In the middle of Qing Dynasty, a printing workshop appeared in Shengjing, and a book bookstore came into being. During the Jiaqing period, with the support of Jin Chang, the general of Shengjing, Cheng Weiyuan founded Ji Cheng Bookstore in Tianyoumen (Xiaonanmen), which was the earliest bookstore in Shenyang.
Ji Cheng Bookstore is a front shop and back factory, engaged in publishing, printing, wholesale and retail. Soon after the establishment of Ji Cheng Bookstore, it published and sold the book "Zidishu", the favorite book of Kanto people. Until the last years of Guangxu, disciple books carved by Ji Cheng Bookstore were still widely sold and distributed in three northeastern provinces and Beijing. "Zi Di Shu", also known as "Yin Qing Zi Di Shu", is a kind of quyi work similar to later drum lyrics created by the children of the Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty. Born in Beijing during Yongzheng period, it was widely popular during Qianlong period. During the Jiaqing period, it was introduced into Shengjing. Zidishu is mostly based on novels and operas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and some works reflect the real life in the Qing Dynasty. Its words and expressions are elegant and neat, rhyming, not dull, and the tune is beautiful and beautiful. The singer of Zishu Book holds an octagonal drum, and others play Sanxian to accompany him. Zidishu is divided into two tones: East Rhyme and West Rhyme. Shengjing sang Zidishu with East Rhyme. During Jiaqing period, there were mainly Miao Gongen, Yu Rui and Cheng Weiyuan in Shengjing, but Cheng Weiyuan's works were rarely handed down from generation to generation.
In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), the preface written in the fifth edition of "Regret in Brothel" printed and sold by Erling Jushi (Di Wenyu, Ci) in Ji Cheng Bookstore is as follows: "I have tried my best to describe Du Shiniang's infatuation, Li Sheng's infidelity, Sun Fu's lust and Liu Yuchun's conscience. The author will be grateful to the reader for everything. Yu Ben is careless, so he is absorbed and happy with others. Ask me if I am intentional and absent-minded. Just pay attention and you will know my heart. " The full text uses the word 16, which is highly appraised.
Ji Cheng Bookstore founder Cheng Weiyuan (? -18 18), the word Koizumi, from Suzhou, Jiangsu. Frustrated in his early years, he has never been an official. At the end of Qianlong, he lived in Beijing. When I was in Beijing, I met Gao E, one of the authors of A Dream of Red Mansions. In a few years' time, Cao Xueqin collected the first 80 manuscripts of the original story of A Dream of Red Mansions extensively, and successively purchased the remnants of the last 40 manuscripts, which were repaired together with Gao E * * * to form one hundred and twenty copies of A Dream of Red Mansions. The book was printed in movable type by Cui Wen Bookstore in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (179 1), and was later called Cheng Jiaben. In the second year, the plot of the first eighty chapters was greatly changed, and the sequel of the last forty chapters was also modified a lot. It was still published by Cui Wen Bookstore, and was later called Cheng Yiben. Since then, the novel A Dream of Red Mansions has become popular in the form of a printed version, which has a great influence.
In the fifth year of Jiaqing (1800), Cheng Weiyuan, the staff of General Jinchang, came to Shengjing with Jinchang to help him play the script, and sang the tune of the times, and edited and published Ju Caotang Poetry for Jinchang. Cheng Weiyuan is knowledgeable, good at calligraphy and painting, good at calligraphy and versatile. When he was an aide to Jinchang, he also taught at Cuisheng College, the highest institution in Shengjing. At the same time, he also actively participated in and supported the activities of "Lan Zhi Poetry Society" initiated and organized by celebrities in Shengjing, Miao Gongen, who was then the assistant of the right-wing official school of Shengjing Ritual Department, and Yu Rui (the author of Enhetang Poems), who was once the main assistant. At that time, the establishment of Lan Zhi Poetry Society was praised by General Jinchang of Shengjing. Scholars often get together, make friends with scholars, write poems, write calligraphy and paintings, and create many excellent poems praising the scenery of Shengjing, which greatly boosts the style of Shengjing, the capital of Shengjing, which has always attached importance to martial arts and ignored literature. This is a rare "singing gale".
Cheng Weiyuan later settled in Shengjing until his death in the 23rd year of Jiaqing (18 18). After Cheng Weiyuan's death, Ji Cheng Bookstore was taken over by his descendants and operated until the late Qing Dynasty.
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Chen Naigan wrote in his book with Hu Puan:
It is said that every time an ancient book is reprinted, there will be more mistakes. Inadvertently, Lu turned into a fish and the sea into a jackal, and its mistakes can still be found. If you change it out of common sense, it will be completely gone. In the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, there can be no mistakes. However, bibliophiles compete with each other and don't like antiques. Because of its mistake, it is an unintentional loss, or it can be found and distinguished, and the ancestors carved by future generations are also. To sort out ancient books, we must first ask for truth, not just fluency. Can't see the original works of the ancients; And those who seek it to be close to the truth are still engraved. (The first episode of Compilation of Chinese Studies is quoted from Zheng Qingshan's Preface to Teaching Stones by Knowing Our Society, 1 1 page, published by Writers Publishing House in 2003).
Li Mingcheng 2016-08-0815:10
In the literary world of Ming Dynasty at that time, it was very common to annotate other people's works. Both famous artists and literary lovers like to add notes to the text, not just A Dream of Red Mansions. Booksellers in the Ming Dynasty (including the early Qing Dynasty) were extremely developed, and many books were brewed by booksellers. They brew books that sell well in the market. The author's anonymity in Jin Ping Mei and A Dream of Red Mansions probably stems from this besides avoiding literary inquisition.