The opening ceremony of the exhibition commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Wang Dalong was held yesterday in the exhibition hall on the fourth floor of the Liberal Arts Library of Fudan University. Fudan University Library, Fudan University Institute of Chinese Ancient Books Protection, Fudan University Department of Chinese, Fudan University Ancient Chinese Literature Research Center jointly invited Shanghai Library, Shanghai Century Publishing Group, East China Normal University Library and some book lovers to cooperate in organizing this exhibition.
Wang Dalong, given the name Dalong, the character Xinfu, the number of supplementary an, and later the line of characters. Known as Wang Xinfu, he is an expert in classical Chinese philology, and his "Lecture Notes on Philology", from the perspective of historical development, comprehensively describes the evolution of the source flow of Chinese catalogs, editions, and schools, as well as the main representative figures and important works. He has compiled and edited "Xu Ku Xuelin", "Supplement to the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries", "Supplement to the Chronicle of The Book", and so on. Contemporaries Xu Naichang, Fu Zengxiang, Liu Chenggan, Zhou Shuhan and others had many contacts. In his early years, he visited Liu Chenggan's library JiayeTang, borrowed money from him, borrowed a large number of books from the school, and admired his collection of books. In the 1950s, fudan university library purchased the Ming and Qing inscriptions and manuscript banknotes in Jiayetang for three times, and Wang Dalong contributed a lot.
The exhibits include the original manuscript of Wang Xinfu's inscription "Han Shi Testament Supplement One Volume and One Supplement" in the library of Fudan University Library, the manuscript of "Xiao ji of Yushan Xianzhe" in the Shanghai Library, the "Ling Zhongqing Gongwen Collection" in the Collection of Nanming Yong calendar engraved by Shanghai Book Company, and the "Collected Works of Yang Zhengjun" (Wang Xinfubao) in the library of East China Normal University. Mr. Xinfu, a private bibliophile gao Ender, used to print ten squares for himself, Mr. Xinfu from Sun Jianquan used for his own use, and Mr. Xinfu, a teacher of the Department of Chinese of Fudan University, used the seal book fan, etc., to pay tribute to The Chinese book culture with a commemorative exhibition, and to commemorate Mr. Xinfu, who has worked hard to continue traditional culture, died, made people look forward to it, and never survived.
At the opening ceremony, Dr. Shen Congwen of Shanghai Library delivered a speech on behalf of Director Chen Chao, pointing out that this commemorative exhibition has good educational significance, and we should learn from Wang Xinfu's spirit of preserving documents and rigorously governing studies, inherit his good intentions of continuing the traditional cultural bloodline, be inclusive, and return to the basics.
Kan Ninghui, President of Shanghai Century Publishing Group, talked about the work done by the Publishing Group in Wang Xinfu's academic research and collation and publishing, and believed that this commemorative exhibition is an excellent opportunity for exchanges between the academic community and the industry, and will maintain close cooperation with the academic community in the future to carry forward Mr. Wang's career. Looking back on the past, Kan Ninghui recalled the experience of his mentor Mr. Zhou Zimei in the Chinese Department of St. John's University and Wang Xinfu in the past, "My generation should continue to do the academic career of the previous generations of scholars, and make a modest contribution to the inheritance of Chinese excellent culture."
Hu Xiaoming, director of the library of East China Normal University, gave a poem entitled "Book Exhibition on the 12nd Anniversary of the Birth of Mr. Wang Xinfu": "After kunyu burned the platter, Youlan hoeed yu. The cowshed hurts the past, and the moth sees the broken book. Lang Bao contains light for a long time, and the fine investigation is at the beginning of the pen. The souls gathered and spoke, and the belated desire to comfort the canal. "Tribute to Wang Xinfu. Zhu Gang, head of the Department of Fudan Chinese, shared the characteristics of the discipline of classical literature of Fudan University - the excavated documents led by Qiu Xigui, the Ming and Qing documents pioneered by Zhang Peiheng, the Han and Tang documents engaged in by Chen Shangjun, and the new model of talent training in the department of Chinese, hoping to further expand and strengthen the research in relevant fields in the form of step-by-step teaching, from shallow to deep, and cultivate future talents for the inheritance and dissemination of Wang Xinfu's scholarship.
Chen Junshang, senior professor of Fudan University and director of the Center for The Study of Ancient Chinese Literature, shared the history of Fudan's "Ten Elders of the Chinese Department - Chen Wangdao, Guo Shaoyu, Zhu Dongrun, Chen Zizhan, Zhang Shilu, Wu Wenqi, Zhao Jingshen, Jiang Tianshu, Wang Xinfu, Liu Dajie" (according to age), especially the reasons for wang Xinfu's selection and Mr. Zhang Peiheng's decision. Combined with his own experience in reading and studying, he highly praised the academic value of Wang Xinfu's "Lecture Notes on Philology" and considered it a rare philological textbook. Talking about Wang Xinfu's collection and collation of the scattered documents in Jiangnan since the end of the Qing Dynasty, he pointed out that it is precisely because of people like Wang Xinfu that countless rare books and rare books in China can be passed down from generation to generation after experiencing the test of the years.
Chen Si, director of Fudan University Library, believes that this commemorative exhibition is of great significance, on the one hand, these dazzling exhibits are the first relatively complete exhibition after the death of Mr. Xinfu, and are a grand event in the publishing and collection circles. On the other hand, Wang Xinfu's collection of books has survived several hardships and survived under the preservation of his disciple Xu Peng, former director of the Fudan University Library, Bao Zhenhu, former deputy director of the National Library, and Li Qing, a disciple of the Retransmission. Nowadays, Fudan University's research on literature is also deepening, and behind this commemorative exhibition is the hard work of several generations of scholars, which is a consolation for Wang Xinfu's later scholars to himself and generations of bibliophiles.
Wang Xinfu's academic symposium was also held in the Liberal Arts Library on the same day, and Yang Guanghui, executive vice president of the China Institute of Ancient Books Conservation, read out the written speech of Professor Li Qing of Kanazawa University in Japan. Li Qing believes that the holding of the commemorative exhibition reflects the affirmation of Wang Xinfu by Fudan University and relevant parties and the reflection on the disposal of Wang Xinfu's collection in history, and also proves the value of Wang Xinfu's academic career in life. In addition to collecting, appreciating, exhibiting, copying and publishing Mr. Wang's works, we should do more, showing newer and higher goals and pursuits.
Lu Dadong of the China Academy of Art pointed out that the Self-Use Seal of Wang Xinfu carved by Zou Mengchan, Dao Xiong, Kang Weiqi, Hu Zhaozhou and others not only showed unique aesthetic value, but also showed Wang Xinfu's own aesthetic needs for seals and the humanistic exchanges of that year. Zhang Xianguang of Shanghai Shiwai Education Group introduced Mr. Wang Xinfu's ancestral achievements in scripture and chapters, and believed that Wang Xinfu was a collector, preserver, arranger and disseminator of Shimen documents, and it was precisely because of his spirit of cherishing the ancients, willing to continue his life for ancient books and regarding them as a lifelong cause, that this precious collection of books was passed down to the world, and only later generations could understand his great achievements through these books.
It is reported that the Ming and Yong calendar engravings and blue printed books including the List of China's National Precious Ancient Books of the Shanghai Book Company were also exhibited at this commemorative exhibition.
Author: Wang Licheng
Image source: Organizer
Editor: Chen Xihan