Hunan Library

Hunan Library

Hunan Library is a provincial comprehensive public library organized by the state. It is the first provincial public library named "library" in China.

Hunan Library was founded in March 1904 by Liang huankui and others, and by Zhao Erxun, governor of Hunan Province. In 1912, Hunan Library was renamed "provincial Hunan Library". In July 1984, the Hunan Provincial Compilation Committee issued a document and agreed to change the name of Hunan Provincial Library to Hunan Library.

According to the official website of the library in February 2017, the main building area of Hunan Library is 23000 square meters, the training building is more than 6700 square meters, and there are more than 4.5 million volumes (pieces) of physical literature, including more than 3.08 million volumes (pieces) of books, more than 800000 volumes (pieces) of ancient books, more than 550000 volumes (pieces) of newspapers and periodicals, and more than 200000 pieces of audio-visual and micro products. There are more than 3.3 million kinds of e-books. There are more than 1570 reading seats.

Historical evolution

In the thirtieth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (March 1904), the Hunan Library and education museum was founded by Liang huankui and other people, and Zhao Erxun, governor of Hunan Province.

In 1911, after the revolution of 1911 in Changsha, Hunan Library was renamed Hunan Provincial Library.

In 1912, Hunan Library was renamed "provincial Hunan Library".

In 1920, Hunan Library was transferred to the Department of civil affairs.

In 1921, the library of Hunan Education Association was established, which belongs to the Education Association.

In the 10th year of the Republic of China (April 1921), the popular library affiliated to Hunan Provincial Education Association was built in 1915 with the approval of the provincial government.

In 1924, Hunan Library was changed to "the library attached to Hunan Library Office".

In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (September 1925), the government abolished the book printing office and restored the provincial Hunan Library.

In 1926, the library of Hunan Education Association was changed to Zhongshan Library.

In August 1926, the library of Hunan Education Association, founded in 1921, was renamed "Zhongshan Library" in memory of Dr. Sun Yat Sen at the second provincial Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang. It belongs to the Department of education.

In the 15th year of the Republic of China (December 1926), the sixth financial meeting of Hunan provincial government decided to merge Hunan Zhongshan Library with Hunan Provincial Library and change its name to Hunan Provincial Zhongshan Library. The main building is the Education Society Library, and the Dingwangtai building is used to store the original Sixian book company's editions.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China (July 1930), all the books, utensils and papers in the old building of education Huiping of Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province were destroyed in the war.

In September 1931, the provincial government decided to restore the provincial Zhongshan Library.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China (September 1932), the restored Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province was reopened.

In August 1949, Hunan Provincial Zhongshan Library was taken over by Changsha military control commission of the Chinese people's Liberation Army; after the establishment of the provincial government, the Bureau of culture and education was established, and Hunan Provincial Zhongshan Library was managed by the Bureau.

In 1953, Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province was renamed Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province. The reading room of martyr park was added outside the library, and the circulation library station was established.

In September 1966, Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province was renamed Hunan Library.

On October 1, 1970, Hunan Library was renamed Hunan Provincial Library.

In 1978, the provincial Party committee and government decided to build a new museum on Shaoshan road.

In July 1984, the Hunan Provincial Compilation Committee issued a document and agreed to change the name of Hunan Provincial Library to Hunan Library.

In December 1984, Hu Yaobang inscribed the name of the new library "Hunan Library".

Collection strength

Collection resources

According to the official website of the library in February 2017, Hunan Library has more than 4.5 million volumes (pieces) of physical literature, including more than 3.08 million volumes (pieces) of books, more than 800000 volumes (pieces) of ancient books, more than 550000 volumes (pieces) of newspapers and periodicals, and more than 200000 pieces of audio-visual and micro products. The scale of digital resources is growing rapidly, with more than 3.3 million e-books. 2.59 million volumes of literature were borrowed. There are many rare rare rare books, genealogies, inscriptions, paintings, and letters in the collection, especially the rich local literature.

Handwritten Scripture volume

As of the summer of 2011, Hunan Library has 9 handwritten scriptures, including Vajra Prajna paramita Sutra, Mahayana wuliangshouzong Sutra, miaofe Lianhua Sutra, Daban Nirvana Sutra and dazhituolun.

