Former residence of Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home

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The former residence of Lee Kuan Yew generally refers to the ancestral residence of Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home is located in Tangxi village, Gaopo Town, Dapu County, Meizhou, about 500 kilometers northeast of Guangzhou.

Li Guangyao's ancestral home "zhonghandi" was built in the 10th year of Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty by Li Mu Wengong, Li Guangyao's great grandfather. It is a "down hill tiger" Hakka residential building with brick and wood structure, covering an area of 230 square meters and a building area of 180 square meters. Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence scenic spot is built according to the national 4A scenic spot standard. The construction scope includes the whole dangxi village. The projects include tourism leisure shopping street, wetland park, etc. The first phase includes Lee Kuan Yew memorial hall, landscape lake, etc.

Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence tourist area takes Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence "zhonghandi" as the core. The construction projects mainly include Lee Kuan Yew memorial hall, tourist center, Tangxi lake, etc. the memorial hall is divided into four exhibition halls, which introduces Lee Kuan Yew's life and Singapore's history in the form of pictures, videos and wax figures.

Introduction to former residence

Li Guangyao's ancestral home is Gaopi Town, Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, which is located in the middle reaches of the Hanjiang River. Green mountains, green water, blue sky; here is the ancestral home of Lee Kuan Yew and Tian Jiabing, where the air is fresh, the folk customs are simple, and the water and land transportation is smooth; here is the ancient town of Hanjiang, the porcelain capital of China - Gaopi town of Guangdong.

Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home "zhonghandi" is located in Tangxi, dangxi village, Gaopi Town, Dapu county. In front of zhonghandi, there is an open field. Two mountains face each other. Yingzui mountain on the left is extraordinary, like a Golden Phoenix dancing; shetougang on the right is winding and undulating, like a Qianlong, with beautiful scenery and idyllic scenery.

Zhonghandi sits from northwest to Southeast, with a total width of 16.3 meters and a total depth of 11.2 meters, covering an area of 223 square meters. The building is of brick and wood structure, with hard hilltop and courtyard layout. "Zhonghandi" is written on the top of the gate. On both sides of the gate and on the top of the gable, there are ink paintings of figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. There are 8 rooms in the house. The patio is used to separate the entrance hall and the upper hall. The beams of the entrance hall have simple wood carvings. The upper hall is spacious and bright. The stone windows of the room are specially made. All of them are made of granite stone carvings with fine carving technology.

Zhonghandi was built in 1884 by Li Muwen, the great grandfather of Lee Kuan Yew. It is a Hakka residential building of "downhill tiger" style. It is of brick and wood structure. It covers an area of 230 square meters and a building area of 180 square meters.

Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore in September 1923. He was the first Prime Minister of Singapore in June 1959. During more than 30 years as prime minister, he built Singapore into a prosperous and powerful country and one of the four little dragons in Asia. Lee Kuan Yew passed down two sons. The eldest son, Lee Hsien Loong, was once the chief of staff of the armed forces of Singapore, Minister of trade and industry, and vice premier. He is now the Prime Minister of Singapore.

According to the Li's genealogy, the Li family of Tangxi was descended from Li Huode, a descendant of Rentian Township, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. Li Chundu moved to Chengxiang, Guangdong Province (now Meixian County) and then passed down to Tangxi for 13 generations. Li Guangyao is the ninth generation of Li Yanbai's grandson. Zhonghandi is now in charge of Lee Kuan Yew's cousin Li fensen's family.

In 2006, protective maintenance was carried out for zhonghandi. In 2013, zhonghandi (the ancestral residence of Lee Kuan Yew) was launched to be built as a national 3A tourist attraction.

In January 2014, Li Guangyao's ancestral home, Zhonghan No.1, was announced as the second batch of cultural relics protection units by Meizhou Municipal People's government.

In 2014, the construction of Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home scenic spot, which was invested 40 million yuan by the local sages of Dapu County, was officially started in dangxi village, Gaopi Town, Dapu county.

On December 30, 2015, Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence tourist area was rated as a national AAA tourist attraction.

Peripheral development

Gaopi town has a well-developed transportation network, with direct access to the county, Meizhou and Fengshun Tanjiang by land, and direct access to Chaoshan developed areas and the sea by water. (GAO) PI Hu (Liao) highway is 49 km long, which was opened in 1958, widened and reconstructed in 1996, and paved with cement pavement in 1997; (GAO) PI Guang (DE) highway is 16 km long in 1960, widened and reconstructed in 1997, and paved with cement pavement in 1998; (GAO) PI Tao (yuan) highway is 16 km long in 1976, widened and reconstructed in 1999, and paved with cement pavement in 2000; (GAO) PI Mei (Zhou) highway Road, started construction in 1994, and set up a Gaopi tianjiabing Hanjiang Bridge in Hanjiang, completed and opened to traffic in October 1996, paved with cement pavement in 1999; opened (Gaopi Sanhe) highway to songgong section in 1964, widened and reconstructed in 1998, paved with cement pavement in 1999. In 1994, three administrative village roads were opened, with a total length of 21 km, from pizhai to Taohua, from Luoji to huangniwa, and from Dutou to Huangkeng, to achieve the goal of connecting all villages in the town. There are two wharves on Hanjiang River, one is located in front of Luoji baimen port and the other is located in Yanjiang 2nd road freight terminal

