On October 30th, the "Commemorative Album of Mr. Zhang Jusheng's 90th Birthday", "Correspondence between The Revised Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas", and "Hanfen Lou Embers YuShu" (Manuscript) jointly published by Shanghai Library and the Commercial Press held a new book launch ceremony at Shanghai Library. All three manuscripts are precious collections of the Shanghai Library and are photocopied and published for the first time.
It should be known that one of the predecessors of the Shanghai Library, the United Library, was co-founded by Zhang Yuanji, and the Commercial Press is Zhang Yuanji's dedication and painstaking efforts. Zhang Renfeng, the grandson of Zhang Yuanji, lamented that the two institutions presented a special gift to the 150th anniversary of his grandfather's birth in the form of publication, which was of great significance.
When Mr. Yang Dai handed over the manuscript of Qian Zhongshu to the Commercial Press, she had such a sentence in her foreword: The best protection is to make it public. I think this sentence is precisely Mr. Zhang Yuanji's concept. Chen Xiaowen, deputy editor-in-chief of the Commercial Press, said, "Mr. Zhang Yuanji collected high-quality rare books and did not hide them or use them for private use, but to publish them and make them public." We and the Shanghai Library also inherited the spirit of Ju Lao, which is why these three manuscripts were published. ”
The Hanmo Extravaganza condensed in the square inches of the ruler - "Mr. Zhang Jusheng's Ninetieth Birthday Commemorative Album"
Zhou Wu, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, commented on Zhang Yuanji: "I have been an official, but I have no official spirit; I have no business spirit in running an industry; I have excellent English but no foreign temperament; I have a strong personality but can be restrained; I do a lot of things, but I never take credit; I am always indifferent to myself in the situation of being in anointed state." ”
Zhang Yuanji's life experienced the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, and he had many events and traveled widely. On the occasion of Zhang Yuanji's 90th birthday in October 1956, the Commercial Press asked Shou Weng's former friends and old friends and well-known social figures for calligraphy and painting poems as a congratulatory gift. One hundred and twelve poems, calligraphy and painting works have been collected, and they have been carefully framed into two huge volumes of "Mr. Zhang Jusheng's Ninetieth Birthday Commemorative Album" and presented as birthday gifts to Shou Weng.
Among the group of congratulatory birthdays were Zhou Shanpei, Yu Jiegao, Shang Yanjun, Xing Duan, Mao Guangsheng, and other old friends who had experienced the upheavals of the late Qing Dynasty with Zhang Yuanji, as well as cultural celebrities such as Ma Sulun, Zhou Jianren, Shen Yanbing, Hu Yuzhi, Shen Junru, Ye Shengtao, Huang Yanpei, Guo Moruo, Chen Shutong, and Shao Lizi, who had worked with Zhang Yuanji for many years, as well as business colleagues who had worked with Zhang Yuanji for many years, and librarians of the Central And Shanghai Museum of Culture and History.
In the view of Chen Zishan, a professor at East China Normal University, the "Commemorative Album of Mr. Zhang Jusheng's Ninetieth Birthday" is a big book, which can be photocopied and published as it is on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Zhang Yuanji's birth, which can be described as an aura reappearance and immeasurable merit.
"Mr. Zhang Yuanji's life is a legend, and his many contributions to preserving the essence of Chinese culture have long been in the annals of Chinese culture in the 20th century." Chen Zishan said that Zhang Yuanji's comprehensive creation of cultural undertakings made the Commercial Press the most influential and even internationally influential publishing institution in China in the first half of the last century, "so the affirmation of his merits cannot be overstated, because his influence has continued to this day, until the new century, to the next century." ”
"This memorial book left to celebrate his 90th birthday is of great academic, cultural and historical value. There are so many people from different social classes, cultural backgrounds, academic expertise to congratulate, there are new, old, there are peers, predecessors, juniors, everyone sincerely from the heart to congratulate his 90th birthday, it is rare. Such cultural writings are not ordinary writings, and it seems that such an affirmation can be given to a person of culture, as if there were none later. "Chen Zishan believes that the commemorative album is not only a vivid record of Mr. Zhang Yuanji's extensive travels and life's work, but also the last glory of the 20th century literati collection."
The School Drama Letter Of seventy years of dust - "Proofreading the Letter of The Miscellaneous Drama of the YuanMing Dynasty"
At the end of the 1930s, the rediscovery of the Yuanming miscellaneous drama "Also the Garden Old Collection" attracted great attention from the academic community and the whole society. In order to preserve ancient books through circulation, during the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhang Yuanji personally presided over the commercial press's loan printing of 144 kinds of Yuanming miscellaneous dramas in the "Old Collection of the Garden".
