As of 2021, the State Council has successively announced six batches of the National Precious Ancient Books Directory, and 13,026 ancient books collected by 487 units across the country have been selected, of which 631 are collected by the Nanjing Library. In order to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the Nantu Historical Documents Department specially selected 112 ancient books from the selected ancient books, and displayed them online in stages according to the four topics of "Tang and Song Ben", "Liaojin Yuanben", "Ming and Qing Ben" and "Manuscript Manuscript", so as to reflect Nantu's profound accumulation and orderly inheritance in the collection of ancient books, and highlight the beauty of ancient Chinese books.
This exhibition adopts an online mode, each ancient book is accompanied by text descriptions to reveal the basic information and main contents, and is accompanied by one or two book shadows reflecting the characteristics of the version, which comprehensively shows the characteristics and value of the precious ancient books collected by Nantu, and has a high degree of appreciation. The selected ancient books are diverse in form and treasures, covering a variety of engraving institutions such as the inner government, the clan government, private people, family schools, and bookstores, and the editions include overprints, movable type books, expanded books, plutonium prints, painted books, etc., and have high documentary, cultural relics and artistic value.
Unit 1: Tang and Song Ben
Engraving and printing technology began in the Tang Dynasty, became the Fifth Dynasty, and flourished in the Two Song Dynasties. The physical objects that have survived in the Tang Dynasty are mainly paper manuscripts, especially Buddhist documents. In the Song Dynasty, the rulers' national policy of emphasizing literature over military force made the engraving and printing industry prosperous. The Song Dynasty is not far from ancient times, so its academic value is recognized by the world, and the aesthetic value with unique characteristics of the times, such as the font style of "the paper is hard and soft, the calligraphy and painting is like writing", and the atmospheric and dignified binding form, also makes posterity regard it as arched.
Unit highlights
The Tang manuscript "Miaofa Lotus HuaJing" showing the calligraphy style of the scriptures, and the "Sutra of the Monks Bathing in the Greenhouse" written by the Guanghui Zen Monastery in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty;
Known as a major discovery in the ancient book world and the only book at home and abroad, the Northern Song Dynasty engraving "Libu Rhyme Strategy", which was entered into the Southern Map of Tibet through auction in 2013, is the treasure of the Nantu Town Museum;
The orphan survived, the Song carved Song seal, the font is beautiful, the paper and ink are excellent, and the Song Shaoding three-year Yuzhai Shushu engraved copy of the Southern Song Dynasty Zhejiang Ben is the "Quotations of Zhang Gong of the Cliff".
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Book of Tang 225 (Song) Ouyang Xiu Song Qi et al. Song carved version (volume 1 with Ming manuscript) Ding Bingbao
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There are two kinds of Tang books passed down from generation to generation, one is compiled by Liu Xun and Zhao Ying in the Later Jin Dynasty, called the Old Book of Tang, and the other is compiled by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi of the Northern Song Dynasty, called the New Book of Tang. This is the New Book of Tang, consisting of 225 volumes, including 10 volumes of Benji, 50 volumes of Zhi, 15 volumes of Table, and 150 volumes of Liechuan. On the basis of the Old Book of Tang, many new materials are added, and the quality is higher.
Frame height 18.8 cm, width 13.7 cm. Half-leaf thirteen to sixteen lines, each line ranges from twenty-four to twenty-nine words, and the number of small characters in double lines varies. Left and right sides, upper and lower white mouth, double along the black fish tail. Plutonium "Langyuan True Reward", "Wang Shi Zhong", "Hui Father's Fable", "Lunyin Jiahui Yilin", "Eight Thousand Volumes of Lou Rare Books" and other prints. List of Countries no. 02760.
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Zhang ShiJi's Annotation Hundred Generals Passed on One Hundred Volumes (Song) Zhang Pre-written Song Inscriptions Eight volumes (59 to 63, 89 to 91) Ding Bingbao
Zhang Xian, also known as Gong Li, lived in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, a native of Dongguang (now part of Hebei), lived in seclusion and was good at the study of the art of war, and the annotated "Sun Zi" was included in the "Eleven Notes on Sun Zi".
This book is a biography of a hundred good ancient generals, each with a volume, and each post-biography quotes the words of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" to judge his way of using soldiers and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of his command and arrangement. Later generations have many commentators and sequels.
Frame height 19.2 cm, width 13.4 cm. Half leaf fourteen lines, twenty-four lines, small characters double line the same. Left and right sides, white mouth, double fish tail. Plutonium "Eight Thousand Scrolls Building", "Jiahuitang Ding Clan Collection" seal. National Register number 02904.
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Longchuan Liuzhi Six Volumes Longchuan Beizhi Four Volumes (Song) Written by Su Rui Song Engraving (Volume 2 Fourth Leaf Copied) Cao YuanZhongbao
Su Rui (1039-1112), courtesy name Ziyu, was a late Yingbin widow, a native of Meishan (now part of Sichuan), an official to Shangshu Right Cheng, and one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.
