Tianmen "HuJia Garden" is located in Tianmen City, Jingling Yan call community Xiaozizi, is the former residence of Hu Pingzhi, the inspector of Shanxi in the Qing Dynasty (the official rank is equivalent to the current governor or secretary of the provincial party committee), built in 1899, covers an area of about 18,000 square meters, is the most complete and largest preserved late Qing Dynasty official residence in our province, and a provincial key cultural relics protection unit.
Although it is as old as the old, I have never thought of it as the official residence of the late Qing Dynasty, saying that the so-called "Hu Family Garden" in Tianmen City, Hubei Province, is a bit out of place. Apart from a few dilapidated old houses, we could not see the garden we imagined. It is no wonder that this "first mansion in central China" built in the late Qing Dynasty, after a hundred years of wind and rain, due to serious damage, now only the main house (which was converted into a shop) and a row of small bungalows next to the west side of the filial piety, less than a quarter of the original scale, has become a manor building with a vain garden.
Hu Family Garden (also known as Hu Patrol Official Hall), located in Tianmen City, Jingling Street Office Yanming Street Xiaozi, was the private residence of Hu Ping, the Inspector of Shanxi in the Qing Dynasty. According to relevant experts, the Hujia Garden is the only existing Chinese and Western combination of the former and Western government official halls in Hubei Province, and is the most complete and largest preserved late Qing dynasty official residence (Inspector Official Hall).
According to the "Chronicle of Tianmen County", Hu Pingzhi (1840-1912) was also known as Hu Chongru. The word 蕲生, also the word Cuichen, the number Jingyi, the lingren. He was born in Pushui (present-day Shuishui). In 1864 (the third year of Qing Tongzhi), he was elected as a Shu Jishi (庶吉士). In 1868, he was commissioned as an editor of the Hanlin Academy. From 1874 (the thirteenth year of Tongzhi), he successively served as the examiner of the hui examination, the chief examiner of the Sichuan township examination, the cabinet attendant bachelor, and the young secretary of the Taibu Temple. In December 1887 (the thirteenth year of Guangxu), he became the prefect of Shuntianfu in Beijing. In December 1891 (the seventeenth year of Qing Guangxu), he was appointed as the envoy of Shanxi Province. In 1894, he was appointed as the Imperial Envoy of shanxi as a military attendant and the right deputy capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau. He was transferred to Zhejiang as a political envoy and a governor of Shaanxi, and later reinstated as the governor of Shanxi. He served as an official in Shanxi for more than seven years. During his tenure, in 1892, he presided over the preparation of the first factory in Shanxi, the Taiyuan Match Bureau. In 1894, the Shanxi Merchants Bureau was established. In March 1898 (the 24th year of Guangxu), a railway (i.e., zhengtai railway) was built from Liulinbao in Zhengding Province to Taiyuan, Shanxi, with a total length of 500 miles. In May, it signed the "Articles of Association for The Opening of Mines to Iron and the Transshipment of Various Minerals" (Article 20) with the British Fu Company, borrowing 10 million taels of silver to develop coal and iron mines in Shanxi. After the failure of the Pengshu Reform Law, Hu Pingzhi, who advocated reform, was strongly opposed by conservatives, and was dismissed from office on October 16, 1899, and became an official for more than 30 years.
Around 1900, Hu Pingzhi returned to his hometown of Tianmen Jingling Yan called The Street Filial Piety, and expanded the foundation of the house built by his father to form the --- Hu Family Garden. Hujia Garden is located around the intersection of Yanming Street and Xiaozizi, the southeast corner is its Chinese medicine shop "Hengchuntang", the northeast corner is about 500 meters along Xiaozizi Street is its garden, and the south corner is 400 meters long along Yanming Street. According to relevant data, the Hujia Garden covers a total area of about 18,000 square meters, and the main construction area is about 3,000 square meters, which is the architectural layout form of "axis Zhejiang Jin, front hall and back hall", which is composed of five parts: front hall, living room, embroidery building, patio and garden. The complex consists of courtyards and gardens surrounded by the middle hall, the east hall, the west hall building and its ancillary buildings (at present, the follow-up buildings of the east hall and the west hall still exist, the main building of the middle hall is basically intact, and the garden no longer exists). Among them, the main building of the central hall is basically kept intact. Moving inward from the door of the middle hall, the hall, the lobby, the main hall, the second hall, the upper room and the study are located on the central axis, and the two patios are ten meters square. (Note: The first half is the main hall, the living room, for the use of the guests, on both sides of the east and west wing rooms, for miscellaneous servants and visitors to live, similar to the formal official court of the Qing Dynasty; behind is the master's bedroom, Western-style building (library) and garden, which is the so-called house. The hall is the place to welcome and meet guests; the main hall seems to be used for the host's office. The second hall is to handle the marriage and funeral dowry, and handle the domestic affairs. The upper room is the lady's bedroom. Rong Ren Zhai is an embroidery building, which is the children's bedroom and study. The east hall has been converted into the warehouse of Tianmen Salt Industry Company in 1965, and there are still two old houses (including corridors, boxes, etc.) behind the east hall. The West Hall still exists. The opening of the east and west hall buildings is about fifteen or sixteen meters, slightly smaller than the central main building, and the west hall is about thirty meters deep. Due to its age, the garden no longer exists. The gables of the outer walls, the forehead pillars, the wood grain at the eaves, the carvings on the window ledges, the horse head wall gables on both sides still exist. Its architectural form, shape and structure obviously have the characteristics of residential buildings in northern China, and at the same time, combined with the characteristics of the southern climate, a roof with a large slope has been built according to local conditions, while the design style of the back garden is completely imitation of Western-style western-style buildings, with arched doors and Romanesque columns, so it has a very deep historical and cultural accumulation. In his later years, Hu Pingzhi closed the door to guests in the Hu Family Garden, entertaining himself with poetry, calligraphy and painting. He died in Shanghai in 1912 (the first year of the Republic of China). The "Hu Family Garden" left behind has become a cultural landscape of Tianmen.
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