 The institution was originally called the Imperial Library of Peking or Metropolitan Library (; "Jīngshī Túshūguǎn").Lu Xun and other famous scholars have made great efforts for its construction.Although the Qing government and Beiyang government after the revolution of 1911, the Treasury is empty, unable to maintain the library funds, but also the rich collection of ancient books library, because the country has accepted the deposit of Museum status, it was a great progress in the development of Library Chinese.