Fenghua Xikou One-Day Tour Travel Guide

Chiang Kai-shek’s hometown, Fenghua Xikou, is a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. For thousands of years, its civilization has been continuously passed down and has the great charm of classical Jiangnan culture. It retains a large number of historical and cultural sites and traditional cultural elements and is a good tourist destination.

Fenghua Xikou is located in the southwest and northwest of Ningbo City, 22 kilometers away from Ningbo City. Go south along the Ningfeng Expressway to Jiangkou, turn right and drive 8 kilometers. This estuary is named after the water of the mountain river.

The source of Shanxi'an, its mainstream comes from Shanlingjie, and enters Fenghua from Xinchang, which is called "Shanyuan". The scenery along the stream is beautiful, so Shanyuan Jiuqu has been a tourist attraction since ancient times.

Jiugongtang, hereafter referred to as "Shexi", flows from west to east through Xikou Town to the east end. There is a barrier between Wulingtou and Southwest Mountain, so it is named "Xikou". Because it is located in the east of the town and named after the mountain, it is also called "Wuling".

The scenery here is picturesque, and poets seek seclusion and victory. The "Ten Scenic Spots of Xikou" have been formed in ancient times, especially Xuedou Mountain in the northwest, which is a famous tourist attraction in eastern Zhejiang. In the Han Dynasty, some people praised her as "Penglai on the sea and rooftop on land". It's a pity that I was in a hurry when I came to Xikou and didn't have time to visit Xuedou Mountain.

Because Xikou is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek, there are many people here, and tourists come here all year round. When we drove all the way from Ningbo, the first thing we saw was Wuling Gate. Wulingmen is the only way to enter Xikou Town. It is said that it was Xiaoantang before 1929, with a tea pavilion next to it for people to rest.

In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek transformed it into three two-bedroom towers. There are two words "Wuling" on both sides of the door. The outside is written by Kuomintang veteran Yu Youren, and the inside is written by Chiang Kai-shek. The reason why this name is "Wuling" is that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to show respect for his predecessors.

Because, on the one hand, Chiang Kai-shek cherishes military power; the second "Wuling" is the homophony of "Wuling" in Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring". Li San Old Street behind the entrance of Wuling Gate is where Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo lived since childhood. hometown. There are some small houses along the street. Entering Wuling Gate, there is Wenchang Pavilion on the left and Wuling Middle School on the right.

Chiang Kai-shek’s birthplace, Taiyangpu, is located at the entrance of Zhangqiang Lane, Xikou Middle Street. Chiang Kai-shek’s grandfather Sigan and father Zhao Cong (known as Sukou) once ran grain, salt, wine and groceries here. According to the Chiang family genealogy, Chiang Kai-shek was born in this building on September 15, the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty.

After Jiang Jieqing retired from the Ningbo Jianghai Customs Service, she lived here with her children. There are currently three buildings, three bungalows, and ancillary buildings such as kitchens and toilets. The gate has a stone frame with the word "Lu Qing" engraved on the forehead. In one corner of the gate is Chiang Kai-shek's inscription "Original Site of Yutai Salt Shop". There is a wall outside, just like back then.

We walked a hundred meters along the streets along the Yangtze River and came to the "former residence of Chiang Kai-shek." This is the most important attraction in Xikou: Chiang Kai-shek's former residence. There are six ancestral houses of Chiang Kai-shek in Fengfang.

According to the third volume of the "Wuling Chiang Family Genealogy" revised in 1948, "In the fourteenth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, when Gong (referring to Chiang Kai-shek) was 2 years old, Gong Su'an moved from Yutai to the west wing of Baoben Hall."

The reason for the relocation was that the Yutai Salt Store where Chiang Su'an (Chiang Kai-shek's father) did business was destroyed by fire; the west wing is an independent small building on the west side of the newspaper office. After Jiang Su'an's death, the Chiang Kai-shek brothers split up. Jiang Jieqing got the rebuilt Yutai Salt Shop, and Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Ruiqing got Gao Feng Mansion. Jiang Ruiqing died soon after the separation, and Gao Feng's house belonged to Chiang Kai-shek.

In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek expanded his former residence, moved 25 neighboring households, and developed it to its current size, covering an area of ??4,800 square meters and a construction area of ??1,850 square meters. The middle hall is the "Baotang", and the plaque was inscribed by Wu Jingheng.

This is the place where the Jiang family worships their ancestors and worships heaven and earth. Four generations of the Jiang family are inside. There is a plaque in the corridor

In 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo returned from studying in the Soviet Union and lived here. Until 1939, he went to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province to serve as commissioner of the Kuomintang Administrative Office. Chiang Kai-shek hired two teachers for his son, who studied Marxism-Leninism tirelessly and taught Chinese to his wife Jiang Fangliang.

When Jiang Jingguo was studying. The upstairs is the bedroom, the west is the study, and the middle is the living room. The roof deck is spacious. Downstairs, there is accommodation, such as Daolin and Gao Liwen in Bandu. There is a stone tablet in the room, on which are engraved the four words "wash blood with blood" written by Chiang Ching-kuo, indicating his hatred of Japanese aggression and determination to avenge his mother.