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Former Residence of Mao Zedong, Shaoshan 韶山毛泽东同志故居Sháoshān Máo Zédōng Tóngzhì Gùjū
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Xiangtan, Hunan
- Time needed
- 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Xiangtan
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Former Residence of Mao Zedong, Shaoshan
The farmhouse at Shaoshanchong where Mao Zedong was born in 1893 and grew up: an earth-walled, U-shaped house of the central Hunan type, shared with a neighbouring family across the central hall, confiscated by the Nationalist government in 1929 and restored to its original form in 1950, with the family's bedrooms, kitchen and farm tools on show. It is the heart of the Shaoshan 5A scenic area, which also takes in the Mao Zedong Memorial Museum (opened 1964) with his personal belongings, the Mao clan ancestral hall and the Nan'an old village school, a square with a large bronze statue (1993), and Dishui Cave, a secluded villa compound built for Mao in 1960–62 about 4 km away, where he stayed in 1966. Shaoshan is one of the main destinations of Chinese 'red tourism'.
How to get to Former Residence of Mao Zedong, Shaoshan
About 40 km west of Xiangtan or 1.5 hours by road from Changsha; the main entrance is the visitor transfer centre at 1 Shaorun Avenue, from where shuttle buses run to the sites. The memorial museum's life exhibition is closed on Mondays except public holidays, while the former residence opens daily, its interior by advance booking.
Nearby
- Hunan Museum 湖南省博物馆 60 km
A Han marchioness, her silk banner and a gauze robe as thin as air
Also within 20 km: Yintian Yinhe Scenic Area 银田银河 (10 km), Zilongwan Hot Spring Resort, Huitang 紫龙湾温泉 (20 km).
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