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The "Circle of Friends" of Xu Xingke, a bibliophile of the Republic of China (Part II)

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3 Xu Xingke's "circle of friends" in academia

Under the cloak of a bibliophile, Xu Xingke was also a rigorous and low-key scholar. He was particularly proficient in editions, collations and the study of jinshi, and was employed by Wuchang Wenhua Library College, Peking Furen University, and China University to teach bibliography and Hanyu literature. Xu Shi has two tibetan seals, one is "learning to take the seven slightest as the sect" and the other is "using Confucian characters and chapters and sentences to take the world before the world", which can reflect his interest in learning. Like Huang Kan, Xu also adhered to the principle of not writing books easily, and only a small number of articles such as "Preface to the Difficult Recording of Poetry", "Preface to poetry shuyi", "List of Mao's poems", "Tongjianshu on the Rule of Ming Zhao", and "Treatise on Scholarship with Pan Jingzheng" were handed down, and occasionally poems were published in publications such as "Making Words". His academic achievements are more scattered in the annotations of various ancient books. According to Shu Huai's statistics, the ancient books that have been proofread and inscribed by Xu Shi involve a total of 44 kinds of subsets of jingshi [1]. Taking the National Library's Collection of Xu Xing's Manuscript "Correction of The New Yong of Yutai" as an example, there are more than 400 corrections by Xu's Zhu Pen. Xu Xingke is also happy to share what he has collected in order to seek joint discussion among scholars. In this way, with the purpose of governing learning and the medium of collecting books, a huge group of scholars gathered around Xu Xingke, which constituted a unique scenery of the academic ecology of the Republic of China.

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Middle-aged Xu Xing can be like

3.1 Two Lakes scholar group

Among Xu Xingke's scholars in the "circle of friends", Hubei and Hunan are the most, mainly including Huang Kan of Puchun, Xiong Huizhen of Zhijiang, Wang Baoxin of Luotian, Xiong Shili of Huanggang, Huang chun of Huang Zhuo, Yi Jun of Qianjiang, Feng Yongxuan of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Yu Jiaxi of Changde, Yang Shuda of Changsha, Luo Hongkai of Changsha, Cheng Qianfan of Changsha, and Zhang Shunhui of Yuanjiang (whose uncle was Yu Jiaxi).

Among the scholars of the two lakes, Xu Xingke had the closest relationship with Huang Kan and Yu Jiaxi. They became close friends because of books, and they became in-laws because of their friends. Huang Kan and Xu Xingke can be called worldly friends, and his father Huang Yunhu is Xu Xingke's master and ancestor, and he and Xingke are about the children's family, so they are not separated from each other. In 1919, Huang Kan taught at Wuchang Higher Normal School (the predecessor of Wuhan University) and often lived in Xujia to study. The two felt sorry for each other and studied day and night. Zhang Shunhui recalled in the article "Huang Jigang's Commentary on Zhang Taiyan" that Huang and Xu discussed interesting things about learning: "Wuchang Xu can walk well, and is famous for his book collection. In the spare time of Huang's teaching, Yuan dujiang pretended to read unseen books on Xu Lu in Hankou, and also stayed and stayed for dinner. One day, after a glass of wine, when it comes to Taiyan scholarship, it is said: "Primary school has a lot of gains, but the study of the scriptures is not erer, and my teacher is Wenhaoye." And the word "literary hero" was repeated. Xu Zhang was surprised to hear this, and tasted the number of Yu Daozhi. [2] Sometimes he wanted rare books, and Huang Kan also obtained them through Xu. For example, on August 31, 1928, Huang Kan's diary: "To ask for the "Selected Poems of the Yuan", to the bookstores in Suo Yanjing and Shanghai, this trip can be obtained from Ezhong, and I am willing to let it, it is really touching, and it is happy and long-distance." ”

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Xu Xing can take a group photo with Huang Kan

