"Xianxin Society" organized by advanced intellectuals
After the change of Gengzi in the late Qing Dynasty, new thoughts spread all over the country. In order to make the villagers acquire new knowledge and meet the needs of the times, advanced intellectuals such as Fuqing, a member of the League and a student village studying in Japan, initiated and organized the "Salt News Agency" in Heshun in the 21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (AD 1905).
It is the first time in this remote town to buy a batch of new knowledge books as public books for people inside and outside the club to read and borrow. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zhongtai, Jia and Li Qiunong, the shun youth villages living in Myanmar, organized a "youth club" in Wacheng, Myanmar, with the purpose of developing hometown culture. Soon, after the YMCA developed to its hometown, it established a "book and newspaper office" at 1924, and ordered some books and magazines from Shanghai and other places for the villagers to read.
The message sent from Shanghai to the frontier of Yunnan has become historical materials because of the inconvenient transportation, so they changed the transportation route from the waterway to Myanmar, and then the caravan transported it to Tengchong along the ancient southwest Silk Road via bhamo, and finally reached the readers. At that time, the scholar Mr. Yang Cexian wrote a couplet for books and newspapers:
Books are widely read,
Li reported to the overseas delegation.
Couplets also reflect the hard-won books and newspapers at that time. Even so, compared with taking the dry road from China, it will take more than half the time. The founding of books and newspapers has won the appreciation of fellow villagers. 1925, "YMCA" was reorganized into "Chongxin Society". With the increasing number of members, the social influence and role are increasing day by day, and books and newspapers can no longer meet the requirements of readers. 1928, Chongxin Society expanded the library into a library, taking the old Xianxin Society as its address.
Once publicized at home and abroad, the donation of books and materials reached a climax. At present, there are some precious ancient and modern large-scale books, such as the twenty-four histories of Wuyingtang's hidden treasures, Yunnan Tongzhi, Jiutong Quanshu, Continued Tibetan Classics, Four Series, Wan You Library, Hanshu and so on. There is a kind of will donation, in which father and son donate at the same time, brothers donate and couples donate together. The plot is very touching. 1938 On the occasion of the anniversary of the museum 10, a larger Chinese and Western Pavilion was rebuilt in the old site, a two-story wooden building with two semi-hexagonal pavilions extending in front, which was considered to be the most unique and novel architectural form at that time. In front of the house is a spacious garden. There is a three-hole flat-topped archway outside the garden, in which the stone carving of the book Tianjin of Culture by Li Shizeng is embedded, and the wooden tablet of Heshun Library by Hu Shishu is hung at the head of the main archway. The ancient arched gate is used as the gate.
1994, Heshun library was announced as "key cultural relics protection unit" by the provincial people's government. On May 25th, 2006, the former site of Heshun Library was approved by the State Council to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1998, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the museum, with the support of provincial and county leaders and the great donation of overseas Chinese and tourists to Taiwan, an all-steel antique two-story building was built, which contained rare books and local documents collected by the museum over the years and became a veritable "treasure house". The artistic design of the "treasure house" not only retains the classical charm, but also has the color of the times, giving many visitors a spiritual enjoyment.
Nowadays, Heshun Library has also added an electronic reading room, which has attracted the attention of many middle-aged people and students. Computer reading inspired their enthusiasm for new things outside, and this "China's largest rural library" began to enter the high-tech information hall.