Guilin Lingui Bai Chongxi former residence
Bai Chongxi former residence is located in Guilin Lingui town of Mountain Village in Huixian, 30 km from Guilin South. Founded in 1929, it was completed in 1937. House covers an area of 2041 square meters of the original, is a combined large estate, yard, foot wells have pool, pond, the garden has a mosque and school. The existing main building and a separate paragraph, covers an area of 841 square meters, construction area of about 1,500 square meters. According to the survey, this residence was originally one of the heads of the KMT Bai Chongxi of Kwangsi brother invested. In 2000, the people's government allocated special funds to repair Lingui, Lingui as key cultural relics protection units.
Main look northward, surface width of about 15 meters, a depth of about 45 m, regular rectangular shape, surrounded by a height of 9 meters, a solid brick wall surrounded by 0.4 m thick, in addition to positive outside, leaving only the four sides of the gable width of 0.6 meters, about 1.2 meters high small window, tall and thick exterior walls seem calm, awe-inspiring style.
The main building is a two-timbered building was "into a three-bay, a well hatchback around room" layout. The main building at the center courtyard, auxiliary building flower beds, fish pond. North and south ends layout living room, rooms, with wooden stairs on the east to the second floor, two floors are equipped with circular corridor around the patio. The living room is completely open to the patio, inner courtyard rooms through open window on the grid, well lit and well ventilated. The most southerly have a backyard, depth 3.5 m, each lined with a semi-circular basin on both sides of the wall, and gather the rainwater, called "days of drowning", specifically for livestock watering, doubles as a fire water. The entire building facades thick, high floor, large patio, windows, good ventilation, a change in ordinary houses dark choking ills, especially the upper gable opened four small window, with the wind tunnel principle coincide, indoor winter cool in summer.
The house door panes, lintel, carved wooden railing member design Jian Jie, light cyan paint brush surface, and the exterior brick seamless, Gu Pu and elegant; Kakeyama roof tile roof slope inwards, with its base metal made water gutter, connected to the corner cornice water funnel, forming organized "four normalized water hall" drainage system.
The whole house complete function, in the tradition of Northern-style houses on the West learned architectural elements, especially windows and doors arched trim, concise terms stained-glass windows of the application, with a clear architectural style of the early Republic.
Scenic Area Address: Guilin Lingui Xian Mei Shan town will
Car lines: the Guilin Bus Station bound for Lingui total Huixian direction of the bus, get off at Mei will Senzan