In 1925, before Huang Kan left Wuchang, he inscribed a poem on the Yantai with a dragon cloud pattern engraved on the Xu side: "Seven years from the south to the emperor, and then the conquest of the canopy is miserable." This Yan is good for my generation, and it is like a dragon cloud in the end. After arriving in Nanjing, Huang Kan added in a letter to Xingke: "I used to live with your excellency in Wuchang for eight years. Knowing the rest of the poor, every value of the world's secrets, all borrow and look. Smearing does not think that it is shameful, and it is not suspected of being a long vacation, that is, this layer, friendship has been as thick as a mountain. [3] Huang Kan was wild and uninhibited, and he was also obedient and arrogant, so that the two people together, it was said that the tip of the needle was against Mai Mang, but they were friends with Mo Rebellion. What communicates the hearts of two people is naturally the collection of books and learning. Huang Kan envied Xu Shu in his heart, and his heart could fold Huang Xue. Only because of this, Xu Clan can tolerate Huang Kan taking advantage of the wine to take advantage of the wine to smear on the collection of books that he regards as his life, and Xu's collection also has a batch of precious Huang's handbooks. In addition, Huang Kan also wrote more than 60 pairs of couplets for Xu Xingke, which are still treasured in the Hubei Provincial Museum.

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Huang Kan hand-criticized Xu Shizang's "Erya Zhengming" (Zhang Taiyan changed his name to "Erya Zhengming Commentary" when he was printing)

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In the early winter of 1925, Huang Kan wrote a couplet for Huang Kan's inscription

Xu Xingke and the epigrapher Yi Junfu are close confidants. In 1919, the seal engraver Li Yinsang, in order to thank Xu Xing for giving ancient pottery rubbings, for Xu Xing could rule the Indian side, the indian text was "for the exaggerated catalogue to scatter gold", from Gong Zizhen's "Self Hai Miscellaneous Poems", Xu Xing can be cited as a favorite. In the autumn of 1922, Xu transferred this seal to Yi Jun's room. Yi Shi was ecstatic after receiving this seal, and specially instructed Li Yinsang to carve a side paragraph to prove his alliance. In 1930, Yi Junshi and Xu Xingke taught in Wenhuatu, Yi Junshi taught Jinshi, and Xu Xing could teach versioning and bibliography. Xu Xingke taught at Wenhua Tuzhuo and also befriended Mao Kun, a teacher at the school. Mao Kun sent Xu's bibliographic lecture notes to Yu Jiaxi, who teaches at Fu Jen University in Peking. According to the recollection of Xu Xiaoyi, the heir of Mr. Xingke, Yu Shi praised it after reading it, saying that "the lecture notes were meticulous, full of paper new ideas and examinations", so he introduced Xingke to go north and teach at Fu Jen University and China University. During this period, the two were introduced as confidants and related to each other. For example, Xu Xingke once asked Yu Jiaxi to write an inscription on the "Cursive Scroll of Inscribed Ding Yehe Poems" by Wang Duo of the Ming Dynasty and examine the provenance of Ding Yaokang's life. Yu Shi claimed that he "did not like to read the Ming Ren BeiJi", and because he was ordered to compose, he searched for Ding's writings from the Beiping Library and wrote "Wang Juesi Titled Ding Ye He Lu Fang Zhai Poetry Scroll". Later, Xiao Wan, the daughter of Xu's parents, was matched by Yang Shuda and married Yu Xun, the son of the Yu family. Yu Xun later became a professor at Peking University and became a famous historian. At this point, I will mention Xu Xingke's in-law relationship with scholars. In addition to being related to Huang Kan and Yu Jiaxi, the fifth daughter of the Xu family, Xiao Ying, was matched by Xiang Zonglu and married Yang Mingzhao, who was famous for her research on the Wenxin Carved Dragon, and Yang later became a well-known professor at Sichuan University. There were also academic exchanges between Weng and his sons-in-law, such as Xu Xingke's publication of the "Tongjian Book of Discussion with Ming Zhao" in the 53rd issue of the "Zhiyan" in 1939.

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Li Yinsang sealed Xu Xingkezhi "scattering gold for exaggerated catalogs"

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Yu Jiaxi inscribed "Wang Juesi Title Ding Ye He Lu Fang Zhai Poetry Scroll Zi Bao" for Xu Xingke

