Riding the wind of rebirth

"Chongshi has a hobby. He likes to invite friends to visit the half-acre garden for temporary residence and study. Among them is the famous scholar Miao Quansun. Here, "the first collection of books is the study of catalogues. It is a time when books are straight and cheap." .”

"There are also important ministers and envoys during the Joseon Dynasty's Gojong period, the painter Park Guishou, and Chongsil became brothers with him."

"After Chongshi's death, the garden continued to pass on to his son Songshen."

"Songshen, whose name is Dushan, was an official to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. After his death, he was given the posthumous title of 'Wen Ke'."

"Songdu Mountain!" Director Qi and Professor Li exclaimed together, finally knowing who this person is.

"Songshen was also a great figure in the late Qing Dynasty," Zhou Zhi introduced: "The Banmu Garden did not change much during the Songshen period, and the family was still prosperous. When Songshen's daughter got married, Li Hongzhang also attended the wedding banquet in the Banmu Garden. "

"On Songshen's 16th birthday in the 50th year of Guangxu, he and his uncle Chonghou invited Prince Gong Yi, University scholar Bao Jun, etc. to Banmu Garden for a banquet. They also left poems to sing together."

"Sun Junyi, a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty who once traveled to Fusang, once worked as a teacher in Banmu Garden."

"But another teacher is even more formidable. Zhou Songnian, a master of Confucian classics in the late Qing Dynasty who admired Feng Guozhang and taught Hong Shilu, also worked as a teacher in Banmu Garden."

"Let's not talk about Feng Guozhang. Hong Shilu later became the president of the National Capital Medical University and the first academician of the Academia Sinica."

"Xu Shichang, the president of the Beiyang government, was also a student of Songshen. He studied in Banmu Yuanzhi Zhai for two years when he was not yet successful, and he became a successful high school scholar."

"The rest of the important ministers, such as Natong, also went to Banmu Garden many times to make appointments and discuss state affairs. There are many records in "Natong's Diary."

"Thus, the Banmu Garden has always been a cultural center in the late Qing Dynasty, a collection center, a gathering place for high-ranking officials and literati, and three generations of Songshen's ancestors and grandchildren can operate it, and the various collections are very impressive."

"After Songshen's death, Songshen's sons Jingxian and Zhixian became the owners of Banmu Garden. Jingxian was good at appreciating calligraphy and painting books and had a rich collection. At that time, many collectors and sellers in Beijing flocked to him, so he saw a lot. The proceeds are rich.”

"A few other major events are also recorded. In the summer of [-], Fu Zengxiang went to Banmu Garden to appreciate Jingxian's collection "Hong Fan Zhengjian".

"The article mentions the wealth of Jingxian's collection: Yuhua Pavilion's Song and Yuan Zhanzhu, famous sage banknotes, overflowing racks, no worries about thousands of signatures, but unique treasures, it is inferred that this is the top crown."

"There is another incident. In [-], the Japanese Tokutomi Sufeng and Ariga Choo received invitations to participate in Wanyan Jingxian's half-acre garden gathering."

"Defu Sufeng wrote in "The Elegant Collection of Half Acre Garden" that Yan Jingxian prepared part of his collection after the banquet, and said at the invitation: "My collection of calligraphy and paintings of the Six Dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties has historical records and textual research. There are no less than dozens of things, and they are not unfolded under the lights and wine. This time Mr. Su Feng came to China, so he made an exception and picked out more than ten kinds of watches to welcome him. If you want to watch them all, you must go to the garden regularly at noon to appreciate them, sit quietly and study them. I would like to discuss in detail, and evaluate A and B, the quality of the great legalists, what do you think."

"Presumably this set of "Complete Map of Bashu" was earned by the Wanyan family in its heyday."

"So this Wanyan is not the Wanyan under Songshan Mountain, but Songshen, that is, the Wanyan family of Songdu Mountain. No matter the time, place, person, background, it all makes sense at once!"

