Fenghua Xikou Day Trip Travel Guide

Fenghua Xikou, the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek, is an affluent place in Jiangnan. For thousands of years, its civilization has been passed on, with the great charm of classical Jiangnan culture. It has preserved a large number of historical and cultural sites and traditional cultural elements, making it a great tourist destination.

Fenghua Xikou, located in the southwestern and northwestern part of Ningbo City, is 22 kilometers away from Ningbo City. Take the Ningfeng Highway south to the river mouth and turn right for 8 kilometers. This estuary is named after the water of the mountain river.

The source of Shanxian, whose main stream comes from Shanlingjie and enters Fenghua from Xinchang, is called "Shanyuan". The scenery along the stream is so beautiful that Jiuqu, the source of Shanxian, has been a tourist attraction since ancient times.

Jiugongtang, hereinafter referred to as "Shexi", from west to east through the town of Xikou to the eastern end, Wuling head and southwest of the barrier between the mountains, so the name "Xikou". Because it is located in the east of the town, named after the mountain, it is also known as "Wuling".

There is a picturesque landscape, poets, poets, seeking seclusion, seeking victory. Ancient has formed the "Xikou Ten Scenes", especially the northwestern Xuedoushan, is a famous tourist attraction in East Zhejiang. In the Han Dynasty, she was praised as "Penglai on the sea, Tiantai on the land". Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to come to Xikou and didn't have time to visit Xuedoushan.

Because Xikou is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek, there are a lot of people coming here, and there are tourists all year round. We drove all the way from Ningbo and the first thing we saw was the Wuling Gate. Wuling Gate is the way to enter the town of Xikou. It is said to have been a small antebellum hall before 1929, with a tea pavilion next to it for people to take a rest.

In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek transformed it into three two-bedroom towers. On both sides of the door are the words "Wuling," written by Kuomintang patriarch Yu Youren on the outside and Chiang Kai-shek on the inside. The name "Wuling" was written by Chiang Kai-shek to show his respect for his predecessors.

Because, on the one hand, Chiang Kai-shek cherished martial arts; on the second hand, "Wuling" is a homonym of "Wuling" in Tao Yuanming's "Tales of Peach Blossom Garden", and the old street of Lisan behind the entrance to the Wuling Gate is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, where they lived since they were young. There are some small houses along the street. When you enter Wuling Gate, there is Wenchang Pavilion on the left and Wuling Middle School on the right.

Sun Shop, the birthplace of Chiang Kai-shek, is located at the mouth of Zhangqiang Lane on Xikou Middle Street, where Chiang Kai-shek's grandfather, Sgan, and his father, Zhao Cong, or Sukou, used to run a business of grain, salt, and wine groceries. According to the Chiang genealogy, Chiang Kai-shek was born in this building on September 15, the 13th year of the Qing Guangxu reign.

Jiang Jieqing lived here with his children after he was discharged from the Ningbo Jiang Customs. There are three buildings, three bungalows, and outbuildings such as kitchens and toilets. The main door is a stone frame, the forehead engraved with the word "Lu Qing", the corner of the main door has Chiang Kai-shek's inscription "Yutai Salt Shop original site", and there is a wall outside, just as it was then.

We walked along the street along the Yangtze River for a hundred meters to the "Chiang's former residence". This is the most important attraction in Xikou: Chiang's former residence. There are six ancestral houses of Chiang Kai-shek in Fengfang.

According to the third volume of the Wuling Chiang Genealogy, which was rewritten in 1948, "In the 14th year of the Qing Guangxu period, when Gong (referring to Chiang Kai-shek) was 2 years old, Gong Su'an moved from Yutai to the west wing of the Baobentang."

The reason for the relocation was that the salt store in Yutai where Jiang Su'an (Chiang Kai-shek's father) was doing business was destroyed by fire; the West Wing was a small independent building on the west side of this newspaper office. After Jiang Su'an's death, the Chiang brothers split up, with Jiang Jieqing getting the restored Yutai Salt Shop, and Jiang Jieshi and Jiang Ruiqing getting the Gaofeng Mansion. Jiang Ruiqing died shortly after the separation, and the Gaofeng house went to Jiang Jieshi.

In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek expanded his residence, moving 25 neighbors and developing it to its current size, covering an area of 4,800 square meters with a floor area of 1,850 square meters. The central hall is the "Hall of Newspapers", and the plaque was inscribed by Wu Jingheng.

This is where the Chiang family worships their ancestors and heaven and earth. Four generations of the Chiang family have been inside. There is a plaque on the corridor

In 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo came back from studying in the Soviet Union and lived here. He stayed until 1939, when he went to Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, to become commissioner of the Nationalist Administrative Office. Chiang hired two teachers for his son, a teacher who studied Marxism-Leninism tirelessly and taught Chinese to his wife, Chiang Fangliang.

Chiang Ching-kuo studied. Upstairs is the bedroom, to the west is the study and in the center is the living room. The roof terrace was spacious. Downstairs, there were accommodations, such as Xu Daoling and Gao Liwen in Bandu. In the room there is a stone tablet, engraved with the words "wash blood with blood" written by Chiang Ching-kuo, indicating his hatred of Japanese aggression and determination to avenge his mother.