Former residence of Zhou Libo

Former residence of Zhou Libo

The former residence of Zhou Libo, a famous writer, was built in 1788. It is located in dengshiqiao village, xielingang Town, Heshan District, Yiyang City. The former residence covers an area of 1510 square meters. The courtyard is close to mountains and rivers, facing south. It is a typical residential courtyard in Dongting Lake area with civil structure, small green tile roof and earth wall. Yiyang Municipal People's government listed it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit in 1997 and a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in 2002. Now we are applying for the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It is 5km away from Yiyang City and less than 2km away from Yitao highway, so the traffic is very convenient.

Introduction to former residence

Zhou Libo is a famous writer with far-reaching influence in our country who went out from the hot land of Yiyang. He has published more than 5 million words of novels, short stories, essays, poems, translations and reportages in his life. He has won the Stalin literature award and the Stalin prize for literature and art, and has made immortal contributions to China's literature and culture. After liberation, he was elected deputy to the first, second and third National People's Congress and member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. Zhou Libo's former residence is the original place where he was born and grew up, and where he returned to his hometown from 1955 to 1965 to create "three in one" novels and short stories such as "great changes in the countryside" and "people on the other side of the mountain". Therefore, a large number of his relics have been preserved. Since the opening of his former residence, Zhou Libo's great achievements and spirit have attracted tourists from home and abroad. His representative works "storm" and "great changes in the countryside" have influenced and educated a generation. At present, the former residence has three parts: restoration exhibition, Zhou Libo's life exhibition and Zhou Libo's literature research room. Among them, the restoration display of the former residence mainly displays Zhou Libo's life scenes when he returned to his hometown in the 1950s to create "great changes in the countryside".

Since its opening to the outside world on September 15, 2008, the former residence has received more than 800000 Chinese and foreign tourists, and more than 200 new rural construction investigation groups. The village where the former residence is located has been rated as "new rural construction demonstration site", "agricultural tourism demonstration site", "Provincial eco-tourism village" and "characteristic landscape tourism village" in Hunan Province. Education on Party members' advancement has also become a model village for the construction of new socialist countryside in Hunan province and a patriotic education base for local primary and primary school students and advanced education bases for Party members. Zhou Libo's former residence, as the core scenic spot of rural tourism in and out of the province, is further highlighted. Looking at his former residence, we can not only understand Zhou Libo's life experience as a famous writer, but also learn from people's writer's spiritual style of serving the people.

Status of former residence

The former residence was built in 1788, the 53rd year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Libo's ancestors have been living there ever since, and gradually formed. It covers an area of 1510 square meters and a construction area of 790 square meters, with a total of 28 houses. The building is surrounded by mountains and rivers, facing south, green trees, simple and elegant.

The plane form of the building: "three rooms and two pavilions" of the courtyard, according to local conditions, the layout of the two pavilions is asymmetric. There are four rooms in the East, five in the East, seven in the west, three in the back, one in the hall and four in the West. There is a long and narrow patio between the wing room and the side room. The building is 41.87 meters wide and 29.84 meters deep. The former residence is a wooden frame structure with green tiles and pink walls and adjacent courtyards. It is a Qing style Jiangnan residence with typical Huxiang farmhouse style.

Earth built wall, lime facing, 2m high, white tile head, small green tile ridge top. Wu Jieping, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, wrote "Zhou Libo's former residence" flat forehead on the lintel. Open open open square courtyard, into the lift courtyard. In the East and west side of the courtyard, there are double columns and double leaf doors.

The blue brick gable of the main hall is a wooden frame structure with 14 frames and seven columns and a double slope roof with small green tiles. The main hall and the walls of the courtyard are all made of parquet. Ring house terrace, rubble, concrete floor, no column eaves gallery.

Hall, when the house is facing the sun, the shrine in the middle of the main position, the side door after the room. The bottom of the tile can be seen from the bottom of the tile, and it is open to the south. It is 4.20 meters wide, 7.50 meters deep and 6.0 meters high. The East-West main room is 3.90 meters wide, 9.90 meters deep and 2.80 meters high. The attic is above the ceiling. The floor is made of grooved wood, the ceiling is made of parquet, the wall is made of panel, and the window is hung on the wooden lattice. Xizhengfang is Zhou Libo's parents' bedroom, Ningbo carved bed, double door cabinet, cradle, sitting basket and daily furniture are still available. Zhou Libo was born and grew up in this room.

There are four rooms in the East chamber and three rooms in the south. They are of a wooden frame structure with ten frames and five columns, with a width of 4.00 meters, a depth of 5.15 meters and a height of 4.90 meters. Among them, the two rooms in the south are Qikou wood floor and parquet ceiling, with a net height of 2.90 meters. The other one has double wooden doors, concrete floor and no ceiling. The north one has a single slope green tile roof, 4.75 meters wide, 9.90 meters deep and 6.00 meters high. The ground is made of green bricks, and the tile bottom can be seen from the top. In addition to the wooden wall of the courtyard, the other walls are inlaid with bamboo and decorated with white on both sides. All of them are connected by a single wooden door and the back door is connected to the patio. There are three wooden lattice windows in the South and one in the north.

