According to historical records, in the 24th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 18 19), Luo, the magistrate of Huizhou, added books to the Academy. In Daoguang Middle School (about AD 1835), the new magistrate, Yang Xiquan, specially donated 600 volumes of circle books to the college. These early books have not been lent out, nor have they become libraries. It was not until the 12th year of Guangxu (1886) that Liang Dingfen initiated "Hu Feng Collection" and began the history of Huizhou Library.
Liang Dingfen (1859- 19 17), a native of Panyu, Guangdong Province, served as Hanlin in Guangxu for six years, and Xuantong was the ambassador to Guangdong for three years. He was a teacher of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and a very learned scholar. In 1886 AD, after Deng Chengxiu gave a lecture at Hufeng Academy, Liang Dingfen immediately sent a letter to the distinguished officials, gentry and celebrities inside and outside the province, with a collection of more than 46,000 volumes (more than 50,000 volumes per word), and "Building the West Three Towers of the Academy" as a collection.
Liang Dingfen created a complete book management system. Books are divided into five parts: classics, history, volumes, collections and collections. Set up a reading place, sign a loan agreement and hire a special librarian. He himself "wrote his own title and compiled his own catalogue" and compiled eight volumes of Hu Feng Library Catalogue.
Since then, the collection of Hu Feng Library has increased year by year, reaching a maximum of100000, making it one of the earliest school libraries in China.
The appearance of Hu Feng's collection of books has greatly aroused the reading atmosphere in society: "Mr. Hu collects books, but the poor know how to buy books" (Jiang Shi); It also greatly promoted the formation of academic research atmosphere for local scholars. "or the similarities and differences between cases; Or the singer makes the bed and makes a string of chanting "("Panyu Liang Wenzhong should enjoy the Su Temple "). These words vividly describe the touching scenes in the college and society. During this period, many students became a generation of celebrities after entering the society from the academy. For example, Jiang, a celebrity in Huizhou in the late Qing Dynasty, the last scholar in Guishan, Li Qiqing, Yang Shouchang, Ye and Zhang Weizeng, former prefects of Jilin, etc.
In the early years of the Republic of China, because of the war, books were bombarded by gunfire, and books were burned and suffered serious losses. However, as the poem engraved on the column wall of the Academy says: "Who can enlighten the mountains for the pen, thousands of books can teach the truth. After the soldier died, it was still hesitant to catch the remnants. " The wind of reading is still unabated.
192 1 year, in order to protect the collection, the people concerned moved the remaining books in the collection to the No.2 warehouse in Xiaoximen, Huizhou City (near the ninth primary school in Huizhou City) and kept them properly. After 10 years, the society was relatively stable. Local celebrities such as Li Daiqing, Huang Shutang and Zhang Youren made great efforts to propose that an 800-square-meter two-story reinforced concrete building be built in Zhongshan Park in the spring of 192 1 year, and the collection of Xiaoximen No.2 warehouse will be moved to be named "Huizhou Private Hu Feng Library", thus opening the history of Huizhou Library.
In the modern history of Huizhou Hufeng Library, the most noteworthy is Mr. Zhang Youren, the former deputy director of Guangdong Provincial Museum of Literature and History and a famous democracy figure in Huizhou. 192 1 year, first jointly built a new library building with others. 1948, jointly proposed and donated money to expand the Sky Building of the library, adding two buildings before and after, which expanded the area of the library, improved the facilities and laid the foundation for Huizhou Library. Based on this, I collected a lot of information, devoted myself to research and textual research, and wrote the earliest information about the West Lake-Huizhou records of the west lake. A large number of precious Huizhou ancient cultural inscriptions, calligraphy and painting were protected and rescued. After liberation, Mr. Zhang was the first librarian of the library. During his tenure, he took a considerable proportion of his salary every month as the cost of purchasing library books, tables and chairs and other facilities. Mr. Zhang's selfless dedication to local culture has set an example for future generations.
With the public's concern, Huizhou Library has become an important base for the development of local cultural undertakings and trained many talents.
Hu Feng Library was renamed "Dongjiang Hu Feng Library" on June 1950, and "Dongjiang People's Library" the following year. Later, it was changed to Huiyang County Library, and Huizhou Library was established in June 1957.
Under the leadership of the Party, library construction has developed steadily and its influence has been expanding. The collection of books has developed from 20,000 volumes in the early days of liberation to more than 2 1 10,000 volumes now.
At present, Huizhou Library has editing room, lending room, reading room, children's reading room and library. Once the expansion project of the new library is completed, the total use area of the library will reach 2400 square meters. In the library collection, there are more than 20,000 antique thread-bound books and paperback books, 66 ancient books of 5 kinds in Ming Dynasty and 728 ancient books of 20 kinds in early Qing Dynasty, of which 15 kinds 167 are rare books, and there are also a number of calligraphy and painting. In addition, there are nearly 100 newspapers and periodicals from all provinces and cities in China in the reading room. These books and materials provide good conditions for the work and research of readers and relevant units and contribute to the construction of two civilizations.