Former residence of Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu's former residence is located in heshanping, Jijiang street, Jiangjin District, Chongqing. It was named because of the frequent presence of cranes before

Former residence of Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu's former residence is located in the national historical and Cultural City Reserve of Anqing City, Anhui Province. In 2013, a large number of Anqing citizens called for Anqing city and Millennium Yicheng memory square to give up the plan of demolishing Chen Duxiu's former residence (the old residence of his hometown) and keep it for the time being. At present, the only former residence of Chen Duxiu in China is not a cultural relic protection unit.

Chen Duxiu's former residence (stone wall courtyard) is located in heshanping, Wuju Township, in the south of Jiangjin District, Chongqing, 15 kilometers away from the urban area of Jiangjin. The courtyard wall is surrounded by two stone walls with a height of more than 10 meters. Its architectural style has the characteristics of Eastern Sichuan dwellings in the Qing Dynasty. It covers an area of 14680 square meters, surrounded by green mountains and water, fresh air and picturesque scenery. It used to be the former residence of Yang Lucheng, a tekogongshi in Guangxu 33 of Qing Dynasty, commonly known as "Yang's courtyard", which has a typical style of Qing Dynasty residence.

The courtyard is surrounded by stone walls with a height of more than Zhang, which is also called "stone courtyard" by local people. The architectural style of the compound courtyard has the characteristics of Eastern Sichuan dwellings in the Qing Dynasty. It sits south to north with a total construction area of 3600 square meters. It is Chen Duxiu's last residence and the best preserved residence in China.

geographical position

Chen Duxiu's former residence is located in the national historical and Cultural City Reserve of Anqing City, Anhui Province, which is the only former residence of Chen Duxiu in China. Chen Duxiu's former residence is located in the stone wall courtyard on heshanping in the southwest of Jiangjin District, Chongqing. Heshanping is located in the Heshan mountains, 16 kilometers away from Jiangjin city.

historical background

After the victory of the 1911 Revolution, Mr. Chen Duxiu, Secretary General of the governor's office of Anhui Province, and Gao Junman have been living in the western style building in the South Gate of Anqing. The property right belongs to Mr. Chen Duxiu himself, and his son Chen Henian (Chen Zhemin) was born on the second floor of the building.

Chen Duxiu came to Jiangjin, Chongqing in 1938. On May 27, 1939, at the invitation of Yang's descendants, he came to Yang's courtyard (Shiqiang courtyard) from the nearby Shi family to help sort out Yang Lucheng's works. He lived in the former Yang's second wife's bedroom. Chen Duxiu lived here until his death on May 27, 1942. He was 63 years old.

In this courtyard, Chen Duxiu wrote "primary school literacy textbook", a masterpiece of philology in modern history, with a scientific method to reclassify Chinese characters ("primary school" refers to philology, similar to "Shuowen Jiezi").

In this courtyard, Chen Duxiu "acts with a clear conscience and is always frank. He is in a difficult situation like a rainbow". He has written many political commentaries: "outline of the general situation of the world after the War II", "future of the oppressed nation" and "my fundamental opinions" In this courtyard, he deeply reflected on the international communist movement and the socialist system of the Soviet Union, and finally formed the "final opinion" with democracy as the core!

Brief introduction of old residence

There are three empty West Chamber rooms in the stone wall courtyard. There are two wooden beds, a desk, a small wooden cabinet, and several rattan boxes for books and manuscripts. They are all restored according to the memories of relatives, friends and neighbors, and the utensils are simple and crude. At present, 31 relics have been preserved, including brown box, leather case, wardrobe, inkstone, copper teapot, leather bag, clothes, etc.

In October 2000, Chen Duxiu's former residence was named as one of the first batch of Chongqing municipal cultural relics protection units by Chongqing Municipal People's government.

On December 27, 2012, the exhibition hall of Chen Duxiu's former residence was reopened after the third renovation.

The stone wall courtyard is the only surviving original residence of Chen Duxiu.

