Lao She's former residence

Mr. Lao She has left four old houses in Jinan, among which the former residence at No. 58, Nanxin Street (formerly No. 54) is the most well preserved one. It is also in the small courtyard at No. 58, Nanxin street that Mr. Lao She has completed such masterpieces as winter in Jinan and the story of cat city.

The former residence is a quadrangle, with an area of only 150 square meters. There is no special decoration design. When you open the door, you can see a meaningful cultural landscape: there are more than 600 calligraphy and painting works related to Lao She inscribed by celebrities from all walks of life, as well as various versions of Lao She's works, dramas and movie discs adapted from Lao She's works, objects used by Lao She before he died, pictures and materials of Lao She's various periods, etc. there are more than 10000 collections of various kinds.

Lao She's former residence

Laoshe's former residence is located at No.19, fufu Hutong, Dengshikou West Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Lao she lived in ten places before and after liberation in Beijing, including nine before liberation and one after liberation. No. 10 Fengsheng Hutong (now No. 19, Fengsheng Hutong, Dengshikou West Street) is the place where he lived after liberation. Until his death, Mr. Lao she lived here for the longest time, as long as 16 years, and made the most brilliant achievements in his life.

Introduction to former residence

Xiaoyangquan Hutong (now xiaoyangjia hutong) 8

It is the birthplace of Mr. Lao She. There are many art works reflecting Lao She's former residence, among which Lao She's former residence is the most famous one, which is the national first-class artist, the first person to paint the former residence of Chinese celebrities, and the famous painter Mr. thumb.

Mr. Lao She "was born in Beijing, grew up in Beijing and died in Beijing. He wrote about Beijing all his life. Lao She and Beijing are inseparable. Without Beijing, there would be no Lao She." Lao she lived in ten places before and after liberation in Beijing, including nine before liberation, After liberation, No. 8 of xiaoyangquan Hutong (now xiaoyangjia hutong) is his birthplace, Beijing Normal School (today's Yuquan hutong), No. 17 primary school (today's Fangjia Hutong primary school), Yijiao Temple apartment, Xishan Wofo temple, Xizhimen children's library, gangwa Christian Church, Education Society (today's beichangjie primary school), Yantong Hutong No. 6 (today's ming9) They are the nine places where they lived before liberation. No. 10 Fengsheng Hutong (now No. 19, fufu Hutong, Dengshikou West Street) is a place where he lived for a long time after liberation. Until his death, Mr. Lao she lived here for the longest time and made the most brilliant achievements in his life.

Lao She's former residence, where the memorial hall is located, is a cultural relic protection unit announced by Beijing Municipal People's Government in 1987. It is also a common Sihe Courtyard at No. 10 Fengsheng Hutong, naizifu, Dongcheng District, Beijing, which Mr. Lao She bought with his own money after he returned from the United States in 1950. As a cultural relic protection unit in Beijing, "Lao She's former residence" is an ordinary Beijing courtyard, with hard mountain purlin and pure wood structure. The whole courtyard is compact in layout. The main gate faces east in the West. The grey tile gate is decorated with black lacquer. The first thing you see when you enter the door is a brick screen wall, decorated with a big red lucky character in the center. To the inside, there is a small courtyard with only two rooms in the south, which is the porter; to the west, there is a narrow courtyard, which is the house of Shuyi, Lao She's son; to the north, there is a Sanheyuan, which is the main part of the former residence. The first thing you see is a colorful wooden screen wall. The main room in the courtyard is three rooms in the north, with one ear room on each side. Mingjian and Xici are the living room, dongci is the bedroom, and Xier is Laoshe's study. The desk faces the east gate. As soon as you turn around, you can get the books embedded in the bookcase on the wall. The desk is made of hardwood and inlaid with marble. There are several cultural relics on it: a seal carved by Qi Baishi for him, a jade inkpad box given by general Feng Yuxiang, and an inkstone platform carved by Li Yu, a drama theorist of the Qing Dynasty. There are also glasses, pens, ink bottles, ashtrays, desk lamps, radios and calendars Lao She used before he died. In this small room, Lao she wrote 23 famous plays such as Fang Zhenzhu, Longxugou, teahouse, looking west at Chang'an and family photo, as well as Shenquan in memory of his father. In addition, there are a large number of Quyi, prose, poetry, papers, essays and unfinished autobiographical novel under the red flag. In the living room are displayed sofas, paper tables, hardwood carved round tables, benches and Duobao Pavilion. In the south, there are various bonsai and potted flowers on the window sill and tea table. On the west wall are calligraphy and paintings presented by famous Chinese painters. According to his wife Hu Chuangqing, it turns out that these paintings and calligraphy are changed every few days. Every time they are changed, Lao She has to look at them carefully for a long time. Here, Lao She has received many famous artists and Chinese and foreign friends. There are three rooms in the East and West. The east room is where Lao She's daughter lives, and the west room is a place for dining. In the spring of 1954, Mr. Lao she planted two persimmon trees in his courtyard. In late autumn, the persimmon trees are decorated with red persimmons, which is poetic and picturesque. For this reason, Hu Chuang Qingmei's name is "Danshi courtyard"

Mr. Lao she lived in at least a hundred places before he was 50 years old, but he could hardly count his own home.

