Friends who have watched "The Gate of the Great Mansion" must still remember Bai Qiye played by Bai Caotang and Chen Baoguo.
In the modern history of Luzhou, there is also a giant family similar to Baicaotang and a rich party, which is the famous old bookstore Hongdaotang in Luzhou.
Founded in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the founder Yang Hongdao, whose ancestral home is Jiangxi. According to his descendants, Yang Hongdao made a living selling herbs since childhood, and his herbal shop was named "Hongcaotang".
In the fifty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1716 AD), he also sold medicinal books and record books, and after a little savings, he renamed "Hongcaotang" to "Hongdaotang", specializing in engraving, printing and selling ancient books.
In the early years of Daoguang, the Yang family set up bookstores in Chengdu and Chongqing, and the name of the shop was still called "Hongdaotang" (Chongqing's "Hongdaotang" set up Haitang Creek, and the person in charge in charge of the early years of the Republic of China was Dan Chengzhi). At this time, the Yang family entered the Rulin eunuch field and took "charity and charity" as the "family style".
The Qing Dynasty once expressed its "moving virtue" of "helping the poor and saving orphans", and the holy purpose was to erect a archway for the Yang clan (the reconstruction of the Hundred Zitu after the ruins of the Hongdao Hall in the suburbs of Luzhou had been relocated to Dongbin Pavilion), and the archway was uploaded, and the descendants of Yang Hongdao in the 30th year of Daoguang (1805 AD), the Confucian Yang Panlong was Yu Yang Jimo, who was an alternate Tongzhi of Luzhou. Unfortunately, the stone stele inscribed with anecdotes of Hongdaotang has long been missing.
This should be the heyday of the Hongdaotang Bookstore. Behind the Hundred Zitu on the bank of the Tuo River in Luzhou, the Yang family has built a considerable quadrangle compound, and the three characters of "Hongdaotang" are engraved on the stone lintels before and after.
The courtyard is used for engraving and printing, storing book plates and living in the home. In addition, at the mouth of Nuzi Street (now Luzhou Department Store), the most prosperous place in Luzhou, a Hongdaotang bookstore was set up.
The "Hongdao Hall" hangtag is placed outside the gate, and there are head tables, two cabinets and three cabinets inside. The headcount is responsible for receiving merchants from various provinces, states and provinces; The second cabinet is responsible for invoicing, calculation and collection; Three cabinets are responsible for packaging and issuing books.
The cabinet stewards, masters, engraving, sales of the main personnel, each year silver and go to stay, according to the size of each person's contribution to the bookstore in that year and the profitability of the bookstore.
Yangtze River Shipping provided it with the convenience of developing book publishing and distribution business, and the Yang family added a bookstore in Yibin and Leshan in the province. Moreover, along the Yangtze River, the capital of Dayi Yichang, Hankou, Nanjing, Shanghai have set up bookstores, the store name is commonly known as "Hongdaotang".
Yang's proficient in the book publishing and distribution business, the engraved version of that year, regardless of variety, quantity, binding, sales, far more than the official government publications, is the first-class level in the country.
Hongdaotang also conformed to the needs of historical development, and in addition to engraving and printing the scriptures, histories, sub-books, and departments that the Qing Dynasty had read for the examination, it also mainly engraved and printed hundreds of kinds of posters, calligraphy, agricultural books, medical books, geography, mathematics, poems, operas, and novels needed by the broad masses of the people.
The larger ones are dou Hanqing's "Dou Taishi Surgical Complete Book" in six volumes, "Medical Sect Jinjian", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Compendium of Tongjian", "Outline of All", and so on. Popular reading materials include "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Augmentation", "Four Words and Miscellaneous Characters", "Thousand Character Text" and so on.
The Special Collections Department of the Sichuan Provincial Library has eight volumes and four volumes of the "Tips for the Difficult Passages of the Lotus Commentary", six volumes of the "New Compilation of the Examination Fang", four volumes of the "Primitive Lei Gong Concocted and Engraved of Materia Medica", one volume of the "True Truth", 39 volumes and twelve volumes of the "Instructions for the Geographical Son of Man", 2 volumes and 2 volumes of the "Interpretation of the Lotus Sutra", 8 volumes and 8 volumes of the "Interpretation of the Left Transmission of the Spring and Autumn Classics", two volumes and two volumes of the "Five Fang Yuanyin", 59 volumes of the "Outline of The General Jian", and 6 volumes of the "Sacred Martial Record".
At present, the ancient books department of luzhou city library are re-engraved in the qing dao guang nongchen year (gongwu 1832), baling fang xuebo, xingshayu observation and appraisal, Ouyang Mingfu annotated ancient examination of the good recipe "Three Finger Zen" (followed by a copy) and (Min) Chen Xiuyuan's "Essentials of Female Science".
