Ding's former residence

Ding's former residence

Ding's former residence, also known as Ding's manor, is a residence left by the "Ding million" family in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which has a history of more than 200 years. It reflects the folk customs of Jiaodong area, shows the intelligence and creativity of the Han working people in ancient China and the excellent history and culture of the Chinese nation.

Ding's former residence is located in Huangcheng West Street, Longkou City, Shandong Province, covering an area of 3.106 hectares and a construction area of 8042 square meters. Ding's former residence is a large-scale, world-famous and well preserved "quadrangle" building complex in China.

Ding's former residence was designated as a museum by Longkou municipal government in August 1985 and opened to the public. In 1996, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The origin of initial construction

Ding's former residence was originally built by Ding million, a wealthy family in Huangxian County in the early Qing Dynasty.

Ding million is a famous rich man in Huangxian county. He started his business as pawnshop and bank, and became rich in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. After Ding made his fortune, he recruited skilled craftsmen from inside and outside the city to build houses in Huangxian city. There are more than 2700 houses in the city, and 240 are now in existence, which is the layout of the Qing Dynasty.

Ding's former residence, facing east from the west, is a typical traditional hard mountain brick and wood structure in northern China. The complex is divided into several courtyards, each of which is composed of a number of quadrangles. It is well distributed, integrated and simple.

Excavation of cultural relics

There are 14000 cultural relics in Ding's former residence, and more than 160 cultural relics above grade three. In 2003, it was awarded the third prize of excellent exhibition in Shandong Province.

Ding's former residence, located in the former residence of Ding in Longkou City, Shandong Province, is the residence of xiyuelai branch of Ding million family, which is famous all over the world. It is composed of Aifu hall, Lvsu hall, Baosu hall, Chongjian hall and private garden Shufang garden of Qing Dynasty. It was built in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

architectural style

The architectural style has a strong charm of the capital mansion and Jiaodong folk houses; each road is axisymmetric layout, five into the courtyard; wood frame structure, hard hill slope top, roof covered with inverted fish scale green tiles. The main building is made of fine workmanship and exquisite materials, decorated with five spines and six beasts; the partition doors and windows, carved beams and painted buildings, painted with gold, with front and back porches. The former residence is the essence of residential architecture art.

Ding's former residence, announced by the State Council in 1996 as a national key cultural relics protection unit. It has been established as Longkou Museum.

Tourism characteristics

The restored display in the former residence shows the original life of the Ding family and the folk customs of Jiaodong area, shows the intelligence and creativity of the ancient working people in China, and shows the excellent history and culture of the Chinese nation; it allows the audience to explore and learn from the cultural treasures in many fields, enhance historical materialism, carry forward traditional culture, and serve for the revitalization of China. The former residence has been awarded the titles of Shandong excellent Museum, Shandong rural youth education base, Shandong historical excellent building, Yantai patriotism education base, Yantai civilized unit, etc

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In the rich and beautiful Jiaodong Peninsula, a ballad has been circulating for a long time: "huangxianfang, qixialiang and Penglai produce good girls". Among them, Huangxian house refers to Ding's former residence, which was left over by Ding million family in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. In its heyday, it reached more than 3000 rooms, occupying most of the old Yellow City, but judging from the only 243 rooms left now, it is also quite luxurious. It can be compared with the Royal Palace of the capital. It is a typical representative of Jiaodong quadrangle architecture. It can be called the essence of Qing Dynasty's architectural art. It has a history of more than 200 years. After visiting Ding's former residence, Qian Weichang, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), wrote ten words "national treasures of architectural art in Ming and Qing Dynasties" with deep emotion.

Each courtyard of the existing Ding's former residence is composed of five courtyard, which is arranged and expanded symmetrically on the central axis, giving people a sense of solemnity and stability. The stone drums on both sides of the gate are called mendang, and the four door hairpins above the door frame are called hudui. The symmetrical dragon head on the roof is called Zhengwen, which has the power of guarding against evil. The ridge decoration between the dragon heads is commonly known as "fudanzi", which means that the family's grain warehouse is full and has exceeded the roof. The lantern hanging above the doorway is called hall light, on which the hall number of the owner of the house is written. The lacquer gold "Hongxi" sign on the wall of the central screen shows great happiness, which is only hung during major festive activities in the mansion. The screen wall is also very elegant, with turtle inscriptions on the top and exquisite brick carvings on the bottom -- magpie climbing plum.

About the Ding family

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the Ding family took the 11th generation of Ding Yuanyi as the founder of Ding Wanyi, who attached great importance to reading, being an official and doing business. They became officials by learning, protected business by being officials, and supported their studies by business. They organically combined Confucianism, government and business, so they were prosperous forever. There are 27 successful candidates and Jinshi, 148 above five rank; pawnshops and banks are all over 11 provinces and cities in eastern China, known as a pawnshop family of honest business. According to legend, assets equivalent to 54 million taels of silver, is the financial revenue of the Qing government for two years, the richest man in Shandong, nicknamed "Ding million".

Address: No.137 Donglai street, Longkou, Yantai

Longitude: 120.528676

Latitude: 37.651592

Tel: 0535-3125652

Ticket information: market price: 30.0 yuan

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