The Pavilion used to be the third library of Xu Shidong(1814-1873),
a scholar of the late Qing Dynasty, and was later shifted here. Xu Shidong, whose another two names were Dingyu and Liuquan, had been an avid reader and book collector since an early age. Despite all the sufferings and hardships, he remained indulged in book collecting. The books collected by him were mainly local documents that once enjoyed public prominence.
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