Chaozhou Xu Fuma Mansion｜Both inside and outside the window are scenic views

Xu Fuma Mansion is located at No. 4 Dongfu Yard, Putao Lane, Zhongshan Road, Chaozhou City. It was the mansion of Princess De'an, the daughter of Emperor Yingzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, and her husband Xu Jue. The mansion was first built during the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Song Dynasty. It has been repaired many times over the generations, but it still retains the layout and characteristics of the original construction period. As early as when Su Dongpo mentioned the tile houses in Chaozhou, the earliest existing 'mansion-style' residence in Chaozhou, Xu Fuma Mansion in Putao Lane, Chaozhou City, had already been built. It was the mansion built by Xu Jue, the great-grandson of Xu Shen, one of the former seven sages of Chaozhou and a student of Chen Yaozuo. Because Xu Jue married Princess De'an, the daughter of Emperor Yingzong of the Song Dynasty, it is commonly referred to as the Fuma Mansion by the locals. The Fuma Mansion is not large, covering only more than 2,000 square meters. It was built in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty's Zhiping era (1064). After many repairs over the generations, not many Song Dynasty artifacts have been preserved. In 1982, carbon-14 dating was performed on the wooden columns of the second entrance and the lintels of the third entrance, confirming that the wooden structure was replaced in the early Ming Dynasty. However, due to the attention to 'repairing the old as the old' during the maintenance, it still retains the characteristics of the Song Dynasty: the square and regular layout (the whole mansion is 42 meters wide and 47 meters deep), the gently sloping and curved roof, the wing corners, the two-layer butterfly tiles (the concave surface of the bottom tile faces up, and the tile piece with the concave surface facing down is overlapped on it, which can still be seen in the residence of Su Dongpo in Huangzhou drawn by Qiao Zhongchang), the wooden door pins with simple lotus patterns, the high door sills, the tight window lattices, the bamboo woven gray walls and the simply decorated beams and columns, etc. And the three courtyards, the five open rooms, both the ancestral house and the back wrap (only for the lower people to live in) with the courtyard as the center of the main and secondary clear buildings, but it is 'derived from the ancient landlord manor, and later because of the local deeply rooted clan system, it evolved into a form with a protective house and a back wrap' (Pan Guxi, editor-in-chief of 'History of Ancient Chinese Architecture' Volume 4), is the earliest form of the existing Chaozhou 'mansion-style' residence. In 1997, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Location: No. 4 Dongfu Yard, Putao Lane, Zhongshan Road, Chaozhou City Opening hours: 9:00-17:30 Admission stops at 17:00, closed on Mondays