There are seven rooms in the West and three rooms in the south. The frame, wall, floor, ceiling, doors and windows, and roof are the same as those in the East. The width is 4.20 meters, the depth is 6.93 meters, and the height of the bottom of the spine is 5.30 meters. Only the first room is a parquet wall with double wooden doors. The north four rooms are arranged in the shape of "Tian". The two rooms near the west main house are the extension of the main house roof, with a width of 4.08m, a depth of 9.90m and a clear ceiling height of 2.90M. The west two rooms have a single slope and small green tile roof. Among them, three rooms are made of concrete floor, without ceiling; the north one is facing the west main room, with Qikou wood floor, mosaic ceiling, daylighting bucket, double carved wooden door, which leads to the west main room through the dining room, and to Zhou Libo's bedroom and backyard in the north. This room is a reception hall for Zhou Libo. During his return to his hometown, Zhou Libo often brought his own cigarettes, wine and vegetables, invited villagers to talk about the creative materials, and gathered young people to talk about literary creation.

There are three rooms in the North back wing, with bamboo woven walls, white decoration on both sides, grooved wood floor, parquet ceiling and wooden lattice window. The first bedroom in the East is Zhou Libo's bedroom, with a width of 3.50 meters, a depth of 7.34 meters, a clear height of 2.50 meters and six glass windows. There are carved wooden bed, desk, wooden chair, double door cabinet and other ordinary daily furniture. From 1955 to 1965, he completed his short works such as "great changes in the countryside", which reflected the rural theme. The other two rooms are 3.50 meters wide, 5.34 meters deep and 2.50 meters high. The second room is Zhou Libo's guest room. During his return to his hometown, famous writers such as Ru Zhijuan, Kang Zhuo and Zhao Shuli came to visit Zhou Libo and went to bed in the room.

There are five rooms in the East and five rooms in the West. It is a wooden frame structure with ten frames and five columns. The floor is paved with blue bricks, and the walls are inlaid with bamboo. The two sides are decorated with white. The wooden windows are connected with a single wooden door. Only the courtyard of the east side house is a colonnade with a width of 1.40 meters. The east wing is 3.60 m wide, 4.80 m deep and 4.90 m high at the bottom of the spine; the west wing is 3.60 m wide, 5.34 m deep and 4.90 m high at the bottom of the spine.

The purlins of roof beams are nailed with rafters and covered with small green tiles. All woodwork shall be coated with tung oil twice to prevent moisture and corrosion.

The miscellaneous houses in the West courtyard, such as cattle pen and pigsty, farm tools storage, mill and pestle house, no longer exist. However, the farm tools and utensils are complete, and drinking and water wells still exist.

The outdoor floor is about 0.4 meters lower than the eaves Gallery pedestal, with sandy ground. The patio water collection and open ditch drainage system are adopted, which are all made of concrete.

Former residence site: back Zushan, left fugangfu, right Bishan forest, in front of a large lotus pond, facing the pear fruit mountain. High in the north and low in the south, round in the sky, with mountains on its back and water on its surface, the sun embraces the Yin. Green dragon and white tiger have the ability to store wind and gather Qi, warm and strong acupoints. Zhuji Xianbei, with a good ecological Fengshui pattern, achieves the perfect state of "harmony between man and nature".

Literature evaluation

Zhou Libo was mainly engaged in literary criticism and translation in Shanghai. The reportage impression of Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region published in 1938 was his earliest literary creation. In July 1938, Luo Zhiyang commented in the national weekly, pointing out that Zhou Libo's Reportage "impression of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region" wrote "China of fight and freedom". Since then, all walks of life have begun to study and comment on Zhou Libo's works for 71 years. The research and comment on Zhou Libo's works can be divided into four stages

The first stage, the 1950s and 1960s, is the pioneering stage of Zhou Libo's literary research

After the publication of "storm" in 1948, it was highly appraised. The representative comment is the recommendation "storm" written by the signature "Zhi", which was published in daily life on May 11, 1948. At that time, the critics believed that "storm" had three characteristics: first, it created a new image of folk heroes, representing the hope of the times; second, it opened up the writing of major revolutionary themes; third, it used a new folk language. After the publication of molten iron in 1955, Guangming Daily, literature and art study and other newspapers and periodicals published many comments, fully affirming this work, which was the first to depict the image of industrial workers after the founding of the people's Republic of China. After the publication of the great changes in rural areas in 1958, the older generation of critics Mao Dun, Huang Qiuyun, Wang Xiyan, Tang Zhen, Chen Yong, Zhu Zhai and others made relevant comments. From 1958 to 1961, people's daily, people's literature, Wenyi Bao, literature review

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