the responsible editor Nan Jiangtao, and after the book was published, Mr. Nan gave this volume as a sample book.
Regarding the value of the Changshu Bunko and the reasons for its compilation, Mr. Dai Yi first quoted the preface made by Yiren Li Jie for the Hongzhi edition of the Changshu County Chronicle in the General Preface:
Gusu is the southern capital auxiliary county, while Changshu belongs to Yiye. Relying on Yu Mountain as a city, around the river and sea as a pond, it is a key place in Eastern Wu. Its soil is creamy, its fields are flat, its products are abundant, such as japonica, cloth, fish salt, vegetables and fruits, the treasures of water and land, so it is for the state to give to the civilians, there is a surplus, and there is no foreign help.
This passage is about the southeastern shape of Changshu, so Dai Yi believes: "Gusu is the auxiliary county of The Southern Capital, and Changshu belongs to Yiye." Relying on Yu Mountain as a city, around the river and sea as a pond, it is a key place in Eastern Wu. Its soil is creamy, its fields are flat, its products are abundant, such as japonica, cloth, fish salt, vegetables and fruits, the treasures of water and land, so it is for the state to give to the civilians, there is a surplus, and there is no foreign help. ”
The economic base determines the superstructure, and the situation in changshu can best confirm this sentence. Therefore, Mr. Dai Yi wrote the following text:
All of this has spawned a culture with a distinct personality and has pushed it forward. There is no doubt that culture is a shining business card of Changshu, and Changshu is a shining pearl embedded in the map of Chinese culture.
The relics of songze culture represented by Qiandi Lane and the liangzhu culture relics represented by Luodun are the empirical evidence that Changshu was illuminated by the dawn of early Chinese civilization five thousand years ago. The southward march of Zhongyong in the last years of the Shang Dynasty and the northward movement of Yan Yan in the Spring and Autumn Period are even more iconic events. They show that Changshu has long been actively involved in the exchange with the Central Plains culture and the shaping of Chinese culture. Since then, Chongwen re-education has become a common value orientation of Changshu people in history. Yiren Sun Yuanxiang's "Guest Asks Wuyi Book This Answer" introduces his hometown to outsiders:
Soft red dust in the small Penglai, painting pavilion Wenshu on the other side of the open.
Seven streams of water flowed through Guo, and the mid-mountain flew into the city.
The wine is mostly home-brewed according to the festival, and the money is planted everywhere.
Mo Xiao cultivators are literate, and Liang Shi has a reading desk.
The poem is full of pride, but anyone who has read it can feel it. In this elegant country, even the farmers are "more literate", and such an overall cultural quality will inevitably push up the quantity and quality of elites. Li Jie's preface says: "Since TaiBo and Ziyou have let the wind go, literature has been harmonized, and talents have been brought together." It is a famous district in the south of The Gujiang River, not specifically the crown of a county and six yi. "How many Wei Ke Jinshi, how many Yuan Xiang Xiang, almost every Changshu person will relish it." What is particularly amazing is the number of books and speakers in Changshu and the richness of their writings. If nothing else, just watch "Jiangsu Yiwenzhi". Among the major cities in Jiangsu, Suzhou has the largest number of volumes, with four fascicles, while Changshu alone occupies one of them. It is no wonder that the Ming Dynasty Sang Yue said that "the area where Wuyi Zhongyong has passed, the place where Ziyou is produced, is known as the state of literature". If Sang Yue is a Changshu person, it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of self-show, then, Shandong Zhao Zhixin's "Changshu is a famous area in the southeast, the literature is flourishing, A is in the sea, the literati are talented, and the fingers are invincible", it should be said that it represents the public opinion.
The emergence of cultural genres is an important manifestation of the cultural development of a region. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, many cultural and artistic schools emerged in Changshu, indicating that Changshu culture had entered its heyday. The Yushan Qin School represented by Yan Cheng, the Yushan Poetry School represented by Qian Qianyi, the Yushan Medical School represented by Miao Xiyong, the Yushan Painting School represented by Wang Yi, and the Yushan Yin School represented by Lin Gao all had extensive and far-reaching influences. Even the collection of books, which were originally difficult to form, is considered to exist a Yushan school. These important figures of the cultural and artistic genre, each of them has a work that has had a great impact in their respective fields.
It is not enough for some people to write them, because books are difficult to complete and easy to destroy, and there are far more books in history than books that have been handed down from generation to generation. Fortunately, Changshu happens to be the home of book collections, and is recognized as one of the world's most recognized private book collection centers. Moreover, bibliophiles in Changshu often pay attention to the collection of township literature, and in this regard, Chen's Jirui Building, Qu's Tieqin Bronze Sword Building, Xu's Hongyin Building, and Ding's Miaosu Building can be called representatives. Therefore, there are many local documents in Changshu that are rare in the world. According to incomplete statistics, by 1911, there were more than 2,000 kinds of local literature in Changshu.
