身為上海博物館館長的他，時(shí)時(shí)沉浸在書畫的海洋中，他多次策劃的書畫展出活動(dòng)，原本與他深厚的學(xué)養(yǎng)緊密相連?，F(xiàn)在讓我們走進(jìn)他的家“參觀”一番，那才是名副其實(shí)的——

第一次推門進(jìn)入陳燮君家的人大都會(huì)發(fā)出“哦!”的一聲驚嘆，不為別的，只因您眼前會(huì)出現(xiàn)“奇觀”：他的家滿屋子的書籍堆得像云南石林一般。古人以“汗牛充棟”形容人家藏書多，陳燮君家的書山書林恐怕沒有什么成語可以來形容。他的書多得早已無法用書架來容納了，只得一摞摞堆放在地上、桌上、床上，直至人和書都幾乎沒有立錐之地，許多地方你都必須側(cè)著身子才能通過。是的，這個(gè)家里沒有正規(guī)的書房，他整個(gè)家都是書房。臥室床榻的三分之一地盤是書，廚房里的一張大餐桌也堆滿了書，只剩下約六分之一的地方吃飯。

陳燮君每天回家都要寫東西至深夜。他坐在客廳一張紅木羅漢床上寫，累了就躺下打個(gè)盹，周圍也橫七豎八地躺滿了書。書桌是一張小小的琴桌，上面依然堆滿了書。每次寫東西，他就扒拉出一塊僅夠放下一張稿紙的“空地”，他每年百把篇文章就是這樣誕生的。

書摞放得這么高，以至我們總擔(dān)心它會(huì)倒下壓到誰，但陳燮君樂觀地答道：“新加坡有這么多檳榔樹，像狼牙棒似的檳榔熟了就會(huì)掉下來，但是從來沒有聽說誰被砸到過么!”事實(shí)也真的是這樣，他一家老小確實(shí)從未被書砸過，但在夜深人靜的睡夢中，他們時(shí)常會(huì)被書倒下的聲音驚醒。不過久而久之，大家也習(xí)慣成自然了，他和女兒陳穎甚至能夠分辨得出是哪摞書倒了，朝哪個(gè)方向倒的。

陳燮君說他家大概有四五萬本書，買書是他最癡迷的癖好，哪里有打折的書市他都知道，他總能經(jīng)常淘到好書，尤其是他喜歡的文學(xué)、歷史、哲學(xué)的書。自從當(dāng)了上海博物館館長后，藝術(shù)和文博類的圖書則又成為最主要的購買對(duì)象。他是個(gè)當(dāng)今難得的雜家，說通俗點(diǎn)，他是研究做學(xué)問的學(xué)問的，那滿屋子的書，外人看上去又多又亂，陳燮君卻清清楚楚什么書該到哪里去拿。

愛書、愛學(xué)習(xí)是他家庭的傳統(tǒng)。陳燮君父母都是老知識(shí)分子，從小教育子女勤奮好學(xué)，對(duì)于買書求學(xué)的錢從不吝嗇。老兩口耄耋之年了仍好學(xué)不倦，老父親退休后愛上書法和繪畫，他的草書和白描人物頗受行家好評(píng)，他畫的魯迅像被一家博物館收藏，他的畫也被《新民晚報(bào)》選用刊登。老兩口對(duì)晚輩做學(xué)問極為支持，陳燮君發(fā)表過的每一篇文章，老兩口都會(huì)將其仔細(xì)地收集整理成檔。陳燮君夫妻極孝順，他父母住的房子是非常普通的老式多層樓房，而且是在六樓頂層，沒有電梯。他擔(dān)心老兩口上下不便，他們夫婦便將自己條件較好的房子讓給父母住，自己住到了父母的房子里。老父親83歲了，關(guān)愛孩子之心一如既往。他習(xí)慣每晚兩三點(diǎn)鐘起床，在練習(xí)書法的同時(shí)在爐子上熬著粥，而這時(shí)往往陳燮君剛剛忙完睡下。到了早晨6點(diǎn)30分，老父親就打電話叫醒兒子，然后帶上熬好的粥走上幾個(gè)街區(qū)給兒子送去，每天如此，勸也勸不住。

若問陳燮君愛好之最，那就是非繪畫莫屬了。

小時(shí)候他家樓下的外貿(mào)廣告公司是他的美術(shù)啟蒙學(xué)校，他對(duì)那些色彩繽紛的廣告畫流連忘返，他經(jīng)常翻閱當(dāng)時(shí)外面很少見的進(jìn)口包裝設(shè)計(jì)書籍，尤其癡迷觀看廣告公司的美工臨摹的畫作，回到家里后自己找來紙和筆也學(xué)著他們盡情涂鴉。

7歲那年他認(rèn)識(shí)了同學(xué)陳逸鳴的哥哥陳逸飛，他們兩家相距很近經(jīng)常往來，后來他和陳逸鳴兄弟倆都成了莫逆之交，陳逸飛去世后，陳燮君還親自為他操辦告別儀式。

