Guo Family Courtyard is located in Baozi Village, Machang, Wangqu Town, Chang 'an District, Xi City. When the Guo family became rich, it was during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Guo, the head of the Guo family, donated two thousand and two hundred pieces of silver to the second-class official position of Chao Yi. During the Qing dynasty, the Guo family was already quite prominent. At that time, the Guo family built more than 65,438+000 houses and bought 3,000 mu of land. There is a folk saying that "Wang Qupo is the country". Before liberation, Guo Shouyue's family business began to decline. After liberation, the Guo family's house was distributed to the local poor peasants and middle peasants. The original courtyard of Guojia Courtyard 1 1 group covers an area of more than 20 mu, which is lined up from east to west, and is used for people to live, live, entertain guests and sacrifice. Legend has it that the Guo family "has 12 cooks, 30 long-term workers and four craftsmen who don't go out, with a population of nearly 100". According to the person in charge of "Chang 'an Horse Factory Museum", with the improvement of people's understanding and attention to folk culture, 1996, the Guo Family Courtyard was handed over from the cultural department to the cultural relics department for management, and the "Chang 'an Horse Factory Museum" was established. 1999, the official staff began to maintain and sort out the materials and explore and develop their cultural values. Before 2007, Xi municipal government had invested more than 200,000 yuan in maintenance. In order to "restore the memory of the city and protect historical relics", Xi 'an conducted a general survey of traditional houses, found out the family background of traditional houses, and carried out basic work such as surveying and mapping, planning, etc. In 2007, part of the funds from the urban construction plan were used to start the protection pilot of Xi 'an traditional houses, and four places in Chang 'an District, including Guo Jiayuan, No.38 Damaishi Street, No.2 Ludang Lane and Yang Hucheng's former residence, were listed for construction. The investment in the protection project of Guojia Courtyard is 6.5438+0.37 million yuan, which is under way in 2008. Located five kilometers south of Chang 'an District (formerly Chang 'an County), it stands on the bank of Shenhe Plateau. 1999 transformed into a large holiday villa integrating catering, accommodation, entertainment, leisure and tourism, covering an area of more than 300 mu, with mountains and water and pleasant scenery. It used to be the royal court of the Tang Dynasty, and was later converted into Chiang Kai-shek's Northwest Palace by Hu Zongnan.
At the end of Sui Dynasty, Dou Shi, the mother of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, went to Sanguan Temple here to burn incense, but was unfortunately robbed by bandits. Dou and his party hurriedly abandoned their cars and fled for their lives, but how could they escape the robbers at the summit? At the time of crisis, I suddenly saw a small hole under the high cliff under the shadow of pine trees, and hurriedly hid in it. The robbers came all the way and were about to be caught. A boulder flew out of thin air, just killing several robbers closest to the hole. The robbers were frightened, and no one dared to go any further. Is deadlocked, general qin, pegasus arrived, lady turned the corner, turned the corner. In order to feel the help of divine power and pray for the Buddha to bless the Li Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, followed his mother's orders and built a temple here, named Changning Palace.
Around 1940, Hu Zongnan, the general of the Huangpu Department of the Kuomintang, was stationed in Shaanxi to take charge of the northwest military and political affairs. At that time, he concurrently served as the director of the seventh branch of Whampoa Military Academy (because Chiang Kai-shek served as the president of Whampoa Military Academy for a long time, in order to show respect for Chiang Kai-shek, the chief executives of each branch school were not called the principal, but the director). The seventh branch library is located in the southeast of Changning Palace (now the Communication College of the People's Liberation Army). Hu Zongnan visited Changning Palace after visiting the school administration. This left a deep impression on him
In order to be reliable, the plan to build a palace for Chiang Kai-shek sprouted. It took two years to complete from 1940 to 1943. Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has lived in Shaanxi for three times from 1943 to 1946.
