Qian Taiji

Qian Taiji

Qian Taiji (1791-1863), originally surnamed he, was raised by the Qian family, so he changed his surname to Qian. It is a native of Ganquan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. He was a famous writer and book collector in Qing Dynasty. Qian Yi Ji's younger brother.

Life of the characters

Qian Taiji was born in 1791 and died in 1863. He was 73 years old. Since childhood, he has been diligent and eager to learn. He and his elder brother Yiji have been encouraging each other with their studies, which has the goal of "Jiaxing two stones". Poor families, save cloth, set books 40000 volumes. It's also a good way to proofread ancient books and rare dummy books. After several weeks of proofreading, we can find out the mistakes of one word. In 1827 (the seventh year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty), he was taught by Haining, a Gongsheng official, for nearly 30 years. After that, he gave a lecture on Anlan Academy in Haining. Big waste plan officials will be recommended by county magistrate, force to resign. In the spring of 1860 (the tenth year of Xianfeng), after the Taiping army conquered Hangzhou and occupied Jiaxing, they avoided the Taiping Army's rebellion and went to Anqing. According to their second son Qian Yingpu, they soon died in Anqing.

Daoguang Dinghai (1827) was an official in Haining Prefecture, and later taught in Anlan Academy. He studied hard in his leisure time. Since the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, he has collected all kinds of poems and essays. He is good at appreciating and collating, and most of his books are rare. After the Taiping Rebellion army arrived in Zhejiang, it attached to Zeng Guofan and later died in Anqing. He is very fond of collecting books, and his father has more than ten thousand books. It is stored in "Qi Ying Tang". He added books to tens of thousands of volumes, which were later occupied by others. In the 12th year of Jiaqing (1807), Wu Zhizhen's collection of "Huangye village" flowed out of Wuxi, and he acquired all the books. There are more than 40000 volumes in the school. There are more than 10 versions in the book collection. The book collection is named "lengzhai" according to Qiu Shan village's poem "official cold body can read freely". There are also "hutianhaiyuelou", "leixinjuzhai", "readable study" and so on. He collated the books carefully, borrowed rare books and collated them several times. One word error, next to the public proof, on the eyebrow and between the lines, small words are full of flies. Its collection is printed with "readable study", "imperial Title Qingfen Shishou", "Ganquan villager" and so on. He wrote a book collection account of Ganquan villager's manuscripts, especially the three volumes of book exposure miscellany. Ye Changchi's theory of "the method of collecting, reading, copying and proofreading books is very detailed".

personal works

His works include twenty-four volumes of Ganquan villager's poems and essays, Ganquan villager's you Yan, Qing Fen Shi Shou Lu, Yi He Shi He manuscript, Haichang Xue Zhi He Ren Kao, etc. Haichang Bei Zhi, also known as Jiazhi, was compiled and handed down to the world.