Located in the middle of Pushi Road in Shanghai's old French Concession, at 680 Changle Road today, it is a beautiful large garden house. After liberation, the owner donated Changle Road residence to the country, which has always been a part of Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Staff Hospital, and has now been changed to Shanghai Houcheng Stomatological Hospital, a joint venture between China and Japan.
This is an imitation classical garden house, or a neoclassical building. Neoclassical architecture is a new type of architecture that loves the architectural style of ancient Greece and Rome. It has got rid of the shackles of blindly imitating ancient dogma and advocates function, nature and truth. Pan Mingxun's residence was built in the late 1920s. It is a three-story building with a brick-concrete structure facing south. Slope roof, red tile roof, parapet in some areas, cement bottle guardrail, and dense patterns on the roof eaves slightly reveal the owner's interest in that year. The south facade is divided into three sections, the plane is symmetrical, the vertical line in the middle is in contrast with the horizontal composition on both sides, and the facade is simple and simple. Flat overhangs, long windows on the facade, flat arch at the top. The bottom layer is beige polished granite surface, and the second and third layers are cement wiredrawing surface. The middle ground floor is the outer corridor of Onek coupon column, and the main entrance and its top contain decorative art style. The eaves of the porch are decorated with triangular mountain flowers. In front of the courtyard, there are two open-air marble stairs, which lead to the entrance platform of the living room on the second floor from both sides. The appearance is solemn.
More than 80 years ago, its owner was Pan Mingxun, a well-known director of the General Office of Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce, and a native of Guangdong. It is also the "important town" in China's book collection field-Bao Auditorium, a mansion with more than 65,438+000 volumes of ancient books in Song and Yuan Dynasties.
Pan (1867- 1939), a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, was the first owner of Bao Auditorium. 19 19 went to Shanghai to study. At first, he became a broker of a foreign company. With his shrewdness and proficiency in pidgin English, he soon became a comprador and later became the general manager of the Ministry of Industry. He has lived in Shanghai for 20 years, and has a hobby of collecting books, especially the versions of ancient books in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and generally disdains the engravings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Every time I meet a rare book, I value it. Booksellers on Fuzhou Road know what they like, and often put away their old schoolbags and ask people to sell them. With deep pockets and foreigners as background, he is not afraid of being cheated by booksellers. In a few years, it became one of the few DaSong editions in China.
All his books have been appraised by Xu Senyuhe, a first-rate edition cataloger in China. The treasure in his collection is the Song Dynasty publication Book of Rites Justice published by Yuan Shikai's second son Yuan (). This book was published by Don Juan of Sanshan after crossing to the south in the Song Dynasty. Originally hidden in the chamber of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong Province. It is a treasure handed down from generation to generation by Confucius' family. I don't know when and why it flows to Yuan. Yuan called himself "the second son" and liked to collect books for ink, so he called himself "the last hundred" Every time I meet a rare book, I will write a poem inscription and ring the bell with the red seal of "the second son" to commemorate my paw. The poem inscribed in Book of Rites Justice was written for one of his girlfriends, with sincere feelings and touching sentences, which may be the work of breaking up with him. After Yuan Shikai's death, Yuan Kewen, a profligate family, became increasingly embarrassed and finally fell into the situation of selling antiques for a living. One day, he went to visit Pan Fu with Justice in the Book of Rites. While speaking, he expressed his intention to sell it. Pan Jianshu was overjoyed, that is, he made a deal with 65438+ 2 million silver, and both of them were happy. When this book arrived at Panjia, it coincided with the completion of the new residence in Changle Road, Pan Shi, and it was called "Bao Auditorium" because of its residence, hence the name "Bao Auditorium". Pan Shide asked Dong Kang, a famous bibliophile in the south of the Yangtze River, to collect, engrave and print a hundred volumes, which made the rare books hidden in the secret room for thousands of years and not seen by outsiders public, and was greatly appreciated by the world. Since then, Yuan ancient books, rare books and rare books of Song and Yuan dynasties have continuously "flowed" to Bao Auditorium.
194 1 Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Shanghai Concession became an island. By this time, Pan had passed away, and as many as11ancient books in the Bao Auditorium were inherited by his son Pan Shizi. Pan studied in the United States and became a professor at St. John's University after returning home. Fearing that the national treasure would fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders, he contacted the British Asian Literature Association in Shanghai and asked them to try to move the book to a safe place. There are indeed some "China hands" among British personnel. They know the historical and cultural value of these collections, and they actually sent an English ship to transport these national treasures to Hong Kong. After landing, they sent it directly to the vault of HSBC by special car, and everything was carefully arranged. Who knows that this storage will be 10 years. During this period, Americans and Japanese tried to buy this set of books at a high price many times. Hou Shitai, an American cultural relic collector, is the most active. He came to Hong Kong with a large amount of US dollars, and shuttled between Hong Kong and the United States from time to time to visit the collections in the hands of children of old families who had taken refuge in Hong Kong from the mainland. However, Pan Shizi remained unmoved, preferring to pay the high bank rent of HSBC every year until the national liberation.
