Located at No.37 Renmin Road, pinghu city, Zhejiang. This is the manor where Mo, a wealthy businessman in Qing Dynasty, lived for three generations. Covering an area of seven acres, * * * has more than 70 houses, which are isolated from the outside world with a six-meter-high wind and fire wall. It is a typical closed wooden house complex. As the palace of the first residence, the Mohs Manor is "small and exquisite, with a compact layout, with typical Jiangnan residential characteristics."
Moshi Manor was built in the 23rd year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1897), which is a large-scale closed ancient residential complex inhabited by three generations of Mo, a big landlord in the late Qing Dynasty. The whole project lasted for three years and cost100,000 taels of silver. Completed on 1899. It is a large-scale closed ancient residential complex, where three generations of Mo have lived for more than half a century. "People don't know where to go, but peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze". Today, as a window unit of pinghu city's external publicity, Jiaxing Red Education Corridor, a youth education base and a designated unit of Jiaxing tourism, Mo Manor shoulders the heavy responsibility of promoting national culture and inspiring national spirit, so that people can learn about history, gain knowledge, be edified and be inspired by watching. It has become a good place for entertainment and cultural tourism. 19891February, with the approval of the people's government of Zhejiang province, Moshi Manor was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Mo Manor Exhibition Hall, the exhibition content of Mo Manor, was established in July 1963 and formally established in October 1964. So far, it has received millions of Chinese and foreign tourists.
Moshi Manor is a typical closed brick-wood structure complex in the south of the Yangtze River, with compact layout and exquisite design. The manor covers an area of 4,800 square meters and has more than 70 houses. The overall structure is composed of three groups and four entrances, symmetrical left and right, staggered back and forth, following the system of ancient buildings sitting north facing south, facing the river along the street, with the front hall and the back bedroom. On the east, middle and west axes, from south to north are the main hall, ancestral hall, counting house, flower hall, Buddhist temple and kitchen in turn; Car hall, main hall, retreat hall and hall (including bedroom and women's hall); Study, bedroom, etc.
Mozhuang three gardens are scattered in the meantime, and the boxing stones scoop water, moving the sky and shrinking the ground. Flowers and trees, pools, winding paths and lake stones are all small scenes, picturesque and pleasing to the eye. Each single building adopts bucket-piercing and hanging beam-frame structure respectively, with beautifully carved beam eaves and gorgeous hanging in front of the gallery, decorated with exquisite wood carvings and brick carvings. The design is ingenious and set each other off, showing the beauty of ancient architecture in China.
In terms of furnishings, furniture, calligraphy and painting, utensils and antiques are all one furnace, which embodies the essence of Jiangnan culture. The manor has obvious trends and streamline. The spatial orientation of the manor facing south and facing the river along the street meets the site selection requirements of ancient Chinese residential buildings. The main entrance is located in the southeast of the manor, that is, in the gossip lane, that is, in the direction of Qinglong and Suzaku. It is a physical example of the geomantic house in Jiangnan, with the gate of Kanzhai as the background. There are three flat-bottomed bucket arches in the workshop, including seven in three rooms, with a total width of 12.20m and a bay width of 4.70m, which are used for the access of the host and distinguished guests. There are six black painted doors in the middle, each with vertical 16 and horizontal 140 doornails, totaling13,000 * *, which is extraordinary. There is a pair of secret doors built in the Ming Dynasty. There is a couplet on the door saying, "There must be a good Samaritan. When you help the public security, Kun will come." Etiquette cards erected on both sides were set up by Mo Yu 190 1 year (the 27th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty) after "following the rules, joining the virtuous officials, and filling Jiangsu Zhili government with posts". With a width of 3.75 meters, it is a place where ordinary people go in and out, and it is also a place where Mo's family and their children study.
The roofs of ancient buildings in China are rich in content and diverse in forms, and are known as the "fifth facade". The decoration of the roof of the Moshi Manor complex also followed the ancient system without exception. Roofs with upturned cornices, dragon kisses on the roofs of instrument doors, sedan chairs, main halls and halls, carp yue longmen, double lions playing with balls, dragons and phoenixes appearing auspicious, bangs playing with golden toads, immortals leading the way on the rest mountain, lions, horses and other crouching animals, all with different postures, are like a masterpiece of ink and wash against the vast blue sky.
Address: No.0/9, Renmin West Road, pinghu city, Jiaxing.
Type: Garden/Garden Monument Museum
Play time: suggested 1-2 hours.
Tel: 0573-85022020; 0573-85022058
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Opening hours:
8:30- 16:45
Ticket information:
Retail price: 28.0 yuan