Mr. Dai cited the famous local library in Changshu in the above article, and in my actual visit, the local library that has survived to this day is far more than these examples, which can also confirm the prosperity of the local literary style from this perspective. The editorial board was able to compile the literature related to Changshu into one compilation, so that more people can understand that the local area is a country of literature, and it is also an honor for me to be able to make a little effort for this big book.
"Jump on the Poetry Boat to Deqing", Zhu Wei selected notes
Zhejiang Gongshang University Press, July 2020, 1st edition, August 2020 second printing
The content of this book is ancient poems related to Deqing, and Mr. Zhu Wei has systematically arranged and interpreted these poems, and has also made corresponding cross-talks, so it cannot be covered only by the word "selected notes". However, when he gave me this book, he said in WeChat: "If you choose a book of annotations, you will not leave pen and ink." "It shows Mr. Zhu's humility and rigor.
A few years ago, I was preparing to visit the Huzhou area again, and through the introduction of a friend, I got to know Mr. Liu Zhengwu, an expert in Huzhou literature and history, and Mr. Liu drove me to Moganshan to search, where I met Mr. Zhu Wei, director of the Moganshan Republic of China Library. Under the leadership of Mr. Zhu, I found traces of interest in Wukang Mountain. Along the way, I listened to Zhu Wei talk about his love for poetry, and also learned that he had a group of like-minded friends, each collecting relevant local literature and pictures, as long as they found each other's needs, they would volunteer to support each other, such a group really made people feel warm.
When I read Zhu Wei's preface to this book, Fang learned that he lived in Moganshan as a child, and after graduating from elementary school, he transferred to the county town of Wukang to study. One day, he accidentally saw zhang Wei and the calligrapher Zhang Gonghua's poetry and book exhibition, so he went to visit Mr. Zhang Wei. Mr. Zhang asked him what the word "Wei" was, and Zhu Wei memorized the "Tong Guan Youwei, Saying That Lady Beauty" in the Book of Poetry, and Mr. Zhang felt that his widow could be taught, so he accepted him as a closed disciple. Since then, he has followed Mr. Zhang Wei to learn Ping Shu Rhyme Foot, and over the years, he has not changed his original intentions, and has been creating poems without leaving, and his works in that year also won the first prize of the Xu Zhimo Poetry Award of the Third Cherry Blossom Literary Association of Hangzhou Senior High School.
Later, Zhu Wei went to Hangzhou to study at the university, still insisted on writing poetry, the year after graduation, he volunteered to hangzhou Su Dongpo Memorial Hall as a volunteer docent, it was at this stage that he wrote a letter to Mr. Ye Jiaying, and also received a reply from Mr. Ye's secretary, Mr. Ke Yantao, who encouraged him in the letter, and later he also got a signed copy of Mr. Ye. When I met Zhu Wei, he told me some details about his interaction with Mr. Ye, which I found far more interesting than what he wrote in the preface. Mr. Ye said that China has always had a tradition of poetry, and it was this concept that led Zhu Wei to complete this book.
In this book, it is mentioned that Su Shi came to Deqing to visit the Half Moon Spring, and in the past I did not notice the relationship between Dongpo and Deqing, so I did not mention to Zhu Wei about visiting this relic that time. This book also contains the title and rubbings of Su Shi and others visiting the Half Moon Spring, but Zhu Wei also mentioned in the text that this was carved by Xu Bingyuan and others in the ninth year of Jiaqing based on the handwriting of Su Shi and others, and some people questioned the authenticity of this inscription, but Zhu Wei did not discuss in the text which opinion he supported, and he was more about the relationship between Dongpo and the inscription people Mao Huan, Wei Lin and others.
Through these reasonings, we can see his familiarity with the Wukang literature, and he also talks about the origin of the number of the White Stone Daoist Jiang Kui. It turned out that there was a White Stone Daoist Ancestral Hall in Wukang's Jichu Mountain Shengyuan Temple, and at the same time there was a White Stone Cave Heaven in Benshan, Huzhou, and his number was derived from here. Reading this palm, I have the idea of visiting Wukang again.
"Seven Kinds of Miscellaneous Works by Xu Zhaowei", written by Xu Zhaowei (Republic of China), revived and sorted out
Phoenix Press, March 2014, 1st edition, first printing
This book is one of the first series of the "Series of Rare Historical Materials in Modern and Contemporary China" donated by Professor Wang Mian, and the book is preceded by the article "Two Searches for The New and Old Sayings" written by Professor Pan Jianguo of the Department of peking university Chinese as a foreword. I have known in the past that Xu Zhaowei was a famous bibliophile in Changshu in the Republic of China, who had visited his Hongyin Building in Changshu, and Mr. Pan was also a Changshu person, I thought that he would write this article from the perspective of Xiangxian, reading Fang Fang knew that Xu Zhaowei's love for novels was beyond imagination, and Mr. Pan's research field also happened to be in the history of novels, no wonder he wrote such a long article.
