Lili Ancient Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou, is a Jiangnan water town with a history of nearly 900 years and outstanding people. In Wujiang, a historical celebrity Liu Yazi has emerged; in Lili, there is the former residence of Yan Yazi, a national key cultural relic protection unit;

There, there is also the Liu Yazi Memorial Hall. Liu Yazi made the ancient town of Lili famous all over the world.

Liu Yazi's former residence along the river of Gushi is located at No. 75 Center Street. It is a building dating from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally the private residence of Zhou Yuanli, a minister of the Ministry of Industry of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. It was completed before 1780. The house is called "Fu Fu Tang", with six entrances. The magnificent halls and buildings, the complete courtyard preparations, the long windows and painted beams carved with dragons and phoenixes, and the vivid brick gate buildings are of great artistic value.

The fourth and fifth buildings rented by Liu Yazi's mother in 1899 were both on the seventh floor and the seventh floor. They moved in from her hometown of Dafeng Village, Fenhu, when Liu Yazi was only 12 years old. In 1922, it was rented by Liu Yazi and became a meeting place for Nanshe members. It has also become an important historical site in modern times. In May 2006, it was designated as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Walking into the memorial hall, you will see a full-body statue of Mr. Liu Yazi. As a patriotic education base, the memorial hall is open for free, but you have to show your ID card to the management personnel and register it. A bronze statue of Mr. Liu Yazi, with Mao Zedong's inscription on the back of the golden lotus flower screen,"Lin Feng among the people Liu Yazi"(meaning the best among all, a person who is outstanding, stands out from the crowd, and is outstanding and extraordinary).

Entering the second house are statues of Chairman Mao and Mr. Liu Yazi, showing scenes of great men, poets and poems. These two statues, together with the full-body statue I saw when I entered the door

In the courtyard passing through the second entrance, there are two stone tablets on both sides. On the left is the "Birthday Celebration Monument", which is a calligraphy and painting work collaborated by Liu Yong and painter Zhang Wentao during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. On the right is the "Plum Blossom Monument", which was made by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty when he visited the south of the Yangtze River for five days.

Further inside is the Blessing Hall, which should be the main hall where the host receives guests. The original plaque of "Blessing Hall" was made by Ji Huang, a grand scholar of Wuxi during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. What is now hanging is an imitation,

The original remains of the plaque are displayed in a glass cabinet by the hall

The bust of Mr. Liu Yazi in the center of the Second Entrance Hall was inscribed by Deng Yingchao, then Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, on November 20, 1985.

In May 1987, it was built as the Liu Yazi Memorial Hall. The perfect combination of the old residence and the memorial hall is both a memorial hall and a museum. It holds Liu Yazi's life historical materials and used objects, as well as many collections and materials from Nanshe. It is an important base for collecting, protecting, researching and displaying Liu Yazi and Nanshe's cultural relics.

Mr. Liu Yazi's Study: Sword Grinding Room

Liu Yazi (1887-1958) was born in Dasheng Village, Beishe, Fenhu Town, Wujiang. He moved to Lili with his family at the age of 12. He was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and a disciple of Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Taiyan. He founded and presided over Nanshe. He served as secretary of the Presidential Office of Sun Yat-sen, supervisory member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Party of China, and director of the Shanghai Tongzhi Museum. After the April 12 coup, he was wanted and fled to Japan. He returned to China in 1928 to carry out anti-Chiang activities. During the Anti-Japanese War, he engaged in anti-Japanese democratic activities with Soong Ching Ling, He Xiangning and others. He served as the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Comrades of the Three People's Principles, and the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. In 1949, he attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Yazi served successively as a member of the Central People's Government and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

I know that Liu Yazi is in a junior high school Chinese textbook. Mao Zedong's poem "Huanxisha and Mr. Liu Yazi" let us know that Mr. Liu Yazi is a democrat. Other than that, we know nothing about his deeds.

In fact, the history of Liu Yazi's interaction with Mao Zedong is that they met at the Second Plenary Session of the Second Central Committee of the Kuomintang held in Guangzhou in May 1926. At that time, Mao Zedong was acting director of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee as a member of the Communist Party, and Liu Yazi was a member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang. Since then, the two often sang poems and had a deep exchange, reflecting the friendship between people from the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties.

