According to the compilation of Sikuquanshu, it was put forward in the thirty-seventh year of Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty (1772), and the Sikuquanshu Museum was formally established in February of the following year. At the end of forty-six years in Qianlong (178 1), the first edition of Sikuquanshu, namely Wen Yuan Library, was officially completed, which lasted for nine years. Since then, three books have been written one after another, namely Wensui Geben (in November of Qianlong forty-seven years), Wen Yuan Geben (in November of Qianlong forty-eight years) and Jinwen Geben (in November of Qianlong forty-nine years). It can be noted that Jinwen Pavilion is the last copy of Beisi Pavilion, which was written three years before the first Wenyuan Pavilion, which will be supplemented (see the following example).
It can also be noted that Sikuquanshu made two comprehensive comments after it was written, both of which started with Jinwen Geben. In May of the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty was in chengde mountain resort (the depository of Jinwen Pavilion). In his spare time, he looked up the book and found some mistakes, so he ordered a comprehensive review. In July of fifty-six years (179 1), Emperor Gaozong found the censored version of Jin Wenting in the summer resort, and Yang Xiong's "Fa Yan" was very angry with two lines, and ordered a comprehensive review again. These two reviews were hosted by the editor-in-chief Ji Xiaolan Yun.
In addition to the four museums in the north, Ganlong ordered three volumes of complete books, which were stored in Wen Hui Pavilion in Yangzhou, Wenzong Pavilion in Zhenjiang and Wen Lan Pavilion in Hangzhou. It should be said that among the seven books, the Jinwen Museum is the best preserved one. Wenyuan Pavilion, hidden in Yuanmingyuan, was completely destroyed when the British and French allied forces captured Beijing and burned Yuanmingyuan in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860). Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the Wen Hui Pavilion in Yangzhou and the Wenzong Pavilion in Zhenjiang have all been burnt down, and most of the Wen Lan Pavilion in Hangzhou has also been burnt away. Others, such as Wensui Museum and Wen Yuan Museum, have been moved several times, but the Jinwen Museum was moved to Beijing from 19 14 and then hidden in Shi Jing Library. Moved to the new Beijing Library in 1980s, and remained unchanged for a long time. Because of this, it attracted people's attention, and the other three cabinets were copied and supplemented according to the Jinwen Museum. For example, in 19 17, 9 kinds of books and 23 volumes were found missing in Wen Yuan Geben, which was kept by the Qing internal affairs office, so it was copied according to Jinwen Geben. 1934, the Wensui Geben, which was hidden in Shenyang, was also found to be short of volumes, so people were specially sent to Beijing to copy three books, including Dangjing Lu, according to the Jinwen Geben. As for the Wen Lan Pavilion in Hangzhou, after it was destroyed, it was added according to the Jinwen Pavilion. It can be seen that gold texts have played a considerable role in supplementing literature in history.
For this reason, at the beginning of the 20th century, Wenjinge attracted the attention of scholars. 1920, Chen yuan, a well-known scholar, personally made an inventory of Jinwen Geben, and counted 3,462 kinds of books, including 103 shelves, 6 144 letters, 36,277 volumes and 2291/kloc-. Mr. Chen Yuan also carefully read the abstract of Jinwen Collection and found that there are many differences with the abstract of Sikuquanshu. Therefore, he co-wrote the article "The Origin of the Summary of Silent Si Ku Quan Shu" with several scholars, and suggested that the Summary of the Jinwen Pavilion be collected and photocopied. This can be said to be the first case of photocopying the museum, which has been more than 80 years.
