Yang Oufang Temple

20220908 In the morning, "Yang Tong Fangxuan" is located on the northeast street in the "Huishan Old Street" in the 5A Scenic Area. Huishan Ancient Town is composed of "Huishan Historical and Cultural Street" (commonly known as "Old Street") and "Xihui Park". The former enters the park for free and the latter charges. I entered the park from the north gate of the old street. The old street is composed of three streets from the north-south (Huishan Cross Street), the northeast (800 meters of the river "Sitanggu" on both sides of the river bank) and the east-west (Xiuqi Street). The buildings on both sides are divided into three categories: shops, exhibition halls, and halls. The group of 108 halls is the national cultural heritage. 2. Yang Yufangyu was built in the Republic of China, the scale is large, is Yang surnamed Zongxuan, the main Wuxi native Qing Dynasty supervisor of national industry and commerce, Li Hongzhang's heart Yang Zonghan. The temple is a magnificent Western-style building with a style of foreign for Chinese use.

There is a Western-style building on the edge of the canal river pond. This western-style building is called Yang Tongfangtang. Yang Tongfang was the largest entrepreneur in Wuxi at the time. He founded the first textile in Wuxi and opened the prelude to the development of Wuxi ethnic industry and commerce.

Just in the old building in Xiahetang, Huigu Town, because you don’t need to collect tickets to go in and visit, it’s an old building in Jiangnan; there are many introductions about Yang’s, but I really didn’t know such a historical figure before.

Generally, the temple in Huishan Ancient Town can not be seen.

For Yang Yufang, I don't know, what attracted me to this house is the appearance of the ancient town. Other buildings in the ancient town are quaint, only the appearance of this house is actually Western style, especially abrupt in the ancient town. However, when I entered the house, I found that it was still a traditional Chinese architectural style. I saw that the former owner may be an industrialist. This two completely different architectural styles inside and outside may also reflect the owner's psychology of some contradictions and struggles.

Located in Huishan Ancient Town next to Xihui Park, Wuxi, built in the early years of the Republic of China, the whole building combines Chinese and Western in the family group of Huishan Ancient Town, offering to worship the ancestors of Yang's family, Qing Dynasty foreign affairs movement leader, Taipei Municipal pioneer Yang Shufang.