The Anthology of Literature is the earliest surviving collection of poems in China, edited by Xiao Tong of the Southern Dynasty. Wang Xiantang was a well-known bibliophile in modern Jinan, who was the director of the Shandong Provincial Library, and he once formed an indissoluble relationship with the Song carved Anthology.
In August 1929, Wang Xiantang, a native of Rizhao, Shandong, became the director of the Shandong Provincial Library. At the time of the "May 3rd" massacre, the building was seriously damaged, the collection of books and cultural relics was damaged, and the lack of funds was extremely short, making it difficult to sustain. "However, at this time, there is the most recordable thing, that is, Ma Huijiejun, who ran the Industrial and Commercial Bank of Jinan, owed 120,000 yuan in public funds, and was unable to return it, so he used his books to compensate for his return to the public." Ma Huijie was a famous official and official, also known as Zhongping, also a Rizhao person, former Kiyohide, who studied in Japan. In 1915, he was appointed director and manager of Jinan Telephone Co., Ltd.; in 1919, he opened the Jinan Industrial and Commercial Bank in Jiayishi Street, serving as the general manager; in 1926, he was invited by Chu Yupu, the military superintendent of the province, to become the director of the Provincial Department of Finance. During Zhang Zongchang's misfortune, Shandong's financial industry was in a slump, and Ma Huijie's Industrial and Commercial Bank of China collapsed in 1928, owing 120,000 yuan in public funds and 6875 volumes of 286 kinds of ancient books in the family collection, of which 30 or 40 kinds of Ming and Qing dynasty fine books, including 30 or 40 kinds of Old Engravings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and scribed school rare books. This is the beginning of the collection of rare books in shandong provincial libraries. "It is also a great fortune that the museum inadvertently obtained this treasure of beauty and wealth." (Wang Xiantang, "Review of the Work of the Museum in the Past Year")
Ma Huijie and Wang Xiantang were both famous bibliophiles in modern Jinan, and the two Rizhao compatriots had already formed a relationship with a Song carved "Anthology". The Anthology of Literature is the earliest surviving collection of poems in China, edited by Xiao Tong of the Southern Dynasty. Xiao Tong was the eldest son of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, and was made crown prince before he took the throne, with the nickname "Zhaoming", so his descendants also called "Selected Writings of Zhaoming". The Anthology of Literature includes more than 700 articles in 38 genres from 130 writers from the pre-Qin to the Six Dynasties, and has become a model for people to learn poetry. During the Xianqing period of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shan made annotations for it, and between the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Lü Yanji, Liu Liang, Zhang Qiao, Lü Xiang, and Li Zhouhan made a joint annotation, called the "Five Ministers' Notes". Subsequently, there were six more notes (that is, Li Shan was in front and five ministers were in the back) Ganzhou Ben and so on. This Ganzhou Prefecture school engraving is rare, and only three or four libraries in Beijing, Shanghai, Jilin and other places, as well as the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, have collections, and they are all fragments. In the sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1880), Wang Yirong, a native of Fushan, Shandong Province, on his way back from Beijing as a new branch jinshi, purchased seventy pages of the six-minister annotation fragment of Song Ganzhou's "Anthology of Literature" at Taihe Yinlou in Penglai County, and this fragment was the family property of Wang Deying (Qing Jiaqing Jinshi, Guan Henan Anyang Ling) of Wang Yirong's family. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), Wang Yirong, who was the supervisor of the Guozi Festival and the minister of the Jingshi Regiment, committed suicide and martyrdom, and this book was collected by his fourth son Wang Chonghuan. On the page of the Anthology of Literature, there is an inscription poem by Wang Chonghuan: "Liang Xuan Song carved a few leaves, and the Kui Elk poorly reflected the Daiyun Building." A combination of exquisite storage, the original recognition of Ganzhou. "The Daiyun Building in the poem is the library building of the Qing Dynasty scribe Qian Qianyi, and the Linglong Mountain Pavilion is the library of the Qing Dynasty scribe Ma Lutai." Butterfly original" means that this book is like a butterfly suit. Butterfly suit is the main form of binding of Song and Yuan carved edition books, "loading with inverted folds, all around the outward, insects and rats can not be damaged", the appearance is similar to the current paperback book, when reading, the page is like a butterfly spreading its wings, so it is called butterfly suit. Wang Chonghuan has the words "Huigong Xiantai Township Mayor Jiancun" in the inscription, and "Huigong" refers to Ma Huijie. At that time, Wang Chonghuan was serving as a subordinate of Ma Huijie in the Department of Finance, and he gave Ma Huijie the Ganzhou Anthology of this family collection. Later, through the introduction of Wang Xiantang, a bibliographer who was not yet the director of the Shandong Provincial Library at that time, Ma Shi transferred the book to the collection of Mr. Zhang Jingyu (Zi Yixuan), a famous bibliophile in Jinan. On November 16, 1958, Wang Xiantang wrote an inscription on the book: "This is the Southern Song Dynasty Ganzhou engraved "Anthology", which is still in original form, and the printing is not too late, it is still a Song ben. In 1962, Zhang Jingyu returned the fragments of these three volumes of "Selected Works" to the Shandong Provincial Library.
