Famous bibliophile in Yuan Dynasty
Gong Wen is good at calligraphy, and the size of regular script can penetrate the back of paper, which is beyond human ability. He likes collecting books very much. In the editing of Hanlin, he searched ancient books every day and tried to get any cheats. Most of his books come from the "Sun Shrine" library in Lanling, as well as the old collections of Hong, Yu Songnian, Huang Pilie, etc., including the books scattered in his hometown in Hangzhou, plus the government-run books he got. After leaving office, he returned to China with dozens of books and stored them in Qitouwan, Changsha, with five buildings. One library is called Shu Shu Pu and Wo Lv Xue, and the other is called Wo Xue Lou, which contains a large number of rare books, including 20 volumes of Book Shop Bibliography. He is good at learning versions. If there are different versions of the same book, he will hide it. For example, the book Historical Records had more than 30 editions before the Ming Dynasty, and the book Han Shu had more than 10 editions in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Miao Sunquan expressed "admiration" for this. At that time, people who were famous for their books all over the country "formed a partnership" with Renhe and Zhu Xueqin, and Fengshun Ding Richang "retired", and his "sleeping snow hut" gained the upper hand for a while. He compiled four books, including 22 Song editions, 8 Yuan editions, 9 Ming editions, 9 Qing editions 1 1 and 83 manuscripts. Confucian classics, official history, hundred schools of thought and poetry have their own characteristics. Huang Zaitong, a scholar, once testified for his bibliography, and also commented that "Yuan's old manuscripts of Song, Yuan and Ming are all collections of short books of North and South bibliophiles, which are unique". The collection is printed with Appreciation, Yuan Ji in Sleeping Snow House, Yuan Ji in Ancient Southern Hunan, Bao Han Lou Ji, Liu Shu, Yuan Ji in Sleeping Snow House in Gutan House and so on. Ye Chichang once read his books and once said, "I am fascinated by them." . After his death, his son Yuze (word Yusheng, name Xingbo) didn't like ancient books, so he piled up five buildings, which were left unattended for many years and covered with dust and termites. In addition, due to alcoholism and gambling, the books collected were distributed in the early years of Guangxu, and most of them were purchased by Li Shengduo, a Dehua person in Jiangxi. The collection of Wo laid the foundation for the collection of Muxuan, and collectors such as Zeng Jigang, Wang and Miao all bought Yuan's books. The collection of books includes Poems of Celebrities in Past Dynasties and Bibliography of Sleeping Snow House, which have been lost. There is the Complete Works of Sleeping Snow Cabin to be published in the world.