Former residence of Hu Yaobang

Former residence of Hu Yaobang

Hu Yaobang's former residence is located on the Bank of Minxi River, cangfang village, Zhonghe Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province. It was built in the Xianfeng Period of the Qing Dynasty. The house faces south with civil structure and small green tile roof. It is a typical rural residential building in Liuyang in the late Qing Dynasty.

In January 2012, Hu Yaobang's hometown scenic spot was approved as a national AAAA scenic spot. In 2013, it was listed in the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In December 2016, Hu Yaobang's former residence was listed in the list of national Red Tourism classic scenic spots.

Introduction to former residence

Hu Yaobang's former residence is located on the Bank of Minxi River, cangfang village, Zhonghe Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province. It is close to Xiling in the north, surrounded by flowing water and beautiful scenery. It is a typical Hunan Farm Building, facing south from north, with small green tiles and brick wood structure. The former residence was built in Xianfeng Period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 140 years. The houses are owned by Hu Mingzhong, Hu Yaobang's great grandfather, and Hu Mingjing, Hu Yaobang's brother. They are arranged in concave shape, covering an area of 450 square meters, with a total of 19 rooms. From the west of the central axis is Hu Yaobang's former residence, and from the east part is Hu's clan house. The "Pan Gong Xiang Tang" in the middle is the largest, which is the place where Mingjing and Mingzhong brothers worshiped the memorial tablet of their father Hu zhongpan. It is shared by the two families and serves as the grand guest hall. According to two generations, the house belonging to Hu Yicang, Hu Yaobang's father, has seven and a half rooms, about 200 square meters.

On November 20, 1915, Comrade Hu Yaobang was born in a wing room of this old house. At that time, after the revolution of 1911, new culture and new ideas began to spread in the countryside. However, because of warlords' scuffle, mountains and rivers were broken, wars were in chaos, and natural disasters, people lived in dire straits. As a matter of fact, Hu Yaobang's family property, which was saved by his ancestors' hard work and saving food and clothing, began to be destroyed because of the above reasons. When Hu Yaobang was young, his family was very poor. Because of his intelligence and diligence, his father tried every means to send him to Zhongtao bookstore (private school) for enlightenment, and then to Hu clan primary school, Liren school and Liuyang middle school. For more than ten years, apart from boarding in Liuzhong, he spent the rest of his time eating and living in this old house. He spent his childhood and youth here. He did not leave his hometown until October 1930 when he was transferred to the post of director of Xiangdong children's General Administration in Anyuan, Jiangxi Province. Since then, he has devoted himself to the great cause of Chinese revolution and construction for more than 30 years.

The origin of the former residence

Hu Yaobang's ancestors lived in Wutang village, Wuqiao Town, Gao'an County, Jiangxi Province for generations. About the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a farmer named Hu Yunqin left Jiangxi with his family. The former residence is a typical building on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi in the late Qing Dynasty. Hu zhongpan was a Bachelor of the Qing Dynasty. When he was in charge of the family, he was the most prosperous. At that time, he bought a lot of land and built the house. The house is shared by Hu Yaobang's great grandfather Hu Mingzhong and his brother Hu Mingjing. At the same time, in memory of him, the hall was named "Pan Gong Xiang Tang". After two generations, the house belonging to Hu Yaobang's father Hu Zulun's family is nine and a half rooms, about 200 square meters.

When Hu Yaobang was alive, the ancestral home was dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. One year in the 1980s, Hu Yaofu, Hu Yaobang's brother, went to Beijing and told him that his ancestral home was about to collapse. What should he do? Hu Yaobang said that as time goes by, let it fall. If it falls outside, people will move inside. In short, Hu Yaobang firmly opposed the restoration of his former residence.

In 1962, in order to study agricultural issues, he was appointed secretary of Hunan provincial Party committee and first Secretary of Xiangtan Prefecture Party committee. At that time, Liuyang was subordinate to Xiangtan. Comrade Hu Yaobang took advantage of the opportunity to come to Liuyang to inspect his work, went back to his hometown, visited his living teachers and fellow villagers, and gave important instructions on the socialist construction of his hometown. At that time, some people saw that his old house was already a dilapidated building and suggested that it should be repaired. However, he declined everyone's kindness and only proposed to keep the original appearance and strengthen the external walls. But later, it was not reinforced in time, so that the external wall was pushed down by the flood. After Hu Yaobang became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, he repeatedly told his family not to start construction.

1995 is the 80th anniversary of Hu Yaobang's birth. Liuyang City decided to restore Hu Yaobang's former residence. The work started in February 1995 and was basically completed in July. Hu Yaobang's childhood house, parents' and elder brother's bedroom, main hall, horizontal hall, living room and kitchen were restored. In September of that year, Li Zhao, wife of Hu Yaobang, visited her former residence here. In December, Hu Yaobang's former residence was opened to the outside world and has received more than 100000 people. More and more people are watching. Someone wrote in the message book: "although the road is difficult, I'm here." That's because Zhonghe township is far away from Liuyang City and close to Jiangxi Province. The road grade is low. It takes two hours to drive down from Liuyang. Others left a message: "Hu Yaobang, you saved me." It seems that the writer must have experienced the suffering of unjust, false and wrong cases in those years.

