Bao Tingbo (1728-1814), also known as Yiwen (字文), was born in Changtang Village, Xixiang, Shexian County, Anhui Province, so he was called "Changtang Baoshi". Bao Tingbo's great-grandfathers Bao Yongshun, Zu Baogui, and father Bao Sixue III served Jia in Zhejiang, and the world was engaged in salt and smelting. Born in Hangzhou, Bao Tingbo lived in Beimu Qinfang, Shanqiao, which was the former residence of the Song Dynasty bibliophiles Chen Qi and Chen Si, and the Chen father and son were engaged in the industry of editing, engraving, selling and collecting books for decades, which was cherished by future generations. After the death of Bao Tingbo's parents, he moved from Hangzhou to Yangshuwan in Qingzhen, Tongxiang (present-day Yangshubang, Baimadun Village, Wuzhen).
Bao Tingbo once failed the township test twice, so he did not shi, immersed himself in Burmese books all day, and became a famous bibliophile, engraver and surveyor in the Qing Dynasty. "Zhi Zhi Zhai" is the room name of his father Bao Sixu, and in addition to inheriting his father's "Zhi Zhi Zhai", Bao Tingbo has more than ten places such as the name of his room called "Zhi Shu Tang". Bao Tingbo has a rich collection of books, one is to buy, his family has been in business for generations, accumulated a lot of funds, and will not hesitate to buy Song and Yuan secret books at great expense. He often interacted with bibliophiles from all over the world, such as the "Xiaoshan Hall" of The Hangzhou Zhao Yu and Zhao Xin Brothers, Wu Zhuo's "Vase Flower Zhai", Wang Qishu's "Feihong Hall", Sun Zonglin's "Shousong Hall", Yu Li's "Dong Xiaoxuan", Cixi Zheng's "Erlao Pavilion", Tongxiang Jindeyu's "Tonghua Pavilion", etc. Every time he saw a good book, he loved it and copied it day and night. The third is given by the official or friends. Bao Tingbo took the collection of ancient books as a life pleasure, and after years of hard work, the collection reached more than 100,000 volumes.
After Bao Tingbo lived in Yangshuwan, Wuzhen, he was determined to publish the "Zhi Zhi Zhai Series" and publish the family collection of rare books and ancient books in the sea, with a total of 30 episodes (8 volumes per episode), 207 species, and 781 volumes, of which the last 4 episodes were continued by his sons Bao Shigong and Sun Bao Zhengyan. Three generations of grandchildren took more than fifty years. Hangzhou Wang Huizu, Haining Wu Qian, Tongxiang Jin Deyu, Shimen Fangxun, Wujin Zhao Huaiyu and others have all visited here. At that time, when Zhejiang Xuezheng Ruan Yuan was in the two provinces of Tri Jia Lake, he often took a small boat to Visit Poplar Bay to view its collection of books. In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), the "Siku Quanshu Library" was set up, and the world's suicide note was requested. Bao Tingbo ordered his eldest son Bao Shigong to dedicate 626 kinds of books, most of which are orphan books and rare books since the Song and Yuan dynasties, ranking first in private books. In the following year, he was rewarded and awarded the Inner House with the compilation of books such as "Ancient and Modern Book Integration". Fifty-six years (1791), the owner of the "Fang Jiao Tang" Yan Yuan photographed the Poplar Bay in Wuzhen, and Bao Tingbo gave him two volumes of the Song carved fragment "Zhou Yi GongShu Manuscript", the paper and ink were quaint and pleasant, and if Yan Shi obtained the most precious treasure, that is, the book was three after the book. In the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing (1819), Zhang Jinwu, the master of the "Ai Ri Jinglu" in Changshu, was introduced by Zhang Duo (Zi Jiaoqing) and visited the "Zhi Zhi Zhai" with his teacher Huang Tingjian by boat, and compiled the "Jin Wen Zhi" (120 volumes) for him to consult the Bao family's "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" awarded by the imperial court.
Bao Tingbo carved books, absorbed the strengths of all, searched for and edited extensively, and selected the best income for all the historical examinations, arithmetic books, golden stones, geography, calligraphy and painting, poetry collections, bibliographies, etc. Many of them are isolated in the sea. The engraving attitude is rigorous, the proofreading is meticulous, and every book obtained will be widely borrowed from a rare book, consulted and ordered, and not changed a word in vain, which is highly praised by the times.
In the eighteenth year of Jiaqing (1813), the eighty-six-year-old Bao Tingbo was given a gift by the Jiaqing Emperor. The following year, Bao Tingbo died of illness in Poplar Bay, Wuzhen. His works include "Hua Yun Xuan Yong Wu Shi Cun", "Insufficient Knowledge essay" and so on. The "Continuation of the Two Zhejiang Xuanxuan" adopts three poems from his "Sunset": "The sunset in the world is still full of liao." Thin the frost leaves in autumn, and the fine points of the sails do not think about it. He wanted to follow the corner of the city, and he obviously flew a wine flag. The fans are accustomed to hiding the shadows of the West Building, and they are not like spring sorrows and refuse to sell. ”
In the winter of the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (1791), a flood occurred in Hangzhou, and part of Bao Tingbo's collection was destroyed. Between Daoguang and Xianfeng, internal worries and external insults, wars broke out in central Zhejiang, and the "insufficient knowledge" books began to disperse. Most of them flowed into the "Dan Lead Fine House" of the Hangzhou Labor Rights and Laoge Brothers, the "Eight Thousand Scrolls Building" of Ding Shen and Ding Bingkunzhong, and the "Song Dynasty Building" of Lu Xinyuan in Huzhou. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), The Governor of Zhejiang, Tan Zhonglin, raised funds to rebuild the Wenlan Pavilion, and Bao Tingbo's great-grandson Bao Yin "submitted the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" given by the imperial court to the storage cabinet and kept it with treasures.
Bao's collection of books, from Bao Tingbo's father Bao Sixuan, to 1880, When Bao Yin donated the Imperial Gift of Ancient and Modern Book Integration to Wenlan Pavilion, a total of 5 generations. Therefore, the Changtang Bao clan is the home of the 5th Generation Library.
Source: Jiaxing Daily
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