1940, Jiang Weiguo, the second son of Chiang Kai-shek, returned from Munich Military Academy. On the train, he met Miss Shi Jingyi, the daughter of Northwest textile industrialist Shi Fengxiang. Four years later, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling personally presided over their wedding, and Jiang Weiguo and Shi Jingyi spent their wedding night here, which later became the holiday villa of the Jiang Weiguo couple. After the September 18th Incident, the Northeast Army headed by Zhang Xueliang moved to Guanzhong and was stationed near Qinglongling, Wangqu Town, Chang 'an District, about 1935 17 km south of Xi 'an. General Zhang Xueliang personally surveyed Jueluling, about one kilometer southeast of Chenghuang Temple, and built a European-style residence. The residential area is about 10 mu. Located at the end of Qinglong Mountain, it is an I-shaped bungalow with room 12. The south of the house is an open 28-mu forest, and the main room is a European-style building. The locals call this building five buildings. Houses are connected with each other to form a whole, showing an H-shaped structure. The round door in and out of five buildings is in the north. There are five single rooms in the west for guards and staff to live in; To the east is the suite, which is the master's bedroom; South is the living room; In the middle is a rectangular yard. The wall is of brick-soil structure, the corridor windows are hexagonal, the bedroom and room windows are vertical rectangles, the walls and roof in the room are painted white, the ceiling is attached to the fence with hemp knives, and the ground is 30 х 30cm square with blue bricks and green tiles, which is a civil structure. The outdoor passage is paved with pebbles. Wu Jian Building has a row of barracks to the east and a garden to the south. Next to the garden is a cherry forest, surrounded by apricot trees, with phoenix trees in the west and a big playground in the south, surrounded by acacia trees on both sides and surrounded by walls.
Zhang Xueliang founded an officer training regiment (later changed to Northeast Military Academy) in Wangqu Town, about 1 km northwest of his official residence, served as the principal and taught in person. Gather a group of exiled patriotic students to learn progressive ideas and military knowledge. After the official residence was completed, Zhang Xueliang settled here after class. Planting trees to protect flowers, reading books and newspapers in my spare time. 1on the eve of February, 936, it once became the activity center of progressive forces. Therefore, the famous "Xi incident" happened later, and most important issues were discussed here. Chiang Kai-shek gave lectures in person in an attempt to calm the students' dissatisfaction by intimidating and appeasing their hands. Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Weiguo, Jiang Fangliang, Jiang Xiaowen, etc. Have wooed and threatened Zhang Xueliang here to "suppress * * *". During the "Xi Incident", Zhou Enlai also came here to explain China's position of establishing a national anti-Japanese United front to patriotic youth.
Hu Zongnan lived here when he was the director of the Seventh Campus, and changed his name to Xinglong Ridge. He held important military meetings and received Wallace, Chen Jiageng, Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Fangliang, Jiang Weiguo, Shi Jingyi, Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaowu and many others. The wedding of Jiang Weiguo and Shi Jingyi, Hu Zongnan and Ye Xiazhai was also held here. Located between Nanjiang Zhaocun and Nanbaozhai Village, Wangqu Street, Chang 'an District, Xi City. It is said that at the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang and Zhou Dynasties were at war, and Duke Jiang Ziya led troops to surround the Shang Dynasty Taishi Wenzhong in Juelongling. Finally, he heard that the Taishi committed suicide after defeat. This story is in the historical novel "Romance of the Gods"; "The death of Wen Zhong in Juelongling" section. Later, people remembered Master Wen's loyalty and diligence to the king and mourned his grief. They dug a hole under Juelongling, built a Taishi cave, and offered sacrifices at four seasons. Its old address is between Nanjiang Zhaocun, Zangjia Village and Nanbei Baozhai Village, Wangqu Town, Chang 'an District, Xi City. Here, relying on the Gulongling Mountain in the source of Shenhe River, the four seasons are distinct and endless. Looking south of Wutai, the scenery of the four seasons is panoramic. What the locals praise most is; There is an ancient cypress on the top of the original Taishi cave, and the branches of the ancient trees all turn to the northeast, which gives people a shock. People say that this momentum is caused by master Wen's strong character, which has formed a towering stubbornness and turned into this tree.