16歲的時(shí)候陳燮君創(chuàng)作了一幅反映工人學(xué)知識(shí)學(xué)文化的油畫《自編教材》，參加了上海美術(shù)館展出。這次成功給了陳燮君極大的鼓勵(lì)，此后畫畫成了他人生的重要組成部分。

陳燮君的多才多藝在上海文化界是出名的。他不僅從小對(duì)文史哲有著執(zhí)著的愛好，擅長書畫音樂，會(huì)彈奏多種樂器，而且還非常早地從事過電子計(jì)算機(jī)內(nèi)存儲(chǔ)器和程序設(shè)計(jì)工作。上世紀(jì)70年代末，他進(jìn)入上海社會(huì)科學(xué)院，從事西方哲學(xué)研究，這使他沉浸在閱讀大量經(jīng)典的歡愉中。他在當(dāng)代新學(xué)科理論研究、時(shí)間學(xué)、空間學(xué)和科學(xué)方法論方面進(jìn)行了卓有成效的理論探索，出版了《學(xué)科學(xué)導(dǎo)論——學(xué)科發(fā)展理論探索》《時(shí)間學(xué)》《生活中的時(shí)間學(xué)》《現(xiàn)代生活中的矛盾旋律》《生活中的色彩學(xué)》等一系列著作，1990年，他被評(píng)為研究員。

在上海社會(huì)科學(xué)院工作十七八年后，他先后擔(dān)任上海圖書館副館長和上海博物館館長。

上海博物館是發(fā)揮陳燮君才華的風(fēng)水寶地，他到任后策劃了一系列在國內(nèi)外產(chǎn)生巨大影響的文物大展，如“晉唐宋元書畫國寶展”、“淳化閣帖最善本展”、“周秦漢唐文明大展”、“故宮博物院和上海博物館藏書畫經(jīng)典展”、“中日書法珍品展”等，幾乎每個(gè)大展都以其獨(dú)有的亮點(diǎn)、獨(dú)有的珍稀性和高難度引起廣泛的轟動(dòng)效應(yīng)。陳燮君說：“上海博物館這金字招牌的魅力大，在國際上擁有如此影響，那是幾任老館長、老專家傾注了全部心血造成的。我們只是享用了他們的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，傳承了博物館的文脈。

陳燮君現(xiàn)在除了上海博物館的工作外，還擔(dān)任了上海文廣局的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)工作，忙得不亦樂乎，但是他仍然忘不了繪畫，竟然能不斷畫出畫來，他畫崇明島，畫西藏雪域，并舉辦了數(shù)次成功的展覽，真讓人感到意外。

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A Super Bookworm

By Guo Sanye

Those who step into Chen Xiejun’s house for the first time would always wow at the sight of a marvelous spectacle: The books in his house are piled up like a jungle. An age-old phrase that books are enough to fill the roof and cause the ox to perspire before the cart is used to describe how many books a scholar could have. But such a set phrase is deficient to describe the books Chen piles up in his apartment. It does not have a study. Books are heaped everywhere: in bedrooms， in the kitchen， on the floor， and even the table in the kitchen is stacked with books. In some places， you need to step sideways carefully through this jungle of books. Has any of these piles of books ever crashed and hurt someone in the family? Never.But it is not infrequent that the family wake up at midnight to a large noise as a pile of books collapses heavily onto the floor. Without getting up to look， Chen can tell which pile has fallen and in which direction.

Chen says he has about 50，000 books at home. He knows all the bookstores in Shanghai. And he always can find the books he wants to buy: literature， history and philosophy. Since he became the curator of the Shanghai Museum， books on art and culture have become his favorites. People think he is a walking encyclopedia.In plain words， he researches how to research. He knows where to find a book in his large forest.

Chen writes every night at a small desk also heaped high with books. He needs to clear out a space just large enough for a piece of paper. This way he produces about 100 articles per year.

Chen Xiejun is from a family of scholars. His parents never said no to the children when they wanted money to buy books to seek knowledge. Probably this explains why he is talented in many things. He is a painter. He is a musician. In the early days of computer age， he even worked as a designer of computer hardware. In the late 1970s， he entered the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences to study western philosophies. This opened his eyes to a broad horizon of western classics and brand new thoughts. After nearly 2 decades at the academy， Chen became deputy curator and then curator of the Shanghai Museum. The museum is exactly where Chen can put his profound knowledge and inspiration to use. He has masterminded and produced a series of highly influential exhibitions of ancient Chinese cultural treasures， some of which can only be described as sensationally rare.

As curator of the museum and a leader of Shanghai Culture Bureau， Chen has an extremely tight schedule， but he still manages to paint creatively. He has held a few successful solo exhibitions of his paintings. Impossible it might sound， but those who have seen the book piles at his house know nothing is impossible with a super bookworm named Chen Xiejun.

(Translated by David)