Dong Fu

Dong Fu

Dongfu is 17 kilometers away from Wuzhong City of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 500 meters north of Wuqing highway. It is adjacent to the Yellow River in the west, Qin canal in the north and Niushou mountain in the south.

Commemorative figures

Dong Fu is a key cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region. It is the residence of Dong Fuxiang, the governor of Gansu Province, a famous general in the late Qing Dynasty. Because of Dong Fuxiang's official position and the title of Prince Shaobao, it is also called "Gongbao mansion". Dong Fuxiang (1839-1908), Han nationality, Guyuan. In the 1860s, because of the unbearable corruption and oppression of the Qing government, he advocated group training to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After the defeat, he surrendered to Liu Songshan. In 1875, he followed Zuo Zongtang to take part in the battle of recovering Xinjiang and made many achievements. After the war, he led his troops to guard the western border for more than ten years. He successively served as commander in chief of Aksu, governor of Kashgar and governor of Gansu. He was awarded the title of minister and was granted the title of "Prince Shaobao". During the Boxer Movement, he was transferred to Beijing and served as the commander of the Empress Dowager of Wuwei. He was favored by Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1900, when the G8 allied forces attacked Beijing, Dong Fuxiang led the Gan army to fight against the G8 allied forces, killed Japanese diplomats and German envoys, besieged foreign embassies, and fought bloody battles at Zhengyangmen. After the fall of Beijing, Dong Fuxiang escorted empress dowager Xi'an and Emperor Guangxu to flee Xi'an, and was appointed "Minister of retinue" to control the military power of Manchu and Han. During the "xinchou treaty", the foreigners insisted on killing Dong Fuxiang, and the Empress Dowager of the West tried to avoid death, leaving the crown prince with less protection title and returning home from his post.

Dong Fuxiang went back to Jinji castle with 4000 liang of silver and 3000 people from the Qing Dynasty to buy a pond owned by the squire Guo Juren. In 1902 (the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), the construction of "Gongbao mansion" began, which lasted three years. The initial construction cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, 3 million labors and 2.5 million kg of grain, covering an area of more than 100 mu. The whole building consists of four parts: Neizhai, Waizhai, Hufu River and main building community.

The place where Dong Fu is located was originally a lake. The bottom of the lake is completely padded with coal (1.5-2m thick) and then covered with loess. Hundreds of camels carried charcoal from Ciyaobao, and the foundation was laid for half a year. The wood used to build Dong's mansion came from Gannan and was laid down along the Yellow River. The stone comes from Shaanxi, and most of the carpenters come from Sichuan. Therefore, the carving of the windows and doors has the characteristics of North and south, and the workmanship is fine. The blacksmiths came from Baotou, and the masons were mostly from Shaanxi.

The layout of Neizhai architecture is "three palaces and six courtyards", which is a combination of Beijing palace architecture and Ningxia local ethnic characteristics. It shows the traditional layout of China since the Tang Dynasty, with the central courtyard as the central axis and the symmetrical layout. The gate of Neizhai village faces to the East, which means that although the master was dismissed, his heart is still open to the Qing court. Outside the gate, there are two xiamashi and two stone lions (disabled) entering the gate. Facing the tall Zhaobi (about 4 meters high), a stone tablet (only remains) stands in front of the Zhaobi. Around the stone tablet, you can enter the middle courtyard, turn right into the north courtyard and turn left into the South courtyard. The south, the middle and the North all adopt two entrance courtyards to form the front courtyard and the back courtyard respectively, and each courtyard is a single one. These individual units, through corridors and rooms, form a unified building complex of Dongfu Neizhai. Among them, the central courtyard is the most magnificent and exquisite. The two-story central courtyard has a large roof cornice, a brick and wood structure, and flat seat brackets. The roof of the building is covered with glazed tiles, the walls are carved with bricks, and the walls are carved with carved beams and painted buildings. It is particularly solemn, quiet and generous. Zhengbei building is used to make "ancestral hall" to worship ancestors, which shows that the construction is quite ingenious. The whole "three palaces and six courtyards" are being put in the middle of Neizhai. There are more than ten meters wide passageways on all sides from the inner wall of the village, especially between the wall of the east gate and the front gate of the middle courtyard. On the north side is the place for the owner to park the sedan chair. On the south side is the stables (destroyed). On the sides of the two courtyards, there are two doors, East and West, respectively, for the entrance and exit of the family and the servants. There are also three private schools (destroyed) built at the base of the wall of Xizhai, which are the places where the descendants of the Dong family study.

