Appreciation of Modern Architecture in Guangzhou: Wende Building, the newlywed residence of Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao

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Architecture is frozen history. The creation and development of the early Communist Party organizations in Guangdong occupied an important position in the history of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Early Communist Party leaders operated in Guangzhou, leaving many traces of life, and these are the testimonies of history.

On Wende East Road in Yuexiu District, in the middle of the green tree-shrouded residential area, an old bungalow with a yellow façade glows with a thick temperament that is different from the surrounding houses. Although the years have washed away its appearance, they cannot erase the glory of the past years.

In 1925, Zhou Enlai served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong District Committee and secretary of the Military Commission, and Deng Yingchao went south to Guangzhou to marry Zhou Enlai, and their marriage room was on the second floor of Wende Building No. 3 on Wende East Road, and the two of them worked together for half a century. In 1999, the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government announced Wende Building as a cultural relics protection unit in Guangzhou.

Wende Building is a group of U-shaped buildings, connected by 5 3-storey buildings, through the mottled iron gate under the arch, is a patio of about 10 meters long, and is still inhabited by citizens; sitting south and facing north, it is a reinforced concrete structure, a flower step brick floor, a compound, a corridor, a bamboo pole to dry clothes, quite a taste of seventy-two tenants.

Sunlight is cast through the patio to the ground, dust wafting in the air is like the smoke of history, time flows quietly through the mottled walls and worn steps, and the building still tells the red story it has witnessed.

(Text: Zhu Wenting, Yuan Shijie, Video: Yuan Shijie)

[ Editor: Li Xin ]