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Former Residence of Zeng Guofan 曾国藩故居Zēng Guófān Gùjū
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Loudi, Hunan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Loudi
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Former Residence of Zeng Guofan
The family seat of Zeng Guofan (1811–1872), the Qing statesman whose Xiang Army put down the Taiping Rebellion, at Heye in eastern Shuangfeng. Fuhou Hall, a mansion of over 9,000 m² behind a crescent pond, was enlarged for his family from 1865 and finished in 1875, and its four library buildings once held more than 300,000 volumes, one of the largest private libraries of modern China; his birthplace, the Baiyu Hall farmhouse, is also in Heye.
How to get to Former Residence of Zeng Guofan
In Heye town in eastern Shuangfeng County, roughly 2 hours by road south-west of Changsha; the Cai Hesen and Cai Chang residence is about 4 km away.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Former Residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang 蔡和森、蔡畅故居 (under 10 km).
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