Xu Xingke's help to Xiong Huizhen's "Water Commentary" has been enjoyed by the academic community. Xiong Huizhen was a student of Yang Shoujing, and the two of them co-authored the "Water Classics Commentary", which lasted more than 20 years and Yang Xian died. Xiong Huizhen inherited the teacher's business and worked hard for more than 20 years to complete the book. According to Xu Xiaomi's recollection: "In order to help Xiong Huizhen, my father specially asked someone to copy back from Beijing the Song fragments of the Notes on the Water Classics, the Wang Guowei SchoolBook, the Xiang Carved Book, the Zhu Mouxiao SchoolBook, and the Combined Editions of the Hu Carved Notes on the Water Classics and the Classic of Mountains and Seas during the Jiajing Period, and there were several batches on the Zhu Books. Sometimes Xiong would be in the future home, and my father would ask a master surnamed Liu to send it to Mr. Xiong. [4] After the completion of the manuscript, Xiong Huizhen was grateful for Xu's decades-long help and offered to sign a joint signature with Xu Xingke, but was rejected by Xu. In 1931 and 1932, Xiong Huizhen was hospitalized twice due to illness, and To xuxing could copy a copy of the Water Passage. This is the "Beijing Ben" that was later photocopied and published by the Science Press. In present-day Taiwan, there is a manuscript of Xiong Huizhen's "Notes on the Water Classics", which has Xiong's inscription: "Friend Xu Xingke, erudite and knowledgeable, bookish, especially editor." Every time you get a secret book, you will keep it and send it for your reference, so that you can benefit me and be good to me, and you will always be able to do it. "Gratitude, overflowing with words. On May 25, 1936, Xiong Huizhen cut himself in his own house at No. 11, West Scroll Shed, Wuchang, and died at the age of 70. According to the recollections of the Xu family's descendants, at that time, Xu Xingke felt the friendship between the two people for decades, and wrote a letter of ten thousand words and submitted it to the National Government, hoping to posthumously recognize Xiong's academic contributions, but unfortunately there was no result.

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Science Press photocopied the "Beijing Ben" "Water Commentary" in 1957

Xu Xingke's interaction with the linguist Yang Shuda is widely recorded in Yang's Memoirs of Ji Wei Weng. The earliest record of correspondence between the two in the book is April 27, 1930 (according to Yang's diary, the actual date of the two people's actual relationship is earlier), and the latest record is June 24, 1955. In the 25 years of exchanges, Xu Xing could send Yang Shuda books including "Yang Zhiju Only Surviving Manuscripts", "White Tiger Tong Citation Book Table", "Yi hai cong compilation", "Shanyang Ding Xian series", "Chengzi series", "Yan Said", "Guangxin dialect", "colloquial character compilation", etc., and even the Song edition of the book letterhead. On November 24, 1932 and May 9, 1937, Yang Shuda visited Xu Xingke twice in Hankou to view Xu's collection of books. The two also had many academic exchanges, such as Xu Xingke's first letter to Yang Shuda, which was about Chen Jigao's mistake in ordering Yang Shuda's "Continuation of Ancient Book Doubts".

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Poplar da statue

Historian Feng Yongxuan was personally instructed by Huang Kan when he studied at Wuchang Higher Normal School in 1923, and was later admitted to the Chinese Studies Gate of the Institute of Tsinghua University, where he studied under Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei, and taught at Wuhan Middle School after 1927. During the Han Dynasty, Feng Yongxuan and Xu Xingke had a deep friendship, and the "Feng's Zangzha" compiled by his son Feng Tianyu (a senior professor at Wuhan University) preserved a letter that Xu Xingke wrote to Feng, witnessing the friendship between the two: "Mr. Yongxuan's Lecture: The New Calendar Is Renewed, and The Respect for Living is Better. After returning to the south, the decline and illness increased day by day, and there were very few rivers to cross. The gentleman will also be at home on vacation days, and he has not been waited for, and he is deeply sorry. Tomorrow (8th, Sunday), Xiao'er Xiaomi will be in Huashili No. 3 House, with a little vegetable and a few dishes, Mr. Jingyue will have dinner at the house in the afternoon with five bells, and can go out of the old collection for Qingjian, and beg for early carving. First of all, I will suppress this note, and I will bow down my prayers. Brother Xu Shu bowed down on his hand. Noon on January 7. [5] After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Yongxuan's wife worked in the Children's Department of the Hubei Provincial Library and was a colleague with Xu Xiaomi and his wife. In 2009, Hubei Provincial Library held a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Mr. Xu Xingke's donation of ancient books and cultural relics, and Professor Feng Tianyu personally wrote the article "Mr. Xu Xingke's Donation to Tibet Festival".

