Gardens are miniature of the times, and the fate of gardens is always closely related to the fate of people. The fate of Zhujia Garden in Jianshui, which was built in the late Qing Dynasty, vividly records the fate of a family's ups and downs in the turbulent years of war and smoke.

Zhu Jiazu was born in Mayang County, Huguang (now Mayang County, Hunan Province). He migrated to Jianshui, Yunnan during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and lived in Xigaowu, Xizhuangba. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, his five rooms moved to Baijiaying Village and gave birth to Qing (whose real name is unknown), and Qing gave birth to Yong Hu. He has always been an ordinary civilian, who has been dealing in tea, silk and so on for generations.

according to Zhu yongzuo's epitaph, in the fourth year of Shunzhi (AD 1647), Zhu yongzuo was only four months old, and his father died of "the trouble of wandering bandits". During the flight, his mother abandoned him. Fortunately, his crying voice was found and taken back by his neighbors, and the mother and son were reunited. "After the chaos, the public is fresh and sad." This branch of Zhu Yongzheng was handed down from generation to generation.

During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, in Zhu Guangfu's generation, he moved his family to Laomafang Village in Jianshui, bought land, built a tile house, and opened a mill wine shop. The population was prosperous and the property was getting richer. Since then, Zhujiajian has embarked on the road of ZTE. At that time, Gejiu, in the southeast of Jianshui, saw a booming tin mining industry. The "Lin 'an Avenue" between Gejiu and Jianshui was the main traffic route from central Yunnan and southern Yunnan to the provincial capital of Yunnan (now Kunming). During the slack season, Zhujiajian started to drive horses to do business, which accumulated over time and made considerable profits. Because he was familiar with Gejiu's mining industry all the year round, Zhu Guangfu boldly raised funds to set up a "Zhu Hengtai" firm to mine tin mines in Gejiu. Then, Zhu Guangfu bought several mine sites and built a smelter in Gejiu, becoming a big owner integrating the mining, selection and smelting of tin mines.

32 years after Zhu Guangfu's death, his grandson, Zhu Chaochen, was awarded the title of magistrate in Tongzi County, Guizhou Province and the rank of Wen Linlang. At that time, Zhu Chaoying (word Wei Qing, deputy scholar of Ding Youke Township in Guangxu, Qing Dynasty, son of Zhu Chengzao) was also a scholar, and he was helped by Guangdong, so he became the core figure of Zhujiajian. Since then, the Zhujiajian family business has become more abundant, and began to invest abroad in Tongzhi ten years. In addition to marketing local department stores, they also sold yuntu (opium) and tin ingots in bulk. By the time of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Zhujia had become a rich gentleman in southern Yunnan.

Since then, the Zhujia family has continued to expand the scale of trade, engaging in import and export trade, transporting the finished tin ingots produced by Gejiu to Baise, Guangxi, and then transferring them to Hong Kong, where they will be shipped back to foreign products such as cotton yarn and department stores. According to the treaty in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty in 15 (AD 1889), the Qing government set up the first customs office in China at the request of the French government, and the transportation of tin ingots was changed from land to Gejiu-Mengzi to Manhao, and shipped downstream along the Red River, and arrived at Haiphong in Tokyo (now Hanoi), Vietnam, and then transported to Hong Kong and Western Europe by ocean-going ships on Haiphong. Because of the vigorous development of import and export trade, Zhu Hengtai set up a head office in Mengzi, and also set up branches in Hong Kong, Kunming, Jianshui and Hanoi. At that time, Lin 'an Gang from Jianshui in Yunnan was as famous as Kunming Gang and Tengyue Gang, and Zhu Hengtai, an enterprise under the name of Zhujia, was the richest man in Lin 'an Gang.

according to the tradition, the Zhujiajian family who "gets rich first" is, of course, extensively exploring the homestead and building large-scale projects. In the early years of Guangxu, the business of Zhu Chengzhang, Zhu Chengzao (the son of Zhu Guangfu) and his sons and nephews Zhu Chaochen, Zhu Chaoying, Zhu Chaoqiong and Zhu Chaojin was in full swing, and the scholars, farmers, workers and businessmen were not bad. The Zhu family has developed into a huge family that is all-powerful in the whole southern Yunnan. Its power is enough to affect the politics and economy of southern Yunnan and even the whole province. At this time, the Zhujiajian bought more than 31 mu of land in the mud pond in Jianshui City, and invited skilled craftsmen to build the ancestral hall. Because of the large design scale, the construction period is long. The first time, the garden was half built, and something happened to the old one.

It was in the 29th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty (AD 1913) that a miners' uprising led by Zhou Yunxiang broke out in southern China, which was a tragic rehearsal of the early revolutionary struggle of the working class in. It is related to the interests of Zhujiajian, or it may be instigated by Zhujiajian. Because Zhu Chaoying incited trouble and paid for Zhou Yunxiang. Things got too big, involving the interests of the government. The Qing court sent troops to suppress it. Knowing that Zhu Chaoying could not get away, he was forced to flee. Zhu Jiabao, a native of Huaning (now Huaning County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province), who took refuge in Anhui and Jilin at that time, was recommended to go to Japan to inspect politics (actually fleeing). After hiding in Japan for five years, he returned to Jianshui during Xuantong period and then repaired the garden.

