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Hangzhou >> The Former Mansion of Hu Xueyan

Attraction Typ: Historical Houses, Gardens and Parks
Location: City Centre - Central
Recommend: 4 Star

The Former Mansion of Hu Xueyan

The Former Mansion of Hu Xueyan is the best preserved late Qing Dynasty residences in the city which contains lots of beautiful and elegant architectures and gardens.
The Former Mansion of Hu Xueyan (Chinese: 胡雪岩故居; pinyin: Húxuěyán Gùjū) is really the number one luxurious house of a rich businessman of late Qing Dynasty in China for it being built of many high-class wood materials, such as rosewood, red wood and Chinese juniper wood.

Located outside Wangjiang Gate, the former residence of Hu Xueyan, a red-hat businessman of late Qing Dynasty was firstly constructed in Tongzhi Year 11 of Qing Dynasty. This former residence will fulfill your appetite to Chinese architectures and gardens for it particularly rewarding as a complex of more than 20 buildings displaying the typical landscape style in the southern part of the Yangtze River.

It took Hu three years to build the residence, and the craftsmanship shows in each of its halls, the walkways connecting them with the towers, Zhiyuan Garden, pavilions, terraces, fish ponds and intricately carved stone walls.

The overt corridors and covert lanes inside the residence reflect the ingeniously conceived plot in architectural layout. And exquisite craftsmanship can be found in brick-carvings, woodcarvings, stone-carvings, lime sculptures and colored paintings decorating the interior of the mansion.

On the eastern side is Hu's residential section, which is made up of a few tightly arranged courtyards. Corridors and lanes are dotted with ponds, rockeries, pavilions, terraces and towers, which makes the section like a labyrinth.
Highlighted by elegant terraces and pavilions, small bridges and murmuring streams as well as rockeries and caves, the attached Zhiyuan Garden has a distinctive style of traditional gardens in Hangzhou.

Today's Hu's residence is reconstructed as the original one and it is really one attraction to visit.


 
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