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Feng Yongxuan statue

In the spring of 1925, Xiong Shili, one of the representative figures of Neo-Confucianism, was invited by Shi Ying to teach at Wuchang University. During the Han Dynasty, all the secret books must be sent to Xu Xing for identification. After Xiong Shili left Wuchang, the two continued to exchange letters. Fang Zhi scholar Wang Baoxin successively served as the director of the Hubei Guoxue Museum, a professor at Wuchang Higher Normal School and Wuhan University, and the general editor of the Tongzhi Museum in Hubei Province, and made more use of Xu's collection when presiding over the compilation of local documents in Hubei and Wuhan. In 1932, when all walks of life in Wuhan proposed to restore the Yellow Crane Tower, Wang Baoxin wrote "Rebuilding the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang to Raise Funds", which was rumored to be a beautiful talk for a while. The writing of this article should refer to the "Yellow Crane Tower Collection" of the Ming Wanli inscription of the lone book in the sea hidden by Xu Shi. When the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt in 1981, the "Yellow Crane Tower Collection" was also referred to, and Mr. Gu Tinglong was asked to do the version appraisal at that time. In 1992, "The Collection of Yellow Crane Towers" was photocopied and published by Hubei People's Publishing House, and Mr. Zhao Puchu wrote a preface to the book, which included the words "This collection and SiLou reflect each other". Huang Zhuo sorted out Huang Kan's posthumous book "Guangyun School Record", which was also recorded from Xu Xingkeben. According to Huang Zhuo's "Catalogue of Mr. Huang Jigang's Posthumous Works": "Guangyun Notes, the school language is nearly 100,000 words, and the hand school book cannot be seen. Now from Xu Xiaomi in Wuchang, he has obtained a fake transfer of the transcript and compiled it as the "Guangyun School Record". It is divided into several categories, which are to be written. [6] Zhang Shunhui wrote the "Collection of Qing Literature", and also made more use of Xu's collection. According to the memories of Xu's descendants, Cheng Qianfan often went to the Xu family to study during his early studies in Wuchang.

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Xu Xingke Hides the Yellow Crane Tower Collection

3.2 Jiangsu and Zhejiang scholars

Among Xu Xingke's scholars' "circle of friends," scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang mainly include Yuhang Zhang Taiyan, Ningbo Chen Hanzhang, Wuxian Wang Dalong (Xinfu), Nanxun Zhou Zimei, Huiji Ma Yifu, Haining Chen Naiqian, Haiyan Zhang Yuanji, Wuxi Qian Jibo, and so on. In September 1935, Zhang Taiyan founded the Sinology Seminar in Suzhou. Xu Xingke's close friend Pan Jingzheng taught bibliography at the Zhang's Guoxue Seminar and was responsible for editing the "Making Words". During this period, Xu Xingke was invited to give lectures at the Zhang's Guoxue Seminar and published poems in the "Zhiyan". Xu's Tibetan Huang Kan commentary "Erya Zhengming", that is, it was proofread and printed by Zhang Taiyan's Guoxue Seminar, and Zhang Personally renamed it "Erya Zhengming Commentary", and inscribed: "'Erya Zhengming Commentary', then Xu Xing can get it." There are many words in the middle of the essence. The line can be lifted to pay for the engraving, Yu Xianliden's "Making Words". Gai's so-called relics are not inferior to those of the past. ”[7]

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Portrait of Chen Hanzhang

A generation of Hongru Chen Hanzhang, he studied under the famous scribe Yu Fan. When Huang Kan was at Nanjing Central University, he worshipped Chen Hanzhang as his teacher, and Xu Xingke also worshiped Mr. Hanzhang as his teacher. Chen commented that Xu Xingke was "never habitual, simple and true as a scholar". He details his interaction with Xu Xingke in the article "Fu Zhang Bo'an", which is excerpted below:

