Mao Zedong's anger caused panic among employees. Mao Zedong didn't take him to sleep in the wooden bed. Where to find a wooden bed temporarily? Everyone reasoned and decided to persuade Mao Zedong to sleep on the spring bed for the time being, and then think of some way the next day. Mao Zedong stubbornly said: "I will sleep when I get a wooden bed!" So the staff quickly asked the carpenter to make him a big wooden bed overnight. A few months later, this wooden bed and Mao Zedong moved into Juxiang Bookstore together. Soon, according to Mao Zedong's instructions, the staff transformed this wooden bed, which was surprisingly wide, more than half as wide as the usual bed. The front end of the wooden bed is slightly higher and the back end is slightly lower. The whole bed is slightly tilted and covered with white sheets, which constitutes a strange landscape of the library. Mao Zedong has used this trampoline for 17 years.
Why did Mao Zedong widen the wooden bed? Because Mao Zedong has the habit of reading in bed, the east half of the bed is used for books. At ordinary times, the books on Mao Zedong's bed are piled more than a foot high, which makes them look messy. In fact, Mao Zedong knows which book to put in which position. There are many white notes in the middle of each book. Some notes can see the recorded pencil characters, and some books have the eyebrows and symbols of red and blue pencils. A book "Principles of Ethics" has only a few hundred thousand words, but he wrote more than 12 thousand words in the book.
People like to use "reading thousands of books" and "being knowledgeable" to describe a person's extensive reading and profound knowledge. Mao Zedong should be well-deserved. There are many bookcases in Juxiang Bookstore. More than 100 bookcases are filled with historical subsets, thread-bound books of a hundred schools of thought, Chinese and foreign philosophy, literature, art, scientific and technological works and so on. Mao Zedong is probably the most fond of reading history, and he has read the most since World War II. It is said that no American president has a private collection of more than 50,000 books, while Mao Zedong has a collection of more than 92,000 books, and more than 1.3 million books are marked and annotated. The work of sorting out these books is completed by a working group, from business card printing, classification, numbering and labeling, and finally the compilation of Mao Zedong Book Catalogue takes three years. As for the decades before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong read countless books. Therefore, I'm afraid no one can tell how many books Mao Zedong has read in his life. Mao Zedong often said, read more books, write more books, think more and ask more questions. In his four-volume Selected Works of Mao Zedong, he quoted Zuo Zhuan, Lv Chunqiu, The Book of Rites, The Book of Changes, The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, Sunzi, Hanshu and Shanhaijing. The historical figures involved include famous politicians, military strategists and poets, such as Cao Cao, Sun Wu, Sima Qian, Zhu Yu and Han Yu, as well as traitors Li and Wei Zhongxian, sages of China, Confucius and Mencius, emperors of various dynasties, Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong and the peasant uprising leaders who were vilified by the rulers as "traitors". As for the historical figures, idioms, allusions, legends and stories quoted by Mao Zedong in his usual speeches and poems, there are countless more. To sum up, it is not difficult to reflect Mao Zedong's extensive reading of history and his interest. Juxiang Bookstore is not only the place where Mao Zedong studied and wrote before his death, but also the place where he made strategic decisions, where the famous "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" made decisions. Mao Zedong has received many visiting foreign leaders in the library. 1972 On February 26th, Nixon paid an official visit to China. On the same day, Mao Zedong met Nixon and Kissinger in Kikuya, Zhongnanhai. Kissinger recalled: "We came to the bookstore in Mao Zedong, which looked more like a scholar's seclusion than the meeting room of the omnipotent leader of the most populous country in the world."
Mao Zedong Juxiang Bookstore is rich in books, so it needs a book seal. 1945, Liu Yazi presented the seal to Mao Zedong. 1948, Xie Meinu, known as the "king of seal cutting", carved two seals for Mao Zedong with the best Shoushan stone in his family. On the one hand, it is written in white "Mao Zedong Seal", and the seals are arranged in palindromes, which is quite Indian. On the other hand, Zhu Wen is "Runzhi", with fine prose and thick edges, imitating Zhou Qin Xiao Zhuan. These two stone seals were sent to Beijing by Hunan Provincial People's Government in 195 1 and presented to Mao Zedong. They are now in the National Museum. After the peaceful liberation of Beijing, Qi Baishi carefully carved Zhu's seal to show his reverence, printed the word ""and entrusted it to Ai Qing, a military representative and poet who took over the Central Academy of Fine Arts at that time. 1963, the General Office of the Central Committee entrusted Chen Shutong to invite a seal engraver and Wu Putang of the Shanghai Museum to carve the seal of Zhu Wen's Shi Mao Collection on a wire. This seal is deeply loved by Mao Zedong. Later, all the books in Juxiang Bookstore were printed with this collection seal. In Juxiang Bookstore, besides reading, Mao Zedong's biggest hobby is calligraphy. He likes the cursive scripts of Wang Xizhi and Huai Su best, and often uses his rest time to copy and ponder. After long-term practice and research, Mao Zedong's calligraphy has learned from others and formed its own unique style, which is called "Hairstyle". He loved copying poems, and he was still practicing calligraphy and writing poems until his later years.
In order to preserve these books permanently, all the books except a few remain in Juxiang Bookstore have been moved to the Central Archives, and Mao Zedong Library has been established, and all the books are displayed as they were at that time.