This small white building at No. 978 Huashan Road often attracts tourists to stop and watch. The famous film actor Poplar once lived here, which made this small white building stained with certain literary elements.
Poplar Former Residence is a modern style villa residence, built in 1936, covers an area of 260 square meters, construction area of 340 square meters, reinforced concrete structure, the main two floors, the local three floors, the plane is "L" shaped, there is a garden inside. The living room in the house has an area of more than 30 square meters, with a flat roof and a courtyard in front, which is particularly fresh and elegant under the cover of plane trees on Huashan Road. The second floor of the south side near Huashan Road is a semi-circular living room with large glass windows, the flat-roof roof forms a three-story terrace, the north side is an attached room, and the west side of the living room is connected to the south corridor and the main building, the whole building is rich in combination, the sense of layering is strong, there are different changes in height, front and back, square circle, virtual reality, quite distinctive. Because of its white cement façade, it is commonly known as "Little White Building", which is exactly associated with the name of poplar.
Bai Yang is a famous drama and film performance artist in China, and she and her husband, the famous playwright and director Jiang Junchao, and their children have always lived here.
Poplar's performance style is simple, beautiful, natural and subtle, and she is good at expressing the charm of oriental women, fully revealing her acting talent. She has created a variety of beautiful and moving women's images, skillfully combining her feminine charm with her role, so that the audience can give unlimited sympathy for the role she plays, so as to gain the audience's love and respect. In this "little white building", Bai Yang completed the artistic image conception of Many different personalities such as Xianglin Sister-in-law, Jin Yuji, and Dongmei, and also wrote her performance art monograph "Film Performance Skills Talk". After the death of the poplar couple, the descendants placed white marble busts in the garden for them, evoking people's nostalgia.
On December 22, 2003, The Former Residence of Poplar was announced as a registered immovable cultural relics in Changning District, and on April 5, 2017, it was renamed as a Cultural Relics Protection Site in Changning District.
Buildings are readable, neighborhoods can be strolled, and cities have temperatures. There are too many stories in the long river of time on the 38.3 square kilometers of land in Changning, which are integrated with the buildings. These buildings either record the lives of the people under the change of the times, or witness the liberation of Shanghai and the rise of New China.
The content is from "Changning Footprints"
Editors: Chen Rongchao, Gao Qin
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