Entering the Ivy League Bookstore, the Ivy League Bookstore, including the courtyard, covers an area of less than two acres. South, north and west are adjacent to residential buildings, surrounded by high walls, isolated from the outside world, and the environment is quiet. Bookstore has a long history, with the characteristics of ancient literati gardens, and it is also a rare Ming dynasty residence, which is divided into four parts: garden, front room, back room and Tianchi.
The courtyard of the Qingteng Bookstore is the place where Xu Wei played and walked after reading when he was a child. The original name of Qingteng Bookstore is Liu Hua Bookstore. According to legend, when Xu Wei was young, he personally planted vines at the age of ten because he admired the character of Ivy growing in rocks, restless and arrogant, and the bookstore was gradually renamed Ivy Bookstore.
Above the front room of the courtyard, there is a plaque inscribed by Chen Hongshou, a painter of the Ming Dynasty. Below is Xu Wei's self-portrait, with a couplet next to it: several rickety houses, southern accent and northern accent. The first part is about the hardships of Xu Wei's life in his later years, and the second part is an artistic portrayal of himself.
The front room and the back room are Xu Wei's cultural relics showrooms. Xu Wei entered the Pan family at the age of twenty, and his former residence changed his surname at the age of twenty-five. Since then, he has been fascinated by this house and painted a picture of the Ivy Bookstore.
In the back room of Tianchi, there is a three-character stone tablet "Shu Teng Jia" between the lower walls of vines, which was written by Shaoxing scholar Dong Yi in the Ming Dynasty. Xu Wei called this seven-foot-square stone pool "full of springs and unfathomable. If there is any wonder, he named it" Tianchi "and took it as his own name. There is a stone pillar in the pool, engraved with the word "mainstay", written by Xu Wei. There is also a couplet on the stone pillars on both sides of Tianchi: a pool of gold and jade, full of blue and yellow colors. This is a sentence describing the green vine and Tianchi, which is also said to have been written by Xu Wei.
Travel Guide: Address: No.0/0, Mahayana Lane, Qianguan Lane, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing
Admission: free.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 8: 30 to 17: 00 (closed every Monday).
Qingteng Bookstore, formerly known as Liu Hua Bookstore, is the residence of Xu Wei, one of the three great talents in Ming Dynasty. Compared with the downtown not far away, it is like a Zen place. The door is a gable, facing.
The word "free rock" in the book. Stepping into the path, I saw a patio, a green vine climbing along the wall and a square pool (also called Tianchi). Open the window of the bookstore and you can see the square pool of Tianchi. Tianchi has a pillar supporting the wall, and the word "mainstay" is engraved on the pillar. The bookstores purified by Tianchi and Qingteng are just like Xu Wei's self-metaphor, but the square space is integrated with personality.