Former residence of Zhang Dali

The former residence has been used by the grain department since liberation. In September 1992, it was approved as the fifth batch of cultural relics protection units by Jiangyin Municipal People's government. In 2001, the property right belonged to the town government. In 2002, it was listed as "Jiangyin patriotism education base" and "Jiangyin youth patriotism education base". In September 2006, the renovation of the former residence was started, and in April 2007, it was listed as "Zhang Dali's former residence". In the former residence, historical pictures of four famous Zhangjia figures are arranged to introduce their life stories for visitors to visit, remember and learn.

Former residence of Zhang Dali

At the South Lane gate of Henan West Street, Jingshui Town, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, there is a residential complex with the characteristics of Jiangnan Water Town in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is the former residence of Zhang family, a famous family in Changjing, which is commonly known as "Huangshi gable".

brief introduction

The former residence was built at the end of Qing Xianfeng (1860). The existing complex covers a total area of 2128 square meters. The hall building area is 1176 square meters, and the courtyard area is 951 square meters. The former residence faces east from the West and consists of three parts: the main hall room and the North-South side room. The main hall is built on a central axis with five entrances and four courtyards. The stone gate frame and the black painted gate with copper nails face east. In front of the hall is a five bay seven step seven frame hall, and in the back is a six step six frame three room hall. In the third and fourth courtyard, there are four small side chambers opposite the north and the south. Around the main room. There is a fire sealing wall up to 5 meters high, and the lower part is made of Yellowstone. At an interval of 8.5 meters, a horse head wall with a width of 2.5 meters and a height of 1 meter is built on the top of the wall, which is like a battlement. The two ends of the tile ridge of the wall and the horse head wall are high warped ridge heads. The heads are decorated with cloud patterns and Hui patterns, and the horse head wall is also embossed with patterns such as twig entanglement patterns and Hui patterns. The East and west sides of the wall are connected with the north and south side houses. The main hall is an important place for Zhang people's daily life and activities.

layout

Beipianfang has two entrances and two courtyards, both of which are three Bay buildings. They are the ancestral hall where the Zhangs worship their ancestors' spirits and the place where they hold sacrificial activities. The south side houses are arranged around a large courtyard, with three main rooms in the East and five main rooms at the bottom opposite each other; on the south side, facing the courtyard, there is a long row of eight auxiliary rooms, with six steps and six frames in depth. This is mainly the place where Zhang's servants work and live and the warehouse where they stack things. A small gate in the east of the courtyard connects with the city street, and a waist gate in the southwest corner connects with a zigzag backyard behind the former residence. The green trees in the backyard and the winding paths lead to secluded scenery. There are 47 houses, 4 side chambers and 8 courtyards.

All the main buildings are wide in the middle and narrow on both sides. The three room style is one wide and two narrow, and the five room style is three wide and two narrow. The interior of the log column is made of small blue brick with single wall and whitewashed; the black vertical tile is used as the ridge and the green tile is used to cover the roof, which is as dense as fish scale; the dripping tile is used to carry water. All of them are made of log stringers. The stringers in the back hall of the main house are set with auxiliary wood. They are carved with dragon cloud pattern, relief or carving, which is very simple and elegant. All roof rafters, shop to awn board, gray background, from the white line, is very refreshing "grab color". The whole building complex, never use color painting. It fully embodies the architectural features of Jiangnan folk houses in Qingming Dynasty, which are "blue brick, small tile, horsehead wall, four corridors with lattice windows".

All houses are bungalows, no small buildings. In order to daylighting row of windows, windows and doors are in pairs. The main house has six wooden lattice floor long windows as the inner gate, and six half wall wooden lattice windows on the west side. The inner room is bright, and there are back doors connecting the front and back into the courtyard. The floor is covered with square bricks. The courtyard was paved with small blue bricks. The garden is decorated with flowers, plants and trees. Camphor trees become shade. The flowers are bright and bright, and sometimes there is a faint fragrance floating, which is leisurely and elegant. The whole former residence reflects the warm and peaceful, tranquil and beautiful "eye-friendly" artistic atmosphere of the water folk houses. It is a freehand brushwork of Jiangnan with light artistic conception and a three-dimensional poem.

The children of the Zhang family, who are well-educated, have always been devoted to studying and serving the country and the people. In modern times, many outstanding figures came out and became famous: the famous Anti Japanese martyr Zhang Dali, his Polish wife Si Ailin who loved China all his life; Shangguan Yunzhu, a new Chinese movie star and famous film performing artist; Zhang Dayu, a famous chemist, one of the founders of catalysis discipline, academician, his son, Professor of chemistry at University of science and technology of China, and special representative of the State Council Zhang Baozhong, the recipient of the special allowance, and Zhang Dajiong, one of the founders of the former Changjing junior high school. As for the contemporary descendants of the Zhang family, who live in different parts of the motherland and have their own talents, there are many more.

Late user

The former residence has been used by the grain department since liberation. In September 1992, it was approved as the fifth batch of cultural relics protection units by Jiangyin Municipal People's government. In 2001, the property right belonged to the town government. In 2002, it was listed as "Jiangyin patriotism education base" and "Jiangyin youth patriotism education base". In September 2006, the renovation of the former residence was started, and in April 2007, it was listed as "Zhang Dali's former residence". In the former residence, historical pictures of four famous Zhangjia figures are arranged to introduce their life stories for visitors to visit, remember and learn.

Address: Changjing Town, Jiangyin

Longitude: 120.482033

Latitude: 31.747329

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