By 19 16, the library in Yuanyuan has reached130,000 volumes. Unfortunately, it was attacked by the Japanese in 1928, and the remote garden was destroyed. The next year, it was rebuilt under the auspices of Wang and burned again in 1937. The site we can see today is Xu Kui Library, which was built in June 1935. Only the original monument in the distant garden still stands on the old site. Far Garden Named after The Book of Songs

After the Opium War, with the invasion of imperialist forces, western culture began to enter China, impacting the imperial examination system that lasted for thousands of years in China. 1905, the Qing government officially abolished the imperial examination system. In the past, "Gong Yuan", where many scholars pursued fame and fortune, was transformed into a school, and the "experimental shed" was idle.

At that time, Shandong emissary Luo went abroad for inspection. After returning home, he wants to emulate western culture and education. 1908, he asked Yuan Shuxun, the governor of Shandong Province, to invite the Qing government to set up a library in the former Hiram's hospital to open up people's wisdom. With the approval of the imperial court, in March of the first year (1909), Luo personally presided over the construction of a library in the southwest corner of Daming Lake, modeled after Tianyi Pavilion, a famous library in Ningbo, Zhejiang. The poem "Xiaoya Baiju" is named "Yuanyuan" because "there is a distant heart without a golden sound". Completed in February of that year 16.