Cheng Wenbing's house

Cheng Wenbing house is located in yuanzhai Town, Yingdong District, Fuyang City. It was built by Cheng Wenbing, the commander of Changjiang River water division in Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 120 years. It covers an area of 6700 square meters. It is of brick and wood structure, with three courtyards in and out. The qingti building is a two-story building with geometric patterns carved on doors and windows. The left and right cloisters run through the front and rear courtyards. In the whole building complex, brick, wood and stone carvings are decorated appropriately with exquisite techniques.

Cheng Wenbing's house

Cheng Wenbing's house is located in yuanzhai Town, Yingdong District, Fuyang City. It was built by Cheng Wenbing, the commander of the Yangtze River water division in the Qing Dynasty. It was built in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 130 years

It covers an area of 6700 square meters, with brick and wood structure, three courtyards in and out. The qingti building is a two-story building with geometric patterns carved on the doors and windows. The left and right cloisters run through the front and rear courtyards. In the whole building complex, brick, wood and stone carvings are decorated appropriately with exquisite techniques. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province.

Historical evolution

Cheng Wenbing's house was built in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty, which has a history of more than 130 years.

There were more than 100 houses in Cheng Wenbing's house. After liberation, some of them were converted into grain stations, and some of them were converted into kindergartens. During the cultural revolution, they were destroyed to a great extent, and now there are more than 50 well preserved houses. According to the principle of "rescue first, protection first", in April 2004, the people's Government of Yingdong district designated Cheng Wenbing's house as "county-level cultural relics protection unit", and invested part of the funds to move the kindergarten out of Cheng's house.

Architectural pattern

Cheng Wenbing's house is located at Ji Nantou, yuanzhai Town, Yingdong district. It is a private house built by Cheng Wenbing, the commander of Yangtze River Navy in the late Qing Dynasty. The original building complex covers an area of 6700 square meters, the building plane is divided into East and west sides, which is "one door and two axes", and the periphery is composed of village walls in the early period. The courtyard is a castle style building, surrounded by fully enclosed brick walls, more than five meters high, with a well arranged layout. The architectural style originates from the buildings in southern Anhui and is combined with the courtyard in Northern Anhui. It is unique in Fuyang and even in the whole northwest of Anhui province that this kind of Jiangnan style has been well preserved.

Cultural relics protection

Yingdong District People's government, in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations on the protection of cultural relics and the spirit of "five aspects of Cultural Relics Work" and the principle of being responsible for the local conditions, has carried out the repair and comprehensive surveying and mapping of Cheng Wenbing's house, which was officially approved as a "county-level cultural relics protection unit" in April 2004, and established the control zone, so as to protect this ancient building with typical style intact. In 2005, "Cheng Wenbing's house" was officially listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit, and the house is under restoration.

Since 2006, Yingdong District in line with the principle of "repair the old as the old", invested funds to repair the house. The first phase invested more than 700000 yuan, mainly for the restoration of Paoma building, hall building, wing room and other houses; the second phase of the restoration project started, including the second courtyard, East and West Wing room, with an investment of more than 1 million yuan.

Related people

Cheng Wenbing was born in the late Qing Dynasty (1834-1910) in dongliugou village, Yingzhou (now houhaizi natural village, Tongzhuang administrative village, Zaozhuang Town, Yingdong District, Fuyang City, Anhui Province). He was born in the army and made outstanding achievements in the war. He was the commander in chief of Jiujiang Town, the commander in chief of Hubei Province, the commander in chief of Fujian Province, the commander in chief of Yangtze River Navy, the assistant senior official and the general of Jianwei. In the second year of Xuantong (1910) of the Qing Dynasty, he died of illness in the Navy's office of Taiping prefecture (now Dangtu County), Anhui Province.

Address: yuanzhai Town, Yingdong District, Fuyang City

Longitude: 115.93895673752

Latitude: 32.843106301465

Traffic information: Yingdong passenger station or Yinghui market take the rural bus in the direction of kouzi and Yanglou, the fare is about 5 yuan.

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