The brick-carved gatehouse in Liu Yazi's former residence is also very beautiful.

Daguan Lane is located on the edge of Liu Yazi's former residence, passing through a deep alley

Take Daguan Lane to Center Street. Nongkou's game of "using birthdays to face stars".

Passing through a quiet bamboo forest, this garden located at the bottom of Lili Daguan Lane is displayed in front of you. Duanben Garden shows a not-so-tall gate. There are some related introductions and honors of Duanben Garden at the door. One of the brands is Suzhou Garden No. 091 Garden Brand issued by the Suzhou City People's Government in July 2018. Therefore, although Duanben Garden is not large, it is still a veritable Suzhou garden.

"Li Li Xu Zhi" describes Duan Ben Garden,"Li Hua understands the hazy willows, and the green water and the red railings are winding." The pavilions and watersides are decorated with flowers and trees, and a quiet and poetic picture of Jiangnan gardens is slowly unfolding. In the area of about 900 square meters, there are curved bridge lotus ponds, rockery halls, Shuanggui Tower, Pingbo Xuan, and Companion Moon Corridor dotted between them, showing the beauty of Gusu Garden in small and medium.

It is understood that Duanben Garden was built in the early years of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of nearly 300 years. It was the residential garden of Chen Heming, a general judge of the Qing Dynasty, and was rebuilt during the Tongzhi period.

Duanben Garden was originally a famous garden in the city. The garden originally had buildings such as curved corridors, lotus ponds, corridors, rockery, pavilions, pavilions, towers, and pavilions. There are two osmanthus planted in the garden, so the building is named "Shuanggui Tower". It is an antique small building. The owner planted one golden osmanthus and one silver osmanthus on both sides of the front of the building, hence the name "Shuanggui Tower." In autumn, in a corner of Duanben Garden, the fragrance of flowers fills the garden and attracts people. On the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Xuanwen, the second son of the Chen family, supported the beloved daughter of Yong Hero, the Qing imperial clan and deputy commander of the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria, and climbed to the "Shuanggui Tower". Both the couple enjoyed the moon. As a result, the Manchu and Han law prohibiting intermarriage was broken. Chen Xuanwen was called Junma, and Duan Benyuan was respectfully called "Junma Mansion" by the people. Due to disrepair, only one Hexagon Pavilion, one Shuanggui Tower, and some rockery and corridors are left.

As soon as you enter the gate of the garden, you will be at the entrance of a pavilion corridor. The pavilion corridor extends into the garden. The entire corridor is in an inverted U-shape and is built around the lotus pond in the garden. It is called the Companion Moon Corridor. At the end of summer, there are still a few unwithered pink water lilies in the lotus pond. In the south of the pond, there is a section of revetment made of yellow stones, with flowers and trees such as chicken claw maple planted next to it.

Opposite the Huangshi revetment in the north of the pool is Shuanggui Tower, one of the main buildings in the park.

Passing through a garden gate on the west side of Shuanggui Building, walking through another section of pavilion corridor, you enter a small courtyard in the north of Duanben Garden. There is a lake stone rockery in the small courtyard, close to the hexagonal pavilion at the end of the corridor and the back wall of Shuanggui Tower. Although the rockery here is small, it is quite interesting. There are caves inside and surrounded by flowers and trees. The floor in the small courtyard is mainly decorated with cross-shaped begonia and copper coins, and to the north of the courtyard is the rebuilt welcome hall.

The ancient Duanben Garden was not only Chen Heming's residence, but also because Chen Heming's second son Xuanwen broke the Manchu and Han law prohibiting intermarriage and married the deputy governor of the Zhengbai Banner of Manzhou and the immortal hero of the Qing imperial family, Duanben Garden was also known among the people. It was also called Junma Mansion and became famous in Jiangnan for a while.

There are curved corridors, lotus ponds, corridors, rockery, pavilions, pavilions, buildings, pavilions and other buildings in the park, which are unique and interesting.