Mr. Pan Jianguo's preface first began with the collection culture of Changshu from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and he talked about the Jigu Pavilion, Daiyun Lou, Maiwangguan, Tieqin Bronze Sword Lou, etc., and also talked about the engraving and collection of books in Changshu, and paid more attention to the history of barnyard officials and wild histories that ordinary collectors despised. However, in the traditional concept, only from the "novel", we can see the contempt of traditional scholars for such works, but the world style will also change with the times: "In the Qing Dynasty, the country is open, the west wind is blowing, Liang Rengong advocates the 'revolution in the novel world', the applicants are gathered, and the novel never ascends the 'trail' of elegance, and quickly leaps to 'the best of literature'." ”
Regarding Xu Zhaowei, Pan Jianguo said in the foreword that he was originally a jinshi of the sixteenth year of Guangxu, who chose Shu Jishi and was taught to edit the Hanlin Academy, and his birth can be described as the right way, but he did not have the rejection of novels by traditional bibliophiles, but had a special love for new and old novels.
In the thirty-third year of Guangxu, Xu Zhaowei took a steamship from Shanghai to Japan and went to Tokyo Hosei University to study law, Hosei University is adjacent to Japan's famous Jimbocho Ancient Book Street, which is a holy place for book lovers, and all Chinese bibliophiles who go to Japan will visit this street and buy a large number of traditional classics, and Xu Zhaowei is no exception. However, the strange thing is that he bought a lot of Japanese novels here, such as "The Island Warship", "The King of the South Sea", "Electric Fleet", etc., just from the name, I feel that this is not a traditional Japanese engraving, it should be some Western-style paperback books.
Xu Zhaowei did not buy these novels to enrich his library, and Mr. Pan excerpted a large number of records of his reading novels from his diary, such as April 25, the 32nd leap year of Guangxu: "Read a volume of "The Ring Party", a volume of "Short Flower Dream", and a volume of Lin Shu's translation of "Traces of Jade Snow". During this month, he read novels every day, but unfortunately", "The Lord of the Rings" had not yet been written at that time, otherwise he would have collected it in his pocket and written it in his diary.
He once wrote to his fellow villager Sun Xiong: "Recently, I have been wet and hairy, and those who do not go out have been out for more than two months, and the only life of a new novel magazine is a day. Foot under the foot is also the absurdity of Min Qizhi. "After being ill for two months, I actually read novels every day to dispel the eternal day, and loved novels to such an extent that, to my limited knowledge, I had never heard of a second bibliophile having such a passion. Ma Lian's Hall of Great Elegance also contains many novels, but this hall of novels is rare and is by no means as large as Xu Zhaowei's collection of contemporary publications.
Xu Zhaowei not only that, he also rented novels to read. Pan Jianguo said that in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the novel rental industry flourished in Shanghai, and Zhu Wenbing wrote in "Bamboo Branches on the Sea": "Shixin novels are sincere in price, and a few pages are nothing more than a few corners. Fortunately, there is a new company of books, and I will pay a penny according to the price after reading it. "Between 1955 and 1956, Shanghai had rectified and renovated private book stalls, and after investigation and registration, there were 2357 book rental enterprises in the city, of which 2253 were renting comic strips and 104 were renting novels. Xu Zhaowei settled in Shanghai in his later years and often rented novels to read. Mr. Pan counted more than 100 novels rented by Xu Zhaowei, for which Xu Zhaowei also wrote a poem called "Renting Books":
The monthly cost of renting books is only a thousand dollars, and the novel Yu Churi has compiled a compilation.
The Fat Night Demon is empty, and the Spirit Mountain Daoist is suspicious.
The text is more popular, and the general view is better than lazy sleep.
The game proclaims the promise of holiness with heart, and the silverfish lives I am still virtuous.
He wrote in a small note to the poem: "The rent fee is one dollar in March, three thousand yuan per dollar, which is only one thousand a month." I have not calculated whether this money is much or not, but as a Hanlin, it is always surprising that he is so addicted to reading new novels, and for this, Mr. Pan clearly said in the preface, "The focus of Xu Zhaowei's novel purchase is in the new novel, not the old novel." Does this show that Xu Zhaowei's thinking is advancing with the times? In Xu's "Miscellaneous Songs of the Game Newspaper", he said:
It is said that the ministry is absurd to send out sleeping demons, and the "Yellow Car Palm Record" is arbitrarily searched.
Don't talk about the new learning to talk about red studies, who seems to be snails and sodo.
