Fuhoutang: a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAAA-level tourist area, and one of the eight new scenic spots in Xiaoxiang.
Fuhoutang was founded in the fourth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1865). The whole building includes the half moon pool in front of the door, the gatehouse, the main building with eight chapters, Puji, Sanguan, Lotus Pond, Houshan Bird Crane Tower, Chess Pavilion and Park Pavilion, and the pavilion built by Zeng Guofan himself at home in the seventh year of Xianfeng, covering an area of more than 40,000 square meters, with a construction area of 654.38+/kloc-0.0 million square meters. In 2006, it was announced by the State Council as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
There are ten ancestral graves of Zeng Guofan's hometown, such as Fuhoutang, Bai Yutang, Huangjintang, Dafudi (Dundetang and Jinshantang), Wanyitang, Xiushantang, Youhengtang, Huazhutang and Wenjitang, as well as Guangjiatang, the former residence of Qiu Jin and Cai Chang. Tourist area 100 square kilometers. Fuhoutang, the core scenic spot of Zeng Guofan's hometown tourist area, is a less preserved "hometown house" in China.
Detailed introduction of Zeng Guofan's former residence. The Fuguitang in Zeng Guofan's former residence faces south, backed by the half-moon Aoyu Mountain, and surrounded by Fuguitang from the southeast and west. From a distance, Fu Hou seems to be sitting in an armchair of Tang. The surrounding natural environment is beautiful, with dense trees in the back hill and towering old trees. In front of the door is a relatively open flat land with an eastward river. This flat land is surrounded by mountains and peaks.
Zeng Guofan's third former residence, Fu Houtang, was built by his younger brother Ceng Guoquan and Zeng. Zeng Guofan was awarded the title of Prince Taibao and the title of First-class Marquis in the third year of Tongzhi, while his younger brother imitated the regulations of Houfu. After several years, Futuo has completely transformed into a grand and compact "post-rich". The whole house covers an area of over 40,000 square meters, with a building area of 1 1,000 square meters. Civil structure, with the cloister style of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The house sits west facing east, with a vast field in front and a trickle around it; Backed by a half-moon hill, bamboo and wood are planted inside, and the seasons are evergreen. A tall wall surrounds the pedestrian passage between east and west. Into the East Room and Westinghouse, it is a half-moon terrace paved with granite, with Daqing Dragon and Phoenix Flag, Xiang Jun Shuai Flag, 10,000-person umbrella and so on. Outside Taiping, there is a half-moon lotus pond, and the lotus flowers set each other off in summer, just like Pan Palace. The main entrance is in the middle of Taiping, and there are four gold-lettered plaques on the door of Ceng Jize's book Yi Hou Yong Di, so the locals call it "Hou Fu" or "Prime Minister Fu".
Entering the front door, there is a wide inner flat with exotic flowers and grasses. Cross the flagstone road in Zhong Ping, which leads directly to the second step. On the main hall door, Zeng Guofan inscribed "Fu Hou Tang" in gold on a red background. Before and after the purlin, it is the main body of Fuguitang. The front hall is called "Eight Classrooms", and there are three gold plaques written by Zeng Guofan in black. Under his forehead is the family motto of Ceng Jize's Eight Classrooms written by his father in official script: "Reading ancient books is based on exegesis, writing poems is based on tone, caring for relatives is based on winning hearts, keeping in good health is based on less anger, standing up and not lying, and staying at home is based on arrogance and rashness. Behind the central hall is a shrine, on which there is a plaque inscribed "Great-grandfather kissed the God for the first time". Hanging above is the black and gold horizontal plaque of the "big column" given to Zeng Guofan by the imperial book in the ninth year of Tongzhi (AD 1870). On the walls on both sides, there are also plaques with the words "Fu" and "Shou". On the wall of the shrine is a white and blue horizontal plaque of "Su Yong Heming" written by him in the second year of Tongzhi.
The back hall is headed by two sides, and Mrs. Zeng Guofan lives in Ouyang; On the other side is the house of his eldest son Ceng Jize and his wife. The left door of the front building is the south hall, and there are four first rooms on both sides, which are the living room of Zeng Guofan's second son Zeng Ji Hong; On the right is the North Hall, where Zeng's eldest son and wife live. There are three libraries at the north and south ends, Zeng Guofan's public library and Ceng Jize's Puji Library at the south end, and Ji Fang Library in Zeng Ji Hong at the north end. This is the essence of Fu Hou Tang, with a collection of about 300,000 volumes, which is the largest private library in modern China.
Zeng Guofan's former residence is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Whether Fuhoutang, Zeng Guofan's former residence, can be called "Zeng Guofan's former residence" is controversial in society. From the reality, the cultural relics department believes that Fuhoutang, as a large-scale architectural complex imitating the Song and Ming cloisters in Qing Dynasty, has important historical and artistic value and should be protected. 1996, with the approval of the provincial people's government, fuhoutang was listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, and the provincial and county governments allocated special funds for necessary rescue maintenance, and a "fuhoutang management office" was established, which was managed by special personnel. There are two special exhibitions in it, which are open to tourists all the year round, and the peak period is 1995+00 months.
Fushoutang was once listed as a national cultural relics protection unit by the National Government, and/kloc-0 was announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit by the Hunan Provincial People's Government in 1996. Zeng Guofan's former residence, Houtang, is known as China's "Houfu in China". In 2006, it was announced by the State Council as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, which is also the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in Loudi.
Fuhuatang was originally named Babentang. Zeng Guofan's family motto "reading is based on exegesis, writing poetry is based on tone, everything is based on favor, keeping in good health is based on less anger, staying at home is based on not forgetting words, being an official is based on not asking for money, and marching is based on not disturbing people" was adopted. Later, Ceng Jize changed his name according to the word "rich and thick" in the Book of Later Han Dynasty. Although the rich hall is full of praise, Zeng Guofan was shocked to learn that it took 7000 strings to repair the house. He wrote in his diary on the ninth day of February in the sixth year of Tongzhi: "On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, I received a letter from Gansu, only to know that it would cost * * * 7,000 strings to build a rich and thick temple. I don't know why it is so expensive. I am deeply shocked! Because of the bad habit of being an official, I bought a house all my life and vowed not to do it. Unexpectedly, if you are extravagant, how can you meet people! What a shame to break your word on weekdays! Since the house is like this and everything is extravagant in the future, don't ask. It's worrying that the children of big officials are all arrogant and extravagant! "