The book is a memoir of miscellaneous notes made during his disparagement of Longchuan in Xunzhou (present-day Heyuan, Guangdong), many of which are related to the politics of the dynasty at that time, and were written by his son Su Yuan (一作谪).
This Song inscription, which is consistent with the Southern Song Dynasty's "Reading Records of junzhai" and "Zhizhai Book Records Solution", should be an early biography. Among them, the "Sketch Zhi" is superior to the ten-volume version of the "Su Huangmen Longchuan Sketch Zhi" collected by the Song carved series "Baichuan Xuehai". However, the "Beizhi" has not seen other Song carvings circulating, and the current version is a biography of the Ming carved series "Barnyard Sea". This book is a combination of two aspirations, and it is a unique book that has been handed down to the world, which is very precious. The whole book is neatly engraved, the font is square, and the page column line is clear, which is the first print.
Frame height 19.8 cm, width 15.4 cm. Half-leaf eleven lines, twenty-two lines, small characters double lines the same. White mouth, left and right sides, single fish tail. 钤 "Neem Pavilion Cao Clan Collection", "Cao Yin Yuanzhong", "Emei Shanren Collection of Books" and other seals. National Register number 00767.
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Twenty volumes of poetry (Song) written by Zhu Xi The Song inscriptions exist in eight volumes (1 to 8) Wu Shou Yang Pa and record Chen Gong Bao Ding Bing Bao
Zhu Xi (1130-1200), character obscure, one word Zhong obscure, number obscure, also known as Ziyang. In his later years, the number was obscure. His ancestral home was Wuyuan, Huizhou (present-day Jiangxi), he was born in Youxi (now part of Fujian), and in his later years he moved to Kaoting (present-day Jianyang, Fujian), and was known as "Mr. Kaoting" by scholars.
Zhu Zhu's purpose of in-depth study of the original meaning of the "Book of Poetry" and the collection of public opinions broke the tradition of the "Book of Poetry" since the Han Dynasty, and became the standard for the examination of the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, which had a far-reaching impact. This is an engraving between the Ningzong and Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty. The ink is quaint and well-carved, and it is the top product of the Song carving. At present, there are no complete surviving books on the mainland, and the eight volumes preserved in the Southern Map are the most.
Frame height 19.1cm, width 14.2cm. Half-leaf seven lines, fifteen lines, small characters double line the same. Left and right sides, white mouth, single fish tail. Plutonium "Seal of Jinfu Calligraphy and Painting", "JingdeTang Book Seal", "Baijinglou Wu's Book Collection", "Jiahuitang Ding's Collection" and other seals. National Directory number 00238.
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Obscure Zhu Shu Lecture Mr. Han Wen Kao Yi Ten Volumes (Song) Written by Zhu Xi Song Inscription (Volumes 1 to 2 with Qing Manuscript) Eight Volumes (Three to Ten)
After the book was drafted for Zhu Xi, it was ghostwritten by his disciple Fang Shixuan and revised according to Zhu Xi's opinions, reflecting Zhu Xi's academic views and achievements in collation and surveying.
The box height is 20.4 cm and the width is 13.3 cm (according to volume III first page). Half-leaf nine lines, line seventeen characters, small characters double lines, line nineteen characters, left and right sides or sides of the side, upper and lower black mouth, double pairs of black fish tails. 钤 "Records of the Scriptures of The Tang Dynasty", "Descendants of Shizhen", "Chapters of the Shanyin Qi Clan Collection", "Kuang Weng Hand Knowledge", "Bamboo Circle", "Zhu Yin Yi Zun", "Seal of Huidong", "Dingyu", "Wang Di Seal Letter" and so on. National Register number 01046.
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Ten Volumes of Medical Sayings (Song) written by Zhang Gao Song carved version Huang Pilie, Ding Bing, Liu Yi Zhengbao
Zhang Gao (c. 1149–1227), courtesy name Jiming, was a native of Xin'an She County (present-day Anhui). A famous expert in medical history in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Since the Three Emperors, this book includes the famous doctors of the past generations, such as Ping, Medical Books, Materia Medica, Acupuncture, Divine Doctor, Divine Prescription, Diagnosis, Typhoid Fever, Zhu Feng, Eye Disease, Thirst Quenching, Abdominal Pain, Malaria, Taking Bait and Medicine Taboo, Disease Evidence, Health Cultivation And Adjustment, Golden Stone Medicine Ring, Woman, Child, Sore, Medical Retribution, etc., a total of ten volumes and forty-nine courses, rich in materials and strong reference significance.
The Song carved copies are now in nantu, the Peking University Library and the Library of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency, all of which are incomplete. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Liu Yizheng, director of the Guoxue Library, photocopied and published the Song ben in the collection, and supplemented its remnants with the Ming version, and those who were still missing continued to use the old copy, which was originally called perfect.
