A museum in memory of Dai Zhen, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), has been opened to the public in the old Tunxi Street in Huangshan Mountain, east China's Anhui Province.
Dai was a famous textual researcher, natural scientist, thinker and philosopher of the Qing Dynasty.
The Dai Zhen Museum, an Anhui-style building, covers an area of 427 square meters holding 9,167 books originally collected by Dai and a series of books about Dai Zhen.
The collection of books in the museum still includes more than 20 works written by Dai Zhen.
Dai had extensive knowledge and profound scholarship in textual criticism, critical interpretation of ancient texts, phonology, astronomy, geology, mathematics and water conservancy.
(Xinhua News Agency April 14, 2003)