The Original Seven Volumes of the "Correspondence Between the Revised Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas" collected by the Shanghai Library were originally divided into seven volumes, that is, the special collection of letters between Zhang Yuanji or the Commercial Press at that time and Zheng Zhenduo, Wang Yunwu, Yuan Tongli, Li Xuangong, Wang Jilie, Ding Yinggui, Jiang Dianyang, Hu Wenkai, Jiang Zhongmu, Qu Fengqi, Ren Shengzu, Sun Kaidi, Sun Boheng, Wang Shoudi and other relevant institutions to sort out and publish the "Orphan Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas". From June 22, 1938 to December 10, 1941, it records the entire process of sorting, editing, printing, publishing and distributing opera works, and completely and vividly reflects the style of collation and publication of ancient books in the Commercial Press.
This time, the Commercial Press compiled and merged the "Correspondence of Revised Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas" into six volumes of photocopying and publishing, using full-text scanning and printing first, and then using printouts for identification and collation.
"There are about 470 letters in the "Correspondence between the Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas". I can make about 10 pieces a day when it is smooth, and I may not be able to do one for one or two days, two or three days when it is not smooth. "Dr. Hu Jian, deputy research librarian of Shanghai Library, is responsible for writing the titles of each correspondence, including information such as the time of writing and sending, the writer, the reason, the recipient, and the type of letter, basically using the original text. The title inscription of "Proofreading The Correspondence Between Yuanming and Miscellaneous Dramas" is written by Gu Tinglong, an ancient book versionist, bibliographer, calligrapher, and former director of the Shanghai Library.
According to statistics, only more than 20 pieces of the "Correspondence between The Revised Yuanming Miscellaneous Dramas" have been published, in other words, 95% have not been published, including dozens of cases that have not been recorded in the "Complete Works of Zhang Yuanji" and "The Complete Works of Zheng Zhenduo".
These letters not only have important reference value for the editing and collation of ancient opera books, but also are direct and vivid records of the beginning of modern Chinese publishing, but also reflect the social life and current situation in China in the 1930s and 1940s, and are valuable historical materials for the study of China's publishing history, literary history and social history.
Zhi Pain National Disaster Edition Masterpiece - "Han Fen Lou Ember Yu Book" (Manuscript)
HanfenLou is the library of the Commercial Press, and the original collection of ancient books and rare books is about 3,000 or 4,000, including many Song and Yuan dynasty old books and orphan books in Hainei. In 1932, during the "1.28 Incident", the Oriental Library of the Shanghai Commercial Press, together with the Hanfen Building, which contained a large number of ancient books and rare books, was destroyed in the fires of the Japanese-Kou invasion, and nearly 500,000 books were instantly reduced to ashes.
Fortunately, Zhang Yuanji had stored the 5,000 copies of the Song and Yuan rare books treasured by Han Fenlou in advance in the vault of jincheng Bank in the Shanghai public concession, which saved these rare books. The Records of the Embers of Han fen lou is an ancient bibliography compiled by Zhang Yuanji for this batch of rare books after the gunfire, with the title "Embers, So Zhi Pain Also", which was typeset and published by the Shanghai Commercial Press in 1951.
This is also Zhang Yuanji's last work on the collation of ancient books. It is reported that the "Records of the Embers of Han Fen Lou" (manuscript) now in the Shanghai Library is a typed mimeograph of Zhang Yuanji's modified and annotated handwriting, and finally distributed and printed accordingly. Among the 547 rare books he has written, 90 are Song engravings (including Yuan Xiu and Yuan Ming manuscripts), 22 Shadow Song Manuscripts, 1 Gold Engraving, 2 Mongolian Engravings, 87 Yuan Engravings (including Ming Xiuben), 72 Famous ScholarLy Editions, 17 Manuscripts, and the rest are rare Ming Ben, Ming Movable Characters, and Ming and Qing Old Manuscripts that were handed over by famous artists.
The manuscript is divided into classics, histories, sub-books, and collections according to the classification of the four libraries, and the ten volumes are uniformly revised by Zhang Yuanji. The first volume also contains the handwritten seal text of Gu Tinglong for the typeset edition of "Hanfen Lou Ember Yu Shulu" and "Shanghai Commercial Press Collection Edition". Compared with the printed version, the manuscript retains the original appearance of the book-forming process, and many of the version information deleted in the printed version due to the length of the manuscript are restored in the manuscript, and the reader can also see the judgment made by Zhang Yuanji and his style of governance.
The manuscript was compiled by Chen Xianxian, a researcher at the Shanghai Library. Chen Xianxing believes that the "Ember Yu Shu" reflects Zhang Yuanji's view of "rare books"; as an extremely outstanding bibliography, the Hanfen Lou Ember Yu Shulu has a non-negligible position in the history of editions.
"Distance 'I · Today, 85 years after the 28th Incident, the Shanghai Library and the Commercial Press have cooperated in photocopying and publishing this manuscript of the "Records of the Embers of Han Fen Lou", which has attracted little attention in the past, although it is out of commemoration of the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Commercial Press and the 150th anniversary of Zhang Julao's birth, and it is also to warn the world to remember history as the primary starting point. The discussion of the Han Fen Lou Yu Shu And its editions on this opportunity is also of positive practical significance for the inheritance, development and protection of ancient books in relation to the inheritance and development of versionology. ”