After liberation, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government took over this garden house, which used to be the former site of Shanghai Painting Academy and Shanghai Yue Theatre. After the reform and opening up, Shanghai Yue Theatre moved to Huaihai Middle Road and became a Yueyou restaurant jointly organized by Yue Theatre and Meilong Town Restaurant. The business of Yueyou Restaurant was very good a few years ago, but after a few years, the business was weak, so we had to rent the practice room of Ye Yue Theater next to the house to Taiwan Province Baolena Catering Co., Ltd. to open a German beer restaurant. Later, the business of Yueyou restaurant was light, while the German beer western restaurant became more and more "hot". At night, colorful lights, sonorous drums and the enthusiastic performance of the Philippine Orchestra shook the hearts of nearly 1,000 diners on the third floor. Finally, Paula "ate" Yueyou restaurant.
Now, this garden mansion has become the best "Xian Zhi Xuan" meat restaurant in Polana. The restaurant has retained the original architectural features and decorations and has been re-planned. "Fresh Xuan" pursues the service feature of "quality first" and welcomes a large number of gourmets at home and abroad every day. The former general's former residence is still a gathering place for celebrities.
Wang building
Wang Boqun Mansion, He's brother-in-law, politician of the Republic of China and Minister of Communications of the National Government (then chairman and president of Daxia University) was built on 1, Yuyuan Road 1 136 Lane 3 1. 65438 lasted for four years. This building is an Italian Gothic castle building, covering an area of 10.78 mu, with a main building area of 2 158.8 square meters and a cost of 300,000 silver dollars. Four-story reinforced concrete structure, 32 halls of different sizes, with circuitous passages up and down. Rooms and guest rooms are decorated with traditional oriental art, with painted murals inside, even doors and windows handles are made of copper, and plum blossom window bars are cast empty. There is a 1.3 hectare garden lawn on the south side of the main building. There are lush trees and lush grass in the park. There are pools, bridges, rockeries and flower beds, and flowers bloom all year round. At that time, it was a rare mansion in Shanghai. The building was designed by Xielong Foreign Firm Liu Shiying and constructed by Xinfengji Construction Factory. Wang Boqun and Bao Zhining got married here on 1935. Bao Zhining was then the niece of the director of education in Shanghai. She is Manchu, living in Nantong and descended from the late Qing Dynasty. She is very handsome and good at rhetoric, and she is the best among the students in Daxia University.
1939, this building was used by Wang Jingwei as the liaison office of the puppet Manchukuo office in Shanghai, also known as "Wang Mansion". During this period, traitors such as (Wang Jingwei's wife), Zhou Fohai, Zhu Minyi, Mei Siping, Chen Chunpu and Luo Junqiang gathered in Yuyuan Road 1 136 Lane and became the spies of Wang Puppet Regiment in Shanghai. Many garden houses in Lane 10 were occupied by Wang Puppet Army, 10 were guarded by Japanese Puppet Armed Police day and night, and ordinary citizens were not allowed to approach them. In the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the Nanjing Puppet National Government was formally established, and Wang Jingwei came to Shanghai as his palace. Martial law was declared around Yuyuan Road, important intersections were fortified, and armored vehicles were dispatched for cruising. So, today, the underground cement pavement of 1 136 lane is still densely covered with steel bars.
1945 after Japan surrendered, the building once became a guest house organized by the national government and the military government. 1946, Bao Zhining returned to Shanghai, rented the house to the Cultural Publicity Office of the British Consulate in Shanghai, and lived only on the third floor. 1948 On the eve of liberation in the second half of the year, Bao Zhining left the United States, became a Chinese American and settled in new york.
1949, which was received by East China Military and Political Committee of China People's Liberation Army, was once the seat of Changning District Committee and District Cultural Bureau. 1960, Changning District Committee decided to use the Children's Home in Changning District to set up the Children's Palace in Changning District, which became the cradle for cultivating the next generation and turned it into a tourist unit open to the outside world in Shanghai.
Kadoorie residence
No.64 Yan 'an West Road, Shanghai, is known as the location of Shanghai Children's Palace, but little is known about its history as Kadoorie Mansion. Its original owner, Airy? Kadoorie, an English Jew, was born in business. 500 Hong Kong dollars, and later became a famous industrial boss in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Kadoorie Building originated from a sad story. 19 19, Kadoorie's original house caught fire, and his wife was anxious to let the nanny escape, but she died unfortunately. Sad, Kadoorie took her children back to London to play, and entrusted her friend Brown to build a new house in Shanghai. Brown, on the other hand, is an alcoholic and decadent, and simply leaves things to a foreign company for contracting. Of course, the contractor deliberately luxurious, it took four years to build. When Kadoorie received the fee of 654.38+02,000 taels of silver, it was a big surprise. However, the new house is really beautiful and has become Kadoorie's favorite.
Kadoorie Mansion is magnificent, covering an area of14000m, which is outstanding in Shanghai where land is precious. The wide grassland makes people feel broad vision; In the middle is a symmetrical and dignified residence, with a building area of 3,300 square meters alone, and even a floor is added at 1929. As soon as you see it, you will think it is as grand as a palace. It's hard to see a building like a beautiful diamond, but it is. Symmetrical columns support the magnificent skeleton of the palace; The straight and narrow balcony, especially the balcony on the second floor, just acts as a natural corridor, and the faint breath of ladies' skirts should be permeated on it.
Today's Shanghai Children's Palace is Kadoorie Building.
This house is a reinforced concrete structure. The lobby on the first floor is a banquet hall and a restaurant, and the whole first floor is a place to entertain guests and enjoy entertainment. There are many bedrooms upstairs, and the decoration and color of each room are unique. There are six in the bathroom and bathroom alone. Almost all the interior and exterior walls and floors are Italian marble, and there is a marble colonnade in Onek style at the entrance; At the top of the hall, the vault is specially built with marble, the floor is paved with marble, and the middle is made of teak, which is the ideal floor for dancing. Even the steps, handrails and railings of stairs are all marble, so people call them "marble houses". Kadoorie is generous and has a wide range of friends, so this huge palace is often full of guests, otherwise the father and son will feel lonely here too easily. The philosophy of this building is that one person is not as happy as others.
Perhaps because of this, becoming a children's palace is the most suitable arrangement. What can comfort Kadoorie is that it realizes the eternity of marble in the happy laughter of children.