He Long
2022-05-27
In He Long’s revolution career of more than half a century, he made important contributions to China’s Old Democratic Revolution, New Democratic Revolution, and socialist revolution and construction.
He Long’s Former Residence is a wooden house with three rooms. It was originally built by He’s grandfather in the Qing Dynasty and inherited by He’s father, where He Long and his siblings were born and spent their childhood and adolescence.
He’s father divided the three rooms into six with wooden boards—a main living hall, a hall for worshiping ancestors, weddings and funerals, a room for family members keeping warm by fire, and three bedrooms.
There are some pieces of furniture and family utensils in the bedrooms now, including wooden beds, bedclothes, mosquito nets, desks, armchairs, bamboo baskets and laundry sticks. On the right side of the residence is the horse barn, where saddles, whips and bamboo hats once used by He Long are displayed. He kept horses for a living in his teens.
The original residence built by He’s grandfather was destroyed in 1919. Soon after the destruction, He’s father started to restore it and expanded it into a quadrangle (or Siheyuan) in 1925. It was demolished and destroyed by the reactionary government in 1929, leaving only gates and walls, which were burnt to the ground in 1970s.
In 1977, Hunan Province allocated special funds to rebuild the residence. In 1983, the residence was listed as a cultural site under provincial-level protection.
