Shuangqing Villa

Shuangqing villa is located on the hillside in the south of Xiangshan Park. It was the site of songwu villa in Jingyi garden of Qing Dynasty. The name Shuangqing is said to be related to the two springs. After entering the east gate of Xiangshan Mountain, you go south. After arriving at jingcui lake, you slowly climb up the mountain road. The mountain road is flat and wide, and the scenery on both sides of the road is pleasant. Especially in autumn, you can see red leaves everywhere. It's not hard to climb to Shuangqing villa. The villa is surrounded by green trees. The whole building complex covers a large area. When you enter the courtyard, the first thing you can see is a pond in the center of the courtyard. The pond water should be injected by mountain spring. The tall houses and pavilions under the ginkgo trees make people feel comfortable. This is the place where Comrade Mao Zedong lived and worked before the CPC Central Committee entered Beijing in 1949. In the back of the villa, there are also caves for air defense and concealment, which can be visited.

Shuangqing Villa

Shuangqing villa, located on the hillside of the south foot of Xiangshan Park in Haidian District of Beijing, is named after the two eyes spring flowing from a stone wall in the courtyard.

The whole courtyard of Shuangqing villa is about 7000 square meters. The regular script "Shuangqing villa" is engraved on the lintel of the villa.

On March 25, 1949, after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission settled in Beiping, they lived and worked in Shuangqing villa. Shuangqing villa is the first stop for the Communist Party of China to go to Beijing for the examination. It was once the command center of the CPC Central Committee. It witnessed the course of Chinese revolution to victory.

On October 7, 2019, Shuangqing villa was approved by the State Council of the people's Republic of China and announced as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

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Historical evolution

Shuangqing villa used to be the site of songwu villa, the Royal Garden of the Qing Dynasty;

In 1860 and 1900, songwu villa was looted and burned by the Allied forces of Britain, France and the eight countries.

In the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), Xiong Xiling, the fourth premier of the Republic of China, founded the famous Xiangshan children's home and built a villa here to cultivate talents, which is called "Shuangqing villa".

On January 19, 1949, Fan Li, Vice Minister of the central supply department, selected the site for the central government to move from Xibaipo to Beiping. He made an investigation in the western suburbs of Beiping. At the end of the month, he returned to Xibaipo with a letter from Ye Jianying, then mayor of Beiping, to Yang Shangkun, Secretary General of the Central Military Commission, and reported to the Party Central Committee. On February 7, Li Kenong and Cheng Zihua, commander of the Beiping municipal police, went to Xiangshan for investigation and determined that Xiangshan was the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission On March 25, the CPC Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi and other comrades successfully arrived in Peiping and settled in Xiangshan, where Mao Zedong lived in Shuangqing villa; on August 23, due to the need of work, Chairman Mao bid farewell to Xiangshan Shuangqing villa and settled in Juxiang bookstore in fengzeyuan, Zhongnanhai .

On September 12, 2019, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made a special trip to the Beijing revolutionary Hill memorial site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Architectural features

The whole courtyard of Shuangqing villa is about 7000 square meters. The regular script "Shuangqing villa" is engraved on the lintel of the villa.

There are three white bungalows facing south on the north side of the pool. There is a hexagonal pavilion in front of the house. Several old style rattan chairs and porcelain drums are placed in the pavilion. Under the huge grape trellis on the west side of the pool is a stone table and several small stools. From three bungalows to the west, a row of bungalows on the hillside is the place where Mao Zedong's family lived, and now it is a showroom. The three bungalows are the places where Mao Zedong worked and lived, now known as Chairman Mao's former residence; the middle of the three bungalows is the conference hall; the east side of the conference hall is the office, and the inside side of the office is a small room, which is a small restaurant. On the west side of the conference hall is the bedroom; on the south side of the courtyard, along a path upward, you can see an air raid shelter door.

Cultural relics

On the wall of the conference hall is a huge map of the strategic situation of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. The arrows and circles on the map still keep the track of the deployment of the military forces of both sides during the war of liberation, as well as the operational strategy of the CPC Central Committee. The map behind the shadow wall shows the distribution of the PLA at that time.

There are old-fashioned telephones, pen and ink on the desk.

A large wooden bed in the bedroom occupied most of the room. On the clothes rack beside the bed, there are patched Chinese tunic and panties, and leather slippers with holes are put under the bed.

On the concrete parapet outside the cave entrance, the words "the Third Battalion of the second engineering regiment of the fourth field army of the Chinese people's Liberation Army" and "completed on March 15, 1949" are engraved.

Value significance

Shuangqing villa is the first stop for the Communist Party of China to go to Beijing for the examination. It was once the command center of the CPC Central Committee. It witnessed the course of Chinese revolution to victory.

History and culture

In Shuangqing villa, Mao Zedong wrote articles such as where the Nanjing government is going, the order to march on the whole country, the notice of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, the statement made by the spokesman of the headquarters of the Chinese people's Liberation Army for the atrocities committed by British warships, the speech at the preparatory meeting of the New Political Consultative Conference, on the people's democratic dictatorship, get rid of fantasy, prepare for struggle, farewell, division Later, it was included in the fourth volume of selected works of Mao Zedong. During this period, other articles, speeches, letters and telegraphs were published and included in the fifth volume of the collected works of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was also here to discuss with democratic figures such as Zhang Lan, Li Jishen, Shen Junru, Huang Yanpei, Chen Shutong, He Xiangning and Liu Yazi on the great plan of building a new nation.

protective measures

In 1994, Shuangqing villa was named "Beijing Youth Education Base".

In 2009, Shuangqing villa was promoted to "national patriotic education demonstration base".

In October 2019, Shuangqing villa was approved by the State Council of the people's Republic of China and announced as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Tourism information

address

Shuangqing villa is located on the hillside of the southeast foot of Xiangshan Park, Haidian District, Beijing.

traffic

The east gate bus station of Xiangshan Park is 746 meters near Shuangqing villa. There are No. 563 Beijing bus and No. 563 Beijing bus passing by.

Address: Xiangshan Park, Beijing

Longitude: 116.19457796216

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