At the end of the nineteenth century, Ye Hongtang Bookstore's business flourished, and Yang's Changqi used more than a dozen woodcuts and dozens of printers and bookbinders (there are also hundreds of people), and his family once used the profits to buy more than 1,000 acres of land in Luzhou, becoming one of the few giant merchants in Luzhou.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Sichuan book industry had "the top of (Chongqing) ShanchengTang, and the version of Hongdaotang (Luzhou)"; In Luzhou, there is a saying that "the top of the Gao family, the silver of the Yang family".
What's more, some people described Hongdaotang's "as many gold leaves as the pages of the book", "the Yang family's money is cast into gold leaves, and the books of Hongdaotang are sandwiched on each page". Although exaggerated, its wealth and the number of books published can be seen.
Yang's ancestors bought a lot of real estate in Luzhou, and now the industries around Renhe Road Department Store, Food Company, Local Product Company and Pharmaceutical Company in Jiangyang District, Luzhou were once owned by Hongdaotang Bookstore. According to his ancestors, his family once set up a house in Luzhou Kuanhe Street as a residence for the adoption of orphans and elderly, and now at the Luzhou Municipal Social Welfare Institute, the Yang family once built a family temple "Wenchang Ancestral Hall".
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the last descendant of the Yang clan, Yang Xuansan (1909--1949). The Yang family had four generations of single transmissions, and the only sons of each generation had died early, and the business of Hongdaotang was gradually depressed, so that it was no longer engraved and only sold.
After the beginning of the People's Republic, the business of Hongdaotang was all operated by Yang Xiaoshen, the widow of Yang Jingduan, Yang Xuansan's stepmother.
The Yang family had no capable people, so she had to take her eldest brother Xiao Xiaochun to Shanghai, Nanjing, Hankou and other places to inquire about the business of Hongdaotang. Although she had the idea of changing woodcuts to lead prints, she eventually became a bubble due to the difficulties of current events and the lack of financial resources.
Hongdaotang's inventory of books is decreasing, it is difficult to compete with the emerging publishing industry, internal and external expenses are not enough to make ends meet, and the foreign port business is even more out of reach, so it has to change surnames one by one. The "Hongdaotang" in Hankou (present-day Huangpi Street in Hankou) was sold to Qiu Wenqing in the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925 AD).
Chongqing business, because some of the tome book series and Sichuan's other famous bookstore "Shanchengtang" were engraved in Chongqing, so when the business was closed, tens of thousands of book boards stored in Haitang Creek were cheaply integrated into "Shanchengtang".
For the sake of subsistence, in the nineteenth year of the Republic of China (1930), Yang Xiaoshen sold the Luzhou Hongdaotang business office property to Xiao Zeke, another giant merchant in Luzhou, for 9,000 pieces of ocean, and opened the famous department store "Baoyuanlu" in southern Sichuan.
After the founding of new China, it became the state-owned Luzhou City Department Store, and the large dressing mirrors set up in the hall of the Hongdaotang Bookstore store have remained in the department store for customers for a long time.
After Yang Jianting, who had been the head cabinet manager of Hongdaotang, left the bookstore, he opened his own bookstore "Wencuntang", and he bought back the pear art version of the insect that had been mothed from Hongdaotang, such as "Three Character Classic", "Kindergarten Qionglin", and "Zengguang", and asked Li Hengfang, a master of Luzhou engraving, to engrave and print books for sale.
Unfortunately, these original versions have been confiscated and destroyed in successive political movements as "Four Nines".
The Yang family's own tens of thousands of versions were burned by the family who could not survive, and now they are gone.
The last descendants of the Yang clan can eat, drink, gamble and gamble. In June of the 38th year of the Republic of China (1949 AD), he was accused of drug abuse and imprisoned for a debt dispute with the Wounded Soldier of Shawan Rongjun Hospital in Luzhou, and died in prison on the eve of the liberation of Luzhou. Yang Xiaoshen, the last manager of Hongdaotang Bookstore, died in Luzhou in 1950.
Things have changed. After more than 210 years, it is the longest history of Sichuan Bookstore and the famous ancient Luzhou Bookstore, although it has long been little known, although the "Hongdaotang Village", which is named after the ruins of "Hongdaotang", is famous in the suburbs of Luzhou (only a stone's throw away from Baizitu).
Now Hongdaotang Village no longer exists, Luzhou has rebuilt the Hundred Zitu, the name of Hongdaotang has also been retained, before the author has always thought that Hongdaotang is the former Taoist place, it is really a joke.
For a long period of history, "Hongdaotang" was sold through its library, making indelible contributions to the dissemination and inheritance of the excellent culture of the Chinese nation. In the 1990s, the Luzhou Xinhua Bookstore gave it its due space, and it is said that the first publishing reference book in China, the "Publication Dictionary", which was later published, planned to give Luzhou "Hongdaotang" an entry. If this is true, then this is the highest seat and evaluation given by history to the Hongdaotang Bookstore.