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My impression of Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo remained in a library building, and I didn't know one or two things about the hardships
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My impression of Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo remained in a library building, and I didn't know one or two things about the hardships of its collection until I saw Tianyi Pavilion in Rainy Days. The plot that impressed me the most was the absurd inheritance distribution made by Fan Qin, the founder of Tianyi Pavilion, when he died.
Fan Qin divided the inheritance into two parts: one part is twelve thousand pieces of silver, and the other part is the library on the first floor. Let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac choose between them. This is a decision that many people think is extremely unfair. Twenty-two thousand silver was a huge fortune at that time, which could make a room rich overnight. The collection of books on the first floor seems to be a burden handed down from generation to generation, and it can even be said that it is just a loss, making ends meet. Fan Qin's distribution can be said to be a very thorough division of Fan's heavy obligation-the spiritual heritage of cultural inheritance and Fan's great right-the material heritage of wealth inheritance.
Faced with the two, you will know that you should choose the latter-the option of gaining power without fulfilling your obligations. Fan Qin's eldest son, Fan Dachong, spoke immediately. Just when I thought he had the advantage and laughed at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's hesitation, the following passage immediately made me feel ashamed of what I had thought before. Surprisingly, Fan Dachong not only chose the library without hesitation, but also decided to set aside some good books of his own.
I admire his choice without hesitation. Who will really give up their wealth for the books on the first floor? Who will really despise what ordinary people value and despise what ordinary people value? Even after deeply understanding the difficulty of his father's collection of books, he put a heavy yoke on his descendants and passed it on from generation to generation? This not only reminds me of those who guard the tomb, who have lost the whole family and all their descendants from generation to generation to guard and hold on to a cold imperial tomb. It is not so much a job as an obligation, but rather a belief and persistence. So is the Fan family, just a change from a grave keeper to a bookkeeper. It is a kind of willpower that transcends passion, hobby and talent, and thus transcends time. Day after day, month after month, year after year, it ignores the incomprehension and ridicule of others, the huge expenditure of wealth, the passage of time and the rise and fall of dynasties. In their eyes, the library is not a simple knowledge savings office with rare books, but a symbol of classical cultural undertakings. They don't collect books for themselves, nor for the Fan family, nor for a certain dynasty, but for the whole Chinese nation. They use books to make our long-term scattered and spontaneous spiritual world neat, coherent and cohesive. It can be said that their behavior is a microcosm of the difficult course of cultural preservation and dissemination in China. It is also thousands of families and institutions like Fan that make up our splendid Chinese culture.
In fact, we can also have a heavenly pavilion in our hearts, and we can also do something like the Fan family to preserve and spread China culture.
Maybe we don't have any books that can be called cultural relics in Tianyi Pavilion, but the works of Tang poetry, Song poetry and Yuan Qu, which have been handed down to this day and recorded the rise and fall of various dynasties, will never lose their cultural value compared with the rare books in the library. Maybe we can't give up 22 thousand silver and choose the library like Fan Dachong, but reciting those famous articles and deeply understanding the stories behind them is also a kind of respect and inheritance for culture; Maybe we can't endure the pain and loneliness from generation to generation like Fan, but if we share and communicate our favorite ancient poems with others, we are also inheriting and carrying forward our Chinese culture!
I believe that the ancient Tianyi Pavilion was supported by a fan family, but the modern Tianyi Pavilion can be supported by us.
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"Books are the ladder of human progress." Throughout the ages, the most important carrier of knowledge and culture is books. Instead of word of mouth, the world suddenly became black and white. Books are inexhaustible wealth and showers, but they are also fragile. Thin paper seems to be unable to bear the weight of culture, lost in the long river of history, and the crystallization of countless ideas has been wasted, which has to be regretted. As a result, many people stepped forward and became guardians of culture, although they spent a lot of money and effort and were unknown. This is a book collector.
As the book says, Chinese civilization is too rich, and Chinese culture is vast, with one side strung into a sentence, one sentence into an article, and one into a book, a dime a dozen books. However, tissue paper is too fragile, but it has become the most important means of inheriting culture. Culture lives in books, so where will so many books go? War, natural disasters and disasters all threaten it. Thus, there was a bibliophile.
There has never been a shortage of bibliophiles in past dynasties, but there have been few successes. The requirements for such people are so harsh that they must have sufficient assets, a long-cherished wish to collect books, a keen mind and management ability, careful consideration and firm trust, and so on. Only in this way can he become the patron saint of culture.
It's a pity that only one person in China, Fan Qin, passed this extremely harsh exam, and only he found a real foothold for China culture. This is God's great care for Chinese civilization.
Fan Qin created Tianyi Pavilion all his life. Behind him, countless descendants of Fan gave their lives to protect Tianyi Pavilion. It's like an endless relay, even the moment of handover can't make people breathe. Miraculously passed down from generation to generation, this persistence is touching. Fan really took great pains to establish a whole set of building protection and book protection system, which made Tianyi Pavilion stand up to this day after countless storms. They cultivate books rather than collect them.
They have their own contradictions, and it seems that maintaining Tianyi Pavilion is no longer a problem. But after a long time, Fan's descendants will definitely have such a question: What is the purpose of collecting books? What's the point? Protect the books on the first floor, don't read, don't sell, for what? The sacred transmission gradually became a continuation of suffering. They don't know, maybe hundreds of years ago, Fan Zeng was looking forward to such an era, an era when Tianyi Pavilion could open the door to convenience. Therefore, even if they don't want to, their descendants will abide by their ancestral teachings, support the book of architecture aimlessly, and fear it. All this makes it weird and twisted. Walking on an endless road makes travelers feel chilling and listeners feel pity.
However, Tianyi Pavilion still stands, coming out of history and coming to us. Tianyi Pavilion has become a sculpture and a symbol. At the same time, it nourishes the world with rich connotations and benefits millions of people. Fan Qin smiled. Countless descendants of Fan may be amazed at first, then struggle to find the most primitive motivation for collecting books from their minds, and finally let go. The fate of hundreds of years has vanished, and the weather-beaten Tianyi Pavilion has ruined history and ushered in a new chapter.
There is no denying that Tianyi Pavilion is a miracle, the hardship of cultural preservation and dissemination, the efforts of countless people, and the integrity and character of an ancient nation. We live in the land of China and stand on the same land as our ancestors. The clear spring flowing from the source nourishes us, and we should keep it flowing to the left. A pulse of spring water dripping from Tianyi Pavilion will eventually become a river and merge into a sea. Although the past has become history, I don't think the cultural conscience of Fan's descendants will disappear with history, as the article says: "We human beings are undoubtedly the creators of modern culture in essence, but from the perspective of genetic factors, we are inevitably the heritage of national traditional culture. Tianyi Pavilion is a symbol of spirit. Chinese civilization has settled down here, which should be carried forward. Not only cultural conscience, but also many noble figures. "
Tianyi pavilion, the watcher of spirit.
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