He also said that the love of reading and speaking books was so absurd, and that people in that era either liked to talk about new learning or like to talk about "Dream of the Red Chamber", and his small notes after this poem made people gimmick: "The people of the capital like to talk about "The Book of Stones", which is called red learning. The New Deal was popular, and scholars who talked about red talked about the economy; kang Liang failed, and those who talked about the economy changed to talk about red studies. The newspaper said it, thinking it was a laughing stunt. The ten volumes of the "Yellow Car Palm Record" were written by the contemptible people, and Yu Hongxue gained a lot of achievements, but unfortunately he did not meet those who were deeper than this Dao. ”
At that time, the people in Beijing liked to talk about "Dream of the Red Chamber", and at that time people had called it "Red Studies", when after the New Deal, people who talked about Red Studies changed to talk about the economy, and what he said about the economy was equivalent to what later generations said about politics, after Kang Liang's failure, the gang that talked about the economy changed back to talk about Red Studies, obviously, Xu Zhaowei's exposition had a sarcastic tone, and he went on to say that the "Yellow Car Palm Record" he wrote was quite innovative for red studies, and he did not know how to understand this transformation.
According to the diary of Hongyin Lou, the "Yellow Car Palm Record" was first compiled in the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu, and by the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, Xu Zhaowei had transcribed a copy of the manuscript and handed it to Cao Yuanzhong for reading, and later he continued to supplement this draft, and by the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, he also planned to rewrite the "Yellow Car Palm Record", but unfortunately Xu Zhaowei died of illness in Shanghai three years later, and the "Yellow Car Palm Record" was eventually not published. He spent such a long time writing this manuscript, but in the end it could not be published, the reason, Pan Jianguo believes that the first is Xu Zhaowei's pursuit of perfection, the supplement is not stopped, and the second is that there are objective factors. For these two reasons, Mr. Pan made a detailed analysis in the generation sequence.
For example, Xu Zhaowei in the process of writing the book, constantly change the style of writing, when the number of translated novels continues to increase, originally Xu Zhaowei to each novel title to write a sentence, but because of too many novels, he could not write, had to be more Zhang, at that time there were many people began to study the translation of novels, which made Xu Zhaowei work harder to add new content of this manuscript, making the manuscript always difficult to complete. But even so, some of the novels recorded in the Yellow Car Palm Record are also unsettled in his book.
How to interpret a traditional bibliophile who likes new novels so much, Pan Jianguo believes that novels are a kind of comfortable life for Xu Zhaowei. Pan Jianguo said: "His deep affection for the old and new theories, his hunger for the reading of novels, and his perseverance in the study of barnyard history are rarely outstanding." Xu said in his diary: "The day is only to entertain the eternal day with novels and newspapers, to eat all day, and to have no intentions." "Did he use this to dispel the depression in his heart when the political situation was turbulent? But Pan Jianguo believes: "Xu Zhaowei's life is destined to change because of the novel, and it is wonderful because of the novel." ”
A draft of Xu Zhaowei's "Yellow Car Palm Record" was hidden in the Changshu Library, Mr. Pan had carefully read it in the library, and now Mr. Su Xing of the library sorted out the manuscript of the book, and at the same time collected some other manuscripts of Xu's family, and printed it together for this book, which can be described as Jiahui Shilin.
"Hui Hai Hong Mud Record" Wei Lilu
Zhonghua Bookstore, first printing of the first edition in December 2020
Because of the impact of the epidemic, this small book came out very late, but this also made Li Jade's female history have more school time, making the text in the book less error-
In fact, the content of this book is very simple, it is some book-related conferences that I have attended in recent years. Since joining the work, like most people, I have attended countless meetings, most of which are like a passing cloud, and as soon as the meetings are over, it doesn't take long to forget. However, I think that the meetings related to books are different after all, one is out of personal preference, and the other is because most of these meetings are said, and some ideas are flashes of electric flint, and if they are not recorded, perhaps some good ideas will be forgotten.
It is precisely because of this idea that when I attend some meetings that I think are valuable, I will bring a camera so that I can take pictures of some of the scenes, one can be used as a picture, and the other is to recall more details after seeing the picture. At the same time, I will also record the main points of each speaker on the spot, and when I return, I will restore the record into a small article as soon as possible.
When I finished writing, I just thought it was funny, and then I read these small articles, although it was only a few years later, I let myself have some gossip about Xuanzong. I felt that these records should have some historical value, so I told my thoughts to Mr. Yu Guolin, who thought it was also meaningful to compile a book on this. Encouraged by it, I compiled it into this book. At that time, I named the book "Shushan Huihai", because the word has been criticized countless times in recent decades, and the name is based on the great custom. But Mr. Yu thought that this name was not good, and the name he gave me was "Hui hai hong mud record", so I was as good as a stream, so I would like to thank him for his name.