Lin Sijin, a noble and respected man of letters
天下文章莫大乎是，一时贤士皆与之游。
这是陈寅恪送给其长辈的一副对联，赞誉极高。受联之人正是“五老七贤”中的蜀中著名学者林思进。
林思进，成都华阳（今双流）人，字山癯，更作山腴，晚岁号清寂翁，是著名的文学家、教育家。他出生在一个书香世家，十二三岁时诗文就已经写得不错了。他对八股涉猎不多，故而屡试不中。后来科举废除，林思进便前往日本游学。在日本，他听闻甲午海战大败，心中痛恨，因思变革。毕业后回国，他也曾尝试为官，但所委之职几乎都是些闲差。正逢此时辛亥革命爆发，他便致仕回乡，一门心思扑在文化事业上。
林思进书法
The callig raphy by Lin Sijin
“A w riter lofty and accom plished beyond com pare in the world. A charismatic friend and mentor for distinguished men of the time.”
This is a couplet Chen Yinque, a famous historian, sent to Lin Sijin, a prom inent Sichuan scholar. Lin Sijin, born in Huayang（today’s Shuangliu）, courtesy name Shanqu or Shanyu, and later literary name Qingjiweng, was a renowned w riter and educator. He was born in a literary fam ily. A fter the imperial exam ination system was abolished, Lin went to Japan for a study tour. A fter he had graduated and returned to China, the Revolution of 1911 broke out, and he devoted himself to the cultural cause.
清末随着西学东渐，我国公共图书馆逐渐设立。当时清廷学部奏请设立京师图书馆（今国家图书馆）和各省图书馆，四川省图书馆随之开始筹建。因林思进名气大，民国初，四川军政府请他任职，他对推荐人说：“听说图书馆还需要人，我愿去那儿”。林思进便成为四川省图书馆第一任馆长。林思进用两年时间广采海内官本、私家精刻及西文典籍，得书二十万卷，其中善本、孤本颇多，西文书籍也大量收藏，这等规模在当时国内尚为少见。
之后，林思进辞去图书馆馆长职，开始了教育事业。他接办华阳县中学，整修校舍，添置图书仪器，高薪礼聘教师，严格招收学生，华阳县中学一时声名在外。不久后，吴玉章来成都主持四川高等师范学堂，林思进应聘为国文系教授。他先后执教于华西大学、成都大学、四川大学等，三十多年的时光都献给了教育事业，门下栋梁辈出。如晚清经学家王壬秋、文学家王闿运、蜀中著名藏书家严雁峰，被誉为四川历史上“睁眼看世界”第一人的宋育仁，托古改制的经学大师廖平等，都是林思进的学生。(www.xing528.com)
四川省图书馆
S ichuan Provinc ia l Lib ra ry
林思进文学涵养颇为深厚，典故章句信手拈来。他的诗沉郁苍凉，有乱世悲情却不消极，赵熙评价“不莽不纤，语有内心”。成都留有他不少文墨遗迹，杜甫草堂工部祠就有他的题联：
花径故依然，为公拥彗骚除，不教戎马嗟词客；
兵戈犹未已，笑我搘帷暂住，莫误群鸥认主人。
林思进一生致力于国学研究，著有《清寂堂诗录》《清寂堂文乙录》《华阳县志》《华阳人物志》等。言雅格高，是他给自己书过的一个门联横批，恰如他的一生。
Lin Sijin was the first director of Sichuan Provincial Library. He spent two years acquiring 200,000 volumes of books covering official copies, private finely printed versions and Western classics, from a wide range of sources. Among these books are many reliable copies and only extant copies, as well as a large collection of Western books. Such a collection was rare in China at that time.
In 1918, Lin was assigned to run Huayang High School. During this stint, he repaired the dormitories, added books and instrumentation, assembled a well-paid faculty and recruited excellent students. These efforts gave a big boost to the reputation of the school. Shortly after, Wu Yuzhang came to Chengdu to run Sichuan Higher Normal School, and engaged Lin Sijin as a professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Subsequently, Lin taught at West China Union University, Chengdu University and Sichuan University, among others. Over more than 30 years, he devoted his time to China’s education cause. Many of his students later became leaders in various fields. Lin’s influential students include Wang Renqiu, a Confucian classist, Wang Kaiyun, a writer, and Yan Yanfeng, a renowned Sichuan book collector, of the late Qing Dynasty, Song Yuren, recognized as the first person to “see the world with open eyes” in Sichuan, and Liao Ping, a master of Confucian classics who advocated reform under the disguise of tradition.
Lin Sijin, an accomplished literary writer, devoted his life to Chinese culture studies. His works include the Collected Poems from Qingji Studio, the Collected Writings from Qingji Studio, the Annals of Huayang County, and the Biographies of Historical Figures from Huayang. Refined words and lofty style, the horizontal line of a couplet he wrote for himself, is an apt description of his life.
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