Ma yueguan

Ma yueguan

Ma yueguan (1687-1755) was born in Qimen, Anhui Province, and later moved to Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. The famous salt merchant and book collector in Qing Dynasty was one of the representatives of Huizhou merchants in Yangzhou in the early Qing Dynasty. He and his younger brother Ma Yuelu shared the same poetic name and were known as "two horses in Yangzhou". At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, he was very fond of making friends with visitors. The small Linglongshan library, where he lived, had a very rich collection of books. The Siku Quanshu library was set up, with more than 700 kinds of private books, ranking the first in the country.

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Ma yueguan was born in Qimen, Anhui Province. His grandfather Ma yunyun started to work in yanlianghuai. Ma yueguan lived in Dongguan Street of Yangzhou new city since he was a child, and has been engaged in salt industry for generations. Ma yueguan was once a candidate for the title of director of Daotai with the qualification of Gongsheng. In 1734, Meihua academy, formerly known as Chongya academy, was established. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), Ma yueguan was elected to take the special examination of erudite Hongci, but he refused to go.

Ma yueguan's family was rich and powerful, but he was generous and enthusiastic about local public welfare. He had donated money to dig Yangzhou ditches and build fishing pavilions. When Emperor Qianlong visited the south, he gave the imperial book. In writing Ma yueguan's epitaph, hang Shijun said: "to help people and benefit things, to set up sincerity to practice." "He is inclined to be literate and Confucianist. He likes to be respectful for a long time. He often goes against his will to suit his desire." Ma yueguan had his younger brother Ma Yuelu (1711-1799), named Peixi and Nanzhai. His brothers were teachers and friends of each other and were called "Yangzhou two horses".

Connecting with scholars

Ma yueguan loved to write poems, collect books and make friends with scholars all his life. During Yongzheng's reign, he built a small Linglong mountain hall in Yangzhou and made friends with famous people all over the world. "People from all over the world are famous for building houses, and they have been teaching meals for many years. Famous scholars such as Quan Zuwang, li e, Jin Nong, Zheng Banqiao and Chen Zhang are frequent visitors of xiaolinglong mountain Museum. Ma yueguan was once the leader of the alliance. He joined li'e and others in the Hanjiang chanting society, reciting poems, writing Fu and traveling in the mountains and rivers. Ma yueguan also paid off Zheng Banqiao's debts. Yuan Mei said that Ma yueguan "had a history of thousands of pictures and supported scholars all his life.". Shen Deqian commented on his poems as "precipitous mountain carving, clear water clarity". It can be seen that the level of his poems is very unusual. Today, he has passed on 10 volumes of the collection of yilao in Shahe and 1 volume of the CI in Yigu. There is a biography of Ma yueguan in Wenyuan biography of Qing history manuscript, which proves that his name was really valued at that time.

Famous book collector

He is a famous book collector, writer and engraver in Qing Dynasty. Word autumn jade, the number of valley. His ancestral home is Qimen, Anhui, and he moved to Jiangdu (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu). The official candidate is Zhizhou. At the beginning of Qianlong, he and his younger brother Ma Yuelu were teachers and friends of each other. They were known as "two horses of Yangzhou" for their poems and essays. Famous scholars and book collectors such as Li e, Chen Zhuan and Ju Shu had been collecting books for decades. They bought secret, rare and orphan books at a high price. Those needed by the world would print them with thousands of gold. He has successively purchased the old collections of "zhuanshilou" and "paoshuting", accumulating more than 100000 volumes, and built dozens of libraries, each named "jienan bookstore", "xiaolinglongshan library" and "congshulou". He has hired famous scholars such as Li e, Chen Zhuan, Jiang binggu and Jin Nong to collate and arrange books for him. He has also hired several people who are good at binding top books for him. He has a close relationship with Quan Zuwang, Hui Dong and others, and has secretaries borrowing and copying from each other. Quan Zuwang called him "a terrible collector of books, and even more accurate.". He is also willing to borrow books from others, especially scholars and Confucians. Lu Yayu and Yan Changming all used his collection of books, and presented them with the sentence of "several volumes of Lun Heng's Secret collection, many of you generously borrowed Jingzhou". In 1772, the Imperial Court opened a library to compile Sikuquanshu, which collected the secret books of the world's book collectors. Ma Yujin, his son, presented 776 kinds of books, and Sikuquanshu Zongmu recorded 373 kinds. He was the most prolific book collector, and was awarded one collection of ancient and modern books, several volumes of the picture of victory in Pingding Jinchuan and the picture of Yili in Pingding. During his tour to the south, Gao Zong heard the name of his collection of books and poems, personally drove his garden, and gave books and filled in poems. The printed books are quite exquisite, including ShuoWenJieZi, Yupian, Guangyun, and jingyikao by Zhu YIZUN. The engraving is extremely excellent, which is known as "Ma ban" in the world. The book collection is printed with "Qiu Yufu seal", "the collection of Ma shiconglou", "Ma yueguan said Lu brothers appreciate together" and so on. He is the author of Shahe yilao Xiaogao, Xigu Ci, Jiaoshan Ji You Ji Ji and Linwu changzulu, etc.

Book offering

Ma yueguan loved to examine classics. He set up a printing workshop in his family and did not hesitate to spend money on printing books. For example, Zhu YIZUN's jingyikao cost a lot of money. At that time, he called these books "Ma edition". Xiaolinglongshan library is also the name of Mahalanobis library. It has a collection of more than 100000 volumes, which is called "Jiada Jiangnan quilt". In 1772, Siku Quanshu library was set up, and Ma yueguan's son Zhenbo offered 776 kinds of books, which was the highest private book offering in the country. He was praised by Emperor Qianlong for a collection of ancient and modern books, a picture of Jinchuan poetry in Pingding Yili, and a personal title of wuguanzi. There are 373 kinds of 5529 volumes in Sikuquanshu Zongmu, including 670 volumes in 57 kinds of classics, 1658 volumes in 123 kinds of history, 731 volumes in 43 kinds of sub divisions, and 2470 volumes in 150 kinds of collections. In 1777, Ma Zhenbo, the son of Ma yueguan, petitioned the Meihua academy to be returned to the government and managed by the Yanwu Yamen.

Selected Poems

Huojiaqiao Road

The car sounds fifteen miles, and Nanguo is looking for it. Before the cold green wind, the ancient fragrant clouds invade.

People sing beautiful sentences and heaven writes cold forest. More to be snow, pingtian a foot deep.

[picture of Bing he Qin and he song in autumn]

A crane tears a few days, sitting on the sky, thinking. Try to play another tune to the lonely Pavilion, white clouds and yellow leaves in front of the mountain.

Xu Maojun

Ten on know rare cry back, text poor turn make this body destroyed. Spare autumn volume search line box, then spring Qing solution to pick up.

No longer lost Xian GUI Fen, desolate win wine Cuan sorrow. Do not say goodbye to snow tears as your language, and the origin of comfort night stage.

[chasing Liang Shi's fourth brother and half checking]

Zhuiling is connected with my brother everywhere. It's just like a bamboo couch with raw clothes. Every time after the rain, books are mostly written before the evening wind.

Dan lead hand exploration left three biographies, tea has been lonely for ten years. Today night, the platform should be peaceful, Xie Jiaqun from the total Huadian.

[to restore zhuxiting and Taishi of Huijiang]

The bamboo Pavilion on the East Bank of Hangou is full of pleasure. There is a well in the slanting corridor of drizzle, and there is no monk in the temple at sunset.

When there were thousands of Jasper. The red fence is still covered with rain. Collect Jiangnan smoke tree color, boundless only borrow a rattan.

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