Chen Zhan

Chen Zhan

Chen Zhan (1753-1817) was named Zhongyu, Jianzhuang, Hezhuang and Xinpo. Xiashi people, Haining, Zhejiang. He was born in the 18th year of Qianlong reign of Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty and died in the 22nd year of Jiaqing reign of emperor Renzong at the age of 65. He was a famous book collector and emendator in Qing Dynasty.

In the first year of Jiaqing (1796) of the Qing Dynasty, he took Xiaolian Fangzheng as an example. In the fourth year of Jiaqing period (1799), there were many people. In the evening, she lived at the foot of crape myrtle mountain, where she lived and wrote.

Chen Zhanqiang is knowledgeable, proficient in textual exegesis, and good at collating and collecting lost works. Ruan Yuan is known as "the most profound scholar of Confucian classics in central Zhejiang". He has a rich collection of books, including xutangshu, the ancient meaning of the Analects of Confucius, and Jianzhuang Wenchao.

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Life of the characters

Chen Zhan was erudite and good at antiquity, better than recitation, especially focusing on exegesis. His father, Chen Yu, studied Shuowen but failed to write a book. Chen Zhan inherited his father's ambition and, after more than 10 years of hard work, wrote "Shuowen Zhengyi" and "Shuowen shengshu". He regretted the loss of the original manuscript. At the same time, he devoted himself to the study of classics, collecting Zheng Kangcheng's essays on the Analects of Confucius, the notes of filial piety and six essays, according to the biography of Zheng Jun, the age of Zheng Jun, and the collection of "Cang Cang" as "the storehouse picking up". These achievements were praised by Qian Daxin, Wang Niansun and Duan Yucai. Ruan Yuan said that he was "the most profound scholar in the study of Confucian classics in Western Zhejiang". He tasted the plaque of Shushi town hall as a gift. In the sixth year of Jiaqing's reign, he went to Beijing for an examination and met Pu Xiu, a Korean envoy, at Liulichang bookstore. Pu Xiu gave his zhenrui manuscript to Chen Zhan, and Chen Zhan gave it back with the Analects of Confucius.

Book collectors

He is erudite and good at ancient times, and is good at exegesis. He has many contacts with Qian Daxin, Weng Fanggang, Duan Yucai and others, and often asks questions and discusses knowledge together. He devoted all his life to collecting and collating books. He had a rich collection of books and was good at collating. He made close friends with Huang pilei, Wu Qian and others, exchanged collations and copied from each other. There is a special boat named jinzhuofang. The three people often go out to visit books and study together. Every good book must be read and discussed with each other. In the song and Yuan Dynasties, he bought it at a high price. In his later years, he planted an orchard at the foot of Ziwei mountain and built a collection of books, such as "Xiangshan Pavilion", "Shixiang hall", "64 Yanzhai" and "xiaolianju". He collected more than 100000 volumes of books, including many famous and rare editions of song and Yuan Dynasties. It is as well known as "Shi Li Ju" and "Bai Jing Lou". In the 11th year of Jiaqing (1806), Tao Zhengxiang, a bookseller and collector, got a copy of the book of changes of Li's family, which was a collection of Mao Jian's "Jigu Pavilion". He was ready to sell it to Chen Zhan. Huang pilei also wanted to buy it, but he refused to sell it. Therefore, Huang pilei was bedridden for several days. He had to give in for the sake of friendship. When Huang pilei was poor in his later years, he bought the book at a high price of 30 gold. There are nearly 20 kinds of printed editions and rare secret editions of song and Yuan Dynasties, such as the large character edition of Zhouyi Zhushu of Song Dynasty, the copy of Jiading edition of Li's Zhouyi Jijie of Song Dynasty, the small character edition of Zhouli Zhuo of Song Dynasty, the Wu Ge edition of song Xianchun, the Shangshu kongzhuan of song Wuzhou, the Liji Zhushu of song Chunxi, the large character edition of Mao Shi Zhushu of Yuan Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty In Jian'an, Zheng Mingde's edition of Chen's book of rites, Ming's edition of song's Yi Li Zheng's annotation, Ming's edition of song's Xiangtai's edition of spring and autumn classics, and Yingbei song's copy of Shu's big character edition of the Analects of Confucius. One is his portrait with the title of "image of Zhongyu" and the other is his collection with twelve characters, saying: "it's hard work to get this book, and those who come after it will learn from me.". There are also "Chen Zhan Guan of Haining", "Tuxiang Tang", "rabbit bed Jing Yan", "Yuan Ben Zhan Du", "ten volume Renjia of Lin'an Zhi" and "Jian Zhuang Yi Wen". In his later years, Jianjiang gave up at the foot of Ziwei mountain and wrote about it wholeheartedly. He wrote one volume of the postscript to the classics, which is the postscript of the Classics Collection Department. After his death, the collection of books began to come out, most of them belonged to Ma Ying's "yinxiangshan Pavilion", and Wang mingluan also received some posthumous books. His works include Sheng Lei Shi Cun, Xu Tang Shu, the ancient meaning of the Analects of Confucius, Shi Jing Shuo and Jian Zhuang Jie Wen, all of which are related to exegesis, textual research and edition. Among them, Jing Ji Ji Ji Ji Ji Ji Wen contains 18 kinds of song Jing Shu and 1 kind of Yuan Jing Shu, which are particularly valued by scholars. In addition, he has written songyanzhai essays, hengyanguangzheng, Jianzhuang Wenchao, poetry anthology, Xinban Tufeng, Jianzhuang Shuji, Jianzhuang sequel, Hezhuang Shichao, countermeasures, Jinshiji of Han Dynasty, songyanzhai essays, and compiled Haichang congzai and Xiachuan Shichao.

Main works

Zhan has written ten volumes of poetry anthology, six volumes of Jiewen, six volumes of countermeasures, three volumes of poet research, six volumes of Hengyan Guangzheng, seventy volumes of xutangshu, six volumes of shijingshuo, one volume of Shenglei Shicun, one volume of wucangshicun, one volume of Jingji postscript, one volume of Xiaojing Zhengzhu, ten volumes of Analects of Confucius Guxun and Shuowen Zhengyi, all of which are biographies of Qing history And passed on to the world.

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