Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

Yanfen Cottage and Xijian Cottage are both Jiang Guangcan's library. The site of Yanfen Caotang is located in Donghe Street (formerly known as South Street) beside Tongjin Bridge, Kipshi Town, Haining City, Zhejiang Province. It was built around the end of Qianlong. The building of Yanfen Thatched Cottage was originally a pawn base and a high wall iron gate, which is very strong. There is a couplet on the gate of Yanfen Caotang, "Jiu Hou Wang Families, Ten Thousand Volumes of Books". When you enter the gate, turn left and there are three halls. The back is the building hall, which is divided into three rooms, with a fan in the middle, and a plaque in official script of "Yanfen Caotang" hanging in the hall, which was written by Li Chaosun. On the upper floor, the old pine trees of Song and Yuan Dynasties were collected, and Yanfen Thatched Cottage was later renamed "Yizhiju". There is a catalpa tree in the courtyard, which is hundreds of years old. Then it is called "Beiyuan Xiashan Tower", where Dong Yuan's "Xiashan Map" was collected. The front of the northern head is "Wuyanzhai", Zhang Tingji's book forehead, named after the five inkstones such as Fanlong's inkstone for writing scriptures in the Tibetan and Song Dynasties, and Chen Laolian (Hongshou)'s inkstone for painting plums in the Ming Dynasty. "Wuyanzhai" was later named "Sibuqunzhai", and the plaque was written by Qian Erlin (Qian Taiji's trainee), which was the welcoming flower hall of Jiang's family. The upper floor of "Sibuqunzhai" is a collection of books, which specializes in collecting Ming periodicals, manuscripts and rare books. Later, it is "Shuangfeng Stone Room", and the plaque is Jiang Guangxuan's handwriting (seal script). Jiang Guangcan still has three library buildings behind Jiang's ancestral hall in Xiashi Lane West Street, storing ancient books of the second generation of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Haichang Jiang's Bingshe, stone forehead and stone inscription couplet "Wancang Mountain connects with North Hubei, and Yixiu Peak borders Xijianxi". Xijian Thatched Cottage originally collected the posthumous writings of Jiang Guangcan's ancestors. During the Xianfeng period, the entire collection of Yanfen Thatched Cottage was once collected here. The owner of the library in Yanfen Caotang, Jiang Guangxuan, styled Yinfang, named Yinfang, and named Jingzhai, was born in the fifth year of Daoguang (1825) and died in the 21st year of Guangxu (1895). He is the younger brother of Jiang Guangxu, the owner of Bie Xia Zhai. The Jiang family in Haining was originally from Jiangjia Village, Wuxuqiao, Haiyan. They moved to Xiashi Town, Haining in the middle of the Qianlong period and lived together. His ancestor Jiang Yunfeng had 4 sons after moving to Kipshi, Jiang Guangxu was the second wife, Jiang Guangxu was the fourth wife, and lost his father when he was 4 years old. He was brought up by his mother Xu Anren and his biological mother Cao. , so he spared no expense to buy or copy it. When his collection of books was flourishing, the famous bibliographers Qian Taiji, Shao Yichen, Gao Junru, the famous painters Fei Danxu and Weng Luo, and the epigrapher Zhang Tingji lived in Bie Xia Zhai, and they often went to have fun. His collection of books is all stamped with the seal of "Yanguan Jiang's Yanfen Thatched Cottage III". Jiang's ancestors started their business as a pawnbroker, and their family was rich, which created favorable material conditions for collecting books. There are hundreds of thousands of volumes in the collection, among which there are many orphans and rare ones. When the collection of Yanfen Caotang was transferred to Xijian Caotang, Haiyan Zhu Jiayu (Zixin) compiled a copy of "Xijian Caotang Bibliography", containing 1605 volumes and 24813 volumes in his collection. Among them, there are 25 rare books with 238 volumes in Song Dynasty, 27 in Yuan Dynasty with 482 volumes, 26 in Ming Dynasty with 1,213 volumes, and 146 manuscripts and school copies with 955 volumes, all of which are stored in Haining County Library. Afterwards, Jiang Qinxu, the second-grandson of Jiang Guangzhang, edited three volumes of "The Bibliography of Yanguan Jiang's Yanfen Cottage Collection". The bibliography records the edition of each book, the number of volumes (volumes), the number of words per page, the imprint of the bibliophile, and the inscriptions and postscripts of celebrities. It is a pity that this project was lost during the "Cultural Revolution". Jiang Guangzhang is not only a famous bibliophile, but also a publisher. He has inscribed "Poetry Collection", "Mencius Yaolue", "Duan's Shuowen Jiezi Note", "Five Kinds of Burial Books", "Huixi Medical Cases", "Xu Critic Surgery Authentic", "Jiaxing Qian Yiji Chronicle Continuation", "Yuanhe Chen Kejia Penglai Pavilion Poetry Records", "Meichao Miscellaneous Poems" and so on. Among them, "Poetry Anthology Chuan Yin Shi" is considered to be the best book since the Ming Dynasty, and Jiang Guangzhang also has a certain status in the history of Chinese publishing. Jiang Guangxuan also wrote a volume of "Poetry Novels", "Jingzhai Miscellaneous Works", which contain poems, orderly postscripts, small notes, etc., and also compiled "Jiexiaolu" for his mother, Mrs. Xu. The Yanfen Caotang Library has gone through many vicissitudes, but it is still largely preserved. In the 1950s, Haining City carried out drainage projects and demolished the two front halls of Yanfen Thatched Cottage, Baoyi Hall and Wuyanzhai. At present, there are still five halls including the library building of Yanfen Caotang, Yizhiju, Beiyuan Xiashan Building, Sibuqunzhai, and Shuangfeng Stone Room. The Xijian thatched cottage fell into disrepair for a long time. In 1984, the Haiyan County People's Government allocated special funds to restore it according to its original appearance. Famous scholar Yu Pingbo supplemented the plaque of "Xijian Thatched Cottage"; Gu Tinglong, curator of Shanghai Library, inscribed "Yixiu Pavilion"; Yanfen Cottage and Xijian Cottage were listed as city-level and county-level cultural protection units in 1984 and 1986, respectively. Although the collection of books in the two library buildings has gone through many wars such as the Revolution of 1911 and the War of Resistance Against Japan, the descendants of the Chiang family have kept the books intact and will not lose them in the end. After the founding of New China, Jiang Pengqian, a descendant of the Chiang family, generously donated all the books collected by his parents to the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee. Now they are stored in Beijing Library, Shanghai Library and Zhejiang Library respectively. Jiang Guangzhang devoted his whole life to the cause of book collection. Yu Yue, a famous scholar, has an elegiac couplet saying: "Thousands of volumes were held in the clumps of remnants. At that time, three pavilions asked for books, and I asked the ashes to search for the slips; after 30 years of study, I will have a stele to represent the tomb. I am ashamed of my ancestors and friends." This is a true portrayal of Jiang Guangzun's life of book collection.

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