During the time of the Republic of China, a Ningbo scholar called Ma Lian discovered and excavated more than a thousand of bricks baked during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in the rubble of the old city’s battlements. And he named the building storing the bricks Qianjinzhai (literally means “the Chamber of a Thousand Jins”).Later on, those bricks were donated to the Tianyige and displayed in a room still entitled Qianjinzhai. The Chamber now stores books donated by the five greatest Ningbo scholars, signifying that private libraries, with the Tianyige Library as a representative, boast a considerable collection of books.