Hu Yaobang's former residence was restored and opened to the public in 1995. In 1996, the former residence was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Hunan Province, and in 2002, it was listed as a patriotic education base in Hunan Province. The exhibition hall started construction in February 2005 and put into use in November 2006. It covers an area of more than 13000 square meters, with a construction area of 3800 square meters and an exhibition area of more than 2100 square meters. It uses modern display means such as sound, light and electricity to display more than 330 pictures and more than 170 cultural relics. It also shows nine scenes reflecting Hu Yaobang's life with restoration of cultural relics, sculptures and wax statues.

Hu Yaobang's former residence was declared and approved as the education base for Party members in Changsha in 2007, and the third level national museum and the education base for party conduct and clean government in Hunan Province in 2009. Combined with the characteristics of the patriotic education base, the former residence has carefully organized and carried out a number of publicity and education activities with distinct themes and vivid intuition, making the base an activity base and a second classroom for visitors to cherish their martyrs, establish their ideals and explore the meaning of life. Since 2005, Hu Yaobang's former residence has received more than 600000 visitors from all over the country, including Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, He Guoqiang, Wang Zhaoguo and other central leaders.

About the owner

On November 20, 1915, Hu Yaobang was born in a 10 square meter ear room in the inner room of hengting on the west side of his former residence. Hu Yaobang ranks ninth in his family, and his parents call him jiuyazi. According to the memories of the local elderly, Hu Yaobang was a small, stuttering boy in his childhood, but he loved to work, was sensible and intelligent. When Hu Yaobang was 4 years old, he went to the mountain to collect firewood with his brother Hu Yaofu, who had been studying in private school. He often squatted on the ground and learned to write with the branches he found, and read "Hundred Surnames".

In 1920, when Hu Yaobang was 5 years old, he began to study in the peach tree house, which is located more than 100 meters south of his former residence.

In 1922, he was transferred to Xingwen primary school and won the first place in his first exam. When Hu Zuyi saw that he was smart and studious, he often asked him to do his senior homework and told him the heroic stories of Yang Jiajiang and Tan Si in his spare time. At that time, these heroes stayed in his memory and influenced him silently.

In 1926, when Hu Yaobang was 11 years old, he went to the high school of Liren school in Wenjia City, more than 10 kilometers away from home. During the period of the great revolution, the peasant movement in Hunan was surging. Hu Yaobang's family took part in the local peasant association and devoted themselves to the hot peasant movement. His father, Hu Zulun, was a land Commissioner of the rural Soviet government, and his mother, Liu Minglun, was a woman member of the local peasant association, which had a direct impact on the revolutionary road of young Hu Yaobang. Under the training of Chen Shiqiao (principal of Liren school) and Gan Sizao, the early party members of the Communist Party of China, Hu Yaobang served as the youth pioneer team leader and propaganda team leader of Liren school.

On September 19, 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops led by Mao Zedong met in Wenjia City. In the days when the first division of the workers' and peasants' Revolutionary Army successively assembled in Wenjia City, Hu Yaobang was very excited to see the revolutionary army coming from other places for the first time. In the summer of 1929, Hu Yaobang graduated from high school and was admitted to Liuyang County middle school, the only junior middle school in Liuyang County at that time. After junior high school, he studied harder.

In December 1929, Hu Yaobang went home during the winter vacation. Yang Guiying, a young woman from a mountain village near cangfang village, was Secretary of the Youth Communist Party of Zhonghe township (i.e. the Communist Youth League) at that time. She knew Hu Yaobang's positive performance when he was the leader of the young pioneers in Liren school for a long time. She found Hu Yaobang and developed him to join the Youth League secretly.

After the Spring Festival in 1930, Yang Shijun, introduced by the county Party committee, went to the red five army camp school in Huangjindong, Pingjiang, and formally joined the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. From then on, he changed his name to Yang Yong. His cousin formally entered the revolutionary ranks, which made Hu Yaobang both envious and fascinated. In March of the same year, the second column of the fifth Red Army led by Peng Dehuai captured Wenjia City, Dahu and gugang in the east of Liuyang and directly threatened Liuyang County. The Kuomintang authorities in Liuyang were so frightened that they imposed martial law on the whole city and forcibly disbanded the county middle school. In May 1930, Hu Yaobang returned to Zhonghe, ending his regular school life and embarking on the road of revolution.

In 1962, when Hu Yaobang was the Secretary of the Secretariat of Hunan provincial Party committee and the first Secretary of Xiangtan Prefecture Party committee, he lived in Liuyang for a night in January 1963 during the rural investigation. He had a discussion with local villagers and visited the poor. He left a lot of unforgettable memories and still has many touching stories.

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