The story of Qiushui Mountain Villa

In 1930s, China newspaper giant Shi, the owner of Shanghai Shenbao, built a quadrangle in the south of the Yangtze River and named it after his beloved wife Shen Qiushui. It covers an area of about 200 square meters and is surrounded by a courtyard. There are fences and iron gates along Beishan Road. Now it is part of Xinxin Hotel.

The origin of Qiushui Mountain Villa

Autumn villa, autumn villa. Qiushui, formerly known as Shen Huizhi, was originally a prostitute on the beach in the late Qing Dynasty. As an adult, she was redeemed by a royal Baylor and brought to Beijing. A few years later, Baylor died, and he took some property and returned to Shanghai. It is said that she arrived in Shanghai until an old friend's house. The old friend was overjoyed and immediately took her out for dinner, leaving her belongings with her friends who were present at the time. When they got home, it was already late at night, and their friends were still sitting alone with their own things. So, Qiushui got to know Shi, and from then on, she began her life-long love-hate relationship.

Qiushui is good at drumming and playing music, and he is a bosom friend with stone. Shi changed her name to Qiushui, became Shi's second wife, and gave him all her property. As a result, Shi bought Shen Bao and News and became a major newspaper in Shanghai. However, Qiushui's happiness didn't last long. Shi has a wife, a talented woman who can help his career and gave birth to a daughter for him. Speaking of Shi, he is really lucky. He met three women who had made great achievements in their careers. One is Tang Huo, who is also a talented woman. She helped him set up the Shanghai Women's Sericulture School, started his career, and gave birth to his son. The second is Shen Qiushui; The third is the later outer room. Of the three people, only Shen Qiushui had no children or daughters, so she entrusted all her possessions to Shi and attached herself wholeheartedly to him. When she learned the history of the outer room, her inner loneliness and sadness were beyond words. Probably Shi felt that what he had done was unfair to Qiushui, so he built a villa at the foot of Geling Mountain near the West Lake in Hangzhou to give it to her, and personally wrote the plaque of "Qiushui Villa".

Women are always the stupidest and most easily moved. When Qiushui came to the West Lake and saw Qiushui Villa, all the grievances and injustices were paid to the West Lake. Later, she often lived in Qiushui Mountain Villa. Perhaps only in Qiushui Mountain Villa can she forget her troubles and truly become a Qiushui Iraqi. 1934, Shi was assassinated by a spy on his way back to Shanghai with Qiu Shui, who watched his lover die by his side. It is said that in the stone mourning hall, Qiu Shui was dressed in white and plain clothes, with a haggard face, holding Shi's favorite lyre and playing a song "Guangling San". At the end of the music, the sound of the piano suddenly became passionate, and the strings broke with a bang. Qiushui picked up the piano, walked to the fire bowl and threw it into the fire. "Guangling San" is a must, and the confidant is no longer!

Later, Qiushui left Qiushui Villa and historians to spend the rest of his life alone, burning incense and chanting. Qiushui Villa has also become a hospital for women and children. After liberation, it was nationalized and became a branch of Xinxin Hotel.

It was Shi himself who edited this passage.

Shi (1878- 1934), a native of Jiangning, Jiangsu, is a newspaper capitalist. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was the editor-in-chief of Shanghai Times, and 19 13 took over Shenbao, always taking the principle of "people have their own personality, repay their debts and be national". He advocated anti-Japanese and opposed civil war; Pro-democracy and strive for progress. Strive to turn the oldest newspaper in Shanghai into a democratic front. Therefore, it was deeply hated by the Kuomintang.

1934165438+1October 13 At midnight, the Shi family returned to Shanghai from Qiushui Villa and were shot by spies in Haining. 1936, West Lake was buried at the foot of tianmashan. Zhang Taiyan, a leading academic, wrote the Epitaph of Shi Jun for him, which was full of praise.