When he met Han Zhang in Jinling, he asked him to be a disciple and show Sun Xingyan's "Three Biographies of spring and Autumn" and Zhang Shishu's "Three Ancient People's Famous Examinations", both of which were not published in manuscripts, and a volume of the Yuan Ben "History of the Road" was given. Published a humble draft of "Ancient Surnames and Names Rhymes", and loved it. After that, when he arrived in Nanjing, He zhang had left school and returned to his house! That is, fifty pieces of foreign silver and forty pieces of rice paper are mailed, and a copy of the handwritten manuscript is found. It is also shown in two manuscripts of "Wenting Style Examination" and "Yellow Emperor Yiyin". The Han chapter is made of two treks, and returns its silver and paper, with the humble draft to be added or deleted, and the non-final version is also. Last year, please record a copy of Dinghai Huang's "Lishu Tonggu Zhiyu" to go. This year, I came from Shanghai to look at the old manuscripts and hand-recorded the titles of the books. See the ten-volume manuscript of the Han Chapter's "Case after Reading the Li Tong Examination", and instructed that it should be printed immediately, and that it should no longer be used by people as Mr. Ji Ye wrote a book that was not published. He asked Han Zhang who was the best among his fellow villagers. Zhang first held up the name of the right, and the second was Feng Jun Mengzhuo. So he went to Yong to visit Feng and to the end of Shanghai. Unfortunately, I did not contact the contact, if I saw it, I would make it as before. Xu Junshang has a book, which has taught many acupuncture in the school recently, and blames Zhang Taiyan's people, the wording is very steep, and his knowledge is also first-class. And there is no time to flow habits, simple and true to a scholar. Now returning to Hankou, he sent seven packs of books, including Jing Yuanzhuo's "Han Poetry Wai Biography" and Fushun Jian's "Eight Generations of Literary Collection", all of which are rare books in the world. There are also two major pieces of Luoyang's newly unearthed Jin Xianning Second Year "Peiyong Stele" and the stele Yin Tuoben. With the recently carved manuscript, it was distributed to Qin Manqing, the capital of Jiangsu, Gao Langxian of Baxian County, Yu Jiyu of Beiping, Wu Jianzhai and Xiong Guzhi of Wuchang. [8]

Chen Wen revealed a lot of information. Xu Xingke not only donated books to Chen Hanzhang many times, but also traveled thousands of miles from Wuhan to Xiangshan by boat from Wuhan in 1934 via Shanghai and Ningbo to Xiangshan, asked Chen to study, and hand-recorded a copy of Chen's "Lishu Tongzhi Language", and instructed HanZhang to print "The Case After Reading the Litong Examination". This shows that Xu Xingke attaches great importance to the preservation of contemporary academic works. The article also deals with the evaluation of the scholarship of the people of the time, mentioning Xu Xingke's acquaintances Qin Gengnian, Gao Buying, Yu Jiaxi, Wu Jianzhai, Xiong Huizhen and others. The Complete Works of Chen Hanzhang preserves three letters written by Chen to Xu Xingke, and contains a poem entitled "Gift to Wuchang Xu Xingkejun". Xu Xing lovingly re-emphasized Chen Hanzhang's virtuous learning, and engraved several kinds of "Shuxuetang Series Manuscripts" for it.

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Xu Xing can help Wang Dalong to print "Ding Ugly Series"

When the philologist Wang Dalong taught at St. John's University in 1934, he and his friends Zhao Yichen and Wang Baochen edited the "Jia Shu Cong Compilation", which was edited and published once a year, with the aim of disseminating the unpublished works of the sages, and collecting more works on the history of the scriptures, the golden stones of primary schools, the palm of the catalogue, and the works of the Ministry of Art. During this period, Xu Xing could lend manuscripts and manuscripts, and fund the compilation of Yihai, Chengzi, and Ding Ugly's "Series Compilation". According to the "Compilation of The Chronicles of Mr. Wang Xinfu", in December 1935, Xu Xingke sent Wang Dalong from Hankou the "Guangji of Youdi", "Mr. Gaizhi always paid attention to Huang and Gu Xueben"; in the winter of 1936, "Mr. Gu borrowed Wu Jianzhai's school copy of "Shang Shu Kong Chuan Shanzheng" to come to him, and from Xu Xing could borrow Huang Jigang and Chen Jigao (Zun Mo) copies, and recorded them in Zhu Pen and Green Pen. [9] Xu Xingke and Zhou Zimei met at Jiayetang and became friends because of their common refinement of the bibliography. In the 8th issue of "Making Speeches" in 1936, Xu Shi published the poem "Gift zhou zimei", which contained the sentence "I am now a friend of Zhou zi, withered and boiled with water", expressing the friendship between the two.

