Tianyige Museum, located on the west bank of Yuehu Lake in Ningbo, was built in Jiajing forty-five years of Ming Dynasty (AD 1566) and was originally the collection office of Fan Qin, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War of Ming Dynasty. It is the oldest existing library in China and one of the three earliest existing private libraries in the world. Tianyige Museum is now a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national key ancient book protection unit. Tianyige Museum is a comprehensive museum featuring book collection culture and integrating social history and art, covering an area of 3 1 000 square meters. Elegant environment, exquisite gardens, simple architecture and rich local characteristics. The overall layout consists of three functional areas: library culture area, garden leisure area and exhibition area.
Fan Qin (1506- 1585), a native of Yinxian County, Ningbo in the Ming Dynasty, was a bibliophile. His name is Yao Qing, and his name is An Qing. Jiajing was a scholar in the eleventh year. Suizhou was promoted to Yuanwailang, Wuding Hou Guoxun, and Zhang Zhi was from Yuanzhou. In thirty-eight years, he served as the prefect of Gannan, and in thirty-nine years, he was promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War. He is the author of "Tianyi Pavilion Collection". , and has published "Fan Guai Shu". Fan Qin likes collecting books, and has been collecting books since Jiajing nine years ago. He traveled around the country, shopping carefully. He is an eclectic comprehensive bibliophile, who not only likes to collect books and classics, but also attaches importance to the collection of contemporary documents in Ming Dynasty. There are more than 70,000 books. Its collection has five characteristics: there are many unique copies, many manuscripts, many people who can confirm with other manuscripts, many documents in Ming Dynasty and many inscriptions.
Tianyige Exterior Tianyige Museum Collection Cultural Area mainly includes: Dongming Caotang, Sima Di, Fan's former residence, and Baoshulou. Dongming Caotang was the library of Fan Qin before Tianyi Pavilion was built. Fan Qin, whose real name is Yaoqin, was named Dongming, so he named his study "Dongming Caotang", also known as "medical clinic". Now Dongming Cottage is rebuilt on 1980. Fan's former residence was originally the East Hall of Fan Mansion, and later it was the residence of Fan's descendants. It is located outside the Tianyige Library Building surrounded by high walls, separating the living area from the library area, which was carefully arranged by Fan Qin to protect the library. Now the building was rebuilt in the ninth year of Qing Daoguang. Sima Di, Fan Qinfu, is located in the depths of Yuehu Lake, with elegant environment, tree-lined and large scale. 1996, Sima Di's door and wing were repaired.
Tianyige Museum, the main building of Baoshu Building, also known as Baoshu Building, is the earliest existing private library in China. Fan Qin, the owner of the book building, said that "water is above the sky" and built the book building with the meaning of water controlling fire. There is a big room upstairs and six rooms downstairs, called Tianyi Pavilion. A pool is dug in front of the pavilion to prevent fire. In the 4th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1665), Fan Qin's great-grandson Fan Wenguang built a garden in front of the pavilion. The overall shape of the garden is "Happiness, Luck and Longevity", and the nine lions and one elephant are piled up by rocks. Beautiful scenery, elegant style, unique characteristics of Jiangnan courtyard garden. "The gentleman's ze, the third world." The vast majority of bibliophiles in history often dispersed before counting. Fan Tianyi Pavilion can be passed down from generation to generation, thanks not only to good management system and book collection skills, but also to the filial piety of Fan's descendants. There are more than 70,000 books in Fan Qin, and there are still more than 70,000 books of 1.7, most of which are block prints and banknotes of the Ming Dynasty. Many of them are China's orphan books, especially the local chronicles and imperial examination records of the Ming Dynasty. There are more than 400 kinds of local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty in Tianyige, with 27 1 species, of which the national orphan 1 species is one of the units with the largest collection of local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty. Tianyige is also the richest collector of imperial examination records, with 370 kinds, of which more than 90% are orphans. After liberation, after years of visits by cultural relics workers and generous donations from local collectors, the collection of ancient books in the museum has reached 300,000 volumes, including more than 80,000 rare books, which is spectacular. In addition, Tianyi Pavilion Museum also includes a garden leisure and exhibition area. It consists of Zunjing Pavilion, Mingzhou Forest of Steles, Qianjin Zhai, Dongyuan, Nanyuan, Baie Pavilion, Ninghuitang, Qinshi Ancestral Hall, Tianyige Painting and Calligraphy Museum, Shuibei Pavilion, Sedan Chair Hall and Mahjong Origin Exhibition Hall. Thank you. I hope I can help you. Have a nice trip.