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A few patchwork rooms, a room divided between North and South —— An interview with Shaoxing Qingteng Bookstore

From Qiu Jin's house, I got on a passionate tricycle and turned into Mahayana Lane in Qianguan Lane. The former residence of Xu Wei, a great writer in Ming Dynasty, has arrived. Xu Wei, a native of Xuwen Ivy Mountain, is one of Shaoxing's business cards, an old business card full of blue lantern scrolls and legends. Compared with Cai Yuanpei's former residence with a glittering Hanlin plaque hanging in front of the door, and the old and new Taiwan Province Gate of Zhou Jia (Lu Xun), the Ivy Bookstore hiding in the corner of the bustling city is particularly thin and lonely. However, the storm of history and modern bulldozers were merciful in the end, leaving no imagination on paper for future generations.

Walking into the yard, I saw bamboo and plantain against the white walls and tiles that were not worn out. Two old pomegranate trees, with bare paws and intricately grasping the soil of history and covered with green leaves, embraced each other affectionately in Qiu Guang. A cobblestone path winds its way to a round door. Looking up, I don't know who wrote down the word "Tianhan Branch", but there is a trace of wind and bones hitting you, echoing the "idle rock" in the corner under the high mountain wall on the right.

A square pool called "Tianchi" was built outside the lattice window of the bookstore. According to the inscription in the bookstore during the Jiaqing period, "the pool is small and full of springs, which is inexhaustible." Today, it is just a cement pool filled with tap water. There are more than twenty lonely and boring goldfish swimming in the water, and the bodies of coins put in by some nosy people lie at the bottom of the pool. The pillar in the pool is engraved with the word "mainstay", which is said to have been written by Xu Wenchang. The word "Liu" fell into the water and I couldn't recognize it. A pair of woodcut couplets above the pool has the taste of Zhuangzi: "A pool of golden jade is like a flower, and its eyes are bright yellow." Looking at the upside-down world upside down, the "extraordinary way" of Taoism lies in the "mainstay" of the reflection water. There is a Ligustrum lucidum in the corner behind the round door. The protection card accurately shows that she was 225 years old in September 2006. It must be the oldest and only authentic in this yard. Nevertheless, it was born in 1593, exactly 188 years after Xu Wei's death. It is impossible to witness the poverty and depression of its owner. Even the old vine named "Shu Teng A" under the opposite wall was probably not planted by Xu Wei himself in those days, but by people today to comfort their imagination. If it is a century-old tree, isn't it too early to hang a sign for viewing?

Walking into the bookstore, there are two small rooms. On the outer wall, Ruan Yuan wrote "Chen Rebuilds the Ivy League Bookstore" in the ninth year of Jiaqing. The inscription is isolated with a glass box, which shows that this is not idle. The inscription said that "Ivy Bookstore" was written by Chen. Chen was a scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, Chen Hongshou, alias Chen Laomian, who lived in seclusion here for more than two years. During the Shunzhi period, Wang Yuying (Wang Duanshu), a talented woman in Jiangyin, lived in the Qingteng Bookstore. Therefore, some couplets say, "Take Luo to fill the house, because the tree is the hall, and the face is old." There is a portrait of Xu Wei hanging on the front wall, and the couplets on both sides can be described as ingenious: "Several houses are staggered, and a southern accent spreads to the north." It leads to Xu Wei's life dilemma and personality characteristics in his later years.

Xu Wei, who combines books, poems, essays, paintings and songs, is brilliant and "nonsense" and was classified as Li Changji by later generations. Huang Zongxi lamented: "I don't know if the article is valuable, but I haven't seen it for a hundred years. In the middle of the night, the lights scare ghosts and gods, and no one is willing to surrender. " It is a wonderful flower in the literary world since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. So talented, tried and failed, fame and fortune. He became a poor scholar who sold calligraphy and painting for a living, and he was down and out. Judging from the poems such as Building a House and Managing Grapes, its evening scene is as miserable as Du Gongbu's "thatched cottage was destroyed by the autumn wind". In his early years, he also had the exciting experience of following Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war, and wrote two battle plans against Japan. There are seven quatrains:

A thousand troops are temporarily safe, but there is no wave in Christina.

Account * * * rush to escape the Iliad, Jiangnan only Yiwu soldiers.

Zuo Ye

At dusk, the dagger surrounded the gun, and the cold wind blew blood and flew.

Looking back at the road, I rode, a red and cold iron dress.

From some poems, we can directly feel that Xu Wenchang has a kind of iron-blooded character that the sons and daughters of eastern Guangdong have drawn their swords in the face of the Japanese aggressors, not just a lonely cloud and wild crane in people's mouth. But in the end, I still can't escape my fate. Due to the intervention of Hu Zongxian, the military commander of Zhejiang and Fujian, Xu Wei was persecuted by the party struggle and was heartbroken. After the attempted suicide, he went to prison for killing his wife. Crazy? Wake up? On the horizon of history, it gradually blurred and became a portrait of several crumbling rooms.