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Zhang Taiyan Chinese Studies Seminar Journal "Making Words"

Another neo-Confucian representative figure, Ma Yifu, who was proficient in calligraphy, once wrote seven poems at the request of Xu Jiajing in Wang Yangming's handwritten book "Xingshu Yong Conscience Four Absolute Feng Ziren Scrolls" in the seventh year of Ming Jiajing (1528), which is now in the Hubei Provincial Museum. In addition, it is an inscription poem for Xu Shizang's "Zha Dongshan Album", which is now included in the "Ma Yifu Collection" [10]. Xu Xingke usually pays attention to collecting Ma Yifu's poems, such as a letter written by Xu Xingke to Chen Naiqian: "Spring friends come from Hangzhou, and the banknote shows Mr. Ma Yifu's birthday poems, and the words are painful." Yesterday's reason is to see it again. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ma Yifu saw that Xu's collection of books was safe and sound, and specially wrote a banner for it "Xu's Zhensheng Shugong". Xu Xing can use "Zhensheng Shugong" as the name of the library building, believing that it is not only determined to live in a desperate place, but also shows its patriotism and enthusiasm. Ma Yifu later wrote a banner for Xu Shi "Chinese People Shouzhi", which is a further praise for the spirit of Xu's collection. In the 1950s, Ma Yifu still wrote poems for Xu's calligraphy and painting collection many times.

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Xu Xingke Tibetan Wang Yang Ming Xingshu Farewell Poem Fan (now Hubei Provincial Museum)

Chen Naiqian is a descendant of the Qing Dynasty bibliophile Chen Kun, a famous edition bibliographer, who successively served as an editor in Shanghai Progressive Bookstore, Dadong Bookstore, and Enlightened Bookstore, and concurrently served as a professor at Zhizhi University and Kuomintang University. The surviving Eighteen Correspondences that Xu Xing can write to Chen Naiqian. According to Ma Zhili's research, the letter was written around 1928-1937. Judging from the content, it is all related to the book. For example, on October 27, 1928, Xu Xingke wrote: "Formerly, I was promised to give the "Annotations to the Sons of (Zhou Qin)" to be bound unfinished and unpaid by post. Among the ten books, there are only two books, "Pipe Recognition Error" and "Lü Lan Correct error", such as Receiving Blessings, and there is no thanks. In April 1929, the "Chinese Society" decided to set up a publishing department in Shanghai, with Chen Naiqian as the director of the publishing department, responsible for photocopying rare and precious ancient books and member works. For example, a letter after May 1929 reads: "Before your meeting printed the Book of Ten Lans and the Ten Classics of The Ten Classics, I would like to order three copies of the previous book, and now I will buy one more. Mr. Xu Jiyu is familiar with Mr. Xu Jiyu, and Mr. Qian Jianshi's "Records of the Two Han Dynasties" can be printed? If anyone in your congregation thinks that a book can be printed, it should be attached with a silver cake as a printing capital. Your book list for sale has been printed? Someone here plans to print Sun Zhongrong's "Zhou Li Justice" by the Chu Society, but I don't know if it can be done? The schoolmaster is afraid that no one can also. ”[11]

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Chen Naiqian statue

As mentioned earlier, Xu Xingke's relationship with Zhang Yuanji began in the early 1920s, and the friendship between the two remained for more than 30 years. Coincidentally, they both died in 1959. The third volume of the Complete Works of Zhang Yuanji contains 14 letters written by Zhang Yuanji to Xu Xingke, recording the contacts between the two, such as Xu Xingke once sent Zhang Yuanji's "Guitian Manuscript" Zhou's edition, which Zhang Yuanji had never seen before, and Han Fenlou had no collection; Xu Xingke obtained seven volumes of Wei Geng's "Poetry of the Present", but only the first twelve volumes were preserved, so Zhang Yuanji asked the Commercial Press to complete the fragments. It is worth mentioning that Xu Xing can provide a base for Zhang Yuanji's photocopy of the "Four Series". Zhang Shi planned to include his Haiyan compatriot Peng Sunyi's "Ming Zhai Collection" in the "Continuation of the Four Series", but the search for more than ten years did not get, "Wuchang Xu Xingke Yu Younian, happy to store books, Wen Yu wanted to compile Mr. Yu's poems, but with his manuscript twelve huge volumes to, then the Ancestors of the Yu Clan wanted to borrow and could not copy." [12] The "Essays" and "Continuations" of the Rong Zhai Essays in the "Four Series" today, the original editions of the "Jingyetang Collection", and the manuscripts of the "Ming Zhai Collection" in the "Continuation Edition" are all from Xu's old collection.

