Wen | and the Buddha went to enjoy the flowers
Zhang Zuolin's grand marshal's mansion was the official residence and private residence of Zhang Zuolin and his eldest son Zhang Xueliang. Located near Shenyang Middle Street, the author always has to go to see it every once in a while. The Grand Marshal's Mansion was founded in the third year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1914, and is known as the first mansion of the Republic of China. Why choose this place to build the Shuai Mansion is exquisite, because the location of the Shuai Mansion is only 200 meters away from the south gate of the Shengjing Palace, and choosing to build a mansion here is to see the feng shui treasure at the foot of the Imperial City. At that time, when the Shuai Mansion was built, someone asked Zhang Zuolin whether the height exceeded that of the Shengjing Imperial Palace and became the tallest building in Fengtian (Shenyang) and even the northeast, in fact, with Zhang Zuolin's power at that time, there was no problem at all, but Zhang Zuolin was a scheming man, and ordered that the height of the building should not exceed the height of the Phoenix Building of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang, which is the second tallest building in Fengtian.
Because the situation outside Guanxi was complicated at that time, Cao Kun, Yan Xishan, Wu Peifu, and others had to compete with Zhang Zuolin, at this time, Zhang Dashuai wanted to build a mansion taller than the imperial palace, and it was easy for the strong enemies in Guannei to seize the handle of usurpation and find a reason for the rise of a rebellious master. However, he was not willing to let Zhang Zuolin bow his head, so only extremely clever people could see Zhang Zuolin's cleverness. The Phoenix Tower, the highest point of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang, is a spire, while the Daqing Building, the highest point of the Shuai Mansion, is a flat roof, and there is a special observation deck on the roof that can accommodate more than 20 people. Every Spring Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival night, the Zhang family will go up to the Daqing Tower with their family, the so-called "mountain high man-made peak", which suppresses the Shengjing Palace.
The front yard of the Shuai Mansion is the office, and the back yard is a residence. Zhang Zuolin is not a palm-throwing refusal, but the head of a family, exercising militarized management over a family. Zhang Zuolin has 6 wives, 8 sons and 6 daughters. Together with the Servant Guard, there are hundreds of people. Zhang Zuolin laid down ten family rules for this big son, which people can still see when they visit Zhang Shuai's mansion, namely: it is strictly forbidden for the wife to interfere in political affairs and not listen to the pillow wind; it is strictly forbidden for the wife to gather in the crowd to chat in order to avoid breeding trouble; the wife of each room is not distinguished from respect and inferiority, and all are commensurate with the wife; it is strictly forbidden for the wife to do life privately; it is strictly forbidden to abuse the next person; the strict salary system is implemented, and each lady and the wife take it on time every month; the meal is divided into graded meals, and each wife and her children eat separately in their own rooms; strict work and rest time. No outing activities are allowed to exceed 10 o'clock in the evening; attention is paid to the cultural education of children, and famous teachers are hired to enlighten their children; children's marriages are not autonomous, and must be arranged by Zhang Zuolin alone.
The New Year in the Shuai Mansion is also a very interesting thing. The Chinese New Year's Eve rice Chinese New Year's Eve shuaifu is ten large dishes and a three-fresh one-pin pot. After the meal, Zhang Zuolin paid homage to the stove king and prayed to the stove king to bless him with a year of good luck. In the middle of the night, surrounded by people, they rushed by car to the Guandi Temple in Shenyang's Wind and Rain Temple, taking the lead in burning incense and prostrating their heads in front of the statue of Guan Laoye. The clock drums beat in unison and the band sounded. The Taoist monks in the temple paid homage to the grand marshal together and said in unison, "I wish the grand marshal a happy birthday and peace." Zhang Zuolin was also busy answering; "Everything is auspicious and smooth, Guotai Min'an." "After returning to the Shuai Mansion, the adjutants of the Shuai Mansion, the secretaries, the Wenwu Chengqi officials, and the young master, miss, and young grandmother of the Shuai Mansion came to pay their respects to the Grand Marshal. After that, the people of the Shuai Mansion began to play cards, and the Shuai Mansion had an unwritten rule that no matter whether they won or lost, they could not say a word "lose".
It's even more interesting to talk about dumplings. According to Zhang Xueliang's memoirs in his later years, "Our family ate dumplings almost every day during the New Year from the first day of the New Year to the fifteenth day of the first month of the new year, and even to the second day of the first month of February. Nothing else, just eat dumplings." Zhang Xueliang once recalled that at that time, I didn't know how many people at home ate every day. I just remember our kitchen, and there were seventy cooks at most. There was a steady stream of people who came to our house to run errands for a day. Because the Marshal's Mansion is both the home and the office of the Marshal, Zhang Zuolin not only controls the Northeast Army, but also the highest administrative officer in the Northeast, and the civil and military officials of the government and the army will flock to it every day.
Therefore, Zhang Xueliang sighed that when our family was new year, we didn't know how many dumplings were wrapped, many people lined up to wrap dumplings, and all the dumplings in several rooms were dumplings. Because it is most convenient to eat dumplings, who comes, boil the water, order dumplings, no stir-fry. Therefore, every Spring Festival, everyone in the Shuai Mansion is busy, the kitchen prepares 1500 pounds of noodles, 150 pounds of pork filling, even Zhang Zuolin's several wives are also busy, when making dumplings, they also help with noodles, mixing fillings and rolling dumpling skins. And from the first to the fifteenth day of the first year of these days, people all over the Shuai Mansion also pay special attention to speaking, can not say unlucky words, such as dumplings boiled bad, broken, can not say "broken, broken" and other unlucky words, but to say "dumplings earned", take the auspicious meaning of making money and making money.