Main attractions

On October 10, 2015, the ancestral residence scenic spot of Lee Kuan Yew, which was built by Guangdong Dapu with a capital of 50 million yuan, was opened to the public on October 10. On the same day, during the Eighth World Tai Po fellow townspeople's Association, local people from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other places at home and abroad visited the scenic spot as the first group of tourists. Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence scenic spot takes Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence "zhonghandi" as the core, with a planned area of about 1200 Mu and a total investment of 50 million yuan. It is planned to be constructed in three phases according to the national 4A level scenic spot standard. By February, nearly 30 million yuan has been invested to basically complete the planning and construction of the first phase of the core landscape area. The construction projects mainly include Lee Kuan Yew memorial hall, tourist center, Tangxi lake, etc.

Its main projects include: Tourism and leisure shopping street, wetland park, entrance landscape area, resort villa area, ecological farm leisure area, rural sightseeing area, landscape lake viewing area, Hakka ancient village visiting area, fruit picking area, climbing viewing area, etc.

The entrance is the patio, and directly into the patio is the middle hall. There is a big room on both sides of the middle hall, and there are small rooms and big rooms on both sides of the patio. On the wall of the middle hall of "zhonghandi", there are pictures of Li Guangyao's lineage and family life. The exhibition hall of Lee Kuan Yew's deeds is also arranged in "Zhonghan Di". The exhibition hall is divided into four parts to introduce the growth process of Lee Kuan Yew from his childhood to his youth's school age, as well as the deeds of Lee Kuan Yew leading Singapore to achieve economic take-off and become the "four little dragons of Asia".

At the Lee Kuan Yew memorial hall, a bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping shaking hands with Lee Kuan Yew is on the entrance, which reproduces the scene of Deng Xiaoping's first visit to Singapore in 1978. The memorial hall is divided into four exhibition halls. It introduces Lee Kuan Yew's life and Singapore's history in the form of pictures, videos and wax figures. The scenic spot is surrounded by more than 20 characteristic ancient dwellings of Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home, which are as old as before. On the whole, it looks like a panoramic picture of the original ecological Hakka rural life. Tai Po is building an ecological protection area of Hakka culture in combination with the advantages of landscape culture. Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence scenic spot is one of the key construction projects of the protection area.

Tourism planning

In 2008, the Tai Po government carried out a comprehensive renovation in accordance with the principle of "repairing the old as before" and renovated the surrounding environment. In order to give full play to the celebrity effect and develop tourism, the local government of Tai Po, in combination with the construction of Meizhou Cultural Tourism Zone in Guangdong Province, will carry out the overall planning and design of Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral residence Tourism Zone, and plan to build a tourist attraction with celebrity residence as cultural and leisure characteristics. "On the basis of maintaining the original appearance of Tangxi ancient village, we will add some tourism factors, such as injecting Singapore cultural elements. In addition, the local government is also preparing to integrate other distinctive Hakka residential buildings into new tourist routes.

Personage introduction

Lee Kuan Yew, gcmg, CH (Lee Kuan Yew), a Chinese Singaporean with ancestral home in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, is a former prime minister, former Minister of state and cabinet of Singapore. He has made outstanding contributions to the independence and rise of Singapore and is known as the "father of Singapore". Lee Kuan Yew is not only one of the founders of Singapore, but also one of the most influential figures in Singapore's political arena. On May 14, 2011, Lee Kuan Yew announced his withdrawal from the Singapore cabinet, marking the end of an era.

At 3:18 a.m. on March 23, 2015, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore died of illness at the age of 91. Lee Kuan Yew is a descendant of Hakka. After learning the news of his death, many media and citizens went to his ancestral home "zhonghandi" one after another to visit his family story and express deep sorrow for his death. Since March 23, 2015, about 10 media have come to zhonghandi for interviews, including reporters from Xinhua news agency, Singapore Lianhe Zaobao, Guangdong satellite TV, Ta Kung Pao and other national and provincial media. At the same time, the public and tourists are also very concerned about the news of Lee Kuan Yew's death. After his death, they specially went to "zhonghandi" to visit and mourn.

Address: Tangxi village, xiezhang Township, 222 provincial road, Dapu County, Meizhou City

Longitude: 116.574342

Latitude: 24.256021

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