Xia and Shun
Juzhentang is one of the earliest bookstores on Longfu temple street. Zhen Jun's "Heavenly Occasional News" said: "The inner city bookstores are all in Longfu Temple, and there are four old three-locust hall, tongli hall, treasure book hall, and heavenly painting pavilion. In Tongzhi, Tonglitang closed. In Guangxu, the Heavenly Painting Pavilion was changed to the Zhentang, and these three families are still here. Chongyi's "Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Wild Since Daoxian" said that there were only three bookstores in Longfu Temple Street at that time: TongliTang, later changed to Sanhuai; Tianhua Pavilion, later changed to Juzhen; and Baoshutang, which has closed in recent years. Juzhen Hall was opened in the second year of Guangxu (1876). The owner Liu Yinglie, formerly known as Wusheng, is a native of Shulu, Hebei.
△ A copy of the Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Wild since Daoxian
Legend has it that Liu Yinglie's Juzhentang entrepreneurship story is quite interesting. When Liu Yinglie was young, he was simple and thrifty, and once he picked up a thread on the street and immediately sent it to the Sanhuaitang Bookstore, saying that this thread could be booked. At this time, there happened to be a customer buying books in the bookstore, and seeing this scene, he felt that this young man was very cute and trustworthy, so he made friends, and later even funded him to open a Juzhentang bookstore. Chongyi's "Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Wild Since Daoxian" said: "Longfu Temple Street East Exit Road South Juzhentang Bookstore (now closed), the former site of the Bentian Paint Pavilion, Tongzhizhong, for a bannerman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zhang received, changed his name to Juzhen. "It seems that the legendary customer is Zhang Qiren of the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Chongyi also said: "Because Zhang Shi has old books and several houses, he does not know whether it is good or bad, so he fills the shelves of the bookstore." ”
Juzhentang not only sells books, but also prints books, including "Liaozhai Shiyi", "Biography of Children's Heroes", "Stone Record", etc., all of which use small characters to gather rare books, so "Juzhen" is the name of the hall. It also published Manchu documents such as "Guide to Re-engraving QingWen Imaginary Characters" (Manchu-Han Combination), "Qing Language Extracting Banknotes" (Manchu-Han Classification) and so on.
△ "King Ding Wu Ying Dian Ju Zhen Edition Program" book shadow
Juzhen originally referred to the Wuyingdian Juzhen edition of the book. When the Qianlong period repaired the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", it began to be engraved and printed, because of the wide variety and huge cost, jin Jian, the minister in charge of engraving and book affairs at that time, suggested engraving jujube wood movable type pendulum printing books, imitating the Song people to make more than 250,000 large and small movable characters. Qianlong's name as movable type is indecent, but it is changed to Juzhen, and the book printed has the six characters of "WuyingDian Juzhen Edition" under the first line of the first page.
According to Chongyi's "Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Wild Since Daoxian", after the opening of Juzhentang, he hired people to carve wooden characters to prepare books for printing, and at first envisioned printing books that were not common in the shop, and later positioned them in the Shubu (novel). In 1876, Guangxu Bingzi Nian (1876) engraved and printed Wang Xilian's commentary "Embroidered Dream of the Red Chamber", and later "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", "Elysium" and "Biography of Children's Heroes" came out. Among them, "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is the most famous, written by Shi Yukun during the Daoguang years, and the content is derived from the commentary. "Biography of a Child Hero" was written by Wen Tiexian and sponsored by Ye'an and Junnan. In the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895), the back cabinet of Juzhen Hall caught fire, and the wooden characters were burned, and no books were printed again.
△ Wang Xilian's commentary on "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Juzhentang still has "Dream of the Red Chamber", the title of the publication is "New Compilation of the History of Yuncha Foreign", and it is also titled "Guangxu Ding Ugly Proofreading, Kyoto Longfu Temple Road South Juzhentang Bookstore Distribution", the beginning of the volume has a Taiqing order, the last signature is "Xianfeng eleven years old in the Seventh month of Xin You's Hope West Lake Scattered People", the main text is signed "West Lake Scattered People Writing", and the three words "Juzhentang" are sewn in the middle. The outer history of Yuncha is the famous female lyricist Gu Taiqing (1799-1876) in the Qing Dynasty. Taiqing Mingchun, Zi Chun, a Manchurian, author of "Tianyouge Poem" and "East Sea Fishing Song". The author of the preface is the author's girlfriend, the talented woman Shen Shanbao.
In the first year of the Republic of China, Liu Yinglie's eldest son Liu Shuwen succeeded his father in running Juzhentang. In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, the youngest son Liu Shusheng continued to operate, and soon after he took over, Juzhentang closed down.
Review: Yu Fanghua