Wang Yilong

Wang Yilong

Wang Yilong (1230-1282) was a book collector in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The word Yuanxiang, Anhui Xiuning people.

In the fourth year of Xianchun (1268), he was granted the Jinshi and the official of Xin'an County. He devoted his whole life to collecting books. He built the library as "Jing she building" and stored ten thousand volumes of books. His recitation room was called "Ding Zhai". After his death, the scholar Fang Hui wrote "the inscription of Mr. Ding Zhai's Wang cemetery". His works include Jurong CE, etc.

Chinese PinYin : Wang Yi Long