Today, the old site of Lu Xun's library on Liyang Road, Hongkou District, has been renovated for nearly half a year and is open to the public with a new look of a "digital living room".
Caption: The digital parlor of Lu Xun's library located at No. 1367 Liyang Road. Courtesy of North Sichuan Road Street (the same below).
The former site of Lu Xun's library is located on the 2nd floor of No. 1359 Liyang Road. It is a three-storey new lane house with red tile gray wall brick and wood structure, sitting north and facing south, covering an area of 140 square meters, with a construction area of 386 square meters, built in 1920. The storage room is the east front room on the second floor, with an area of 205 square meters. Lu Xun purchased a large number of progressive books during his stay in Shanghai, and for the sake of safety, he decided to separate the house from the library, and he rented it through the relationship of Uchiyama Wanzao, and on March 27, 1933, 6,888 books were transferred here; There are Qu Qiubai's manuscripts, Roushi posthumous works, etc., in order to cover people's eyes and ears, Lu Xun hung the "Kamada Chengichi" name plate at the door.
The site of Lu Xun's library was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Shanghai in 1977, a revolutionary memorial site in Shanghai in 2002, and a list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics in Shanghai in 2021.
The renovation work of Lu Xun's library is arduous and urgent, and the North Sichuan Road Street plays an active role in coordinating all parties, ensuring the quality of repair, and solving the practical problems of residents. Through the innovative use of various communication mechanisms such as tea fragrance meetings, project joint meetings, and building group meetings, we will expand the orderly participation of residents and mobilize various forces to conserve and revitalize cultural heritage.
Caption: A corner of the digital living room of Lu Xun's storage room.
The renovated digital living room of Lu Xun's library has created a multi-functional cultural exchange space for leisure, reading, and study tours through digital technology, and will become a representative "study place" and "check-in point" in Hongkou District.
Relying on the new space of the digital living room, starting from March, the organizers will invite heavyweight experts and scholars to hold a number of salons and reading carnivals around Lu Xun's works and life. Today, the first event of "Lu Xun Depository Digital Meeting Room • Surging Reading Tour" was held here, Lu Xun's eldest grandson, Zhou Lingfei, president of the Lu Xun Cultural Association, Chen Zishan, professor of the Department of Chinese at East China Normal University, and Li Hao, deputy director of the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall, set out from the Lu Xun Depository Room to ** Lu Xun's reading preferences and knowledge graph influence on his creation.
It is reported that as an important part of the red cultural and ecological demonstration area, on the basis of the "Lu Xun Trail", the North Sichuan Road Street will also develop a digital map of "Lu Xun's 15-minute life circle", covering important landmarks closely related to Lu Xun such as Jingyunli, Neishan Bookstore, and Gongcai Cafe, so that citizens and tourists can feel the humanistic temperature of famous masters up close. In addition, the "Shanghai-style Architectural Panorama" and "Urban Renewal and Rejuvenation" digital maps will also be released to show the comparison between urban renewal and neighborhood development in the past and present, and to show the characteristics of Shanghai-style architecture.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Xie Min.