Frame height 21.2 cm, width 15.3 cm. Half a leaf nine lines, eighteen lines, small characters double line the same. Left and right sides, white mouth, single fish tail. Plutonium "Cheung Chau Wang Shi Zhong Lang Gen Clan Seal", "Thirty-five Peaks Garden Master's Collection", "Eight Thousand Scrolls Building", "Good Book Room" and other seals. National Directory number 00667.
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Twenty-two volumes of the Old Man's Anthology of the Pan Room, one volume of essays related to history ( Song ) Written by Ge Hong , Song Carved Ben , 2 volumes ( 14-15 )
Ge Hong(?) –1237), an old man from Dongyang (present-day Jinhua, Zhejiang). Officials to participate in the governor's affairs.
It is the original collection of the Book in dongyang Geshi Ancestral Hall, which was later scattered, and only two volumes of the remaining anthologies exist today- volume 14 Zhazi and volume 15 Qi. At the end of the book, there is a sticker of "Zhang Shida Dressed in January 1959". Zhang Shida (1902-1993), Zi Junjie, the first generation of ancient book restoration experts at the Beijing Library (now the National Library), is known as the "generation of national hands" in the restoration of modern and modern ancient books.
Butterfly suit. The frame height is 24.3 cm and the width is 17.3 cm. Half a leaf nine lines, eighteen lines, small characters double line the same. Left and right sides, white mouth, with a double fish tail in between. List of Nations number 01153.
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Shibi Jingshe Yinzhu Tang Shu Detailed Verses (Song) Chen Jianji Song Inscription WuHufan Inscription Three Volumes (62-64)
Chen Jian, Zi Mingzhi, a native of Jian'an, Fujian, was a jinshi in the second year of Qingyuan. The name of the stone wall jingsha or its fasting room.
This book is an excerpt from the New Book of Tang written by Ouyang Xiu and others for students to take the imperial examination. From the "History of Song And YiwenZhi" to the bibliographies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are no bibliographies. Only three volumes remain, volume 62 of the Later Concubines, and volumes 63 to 64 of the Chambers. To avoid the Song Dynasty, the words "Xuan" and "Zhen" lack the last pen.
The frame is 9.4 cm high and 6.5 cm wide. Half a leaf nine lines, eighteen lines, small characters double line the same. Black mouth, left and right sides, double pairs of black fish tails. 钤 "佞", "Song", "Lake Sail", "Ugly Longevity", "Zhang Heng Private Seal", "Mu Yan Zhai" and other seals. National Register number 02870.
09 Ziyuan Category Compilation □ Volumes Song Engravings Ten Volumes (1st to 10th)
Editors are unknown, and the national directory is Song Zhuxi and Li Youwu, and there is no basis for it. This book is a primary school book of the Scriptures, and the editor has classified and compiled the sources of some commonly used words. It is not found in the Bibliography or records of the Song Dynasty, and there are fragments of Song carvings in the Ming Dynasty Zhao Qimei's "Bibliography of the Pulse Wangguan", only four volumes remain, and there are no reprints in later generations.
The center of the edition is engraved with "Ziyuan Shangyuan (I to Ten)", which should only be the first to tenth volumes, the total number of volumes is unknown, and the books inscribed in the table of contents and the end of the volume have been changed by later generations, not the original appearance.
The layout and font style of this book are quite characteristic of the Fujian inscription in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the font is handsome, the engraving is exquisite, and it is the best in Fujian carving. The Song carved Song seal, a lonely copy, is extremely precious.
Frame height 19.4cm, width 13.2cm. Half leaf ten lines, eighteen lines, small characters double line the same. Surrounded by bilateral, upper and lower line black mouth, double pair or straight black fish tail or single black fish tail. Plutonium "Gu Renxiao Collection Of Books", "Gu Yuanqing Appreciation Seal", "Zhongyu Image", "Chen Zhongyu Reading Secretary", "Eel Reading", "Gu Heyi Collection Book Seal" and so on. National Directory number 00793.
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Thirty-two volumes of the Selected Works of the Holy Song Dynasty (volumes 1 to 22, 27 to 32 with Qing Ying Song Manuscript) Ding Bingbao
This book is a collection of famous writers of the Northern Song Dynasty edited by the Song Dynasty. The book is a selection of more than 300 articles by Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Yuwei, Sun Fu, Wang Anshi, Yu Jing, Zeng Gong, Shi Jie, Li Qingchen, Tang Geng, Zhang Qi, Huang Tingjian, and Chen Ou, in order of the author's era. Most of the articles are in the category of scripture, history and politics, and do not receive poems and inscriptions. There are many styles, including treatises, prefaces, notes, books, and policies.
The frame is 15.9 cm high and 12 cm wide. Half leaf sixteen lines, twenty-eight lines, white mouth, left and right sides, double straight black fish tail. Plutonium "Fan Yin Ru Gu", "Siku Bibliography", "Jiahuitang Ding's Collection of Books", "Guangxu Yanquan Tang Jiahuitang Ding's Income" and other seals. National Directory No. 03182.
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