Liu Manor is lying quietly on the west side of Chengdu Plain, with several sunsets, and the world is cold. The once famous aristocratic private manor has now become a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and a national third-class museum. Wandering in the former Liu manor, you can still clearly feel the luxury of the Liu family in the thick courtyard walls and gates. Liu's story has been lost in the storm of history, and we can still see Liu's life track from the historical materials left behind.
Liu and his family.
The Liu family immigrated to Sichuan from Huizhou, Anhui Province during the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Through the efforts of the Liu family, Liu Zongxian, the seventh generation descendant, won the prize and became a famous local family. Inherited to Liu's generation, the Liu family is full of luck. Liu and Liu Xiang became famous warlords in Sichuan respectively, dominating one side. The descendants of the Liu family also produced many talents, such as Liu, Liu Shiai, Liu Shizhaohe, or university lecturers and professors, or famous photographers.
Liu is famous for Liu Manor. Before the founding of New China, Liu's political and business money occupied a lot of land in Huayang, Xinfan, Wenjiang, Chongqing, Dayi, Shuangliu, Qionglai and other counties, and quickly became a famous local landlord.
Liu also has a very dark page in history. He used to be the director of the old government, the director of the anti-smoking investigation in southern Sichuan, the general manager of the State Administration of Taxation in southern Sichuan, and the commander of Qingxiang Township in southern Sichuan. Using power to extort money, he collected taxes and donated 44 kinds in southern Sichuan, forcing farmers to grow opium, and was called Liu Tiger by local people.
Liu also participated in the strangulation of our Party party member, killing nearly 100 people of our Party and party member of the Peasant Association, and killing five leading cadres of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee.
Back in the countryside, he viciously exploited farmers and caused many tragedies. There are many wives and concubines in the family, and life is luxurious. Many paoge, bullies and bandits took refuge in him and did evil under his wings. 19491June17th, Liu died in Shuangliu county.
How rich is Liu?
Liu is a famous landlord in Sichuan. Liu's manor alone covers an area of more than 70,000 square meters, with a building area of 2 1055 square meters. There are more than 0/80 houses/kloc, including hall, living room, finance room, rent collection room, treasury, garden, orchard and so on. It takes a lot of money to build such a big manor.
Liu gained a lot of wealth in his political career before returning to China. When he was in Yibin, he took advantage of the melee between Liu Xiang and Liu, and robbed 200,000 silver dollars in Yibin in the name of collecting military expenses. After returning home, he collected more than 4,500 boxes of all kinds of gold, silver and jewels, and it took 20 boats to transport them back to his hometown.
After Liu returned to his hometown, he invaded the land and took various measures to seize the land. At the peak, he owned 12000 mu of land. Covering 7 counties of Huayang, Xinfan, Wenjiang, Chongqing, Dayi, Shuangliu and Qionglai. There are many industries under its name, including 22 bank names, 5 pawn shops, 684 street houses, 10 treadmills and 29 luxury houses. There are many jewels, gold and silver in the house.
Liu manor introduction
Liu's manor is located in Dayi County, Sichuan Province. The Liu family began to build in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was not until the Liu period that a large landlord manor with a building scale of 65,438+000 mu was formed. Liu Manor is a typical architectural style in western sichuan bazi. Today's Liu Manor is a national third-class museum, called Dayi Liu Manor Museum.
The buildings, collections, clay sculptures and remains of the museum play a great role in understanding and studying the politics, economy and culture of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in China, as well as the history of warlords, folk customs and modern residential buildings in Sichuan. At the same time, it is also a silhouette of China's modern social development history.
At present, there are mainly husband museum, rent collection building, miss building and other attractions in the Liu Manor Museum in Dayi. Liu Manor Museum in Dayi is a combination of Chinese and western buildings, which not only has the style of traditional landlord manor in China, but also absorbs the architectural concept of western architecture. Brick and wood structure is the main structure, which has a distinctive local architectural style in western Sichuan.
Liu family life
When you visit Liu's manor, you can feel the luxurious life of the Liu family in those days. The expansion and style of the manor tell us that the Liu family was once a famous family here. The tile houses and forests in the manor have a quaint life atmosphere. Deep and elegant small courtyard, lush flowers and plants, contains a touch of wealth temperament.
Black solemn gray tile houses are dotted with lattice wooden windows, and the life of rich landlords in western Sichuan can be imagined with their eyes closed. Chinese and western living rooms, meeting rooms, accounting rooms, staff rooms, rent houses, granaries, secret rooms, opium depots, Buddhist temples, gardens and orchards pass by in turn, which seems to show people Liu's unique landlord manor life.
The sweet-scented osmanthus hall smells fragrant, and Jingui and Yingui stand tall and straight in the courtyard, lush and green. The hall is spacious and bright, and western-style sofas and Chinese tables and chairs match each other, which is not backward now. This is Liu's place for recreation. With such furnishings in the 1930 s and 1940 s, this life has been quite advanced.
The bedroom is small but luxurious enough. There is a big flower bed with golden dragon pillars on it, and four pillars are wrapped with golden dragons made of real gold. The heavy silence shows the glory of history. Miss Lou is antique, with a little charm of western architecture.
With the establishment of New China, the prosperity of Liu's family has already vanished, and the evaluation of Liu has gradually returned to the historical truth. Although Liu did good deeds and built schools and roads, it is undeniable that Liu is still an evil feudal landlord.
Liu once had five concubines, namely, Lu, Ling Junru,, and. The youngest is thirty-seven years older than Liu Xiao. Today, it's nothing. Nowadays, there is a big age gap between the daughters-in-law married by successful people. Liu married no more women than Ming media, and the luxury of his private life exposed the backwardness and evil of society.
Liu is a typical representative of feudal landlords in the old society. Although many people whitewash it now, the old society is the old society, and feudal landlords inevitably committed various crimes under the traditional rule of that year. As one of the successful representatives, Liu's crimes in those days were only bigger than those of ordinary landlords and gentry, not smaller than their crimes.
A page of history has been turned, and Liu's descendants have already become a member of ordinary people. Looking at Liu's life track now, people can't help but sigh the ups and downs of history.