Introduction to Fenghao House: "Fenghao House" is the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek. It is the most important cultural landscape in Xikou Town. In the past, in Xikou, the local custom was to name each house after Chiang Kai-shek. The genealogy belongs to the "Zhou" generation, so Fengyi and Haojing, where the two emperors of the Western Zhou Dynasty established their capitals, were used as their house names. Also, because the Jiang family believed in Buddhism for generations and practiced vegetarianism and chanted sutras, Fenghaofang was also known as Sufang. Residence.
Fenghao House occupies an area of ​​4,800 square meters, with a construction area of ​​1,850 square meters. The architectural layout is a front hall, a back hall, two wings and four corridors, which is a traditional aristocratic mansion layout. There are three gardens on the front hall and on the left and right, connected by moon cave doors. There are two golden and silver osmanthus plants on both sides of the small patio in the middle, which were planted by Song Meiling herself. The east wing was reserved for Song Meiling, and the west wing was Mao Fumei's residence. The independent small building on the west side of the west wing is an ancestral three-room house and was the former residence of Chiang's mother and Wang Caiyu.
Many Chiang stories have been performed in Fenghao Room: Chiang Kai-shek married Mao Fumei here when he was 15 years old. Later, on New Year's Eve in 1948, the last New Year's Eve dinner was held in the back hall of Baoben Hall; in April 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo from After returning from the Soviet Union, under the arrangement of her mother Mao Fumei, she and her Russian wife Jiang Fangliang held a make-up wedding in Fenghao's house; on December 2, 1939, when the Japanese invaders bombed Xikou, Mao Fumei, who had fled, was killed when the back door of Fenghao's house was blown down. Crush the gable to death.

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