Unfortunately, as a rare book, Jinwen Pavilion is hidden in the library and is not open to the public, so ordinary researchers cannot borrow it. Therefore, for a long time, we can only admire the bronze museum, but we can't read it and study it. Fortunately, in the early 1990s, Mr. Yang Ne, a researcher at the National Library of China, proposed and presided over the collation of the photocopies of Wensi Ku Quanshu and the original books of Wenjinge. The inspection started from the library, and then Beijing Library Press published the supplement of the article "Four Books (Library)", with a volume of *** 15 and more than two million words. According to the statistics of this book, there are 1273 kinds of books in Wen Yuan, among which 788 kinds are different from the Jinwen Museum. However, in the Song Dynasty, Wen Yuan Museum lost its collection of poems, and according to the inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, it added 1 160, involving 1 160. Huang Kuan Chong, a post-Taiwan Province scholar who studied the history of the Song Dynasty, once wrote an article based on Addendum: The Value of Wen Jin Ge Ben in the Song Dynasty and Related Issues. Huang carefully checked the addendum with the photocopy of the library and found that there were also omissions in the addendum. He pointed out that some poems of Song Dynasty included in the addendum have actually been collected by Wen Yuan Pavilion, but the number of volumes is different, so they have been repeatedly included by editors. However, he thinks that most of the addenda are really lacking in Wen Yuan Pavilion, so he thinks: "As a part of Selected Works of Song Dynasty, Jinwen Pavilion preserves many authors' personal life stories and poetry comments, which provides more information for the authors to study the selected works; This foreign language also retains many historical materials that are helpful to the study of the history of the Song Dynasty, which shows the historical value of the Jinwen Geben. "
Before giving examples of Song people, I want to give two examples of Tang Dynasty. From these two examples, people can see that there are indeed omissions in the Wen Yuan Pavilion. For example, Du Mu, a poet as famous as Li Shangyin in the late Tang Dynasty, recorded his Collected Works of Fan Chuan and General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu as 20 volumes, one volume after another, and noted the collection of Neifu. The content of Wen Yuan Pavilion Fan Chuan Collection is the same as that of the General Catalogue. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House published Chen Benji 1978, with the same volume number as the general catalogue. It was developed on the basis of the Tetralogy and copied in the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that since the spread of the Song Dynasty, the books are roughly the same. However, only 17 volumes of Fan Chuan's collected works are printed in Wen Yuan Pavilion, and there is no other collection. Du Mu's poems have all been lost, and there are seven that Du Muwen has not collected. As mentioned above, during the Qianlong period, Siku Quanshu was collated twice, but these two obvious defects in Wenyuan Geben were not found. Another example is Xu Hun, a poet in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, whose poetry collection "Ding Maoji" is included in the General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu, which consists of two volumes of positive collection, two volumes of sequel, one volume of supplementary collection, and an external collection of poetry, with the note "Jiangsu Governor adopts this book". The books in Wenjinge are the same as the general catalogue (refer to Appendix I of the Collection of Archives of Sikuquanshu, and the Book Catalogue of Wenjinge compiled by General Manager Jehol, etc.). However, the Wen Yuan Pavilion has only two volumes and an appendix. Similarly, the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu records a volume of Tang's poems in the category of poetry criticism, but there is no such book in the library. After investigation, there is no copy of Wenjinge, and this compilation error is also worth studying.
The anthology of Song people could have been supplemented by Wenjinge. Limited to space, it is impossible to list them one by one. Here are just a few examples with obvious historical value, such as Lu Tao's Collection of Pure Virtue and Song Shiyi Wenzhi, which were originally recorded as 60 volumes and later lost. When Four Treasures of the Study was revised, it was compiled into 38 volumes according to Yongle Dadian. The Epitaph of Zhou Jushi is included in Jin Wen Ting Jing De Ji, which records the life story of Joo Won?, the father of Zhou Bangyan, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, from which we can learn about Zhou Bangyan's family background and Zhou Bangyan's own behavior, which is of great historical value, but this article was lost in Wenyuan Pavilion. Therefore, the Index of Biographical Data of Song People compiled by People has not been included, and Wang Guowei's The Legacy of Mr. Halal and the biographical works of modern scholars about Zhou Bangyan have not been involved. This is a pity. Another example is Song Qi, who wrote the Book of the New Tang Dynasty with Ouyang Xiu, and his Landscape Collection was also compiled from Yongle Dadian. According to the Addendum edited by Yang Ne and others, 48 1 poems were lost in Wenyuan Pavilion, which was more prominent in the collection of humanities in Song Dynasty. It is particularly noteworthy that The Whole Wen Song compiled by the Institute of Ancient Books of Sichuan University a few years ago was compiled according to the Wen Yuan Pavilion, and it was not possible to evaluate the bronze museum at that time. According to Taiwan Province scholar Huang Kuan's retelling, Song Shang had 394 lost articles. According to Huang's collation, Wenjinge can also collate 22 pieces of Hu Shan Manuscript published by 1984. It can be seen that "Jin Wen Ge Ben" will provide unprecedented rich information for our modern ancient book collation and special research.
Wenjinge could have supplemented Wen Yuan Pavilion and Wen Yuan Pavilion could have supplemented Jinwen Pavilion. Wensui Pavilion should also have its own characteristics. After all the editions of the Jinwen Museum are printed, it will definitely promote the research of the Si Ku again.