苏州过云楼暴得大名的原因不是因为藏书,而是其藏书画。在晚清和民国初年,过云楼就有“江南第一家”的美称。过云楼的第一代楼主是顾文彬,他是清道光年间进士,曾任刑部郎中等职,擅长书法,收藏书画很丰富,在当时就是著名的收藏家,著有《过云楼书画录》。他晚年购买了古春申君庙址、明代尚书吴宽复园旧址等建筑,将其彻底改建为住宅、花园、义庄和祠堂等。整个建筑占地7000多平方米,而过云楼是整个建筑中的一 Suzhou over cloud floor rage was not because of the collection of books, but its collection of calligraphy and painting. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there was Cloud House “the first Jiangnan” reputation. Over the first floor of the cloud floor landlord Gu Wenbin, he was the Qing dynasty, Jinshi, served as Punish Lang middle-level job, good at calligraphy, calligraphy and painting collection is very rich at that time is a well-known collector, author of “ ”. In his later years, he purchased the ancient temple of Chun Shen and the statue of Wu Kuan Fuyuan in the Ming Dynasty, completely renovating it into houses, gardens, Yi Zhuang and ancestral halls. The entire building covers an area of ​​over 7,000 square meters, and over the cloud floor is one of the buildings