The Zhao Family Mansion is one of the few Existing Chinese-style houses in Macao with a clear historical context and a complete architectural layout in the late Qing Dynasty. The Cultural Affairs Bureau has recently purchased the house and will start a restoration plan.
The Ji authorities promoted the history and story of the big house through multiple channels, thus bringing the whole old city into a new cultural landmark and a national education base.
The House of the Zhao Family was repaired as soon as possible
The Cultural Affairs Bureau is about to restore the Zhao family house in Zhao Family Lane, and the media is very concerned. The Bureau replied to this newspaper that at present, the Bureau has just completed the procedures for obtaining Property No. 24, and will soon inspect, survey, study and repair the big house. In the future, depending on the revitalization planning research and collection restoration of the taiya, the history of the Cho family will be presented through exhibitions, research and support for thematic projects of local academic institutions.
Former Chinese in Macau
The Zhao Family Mansion is the former residence of the Zhao family, a prominent Chinese family in Macao, and the Zhao Family Mansion is one of the few Chinese-style houses in Macao with a clear historical context and a complete architectural layout. The existing Zhao Family House is mainly composed of No. 24 and No. 26 Zhao Jia Lane, of which No. 26 Zhao Jia Lane, which belongs to the main scope of the big house, is state-owned land, and only a small part, namely No. 24 Zhao Jia Lane, was originally a private property.
The Zhao family tree is rare to see
Over the years, the Bureau has been concerned about the situation of the Zhao Family House, and has consulted the Cultural Heritage Committee on the provision of restoration support, and has carried out follow-up work after drawing on the relevant suggestions to obtain the ownership opinion. In accordance with the relevant procedures, the Cultural Affairs Bureau entrusted the Financial Services Bureau and four companies in Macao that could provide real estate valuation work to assess the price of the property, and on this basis, discussed with the owner of the property, and finally acquired the property right of No. 24 Zhao Jia Lane for 8 million patacas, which did not include other movable property. After the financial services bureau acquired the real estate, it was transferred to the cultural affairs bureau for use and management.
In the early years, the descendants of the Zhao family handed over some of the items in the house to the Cultural Affairs Bureau for storage, including the plaque of Zhao's father and son Dengke. The Macao Museum has also collected historical relics related to the Zhao family in Macau through donations and collection purchases.
SJM houses Zhao's heritage
At present, in the permanent exhibition in the collection of the Macao Museum, a Qing Dynasty government document referring to members of the Zhao family in Macao is on display, and the museum has also carried out research projects on historical materials related to the Zhao family in Macao.
In addition, at the end of last year, the "Feelings of Home and Country - Celebrating the 22nd Anniversary of Macao's Return to the Motherland and the Exhibition of Chinese Family Trees in Modern Macao" exhibited a copy of the Zhao family tree image provided by the Macao Museum.
Can be created as a display space
The Zhao Family Mansion building is conditionally built as a display space, allowing the public to understand the history of the Zhao family and the traditional Chinese architectural space and components of the Zhao Family Mansion, carrying forward the traditional Chinese culture and showing the former life of the Chinese, which is conducive to further promoting the inheritance of chinese traditional culture in Macao and the development of the old district.
Collectors Association: Zhao House has hundreds of cultural relics
Zhao Yunjing and her father Zhao Yuanrui have the reputation of "father and son Dengke"
The President of the Macau Collectors Association, Ng Lee Hoon, was pleased that the authorities had purchased the Zhao Family House in Zhao Jia Lane, Camp Street, and would restore it in an orderly manner and make good use of it. Since the 1990s, there has been a wide collection of information on the Zhao family in Macau, including the literature and old objects of the Zhao family house scattered in the neighborhood. It is expected that after the restoration of the big house, a special area will be set up to display the objects of the past and restore the former life of the Zhao House.
The big house is 14 years old
Wu Lixun quoted relevant information to point out that the Zhao Family House located in Zhao Jia Lane has a history of more than 140 years, and the interior has been abandoned for a long time, but fortunately the outline of the building is well preserved.
The Zhao family was once prominent, but in the 1990s, the Zhao family's big house caught fire, and a large number of documents were fortunately not swallowed up by the fire and scattered throughout the community. In the early years, under the fate of the meeting, he collected a wide range of old objects related to the Zhao family's house, including "treasure hunting" in the stalls selling old objects, and purchased them from tonghao, accumulating hundreds of pieces (sets) of fine works, covering the Zhao family tree, ancestral portraits, holy wills, etc., which were extremely precious and were donated to the Macao Museum in batches before and after the return of Macao.
Wu Lixun hid a portrait of Zhao Yuanrui
Cultural Envoy Association: Of patriotic educational significance
Lu Jianuo, vice president of the Macao Association of Cultural Relics Ambassadors, pointed out that the Zhao clan had written to Xiangshan County during the Ming Dynasty to prevent the Portuguese from expanding their power by privately occupying official land and laying houses, and the relevant deeds had a strong patriotic educational significance. The most famous of the Zhao clan in Wangxia is Zhao Yuanrui and Zhao Yunjing father and son, who have successively won the title of "father and son Dengke", and it is said that the relevant plaque was once collected in the Zhao family house.
They founded Macau's earliest private school during the Qing Dynasty, educating literati including Zeng Wangyan and Zhao Ziyong, reflecting Macau's inheritance of traditional Chinese Confucian culture since the Qing Dynasty.
Integrated into cultural precincts
It can be seen that the preservation of the Zhao family house is an indispensable part of building an "exchange and cooperation base with Chinese culture as the mainstream and multicultural coexistence". At the same time, the camp street where the big house is located is a prosperous trade area in the past, and the authorities can take this opportunity to cooperate with the revitalization and utilization of the adjacent Yongfu Wai and the former sites of the Chinese and Western Pharmacies, actively integrate into the characteristic cultural area, sort out the local historical context, deepen the urban cultural atmosphere, and help boost community cultural tourism.
Oral co-ordination aims to raise public awareness
Chan Shu-yi, Vice President of the Macau Oral History Association, suggested that the good opportunity of the continuous increase in the attention of the Zhao Family House should be used to promote more historical and cultural values of the Zhao Family House and enhance public awareness.
The Association has hosted a guided tour service on the historical collection of Xiaoming School in Macao at the Macao Museum, and found that the theme of education can penetrate deeply into parents and students, and the response is enthusiastic. Therefore, it is suggested that the Zhao Family House should highlight the positioning of "father and son Dengke", and it is appropriate to open an educational history library in the restored house to promote the history of Macao and the history of education.
In addition, it organizes a series of sustainable activities on educational themes, such as lectures and exchanges on educational themes, invites experts and scholars from neighboring regions to come to Australia for exchanges, and carries out study in schools and launches educational history periodicals, etc., widely invites young students to participate, and encourages diligence and eagerness to learn.
Tandem promotion is more effective
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At the same time, Chen Shuyi is pleased to see that the government actively excavates and makes good use of the historical relics of Wangxia Village, launches exhibition halls such as Wangxia Mountain House and Xian Xinghai Memorial Hall, and vigorously protects buildings such as Guanyin Ancient Temple and Puji Zen Temple (Guanyin Hall), these existing cultural relics also have deep roots with the history of the Zhao family's hereditary residence in Wangxia, which can be fully utilized in the future, promoted in tandem, and given full play to the greater value of the big house.
In the long run, by revitalizing the Zhao family house, it can directly take the area around Wangxin Road. While comprehensively restoring the house, the authorities should continue to collect the relics of the Zhao family and collect more information on the descendants of the Zhao family, such as oral historical records, so as to explore more potential value of the house.
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