Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1430 Jingjiatang

"Old man Sakamoto asked me to go to Kyoto and see his collection. Do you want to go?" Mr. Ma asked.

"As for Kyoto, I would rather go to Jingjia Hall..."

"Yes, Jingjiatang's Yaobian Tianmu is said to be the best in the world, but the ones here can be ranked second. There is also Longguang Temple, but that one is for Buddha, and most people can't see it. Do you want to go? Look at that?"

"No, why can't you get out of the kiln? Jingjiatang, 'Qi Pian only belongs to me, a scholar can be regarded as a proud person'."

"This tone is really quite serious. What kind of scholar is so arrogant? Which dynasty does he come from?"

"In modern times, Naito Honan, we can only blame ourselves for not living up to expectations. What a pity!"

"I haven't been to Jingjia Hall yet, and I know that the Yaobian Celestial Eye there is the best in the world. I don't know anything else. Can you tell me?"

"There is a poem that goes, 'The harp and the sword float in the sky for hundreds of years, eight thousand volumes are scattered across the sea; a majestic pavilion remains in the sky, and there is a huge collection of documents in the southeast.' It is talking about the four major book collectors in the late Qing Dynasty."

"The Qin and Sword in the poem refers to Qu's Iron Qin and Bronze Sword Tower in Changshu; Baisong refers to Lu's Song Dynasty Tower in Gui'an; Eight Thousand Juans refers to Ding's Eight Thousand Juans Tower in Qiantang; Haiyuan, It refers to the four libraries of Yang's Haiyuan Pavilion in Shandong, which are known as the four major private collections of books in the late Qing Dynasty."

"Then 'The majestic pavilion leaves the sky and the earth, and the literature is the largest in the southeast.' is the Tianyi Pavilion you are talking about, right?"

"Yes, this poem talks about the fact that all the books in the four major libraries were lost. Only Tianyi Pavilion left some seeds of ancient books to the country. In the end, only this large collection of documents remained."

"Oh, it's such a pity..."

"Let's just talk about the Song Dynasty Tower. The collector is called Lu Xinyuan. The Lu family has been collecting books since Lu Xinyuan's father. When he came to his house, he made a fortune by suppressing the Taiping Army and building the Fujian Salt Transport Road. After resigning, he settled in the east of Gui'an City. Next to the Lotus Villa, a 'Qianyuan' was built, and in the garden were built the 'Kansong Tower', the 'Hundred Volumes Tower', and the 'Shouxian Pavilion' with a collection of books on the third floor, containing more than 150,000 volumes."

"Lu Xinyuan not only collected books, but also edited them. He studied with his fellow villagers Yao Zongkan, Dai Wang, Shi Buhua, Yu Jinshu, Wang Zhulu, and Ling Xia. He was known as the "Seven Talents on the Mountain". During the Tongzhi period, he collected the remaining articles and compiled them into "Tang Wen Supplements". Two volumes, 16 volumes of "Tang Wen Xu". He is also proficient in the study of epigraphy and has written many works. "

"Lu Xinyuan had four sons. In the 23rd year of Guangxu's reign, the four brothers separated their families. The silk factory in Shanghai belonged to the eldest son, the bank went to the second son, and the pawnshop in his hometown of Huzhou was left to the third son. The fourth son was too young to manage money, so he will not be able to manage it for the time being. Participate in the division of the family. Although the ancient books, paintings and antiques in Lu Xinyuan's inheritance were not divided up, they had no intention to manage them and lacked funds to maintain them, so they began to fall into dilapidation. "

"In the middle of the 20th century, the islanders began to dump rayon and various cheap Japanese goods to China. The national capitalists were affected, and a large number of raw silk shops and silk reeling factories closed down. In order to cope with the embarrassment, the Lu family came up with the idea of ​​collecting books in the Song Dynasty Tower. ”

"In 1904, Lao Dalu Shufan entrusted his cousin who was studying in Japan to find a buyer, hoping to sell his father's entire collection at once to avoid irreparable losses caused by sporadic transfers in batches." "Kansong Tower is in Japan is famous in the academic and cultural circles, and many Japanese people were very excited when the news came out. Han Shimada, a Chinese bibliography scholar who was working as a librarian at the Mitsubishi Foundation's Jingjiado Bunko, heard the news. He strongly encouraged the owner of the library, Yanosuke Iwasaki, to purchase all of them and was ordered to go to Huzhou for inspection. "

"In 1906, Shimada Han arrived in Huzhou. Accompanied by Lu Shufan, he inspected the collections of the Kaiseong Tower and Shoxian Pavilion one by one. At the same time, he recorded the detailed types and volumes, and wrote a report and sent it back to China."

