Former residence of Zheng Guanying

Zheng Guanying's former residence is located in Yongmo village, three townships, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. Built in the 29th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, facing south, it is a hard mountain brick and wood structure with two entrances in front and back. The middle patio is covered and changed into a house, covering an area of about 204.5 square meters. The former residence was built by Zheng Guanying in 1903 for his father Zheng Qihua. A stone plaque of 2.35 meters long and 65 cm wide is inlaid on the front door of the former residence. In regular script, the four characters "Xiufeng family school" are inscribed in the inscription: "Meng Chunli in the 29th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu". There are gray carvings and wall paintings. In the house, there are carved wooden buildings and platforms, as well as figures, flowers and birds, lions and so on. There are also two wooden plaques (damaged) in the house: "sent an envoy to Siam to investigate the incident" and ordered Guangxi to patrol Zuojiang bingbei road. The former residence is now managed and inhabited by Zheng Futian and is well preserved.

Former residence of Zheng Guanying

Zheng Guanying's former residence is located in Yongmo village, three townships, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. Built in the 29th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, facing south, it is a hard mountain brick and wood structure with two entrances in front and back. The middle patio is covered and changed into a house, covering an area of about 204.5 square meters.

In 1903, Zheng Guanying invested money to build it for his father Zheng Wenrui. A stone plaque of 2.35 meters long and 65 cm wide is inlaid on the front door of the former residence. In regular script, the four characters "Xiufeng family school" are inscribed in the inscription: "Meng Chunli in the 29th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu". There are gray carvings and wall paintings. In the house, there are carved wooden buildings and platforms, as well as figures, flowers and birds, lions and so on. There are also two wooden plaques (damaged) in the house: "sent an envoy to Siam to investigate the incident" and ordered Guangxi to patrol Zuojiang bingbei road. The former residence is now managed and inhabited by Zheng Futian and is well preserved.

Zheng Guanying (1842-1921) is the most famous thinker, educator and industrialist of the early bourgeois reformers in China. He is an outstanding representative of reformism in the modern history of China. He wrote "the crisis of prosperous times".

Introduction to former residence

Current situation of former residence

Zheng Guanying's former residence is located in Yongmo village, three townships. Zheng Guanying (1842-1921) is the most famous thinker, educator and industrialist of the early bourgeois reformers in China. He is an outstanding representative of reformism in modern Chinese history, and has written the dangerous words of prosperous times.

Zheng Guanying's former residence was built in 1903 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his father's death. In his youth, Zheng Guanying studied four books and five classics with his father in Yongmo village. Former residence sitting north to south, for hard mountain brick structure, before and after two into. A 2.35-meter-long and 0.65-meter-wide stone plaque is inlaid on the front door of the former residence, and the regular script is engraved with the words "Xiufeng family school". In the house, there are carved wooden buildings and platforms with figures, flowers and birds, lions, etc., which have the characteristics of the carving art of the Qing Dynasty in Zhongshan. In the former residence of Zheng Guanying, there is a photo exhibition of Zheng Guanying's life, a documentary about Zheng Guanying and a touch-screen information platform about Zheng Guanying's thoughts. The two wooden plaques are precious historical relics. In February 2008, Zhongshan Municipal Bureau of culture, broadcasting and new technology renovated its former residence, which has been officially opened to the public. Since the end of 2007, Zhongshan City has invested a large sum of money to repair Zheng Guanying's former residence in Yongmo village, three townships. Zheng Guanying's former residence was officially opened to the public for the first time, becoming a new cultural attraction in Zhongshan.

Allusions of former residence

The former residence is a bungalow with blue brick and wood carving. It is of brick and wood structure and sits in the north and south. The front and back are divided into two entrances. The first entrance is an elegant small courtyard.

Standing in the small courtyard, looking up, the four big characters of Xiufeng family school are shining and inscribed: "Meng Chunli in the 29th year of Guangxu". It is said that these four big characters were written by Zheng Guanying and are well preserved.

Walking into the hall of Zheng Guanying's former residence, you can see the carved wooden shenlou and Shentai, which are carved with figures, flowers and birds, lions and other patterns. It is a typical carving art of the Qing Dynasty in Zhongshan.

The Xiufeng family school in Zheng Guanying's former residence was built in 1903, covering an area of 204.5 square meters. The former residence is the birthplace of Zheng Guanying, and the Xiufeng family school was built by Zheng Guanying for his father in 1903.

In the past, the former residence was always used as a place for ancestor worship by Zheng Guanying's descendants. Later, due to the large number and dispersion of Zheng Guanying's descendants, the former residence gradually became vacant.

For some time, the brigade used to use the former residence as a warehouse to pile up the sundries in the brigade. In the early 1960s, Zheng Futian, a distant relative of the Zheng family, borrowed his former residence from Zheng Guanying's descendants because his house collapsed and he had no place to live.

Zheng Futian still lives in the middle of Zheng Guanying and takes care of his former residence. However, the local government has built another house next to the former residence. Zheng Futian moved out of the former residence to facilitate the renovation and opening of the former residence. This time, Zhongshan city invested a lot of money to repair the former residence, which will better retain the original appearance of the former residence. After the repair, Zheng Guanying's former residence will be officially opened to the public for the first time.

Profile

Zheng Guanying was an early bourgeois reformist thinker and patriotic national industrialist in modern China. Guangdong Xiangshan (now Zhongshan City) people. He once acted as a comprador of British merchant Baoshun and Swire shipping company, and later worked in Shanghai machine weaving Bureau, Shanghai telegraph Bureau, China Merchants Steamship Company, Hanyang Iron Works and Guangdong Han railway company

He is a representative of the national bourgeoisie who has transformed from a comprador. His main work, the dangerous words of the prosperous age, had a great influence on the Chinese ideological circles.

Address: Yongmo village, Sanxiang Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province

Longitude: 113.462051

Latitude: 22.367063

Chinese PinYin : Zheng Guan Ying Gu Ju