The Study Of The Collection Of The Four Biggest Libraries's Origin And Development And The Impact In The Late Qing Dynasty

The Late Qing in the history refers to the year of 1840 to 1911,totally 71 years. During this period, China's private library career reached its peak, resulting in four major library building, namely:the Iron-Lyre-Copper-Sword Library in Changshu, Hai Yuan Library in Liaocheng, the BiSong Library in Huzhou, the eight thousand volumes Library in Hangzhou.The collections of The Iron-Lyre-Copper-Sword Library in Changshu began in Qu shao Ji (1772-1836),then it reaches a new summit by his son Qu Yong (1794-1846). After five generations, After the founding of new China, the book is scattered into the Beijing Library, etc.. The collections of The Hai Yuan Library in Liaocheng began in Yang Yizeng (1781-1855), and his son Yang Shaohe (1832-1875) enriched the collection. After three generations,The books lost in the late Qing Dynasty in the peasant war.The collection of the BiSong Library in Huzhou began in Lu Xinyuan (1834-1894), but his collection disappeared soon after Lu Xinyuan's death. In 1907 his collectiong was sold to Jing Jia Tang Library in Japan.The collection of the eight thousand volumes Library began in Ding Guodian,then Ding Ying, Ding Shen, Ding Bing, and Ding Lizhong, totally of four generations. His book was sold to Nanjing Jiangnan Library in 1907.These four Libraries had a extremely big impact in China's cultural, economic, and political area. In culture, it has a great impact the Library of China, ancient books and publishing industries. In economic, it completed the transfer of funds. In Political area, they became Gentry relying on books to obtain the fame and status.