When I went to the site in 1984, a peasant family that lived nearby pointed to a place they said used to be called the Little Red Chamber, but all that remained was the foundation, the ruins of the palace library. A set of the Ssu-ku chuan-shu, a massive compilation of Chinese writings also known as The Complete Library of the Four Branches of Books, used to be kept there.
我一九八四年到那裡時，附近農家指著一個地方，說那兒叫「小紅樓」，可是只看到一個地基，是以前圓明園圖書館的遺址，四庫全書有一部原來就存在那裡。