Jiang is a noble family in Nanxun, with a generation of literati. Grandfather Jiang Weiji, a fine primary school student, specializes in seal script, lyrics, and painting, but seldom gathers books. Granduncle Jiang Weipei, also known as Jiang Rui, is attached to Gong Sheng and is a candidate for discipline. Both brothers are well-known bibliophiles in Nanxun, and * * * gathers ten thousand volumes of books. How fine the banknotes are. De Yan Kejun's "All Ancient Three Generations, Qin and Han Dynasties, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties" claims that each department is overwhelmed and will inevitably be submerged. It is a 13-volume "All Ancient Three Generations, Qin and Han Dynasties, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties". Each article must be marked with the published book, and all the participating books are also recorded, and there are errors and omissions between them, which are all textual research. In the future, if there is any missing, you can still fill in the questions according to the items. There are 21 kinds of rare books of the Song Dynasty, 37 kinds of Yuan edition, 43 kinds of Ming edition, six original volumes of Yongle Dadian, about 195 kinds of handwritten secret books, and 146 kinds of lost books. My father, Jiang Xishen, was able to write poems at the age of seven, finished the thirteen classics at the age of thirteen, and was a juren in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), which expanded the ancestral collection.
Jiang is Liu Jinzao's in-laws, and his father Jiang Xishen, Zhang Jian and Tang Shouqian are close friends. Therefore, when Tang Shouqian and Liu Jinzao were the prime ministers and deputy prime ministers of Zhejiang Railway Company, Jiang Ruzao was the director. At the beginning of the recovery, when Tang Shouqian was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang Province, he became the first director of salt administration in Zhejiang Province, and later went to Nantong to help Zhang Jian hold an industry and became his right-hand man. Jiang Ruzao has lived in Shanghai for a long time and has traveled all over the major cities in the north, south and north.
He learned from his family, and he can identify the authenticity of ancient books and collect them more widely. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, books were distributed all over the country, such as the ancient books distributed by bibliophiles such as Fan in Ningbo, Wang in Hangzhou, Liu in Taizhou, Hong in Jingxian County and Chen in Guiyang. Most of them were purchased by Jiang Ruzao, especially the books distributed by his ancestors, which were searched more widely in Tangjiadou, Nanxun. And for 1,5 silver dollars, I found one volume and six volumes of Song Guben's meticulous "Rhyme in the Grass Window", that is, I named this book as "Mi Caring Building", which collected three generations of books, no less than Lu Xinyuan's "Hundred Song Buildings". He is the author of 15 volumes of Collation of Shuowen Jiezi and three volumes of Qiushizhai Miscellaneous Works, but the unconfirmed editions include Textual Research on Tang Fanzhen and Textual Research on Shuijing Annotation.
In his later years, Jiang Ruzao lived a poor life, and gradually transferred his books to others, but most of them were acquired by the Oriental Library of Shanghai Commercial Press and became the books of Hanfen Building. On January 28th, 1932, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in Shanghai, and Zhabei Oriental Library was bombed and burned by enemy planes. Fortunately, this book, including the original collection of Jiang Ruzao, had already been moved to a safe area, so it remained intact and was collected by Beijing Library after liberation. Zhang Yuanji once wrote A Record of the Remaining Books of Hanfen Building, and quite a few of the collected books were from the original "Miyun Building". Jiang Ruzao died in Shanghai in 1954 at the age of 78. Zi Jiang Zu Yi is a professor at Taiwan Province University. In order to carry forward the unpublished wishes of his ancestors' books and the Records of Mishaolou's Books, he was renamed the Records of Chuanshutang's Books on the basis of copying the school, which was photocopied and published in Taiwan Province in 1974.