The third renovation took Duxiu's life as the theme, built the environmental landscape, renovated the cultural relic buildings, rearranged the existing buildings in the old house, and expanded the 3.8 km road of Chen Duxiu's old house. This renovation not only pays attention to the diversity and vividness of forms, but also ensures the authenticity and richness of contents. The exhibition collected a large number of precious historical relics and historical materials from Russia, Taiwan, Anhui, Shanghai and other places. Through the restoration of scenes, sculpture, painting, sound, light, electricity and other means of expression, the exhibition is divided into seven parts to vividly and artistically show Chen Duxiu's main life experiences and achievements, especially the detailed introduction of Chen Duxiu's last years in Jiangjin. Let people get close to Chen Duxiu, get to know him, and understand the magnificent history through him.

Travel Tips

Ticket of Chen Duxiu's former residence: 0 yuan

Transportation of Chen Duxiu's former residence: take a bus at Caiyuanba or chenjiaping coach station in Jiangjin, Chongqing. Ticket price: 22 yuan

Jiangjin -- Chen Duxiu's former residence, Jiangjin No.4 bus, Chen Duxiu's former residence get off. The ticket price is 5.5 yuan.

Old residence in Beijing

Chen Duxiu's former residence in Jiangan Hutong, Beijing

Chen Duxiu's former residence in Beijing is located at 20 Jiangan Hutong, Dongcheng District (old house number 9). At the west end of Zhide North Lane on beiheyan street, there is a South Lane of qihelou, which is not far south. There is a narrow corridor in the east of the road. This is the remnant of the reconstructed Jiangan Hutong. Now there is only one family left in the Hutong, which is Chen Duxiu's former residence on the 20th.

The old jumenlou is not big. It is a typical Manzi gate. The wooden gate has been mottled for a long time. Fortunately, the pier and hairpin are still intact. Through the crack of the locked gate, you can see the messy courtyard. Chen Duxiu lived here in 1917 when he was invited by Cai Yuanpei to be the head of liberal arts at Peking University. Later, his magazine New Youth moved here from Shanghai. Nearly a century ago, it was a place where Hu Shi, Qian Xuantong, Liu Bannong, Shen Yinmo, Zhou Zuoren and others often visited. In 1920, Chen Duxiu gave up Peking University's high salary of 300 silver yuan per month and set out from here to establish a party organization in Shanghai.

Almost torn down

Jiangan Hutong used to be connected with a street in the East. There were 60 or 70 households living in it. Later, they were demolished to build buildings. To the East is the Ministry of civil affairs, and to the north is the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Chen Duxiu's old house had to be demolished, but it was not approved by the Municipal Bureau of cultural relics that it was preserved.

Visit guide

Chen Duxiu's former residence was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Beijing in 2001. Located at 20 Jiangan Hutong, beichizi street, Dongcheng District, it was Chen Duxiu's residence in Beijing from 1917 to 1920. Take bus No.3 or No.8 to beichizi.

Profile

Chen Duxiu (1879-1942 A.D.) was born in Huaining, Anhui Province. In 1915, Chen Duxiu founded and edited new youth, advocating democracy and science. In February 1917, he published the theory of literary revolution in the new youth and put forward the "three principles" of literary revolution. In the winter of 1918, he and Li Dazhao founded the weekly review to advocate new culture, and he was one of the main leaders of the May 4th New Culture Movement. After the May 4th movement, Chen Duxiu accepted Marxism. In August 1920, he and Li Dazhao established the first Communist group in Shanghai and initiated the establishment of the Communist Party of China. In July 1921, he was elected secretary of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China at the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in Shanghai. He successively participated in and led the May 30th Movement and three armed uprisings by Shanghai workers. In the late period of the great revolution, Chen Duxiu was guilty of Right opportunism. In 1927, he was dismissed as secretary at the party's "August 7th meeting". In November 1929, he was expelled from the party by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. His works include Duxiu Wencun, Mr. Chen Duxiu's speech, selected articles of Chen Duxiu, etc.

Address: heshanping, Jijiang street, Jiangjin District, Chongqing

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