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Statue of Zhang Yuanji

3.3 Anhui scholars

In Xu Xingke's "circle of friends", Anhui scholars mainly include Hu Pu'an of Jing County, Hu Shi of Jixi County, Su Xichang of Taiping County, and Wu Guanzhai of Shexian County. Hu Pu'an (Hu Daojing's uncle) was a famous philologist and poet of Nanshe. According to Qian Yaxin's recollection, Hu once taught a class on school chicken science to students in the Library Science Department of Shanghai National University. At the beginning of 1929, Xu Xingke joined the "Chinese Society" founded by Hu Pu'an, Yao Shizi, Chen Naiqian, and others at Zhizhi University in Shanghai, focusing on the study of traditional Chinese studies, and the first members included well-known scholars and bibliophiles such as Ding Fubao, Yu Youren, Wang Yunwu, He Bingsong, Zhou Yueran, Yao Shizi, Dong Kang, Liu Yizheng, Cai Yuanpei, Xu Naichang, Ye Gongqi, Zheng Zhenduo, Chen Yuan, Chen Naiqian, Gao Buying, Xu Naichang, Yang Shuda, and 84 others, many of whom were Xu Xingke's close friends. The "Chinese Society" set up a column "Sinology Weekly" in the "Current Affairs New Newspaper", as a garden for the study of Sinology, and later its membership grew to 261 people, including Liu Guojun, Zhao Wanli, Jiang Fuxuan and others in the library science community. Xu Xingke also had contacts with Hu Pu'an because of his collection of books, such as he wrote in a letter to Chen Naiqian in 1927: "Send four volumes each of the Rongyuan Ciyun and the WenxuanTong False Character Society, chat about Yayi, and beg for survival." Don't attach a copy of the "Selected Characters", beggars to □ Mr. Park An. ”[13]

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Portrait of Hu Pu'an

In the second half of his life, Hu Shi devoted himself to the study of the Notes on the Water Classics, mainly through the proofreading method to prove his views, so he became the scholar who collected the most editions of the Notes on the Water Classics in the history of Li Studies. In 1948, Hu Shi took advantage of the opportunity to lecture at Wuhan University to inquire about Xu Xingke's situation. Xu Xingke welcomed Hu Shi as a guest of honor to his home and accompanied him to watch the manuscript of Xiong Huizhen's "Notes on the Water Classics". Hu Shi later commented on Xiong Shi, believing that his achievements in the Water Sutra Annotations surpassed those of his teacher Yang Shoujing, but also said in the "Historical Materials for the Study of the Water Classics": "Xiong Huizhen knew in his later years that to sort out the Water Classics Notes, it was necessary to collect the ancient manuscripts and ancient engravings of the Water Classics notes for proofreading. This is his teacher Yang Shoujing did not teach him the collation method. The person who instructed him was probably his friend Huangpi Xushu, and the words were good. ”[14]

Su Xichang (Chinese: 苏西昌; pinyin: Su Xichang, a native of Taiping, Anhui (present-day Huangshan), was a professor at Wusong China Public School, and later joined the Commercial Press, where he served as editor, editor and editor-in-chief of Oriental Magazine. In November 1928, Xu Xingke stayed in Nanjing, during which he became acquainted with Su Xichang and visited Su's collection, according to Xu Xingke's letter to Chen Naiqian on May 29, 1929: "Su Junji was in Beijing, and last year he was given a □ to see the collection of He Qizhan to comment on the Two Han Classics. Weng Zhengsan (Fang Gang) has a tail, can it be separated without trial? [15] Like Huang Kan, Wu Guanzhai (名承士, literally" was a disciple of Zhang Taiyan and a paleographer, who served successively as the head of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of China, the head of the Department of Chinese of Peking Normal University, a professor at Northeastern University, and a professor at Minzu University, and founded the magazine Wenshi. As mentioned in Chen Hanzhang's letter "Fu Zhang Bo'an" above, after Xu Xingke carved Chen's book, among the friends who were given away was Wu Guanzhai .

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The original article was published in the Journal of Library Science of China, No. 5, 2021, and is not yet available.

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The "Circle of Friends" of Xu Xingke, a bibliophile of the Republic of China (Part II)

Li Mingjie, born in 1971 in Fengcheng, Jiangxi, is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Information Management of Wuhan University. His research interests include philology and the history of Chinese book culture. His major publications include Research on The Editions of the Song Dynasty (Qilu Book Society, 2006), Chinese Publishing History and Ancient Volumes (Hunan University Press, 2008), Research on the Copyright of Ancient Chinese Books (Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2013), Concise Ancient Books Sorting Course (Wuhan University Press, 2018), And Songs of The String Song of The Twilight Rain: Education in the Republic of China under the Lens of Sidney D. Gambo (1917-1932) (Wuhan University Press, 2019), and more than 70 academic papers.

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