Wang Yirong once said in a poem: "Ink addiction is my disease, and others laugh and laugh and are epileptic." Wang Xiantang said in the "Hundred Narratives of the Collection": "Reading for more than thirty years, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles, walking cold stalls in the old market every day... Brave the wind, rain, frost and snow to ignore also. Qing Dai entered, half lost the book market, the daily supply was insufficient or the clothes were shrunk, the boudoir was begged, and after the continuation, people laughed and laughed as foolish, and they also ignored it. "Book obsession, the same line, on the rise, Wang Xiantang Jushu love books or better." He personally collected more than 50,000 ancient books and became a family. Since becoming the director of the Shandong Provincial Library, he has deliberately searched for cultural relics and expanded the collection, making the provincial map collection rich within a few years, from 60,000 volumes before his appointment to nearly 220,000 volumes before the "July 7" incident, of which 36,000 are good books. When the Japanese army invaded China and approached Jinan, Wang Xiantang Chinese classic treasures for the embassy to avoid disaster, and did everything possible to raise freight and transport them thousands of miles to the rear of Sichuan for preservation. "In recent months, the War of Resistance has begun in various places, and the horses have been born in the suburbs, and the wind and birds have been disturbed. The residents of Jinan have moved away, ten rooms and nine empty... Up to October, the war day in northern Lu was approaching, and as a last resort, the golden stone of the Museum of Fine Works was stored in another place. He packed the collection of Song and Yuan editions of good books, Tang Dynasty scriptures, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Qin and Han tiles, and Ming Dynasty porcelain into ten huge boxes, and together with Qu Wanli, director of the Compilation Department, and li Yigui, a co-worker, he was first escorted to the Confucius Mansion in Qufu for temporary storage. On December 27, Wang Xiantang and three other people left Qufu south in a special car for the seriously injured in the provincial hospital. On that day, Jinan fell. Along the way, the wind and food were sleeping, braving enemy bombing and bandit raids. Wang Xiantang felt a heavy mission, he said: "This is the essence of Shandong literature. If there is an accident, why face Qilu's father and elder? Only the same is gone! On November 24, 1938, "arrived at Leshan and lived in the Tianhou Temple in the city." The self-contained book left Jixia and migrated here, counting more than 7,000 miles" (Qu Wanli's "Record of the Transmission of the Book"). Since then, people have lived in Buddhist temples, books and caves, and they have lived together in dismal times. Wang Xiantang has a poem to give Qu Wanli: "MaoTang Jing is a monk to The Sun, and the books on the case are as cold as ice." I have no home, and the empty mountains are old and windy. He called himself the old man of the lake, meaning that his heart would always belong to Daming Lake and the Shandong Provincial Library on the shore of the lake. In 1950, this batch of treasures that had endured ups and downs was transported back to Jinan, counting 163 kinds of Song and Yuan old books, Ming and Qing periodicals, manuscripts, manuscripts, manuscripts, and batch school books, and 556 pieces of gold stones, all of which were transferred to the Shandong Provincial Museum. In the Song and Yuan inscriptions, there are also two volumes (fifty-six volumes and fifty-nine volumes) of the Ganzhou Edition of the Anthology, which are the same as the fragments of the book collected by Wang Yirong, but the source is unknown. But one thing is for sure, it is a rare treasure that Wang Xiantang painstakingly visited by the Shanzuo scholar Wang Xiantang, and followed this cultural master through seven thousand miles of clouds and moons.