Relic features

Dong Fu is a rectangular building surrounded by rammed earth courtyard walls, 123.4 meters long from east to west, 117 meters wide from north to south, 8.5 meters high, 4.35 meters wide at the top, and 8 meters wide at the base. Now it covers an area of 47685 square meters and more than 10000 square meters in Neizhai. As an ancient architectural group, the main part of "Dong Fu" has been preserved. Unfortunately, its outer village has long disappeared due to war and years of damage. In 1988, the people's Government of the autonomous region listed Dong Fu as a key cultural relic protection unit of the autonomous region. On May 25, 2006, Dong Fu, as an ancient building of the Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

protective measures

On the afternoon of February 15, when interviewing the relevant personnel of Wuzhong culture and Sports Bureau, the reporter learned that before 2005, Dong Fu contracted a local farmer for temporary management. In 2005, Dong Fu was designated as a state-level protection unit after field investigation and demonstration by an expert group of the State Administration of cultural relics, and submitted to the State Council for approval. This brings a rare opportunity for the further protection of Dong Fu. In view of this, Wuzhong cultural relics management office has arranged professionals to be on duty in Dong's office since January 1, 2005, to carry out all-weather management.

There has been no major maintenance in the history of Dong Fu. In the 1970s, the relevant departments of Wuzhong City once reinforced and painted the interior of Dong Fu. In August 1993, due to continuous heavy rain, the southeast corner of the wall was damaged by 25 square meters and the collapse depth was 0.75 meters. The Wuzhong municipal government applied for the appropriation of 11000 yuan for maintenance. In March 1994, the Wuzhong municipal cultural relics administration raised more than 30000 yuan to clear the moat around the city of Dong Fu. In August 2000, the State Administration of cultural relics issued a report to the public A total of 400000 yuan was allocated to repair the wall foundation, wall surface, parapet, top surface, ladder and drainage system of Dong Fu for one year.

In 1988, after Dong Fu was handed over to the cultural relics department for management, a large-scale rectification of Dong Fu's cultural relics was carried out, and some additional buildings such as chimneys and shed walls were demolished. In 1994, the administrative department of cultural relics collected and sorted out more than 150000 words of Dong Fu's archives. In 1995, the protection scope and control zone of Dong Fu's cultural relics were delimited. In 2001, the road in front of the gate was hardened, so that Dong Fu's cultural relics were effectively protected. Through nearly 10 years of efforts, the cultural relics administration has published a Book Dong Fu and Dong Fuxiang with nearly 250000 words, and relevant personnel have written more than 10 papers. Among them, "on the idea of Dong Fu's opinions on restoration and utilization" won the second prize of excellent achievements in Social Sciences of the autonomous region. In 1996, the Department of cultural relics management raised 4000 yuan to open up the exhibition room of Dong Fu, which expanded the external publicity and made Dong Fu more and more famous.

It is understood that the cultural relics administration department will win the bid of the national development and Reform Commission in 2005

A special fund of 500000 yuan was used to repair Dong Fu and change its present dilapidated appearance. Wuzhong Municipal Bureau of culture and sports has made full preparations, determined to protect the cultural relics and strive to restore the original style of Dongfu. They held talks with the tourism department, preparing to develop the tourism resources of Dong Fu.

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