After the July 7th incident, Mr. Lao She moved to the East and the west, wandering. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, a man lived in the United States for four years. In 1949, Lao she returned to his hometown Beijing from the United States, and his family also returned to Beijing from Chongqing for reunion. The government temporarily arranged for him to stay in Beijing hotel. I opened a room where I could eat, live and write. Once Mr. Lao she met Premier Zhou and asked if he could afford to buy a small house with his own money. He could bear the rest, but he couldn't write anything except noise. Premier Zhou's answer without thinking is certainly OK.

Xiaofang is located in Fengsheng Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, with No.10 house number. It is almost in the center of the city, with convenient transportation. It is close to Wangfujing Commercial Street and the famous Dong'an Market, longfu temple and Yuying middle school. Children can go to school nearby. The characteristic of this house is quiet in the middle of trouble, because it is not on the main road. Jiuzifu street can take big cars, but it is not the main road, so there are not many vehicles and pedestrians. In addition, the small house has walls, and there are trees in the courtyard. The noise of big cities is out of our ears. Usually only bees on flowers and birds on trees can happily break its silence. The gate is opened in a small north-south alley, named after a princess in Ming Dynasty, Fengsheng. Xiaofang is on the west side of the lane. The first door is easy to find. After his death, Xiao Fengsheng Hutong was renamed as Fu Fu Hutong, and the house number was changed to No. 19.

After entering the gate, there is a brick screen wall and two small South rooms, where the janitor lives. In winter, it is also a shelter for pomegranate trees and oleander trees. After Mr. Lao She moved in. A jujube tree was planted at the gate against the street wall. Behind the brick screen wall, Mr. Lao She asked someone to transplant a Taiping flower, which is a famous flower in the imperial garden of the Forbidden City. However, it is not delicate. It is still thriving in the common people's home, with luxuriant leaves and branches. Under the eaves of the small South house, there is also a large pot of Silver Star Begonia, which is also how high it is. It often carries a bunch of red flowers. When Lao She sends guests out, he often points to it and says, "this is my treasure!"

Behind the brick screen wall is a small courtyard with its own system. There are three small gray roofed rooms, one for the toilet, two for the storage room, three for the main room and two rooms. The main room faces south. Mr. Nan Renzhi, the private secretary of Lao She's ancestors, is a boy's office during the day and a temporary guest room for foreign guests. The outer courtyard is just located in the south room of the inner courtyard, which makes the inner courtyard a quadrangle. There is a gate in the outer courtyard leading to the West Street of today's Dengshikou, but it is never used.

After decoration, the courtyard is still very beautiful. There are five rooms in the north and three rooms in the East and three rooms in the West. All of them are tiled houses with ridges. In the middle is a square courtyard. When you enter the gate, there is a "two door" leading to the courtyard. When you enter the second door, there is a wooden screen wall painted green. There are crossroads leading to East, North and West rooms. South Road outside is the land, you can plant flowers and trees. Mr. Lao she saw this very well. He loved flowers and plants all his life, but he seldom had the chance to practice them. With this open space, he could experiment, cultivate, beautify and create as he wanted.

The first thing was that someone had transplanted two persimmon trees in Xishan, one on each side of the corridor. When it was planted, it was only thumb thick. In less than ten years, the diameter of the trunk has exceeded that of the sea bowl. Autumn is full of fruit, very spectacular. Persimmon variety is very special, is the "fire persimmon" in Henan Province, small, only half the fist, thin skin, very sweet, seedless, orange red. Yu Feian, an old painter, came to paint persimmon trees. As one of his representative works, he made a fine brush Chinese painting. It is collected by the Art Museum of China. Because of this persimmon tree, later his wife named the courtyard "Danshi courtyard" and called her studio "shuangshizhai". After Lao She's death, Japanese writer Mian Shuishang wrote three mourning articles in succession, all of which were named after these two persimmon trees. Persimmon friendship became the symbol of this courtyard.

There are two living rooms in the three main rooms of the north house. The one in the East is my wife's studio and bedroom. The East ear room is the toilet with toilet and bath basin. There is also a small boiler room outside the wall of Donger room, which is equipped with a small heater for heating the whole hospital in winter. The West ear room is Mr. Lao She's study and bedroom. Mr. Lao she lived in this room for 16 years and spent his later years. He wrote 24 plays and two novels, among which the sensational ones were "Longxugou", "liushujing", "looking at Chang'an in the west", "teahouse", "salesgirl" and "family photo"

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