"In the spring of the next year, Jingjiatang library director Shigeno Sarisai went to Shanghai in person to discuss price, delivery, transportation and other issues with Lu Shufan, and finally signed a secret contract. In June 1907, a small fire Three tugboats were attached to the stern of the ship and sailed into Huzhou. They quietly loaded all Lu Xinyuan's suicide notes and sailed back to Shanghai overnight, where they were transported here by a Japanese mail ship. "

"How much did the little devil give them?" Mr. Ma was a little irritated. He talked about the history of the loss of cultural relics and ancient books in modern times. Anyone who works in this field is full of humiliation, depression and anger.

"One hundred and twenty thousand oceans, Yanosuke Iwasaki took over 4,172 types of rare engravings from the Song Pavilion, the Shiwanju Pavilion and the Shōsen Pavilion, totaling more than 40,000 volumes from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Since then, these exquisite works have become the largest in the island country. Collection of private libraries.”

"Now Jingjiatang Library has become a special library for collecting ancient books in the island country. According to the statistics of "Jingjiatang Secret Book Chronicles", "Jingjiatang Library Chinese Books Classification Catalog" and "Sequel", the library has a total collection of Chinese books There are 200,000 volumes of books, 80,000 volumes of Japanese books, and more than 6,000 pieces of ancient art.”

"Among them, those designated as national treasures of Japan include the Song Dynasty Yaobian Tianmu lamp, the Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu and Zhongfeng Mingben rulers, the Song Dynasty's Shaoxing ninth-year publication "Mao Shi Zhengyi Shanshu Edition", and the Tang Dynasty manuscript "Shuowen Jiezi" Wooden Edition Volumes, fragments of the "Collected Commentary of Spring and Autumn Classics" written by the Heian Dynasty of the island country, fragments of "Collected Commentary of Historical Records" published in the Northern Song Dynasty, etc.;"

"The key cultural properties to be protected include the Song version of the fragmentary version of "Zhou Li" with large Chinese characters in Shu, the Song version of "Shuowen Jiezi" in eight volumes, the Song version of the Hubei Tiquan Tea and Salt Department's publication of "Hanshu" in forty volumes, the Song version of "Tang Dynasty" "Book" in 90 volumes, Song edition of "Waitai Secret Prescriptions" in 42 volumes, Song edition of "Collected Works of Li Taibai" in 12 volumes, etc."

"The collection of Chinese books also includes the Yuan version of "Tokyo Menghua Lu" and the Qing copy of "Guangya Shuyi", etc."

"Before the acquisition of Lu's book collection, Jingjiatang only had a collection of more than 30,000 volumes. After more than 200 kinds of old inscriptions from the Song and Yuan Dynasties were put into storage, Jingjiatang rose overnight and became a large library known to the world."

"Judging from the "Illustrated Catalog of Song and Yuan Editions of Jingjiatang Library" published later, among the total number of old engravings from the Song and Yuan Dynasties collected by the building, the Song editions of the Jian Song Tower accounted for 88% of the total, and the Yuan editions accounted for 88% of the total. Eighty-one percent of the total.”

"After that, Jingjiatang did not stop searching for Chinese books. It sent Nagasawa Nobuya, the first person in modern philology in the island country at that time, to stay in China for six years with the funding of the Cultural Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island country, and continued to collect There are more than 300 rare ancient books, including the Jinling small-print version of "Compendium of Materia Medica" and the Song Dynasty reproduction of "Qian Jin Fang"."

After hearing this, Mr. Ma couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, compared to these, the loss of the special Yaobian Tianmu Zhan is only a small loss!"

Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Back then, Lu Xinyuan once said, 'Scholar-bureaucrats should pay attention to the interests of the world and the suffering of the people. Wherever they go, they can be at peace with the outside world, and where they can guard first and wait until later, so as to live up to the will of the innate prophet.' And with this intention, he built his final building. The library was named 'Shou Xian Pavilion'."

"I'm afraid he himself didn't expect that his descendants could neither live in peace nor wait for others. Less than thirteen years after his death, all the books he had collected with all his hard work and financial resources were lost. In the hands of Asians.”

(End of this chapter)