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old house, No. 58, Ji'nan City, South New Street (1990s)
(reporter Zhao Xiaolin) No. 58 South New Street, Laoshe This is what many old Ji'nan know. In recent days, the old Ji'nan was delighted that the old house was finally bought by the cultural relics department of Ji'nan and will be reformed and repaired in order to be reformed into the old house Memorial Hall in the future.
[b] will ask Shu Yi to ask Shu Yi to recall the original appearance of his former residence. The reporter learned today from the Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of cultural relics that the City Cultural Relics Bureau bought the 58 south new street after discussing with the original residents at the end of the year, and is currently dealing with the procedures for land use and property rights changes.
the staff of the Bureau of cultural relics, who are in charge of this work, introduced the idea of buying old houses, and they had already started the operation in the past year. At present, they have organized the maintenance workers to dismantle and clean up the temporary buildings and other debris in the yard, leaving the main buildings such as the north house, the east house, the west house and so on. The items in the house have been empty. Because these buildings have been repaired or rebuilt many times, the original building foundation was searched at the same time. The next step, the city Archaeological Institute will also carry out field exploration, touch the foundation of the building, prepare for the future maintenance, the restoration of the original and reconstruction, and then scientific planning and public bidding, after the overall maintenance or reconstruction.
in order to do this better, the cultural relics department is also ready to contact Mr. Shu Yi, the son of Lao She, and go to Beijing to know face to face, and ask him to recall the old house's former residence. Now they have taken pictures of the whole and inside of the yard, every angle inside and out of the house, and make a photo album, ready to take it to Beijing and ask Mr. Shu Yi to look at it. Then, in contrast to the records of the relevant documents and materials, a combination of various kinds of evidence has been carried out to try to restore the appearance of Lao She's residence here as far as possible, and to build the memorial hall of Lao She's former residence.
in addition, in the process of planning and maintenance, the relevant departments will also begin to publicly collect cultural relics, documents and information related to Lao She for the future use of the memorial hall.
[b] hopes to drive the cultural connotation of the surrounding areas to enhance [/b]
the responsible person of the Municipal Bureau of cultural relics said that this is a very complicated work. In the previous work, we should not only pay attention to the protection of cultural relics, but also pay attention to the overall protection of the environment, so that the memorial hall and the famous cultural street of Ji'nan can be better integrated, and the cultural connotation of the street can be promoted, and the cultural atmosphere and the connotation of the whole street and even the whole area are promoted. "In addition, in addition to the preliminary investigation, maintenance, reconstruction and other work, how to maintain and maintain normal opening after the completion of the memorial is also a problem, because the opening will produce a lot of costs, this is not a department can solve. With input, social benefits must be generated. Otherwise, the success of reconstruction is only a decoration, without any practical effect, which is a must. So we pay special attention to this. "
Lao She research expert, vice president of Lao She Research Association of China, and Professor Zhang Guixing of Shandong Normal University are very happy to be bought by the government and will be rebuilt to the memorial hall. He said that the old house was found by Mrs. Hu Xieqing in 1981. He was also involved in the company. The same visit. This is an important place for Lao She's creation, and it is of great value for the protection and research of Ji'nan celebrity culture. It can be seen that the work of the Ji'nan municipal government and related departments is very good.
Zhang Guixing said that in the future, if the cultural relics department collected information about Lao She's cultural relics, he would consider donating some of his works of Lao She's studies and collection of Lao She's works.
[b] South New Street residence occupies an important place in Lao She's creation. [/b]
why does city heritage department pay much attention to this matter? Because Lao She's former residence occupies an important position in his life at 58 South New Street, he has created many famous works here.
in 1930s, Lao She was invited to Ji'nan two times at the invitation of Qilu University. For the first time in June July 1930 -1934, he was the professor of the Institute of literature and literature director of the Institute of national studies. After August 1934, he went to the national Shandong University in Qingdao, and returned to Ji'nan from August 13, 1937 to November 15th to teach again. Qilu University, and lived for more than 3 months.
in the summer of 1931, Lao she returned to Beiping and married Hu Xieqing. After that, Mrs. Lao she returned to Ji'nan. They rented a small house at Nan Xin Street, when the number was 54. They lived here for 3 years, and Hu gave birth to his eldest daughter, Shu Ji. Lao She lives in a house, East and West, and three houses in the northwest and East. In this ordinary courtyard, Lao she wrote a long novel, "the city of cats", "divorce", "the biography of Niu Tianci" and the excellent short stories "Crescent", "black and white plum" and "the soul of the soul", as well as a number of such as "the winter of Ji'nan", "autumn in Ji'nan", "park is not a park", Ji'nan medicine collection praises Ji'nan's prose masterpiece.
in 1950, the former residence of Nan Xin Street was rebuilt and rebuilt on the foundation of the original house. Two doors and film walls were demolished. The brick adobe wall and the roof of the cottage were changed to red brick walls and tile roofs, but the original pattern was basically unchanged. In 2006, the courtyard was included in the third batch of Shandong provincial cultural relic protection units.