Pan Mingxun's good friend Chen Qinghua (1894- 1978) is another great bibliophile in Shanghai. He is from Hunan, with clear pronunciation and mellow voice. He used to be the chief auditor of China Bank, and he also had a hobby of collecting Song, Yuan and ancient editions. Because of the possession of the Song version of Xunzi, Yan Yan lived in Xunzhai. One day, Chen Qinghua visited Bao Auditorium. Before he finished three sentences, he asked what books Pan had received recently. So, Pan took out a new set of "Korean Mr. Changli's Anthology" from the box and showed it to Chen. What deeply moved Chen Fuzhi was that he had a Song version of Liu Hedong Collection (known as Liu Wen in the world), which was also published by Don Juan of Sanshan in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was also an orphan of the world. So Chen said: "The world is called two, so the two episodes should be juxtaposed." If two books are separated in two places, can there be no regrets about losing the group? I don't know what my opinion is. "Pan meditation for a long time, deeply Chen's words make sense. He wants Liu Wen in his heart, and because of the huge cost of building a new house, he sighed." In view of the current financial constraints, I can't afford Liu Wen more. You have this discussion and are good friends. You have it in Korea. "So, Mr. Changli's collection of books in Song Dynasty was scattered from the Treasure Hall and returned to the Xunzhai Building.
On the eve of liberation, the Chen Qinghua family arrived in Hongkong and left Shanghai with dozens of rare books, including this one in Korean. Until 1965, Chen decided to sell his library, including dozens of extremely precious rubbings by Song Tuoming. Later, Xu Senyu's son Xu went back and forth to nationalize this large national treasure on behalf of the country and put it in the Beijing Library. Premier Zhou Enlai personally asked about this matter, which shows that he attaches great importance to it. After Chen left Shanghai, the books in the Shanghai apartment were kept by his daughter and son-in-law Liu Ji 'ao (a professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), and many ancient books of the Song and Yuan Dynasties were stolen during the Cultural Revolution. /kloc-when it was returned in 0/980, Chen's descendants donated the country and now it is in Shanghai Library.
195 1 year, Pan Shiyi sent a letter from Hongkong to Zheng Zhenduo, director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, expressing his willingness to donate all the books in Bao Auditorium to the new China people, and said that there were no professionals in this field to help with the donation. Zheng Zhenduo, a lover of cultural relics, was very excited after receiving the letter. At that time, the state had noticed that a large number of cultural relics stranded in Hong Kong were in danger of drifting overseas at any time, and had decided to allocate huge sums of money to send personnel to buy them. Premier Zhou also gave special instructions: "You must buy cultural relics with historical value, and you must not buy antiques." It happened that the suburbs of Xu Bo came to Beijing from Hongkong. Xu works in a bank in Hong Kong. He is also a famous cultural relic collector and connoisseur, and he is familiar with many collectors. Therefore, the Special Council entrusted him to get in touch with Pan Shizi in Hong Kong to specifically handle the donation of books in the auditorium. After contact, these treasures finally arrived in Shanghai safely, including Song Dynasty books 104 and Yuan Dynasty books 7. The special train was specially approved by the State Council to go directly to Beijing, and it was stored in the rare book room of Beijing Library, which greatly enriched the library's collection. 1958, Beijing Library edited and published the Catalogue of Rare Books, and specially marked "Pan Donation" under the item of books donated by Bao Auditorium to show its great achievements.
At the beginning of liberation, Pan Shizi returned to Shanghai. After donating books, he also donated Bao Auditorium to the country, converted it into a post and telecommunications hospital, and lived on the ground floor of a garden house on Hunan Road. Pan was very lonely in his later years, and his wife and son went abroad successively. After the stroke, his life was taken care of by the nanny. In this case, he still completed the English translation of Saint Amethyst with tenacious perseverance, and introduced the long-standing China culture to the world. After its publication in Singapore, the book was personally designated by Lee Kuan Yew as a must-read for children in Singapore and by UNESCO as a must-read for children's moral cultivation in the world. 1988, his name was included in the American version of Who's Who in the World.
Pan (1867 ~ 1939) is a famous bibliophile in modern times. The word is clear. Shaying people in Nanhai, Guangdong. When I was young, I worked in a foreign company, lived in Shanghai and became rich in business. During the Republic of China, I was the general manager of Shanghai Ministry of Industry. The collection of books is mainly in Song dynasty. There is a huge collection of books, and I like to collect ancient books of Song and Yuan Dynasties. There are more than 100 kinds, all of which are fine works. Yuan, a bibliophile in the Republic of China, collected two books, Justice in the Book of Rites and Biography of the Ram. There are 70 volumes and 40 volumes of The Book of Rites Justice carved in the Song Dynasty, which is called "the best book in China" by historians, which is the highest in the Song Dynasty. This book is Pan's detailed information++
Pan Shizi is a modern bibliophile and scholar. The son of Pan Zhi, a famous bibliophile, is from Nanhai, Guangdong. 1950 Join China Democratic League. 1939 received a master's degree from Cambridge University, UK. He used to be the head of the department of history and politics at St. John's University, the head of the department and the acting president. 1949 and became a professor and librarian of the Foreign Languages Department of Fudan University. 1957 was wrongly classified as a rightist, framed during the Cultural Revolution and imprisoned for seven years. 1939 He inherited all the books after his father died. Among them, the Song and Yuan editions are above 1 10, and the details of Pan are ++ 1088.