"This set of maps can flow to the middle of Sichuan, is the Wanyan family declining?" Director Yuan asked.

"Yeah, it was very prosperous and then declined. In his later years, because of the deterioration of the family's financial situation, Jingxian had already begun to sell the collections of Banmu Garden. Most of the collections were purchased by Fu Kaisen, the first president of Jinling University, a Canadian. "

"This set of maps should have come out at this time. At least Wanyan Jingxian knew that the maps could not be sold to foreigners, although at that time foreigners already had more accurate maps of Bashu."

"Fu Kaisen, I know." Professor Li nodded: "I have been Li Hongzhang, Liu Kunyi, and Zhang Zhidong's staff, planned the Southeast Mutual Insurance, participated in the revision of the treaty with Japan and the United States, and participated as an advisor to the Chinese delegation. A Washington conference that seeks to curb the expansion of island nations in China."

This kind of thing sounds so nonsensical now, but Fu Kaisen can indeed be regarded as a good friend of the Chinese people until he was captured by the island country in [-] and then sent to the United States.

During his 57 years in China, he made a lot of contributions to the modernization of Chinese society. At the beginning, he studied Chinese culture and sent some collections to the Metropolitan Museum. Later, he realized the problem. The entire collection of ten years was donated to Jinling University.

Professor Li, who studies history, of course knows this person.

"The history of the decline of the Banmu Garden is actually the history of the decline of China in the late Qing Dynasty." Zhou Zhi said: "The ruins of the Banmu Garden were still there in the 50s, but they are gone now... Ah yes, the stone door frame of the Banmu Garden is now It was demolished to the west mountain and used as the gate of the so-called 'Cao Xueqin's former residence', so some things were left behind."

Professor Li gave Zhou Zhi a thumbs up: "Yuan Suo and Mr. Gu both recommended you to me. I was only joking before, but now it seems that it is really appropriate to entrust this treasure of the town school to you to restore." !"

After speaking, he laughed loudly: "Who knew that this time I came to test you, but I taught myself a lesson and solved a mysterious case! Hurry up and write what you said today into a paper, and I will list it in "Shu In "Tibetan", the ins and outs of this set of maps are finally coherent."

"Elbow, how do you know Banmu Garden so well?" Director Yuan always felt that this was too unbelievable: "The last time I saw you, didn't you say that you would inherit the Gu family and study the Song Dynasty?"

The knowledge of the Gu family is also fun. Everyone focuses on rhyme and history.

Moreover, there is an order from generation to generation. Gu Shaoxian was involved in the Wei, Jin and Three Kingdoms, Gu Youwen was involved in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Gu Zhenduo studied the Tang Dynasty, and Gu Kailai studied the Five Dynasties.

When I arrived at Zhouzhi, I started to study the Song Dynasty, which coincidentally followed.

Zhou Zhi didn’t dare to say that this was the homework for Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang that he prepared to decorate after he purchased the Demian Hall. The Demian Hall is a large courtyard house, and the half-acre garden is a courtyard community. The records in the historical materials are very detailed. Moreover, as an exhibition center and a collection center, the functions of the two overlapped, and the two elders felt that it would not be wrong to let Zhou Zhi read more about this kind of information.

Mr. Wang even took Zhou Zhi to the museum to watch "The Illustrated Notes of Hongxue's Destiny" and "Kangshan Fucha" at close range, as well as the Liuyuncha, which was a reward for Zhou Zhi's "study".

These three items are usually not exhibited at all, not to mention that ordinary visitors can’t see them, and even ordinary staff only know the names of the three independent cultural relics on the record files at most, and they can’t figure out the three independent cultural relics. The existence of cultural relics and the stories behind them, as well as their interrelationships.

So this kind of experience is both torture and luck for Zhou Zhi. Chinese studies are like a big net, and seemingly useless cold knowledge may come in handy on any occasion.

Today's incident is one of them.