Xu Naichang

Xu Naichang

Xu Naichang (1869-1943) was born in Tang Village, Gongshan, Nanling. He was a famous family.

Personal profile

My Uncle Xu Wenda served as salt transportation envoy of Huaihe River and Fujian Province, and my cousin Xu Naiguang served as chief consul in New York. Xu Naichang has been familiar with classics and history since he was a child. Guangxu 19 years (1893) Zhongju, 27 years as Huai'an magistrate, special Jiangnan salt tour. He has been responsible for grain collection, donation, relief and supervision of reclamation. In the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, he was appointed to investigate the academic affairs of Japan. After returning to China, he promoted the affairs of Jiangnan primary and secondary schools, managed Jiangnan higher school, and supervised Sanjiang normal school (the predecessor of Nanjing University). Xu was honest and upright, treated people with courtesy, and paid attention to recruiting and promoting talented people. After the death of the Qing Dynasty, he became a famous book collector and scholar in modern times.

Compiling county annals

In 1914, he was employed as editor of Nanling County annals, which lasted 10 years until the 13th year of the Republic of China. The 48 volumes of the complete annals, complete in style and substantial in content, were first included in the 4 volumes of Jinshi annals, which preserved extremely precious historical materials and made valuable textual research on the establishment and evolution of Nanling. Later, he participated in the compilation of Anhui general annals and wrote a lot. During his residence in Shanghai, he worked with Liu Yazi, Zhu zumou, Wang Guowei, Luo Zhenyu, etc. to compile the general annals of Shanghai. In his later years, he edited Anhui series and published a lot of Anhui scholars' works, which won the praise of the academic circles.

Book collectors

Xu Naichang was fond of books. He sought for peace in many ways, extensively read Chinese classical works, collected many precious books, carefully reviewed them and reprinted them. His proofreading and textual research were serious. He attached many examples and notes to distinguish the true from the false, and adopted many theories. Although some of his collections are lost, there are still many in the libraries of Anhui, Nanjing and Shanghai. Among them, there are many rare and even orphaned editions, which were not lost until they were collected and printed by Xu family. He collected more than 10 kinds of books published in song and Yuan Dynasties, and wrote jixuezhai diary, which describes the process of his purchase and collection of books. When he met with solitary and ordinary books, he recorded where he bought them and what the price was. Whether it was the collection of four books, or the collection of Buddhist scriptures and Taoism, social sciences, and applied technology books, they were all included in the collection. The collection is printed with "Ji Xue Zhai Zhen Ku", "Nanling Xu Naichang's certified rare book", "the treasure of those who know the remaining secret collection", "Xu Naichang's Ma Yun Fen couple's seal", "100000 Lin Lang Ge collection", "Nanling Xu Naichang's false print and true record", etc. There are 20 kinds of jixuezhai series, which were collected by Cai Yuanpei as the first collection of Peking University Library. Among them, Yutai Xinyong and other books are still published in Xu's school journal. Tao Zilin's fine carving and printing is an excellent modern work. Wang Guowei, a famous scholar, once wrote poems for sui'an Kan Shu Tu. While publishing books in the school journal, Xu also wrote a lot of works, mainly including one volume of Nanling system evolution table, two volumes of Jinshi antiquities, two volumes of xukao, and one volume of supplement to Confucian biography in Han Dynasty. Self compiled and unpublished: Secretary of jixuezhai, collection of calligraphy and painting in Suian, jinshimeu, jijintu, jinshituo of Anhui Province, etc. As for the re printed books, there are more abundant, such as: jixuezhai series 20 kinds of 57 volumes (Guangxu 19th year edition, 20 volumes), "Song Yuan imperial examination three records" 3 volumes (Republic of China Edition, 4 volumes), "wanci Jisheng" 1 volume (Guangxu 30th year edition, 1 volume), "huaiyouzazu" 12 kinds of 17 volumes (Xuantong 3rd year edition, 8 volumes), "xuzhai series" 20 kinds of 44 volumes (Qing Dynasty edition, 16 volumes), " There are 16 kinds of 38 volumes of sui'an series, 10 kinds of 39 volumes of sui'an series sequel, 10 volumes of Xiaotan luanshi Huike boudoir Ci, 100 volumes of 107 volumes (20 volumes of the school journal of the 24th year of Guangxu), 16 volumes of boudoir poetry copy (8 volumes of the first year of Xuantong), 5 kinds of 23 volumes of Nanling sages sequel (6 volumes of the 23rd year of Minguo), 30 volumes of Xu Wengong collection, 10 volumes of Yutai Xinyong and Jinse collection 》1 volume, etc. These books retain a large number of precious cultural heritage, which is still praised by scholars.

Nostalgic for hometown

Although Xu Naichang often lived in a foreign country, he still cherished his hometown and cared about the sufferings of the people in his hometown. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, Nanling suffered a drought that had not happened in a hundred years, resulting in grain failure and local people struggling with famine. Xu Naichang went out to collect money and bought rice from Annan to help the victims.

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