However, history is as deep as philosophy. Decline and prosperity are linked together. Of course, the problem is because of talents, and the fate of a family is naturally closely related to the core figures.

Zhu Chaoying was influenced by the Meiji Restoration in Japan, and deeply felt that the Qing dynasty had run out of luck. After returning to Jianshui, he contacted anti-Qing people and plotted to make things right. In the third year of Xuantong (1911), many people of insight sought ways to save the country, and the influence of the League spread all over China. Zhu Chaoying, of course, also wanted to do something, so he was entrusted by Long Jiguang, the prefect of the Guangdong Army, to go back to his hometown to recruit soldiers for Guangdong. Wuchang Uprising broke out in the Revolution of 1911 in October, and on October 31th, Cai E, Li Genyuan and Tang Jiyao launched the Double Ninth Uprising in Kunming. Zhao Youxin, an allied instructor in the seventy-bid (regiment) of the new army stationed in Jianshui South tinker, with the support of junior officers, led troops to attack on the evening of October 1, and Zhu Chaoying and others met in Kaicheng and occupied the Lin' an government office and the specimen department. The next day, a meeting of people from all walks of life in Lin 'an was held, and the Southern Defence Army Government was established. Zhu Chaoying was elected as the commander-in-chief and Zhao Youxin as the deputy commander-in-chief, and the Lin 'an uprising was successful. Cai E, the governor-general of Yunnan, saw that Zhu Chaoying was really popular in southern Yunnan, and with the uprising in southern Yunnan, he made contributions, awarded the rank of lieutenant general, appointed him as the company commander of Chengjiang in Lin 'an and became the king of southern Yunnan. The garden has been repaired, and the big plaque of "Lieutenant General Di" is hung on the gate. The fate of politicians is sometimes like betting. Zhu Chaoying resigned and went to Guangdong to specialize in tin ingot business. Then he went to work under Long Jiguang and was elected to the National Government. This is undoubtedly a glorious stroke. However, Zhu Chaoying, an elite figure of the Zhujiajian family, later wrote a heavy political failure.

In February, 1915, Yuan Shikai claimed to be the "Emperor Hongxian" in Beijing. Cai E and Tang Jiyao launched an uprising to protect the country in Yunnan and sent troops to Sichuan and Guangxi to beg Yuan. At that time, Long Jinguang, the brother of Long Jiguang, a warlord in Guangxi who was attached to Yuan Shikai, was appointed as the "Yunnan investigation envoy" and led the first Guangdong army to attack the southern Yunnan by way of Guangxi to attack the national defense army. Zhu Chaoying, the commander of the Third Route Army, led more than 1,711 soldiers to be defeated by Yang Jie, the column leader of the National Defence Army, in the west of Baise, Guangxi, and the rest of Long Jin Guang was annihilated by the National Defence Army and Gui Jun. At the same time, Zhu Yinggui, the son of Zhu Chaoying, contacted the chieftain and bandits to attack Shuicheng, which was also defeated by the national defense army, and Zhu Yinggui died. After the war, Zhu's family property was confiscated again. Until 1922, Tang Jiyao remembered the merits of the Revolution of 1911 in Zhujiajian, and returned the property. Zhu's dream of ZTE had not yet begun, and a few years later, something happened again.

In p>1927, after Tang Jiyao's death, Long Yun took charge of the military and political power in Yunnan, and Li Shaozong, the commander of the Southern Defense Guerrilla Army, which he recruited, entered an old age. At this time, Zhu Chaoying was appointed as the commander of Gejiu and Mengzi garrison, and ordered his nephew Zhu Yingchun to take strict precautions. After that, the two sides fought for seven days and nights, burning thousands of shops and killing hundreds of people, resulting in a tragic disaster. Afterwards, the provincial government ordered Zhu Chaoying and Zhu Yingchun to be sent to Kunming for imprisonment. After Zhu Yingchun was executed.

Times determine fate. The fate of Zhu Chaoying and even the whole Zhu family has been ups and downs with several revolutionary civil wars in China. Prosperity comes like a smoke cloud and goes away like a smoke cloud! After Zhu Chaoying himself was released from prison, the huge property of Zhu's family was copied to the public by the national government, and the family of Nuoda was scattered. Zhu Chaoying also died in poverty and frustration in 1931.

naturally, the garden of the Zhujiajian family no longer belongs to the Zhujiajian family, leaving behind the sad poems of the rich lady whose name has been erased when she fled. Because of the political failure of the core figures, the Zhu family finally disappeared in a troubled world with alternating old and new worlds. Fortunately, the garden stayed.

Zhu's family went through a whole Qing Dynasty from 111 tenants in Kangxi period to a famous family in southern Yunnan in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, they went to the most glorious end of their family. The Zhu family has experienced three ups and downs, and property ownership and glory coexist. With more than 111 people's joys and sorrows for several generations, they completed a dream of a red chamber. But when they were born in troubled times, they were destined to leave only the most splendid house, which was their inner "garden" at home. That era has condensed into a nucleus in Zhujiajian Garden, and this nucleus is history.