Li Ruzhen Memorial

Li Ruzhen Memorial

In memory of Li Ruzhen, Banpu Town, Haizhou District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu province built a "Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall" in the center of the town for people to look forward to. In the main hall of the memorial hall, there is a Bust Statue of Li Ruzhen. The museum displays related cultural relics, various versions of Jinghuayuan and research results of Jinghuayuan at home and abroad. On the wall set off by green bamboos is engraved with the four characters "jinghuashuiyue", which is reminiscent of the scenes and implied meanings described in the book. After the completion of Li Ruzhen memorial hall, many Chinese and foreign scholars and tourists come here every year to have a glimpse.

Composition of exhibition hall

Li Ruzhen memorial hall, built in 1992, is located in the East Street of Banpu Town, Haizhou District, covering an area of 1500 square meters. It is composed of a new foyer, a main exhibition hall and a newly renovated former residence. It is small, exquisite and antique. On display in the hall is a variety of Chinese and foreign versions of Jing Hua Yuan, as well as academic papers and research materials of experts and scholars at home and abroad. Li Ruzhen has lived in Banpu for more than 30 years. He spent 20 years in his former residence to write a masterpiece "Jing Hua Yuan". At the memorial ceremony, the experts and scholars of Jinghuayuan Research Association fully affirmed the construction, protection and collection of cultural and historical materials of the memorial. They hope that the relevant departments at all levels can expand the scale of the memorial hall, collect all kinds of Li Ruzhen's cultural relics and the domestic and foreign versions and research materials of Jinghuayuan, constantly enrich the cultural relics in the collection, gradually expand the scale, and build the Li Ruzhen memorial hall into a research center of Jinghuayuan. Calligrapher and painter Xu Houwen also presented Li Ruzhen's brother-in-law Xu Qiaolin and Xu Guilin's portraits and precious calligraphy and paintings to the memorial.

Li Ruzhen

Li Ruzhen, whose name is Songshi, was born in Daxing, Zhili (now in Beijing). His brother Li Ruhuang was transferred to Haizhou (now Lianyungang) in the 47th year of Qianlong. Li Ruzhen traveled with his brother and lived in Banpu for 30 years. He spent more than 30 years in the study of Confucian classics and history in Banpu and wrote a famous book "Jing Hua Yuan". This famous work is unique. It takes the classic of mountains and seas as the introduction, and expresses the author's life ideal through the romantic description of overseas fantasy world.

Address: No.7, East Street, Banpu Town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang City

Longitude: 119.24838285148

Latitude: 34.477500192056

Ticket information: free.

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