Hongdu Villa Site is located in furong village, Baimao Town, east of Changshu City. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qian, a famous writer, combined with Liu, a beautiful woman with white hair, making a sensation. Because Liu couldn't stand the noise of the city, he moved to Uncle Qian's house. Hongdu Villa, formerly known as Wu Bi Villa, was founded in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years.
Gu Gengguang, the second son of Gu Yuzhu, the deputy envoy of Shandong Province in the Ming Dynasty, moved the red bean tree from Hainan and renamed it Red Bean Villa. After the manor, Gu Yuzhu's grandson Qian lived in a famous writer in the late Ming Dynasty. In the village, there was a red bean tree planted during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, with a height of 12m and a trunk diameter of 0.73m In that year, whenever the red bean tree produced flowers that were "white as pearls and slightly fragrant", Mr. Qian and Mr. Liu invited celebrities in the poetry circle to watch it. At that time, the literary talent was romantic and the grand occasion was unprecedented, which made it a literary story, and the "Red Bean Villa" was well known.
Hongdu Mountain Villa Tourism Project:
The theme of the mountain villa scenic spot will be the history and culture of the mountain villa-the love story of Qian and Liu and the red bean tree. Six functional areas, such as Liu Qian's emotional theme tourist area, White Cat Folk Song Cultural Tourist Area, Love Cultural Theme Tourist Area, Buddhist Cultural Tourist Area, Wedding Cultural Tourist Area and Tourism Service Area, will be built, and Hongdu Mountain Villa, Zengfu Temple and White Cat Folk Song Club will be taken as the landmark landscape nodes of the scenic spot, and the Ye Tang will be rebuilt.
Hongdu Villa Memorial Hall is located on the south side of the scenic spot. The memorial hall covers an area of12,876 square meters, with a building area of 105 1 square meter, which will reproduce the style of Hongdu villa. The White Cat Folk Song Museum is located in the north of Hongdu Mountain Villa, with an area of 34 1 1 m2 and a building area of 1.486 m2. It mainly includes White Cat Folk Songs Exhibition Hall, White Cat Folk Songs Research Room, Indoor Folk Songs Theater and Outdoor Folk Songs Theater, which are mainly used for the three-dimensional display of national intangible cultural heritage-White Cat Folk Songs.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hongdu Mountain Villa Site