 

Collection of ancient books

As of April 2011, there are about 680000 ancient books in Hunan Library, including more than 50000 rare books, including 27 kinds and 31 editions of song and Yuan Dynasty, 1427 editions of Ming Dynasty, more than 1000 editions of Qing Dynasty, more than 1000 manuscripts and transcripts of Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, 400 rare books of proofreading, postscripts and punctuation, 85 sets of printing and transcripts of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and more than 60 movable type books of Ming and Qing Dynasty Department.

Among them, 1500 are included in the national rare ancient books bibliography, and 160 are included in the national precious ancient books list. For example, yunbu, jishengbacui and Yuhai are less popular in Ming Dynasty editions, such as qingquantang collection (Ming Wanli edition, Shen Jisheng Edition), Ballad (Ming Wanli Edition), and Tangshu (Ming Jiajing edition, ye Shulian Edition). The Zeng family in Xiangxiang collected nearly 100000 volumes of books. There are engraving printed materials of "all Tathagata secret whole body relic treasure box printed with the Sutra" engraved by Qian Chu, king of Wu and Yue in the eighth year of Kaibao (975) of the Northern Song Dynasty, and 15 volumes of "Shuowen Jiezi" in the thread bound book of the Northern Song Dynasty.

 

Genealogy Collection

As of April 2011, Hunan Library has collected nearly 4000 kinds of Hunan genealogy, with more than 50000 copies. Hunan celebrity genealogy is a complete collection. For example, Li's genealogy in Fengcheng, Nanchang (the 3rd year of Yongle, Ming Dynasty), Li's genealogy in Fengcheng, Ming Jiajing, Ming Chongzhen, and Peng's genealogy in Qingshan, Changsha (the Zhengde, Ming Dynasty). Huxiang celebrities such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, Huang Gonglue, Tan Zheng, Zhou Yang, Zhou Libo, Zhou Gucheng, Jian Bozan, LV Zhenyu, Luo xuezan, Hu Yaobang, Tao Shu, Zeng Guofan, Luo Zenan, Hu Linyi, Wei Yuan, Tang Peng, Xie Zhending, Li Xubin, Tan Sitong, He Jian, Liu Jianxu, Zhu Liangcai, Zhu Shaoqing, Peng Shuzhi, etc.

 

Literature collection

As of April 2011, there were more than 2600 versions of Mao Zedong's works in Hunan Library, including 200 printed before liberation, such as Hunan Peasant Revolution printed by Hankou Changjiang printing house in April 1927, namely investigation report on Hunan peasant movement, and five volume Anthology of Mao Zedong published by Jin Cha Ji RI newspaper in may 1949 .

Hunan Library collects tens of thousands of single documents, such as deeds, papers, government notices, memorials, imperial edicts, merit cards, licenses, letters, test papers, photos, currency, etc., most of which are local documents. There are about 80000 old paperback books before 1949. There are Hunan local newspapers and periodicals, such as Hunan daily in 1898, Hunan official newspaper from 1902 to 1905, Hunan political newspaper from 1912 to 1949, Ta Kung Pao from 1915 to 1947, Hunan popular daily from 1921 to 1943, Hunan national daily from 1933 to 1949, central daily from 1939 to 1949, Li Bao from 1936 to 1948. There are 22900 volumes of comic books published in the Republic of China, such as "Three Kingdoms of comic books", "Water Margin of comic books" and so on.

Hunan Library has completed the classification and cataloging of more than 800000 volumes (pieces) of ancient documents, and the bibliography of ancient books has been compiled into the catalogue of thread bound books of ancient books in Hunan Library. Hunan Library compiled and published the collection of ancient calligraphy and painting selection (Beijing Library Press, 2004) and the collection of ancient fan selection of Qingfeng Huayun (Hunan people's press, 2009).

 

Calligraphy and painting inscription

As of April 2011, Hunan Library has more than 7000 pieces of calligraphy and paintings from Song Dynasty to the Republic of China. Among them, the first-class products are the anonymous tuanfan of the Southern Song Dynasty, (Ming) zhuzhishan running script, (Ming) Dong Qichang running script album, (Qing) Xiao Yuncong landscape vertical axis, (Qing) Wang Yuanqi landscape vertical axis, etc.; the second-class products are (Ming) Cao Xuequan running script, (Ming) Shen Xi cursive script, (Qing) Jiang Tingxi plum finch volume, (Qing)

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