Located on the cultural celebrity street, Duolun Road, Hongkou District, the memorial hall of the founding meeting of the left wing writers’ League of China completed the largest renovation and exhibition project in nearly 20 years last year
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You must be very curious about the difference between the renovated new museum and the past, and what “heavy” exhibits will be displayed in the Museum Today, we are going to find out the answer ↓ neoclassical style, strict structure
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The small building is a neoclassical style building with brick and wood mixed structure
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There is a flower garden in front of the house and a brick concrete wall outside
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This small building facing south, built in 1924, brick wood mixed structure, is a building with neoclassical style
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The facade is not very big, the building has obvious horizontal three section processing method, and the composition and proportion of the building are more rigorous
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The gables along the street are curved, with the characteristics of European traditional residence
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On the right side of the east main entrance is a wooden sign with six traditional characters of “China University of Arts” printed in fine art style, and on the left side is the name of the memorial hall of the left wing writers’ Union of China
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It witnessed the establishment of the left wing writers’ League of China, gave birth to the revolutionary spirit of the times, and has high cultural and historical value
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In August 1980, the building was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai
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In December 2001, it was set up as the memorial hall of the founding meeting of the left wing writers League of China
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The story behind: using pen as a gun, encouraging the public to further develop the Chinese New Culture on the basis of the May 4th new movement, which brought large-scale theoretical construction and the spread of new culture to the later Chinese revolution
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In 1927, a large number of advanced intellectuals gathered in Shanghai to advocate proletarian revolutionary literature and promote the wide spread of Marxist literary theory
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Left wing literary and art circles and cultural institutions are unprecedentedly active along the North Sichuan Road (today’s North Sichuan Road)
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The left wing writers’ Union of China was established here in a large classroom on the ground floor of the then China University of Arts, and its influence expanded rapidly afterwards
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From a Ying’s Ye hang Ji, Mao Dun’s midnight, and Lu Xun’s Feng Shou, there were more than 480 League members and hundreds of works from 1930 to 1936, which played an important role in the history of Chinese literature and revolution
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Nearly 100 years old, the old buildings reappear, and the exhibition area of Fanghua has expanded from more than 100 square meters to 350 square meters now
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At the same time, the old buildings are repaired as before to protect the original interior decoration
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The renovation started in 2018 will last until 2020, which is the largest renovation project in nearly 20 years
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On the basis of maintaining the original indoor space pattern, the renovation slightly adjusted the functional layout and released part of the office space for exhibition
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The exhibition hall is divided into three parts: the first floor is composed of scene restoration, preface hall, cultural and creative shop; the second floor is the history exhibition hall and movie viewing Hall of the left League; the attic floor mainly displays the historical influence of the left League and other related information
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The exhibition area of the memorial hall has expanded from more than 100 square meters to 350 square meters now
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At present, more than 800 pieces of photos, old books and magazines, and objects used by members of the left wing league are displayed in the museum, which not only reproduces the activities of the left wing League, but also reflects the activities of the drama Federation, the American Federation, the society federation and the film group from different angles, presenting a relatively complete history of the left wing cultural movement
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One of the highlights of the renovation is to repair the old walls, such as the dry sticky stone wall with coarse texture, the water brush stone wall with fine surface, and the fair faced red brick wall
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The construction adopts manual chiseling to remove the old joints, and repair the defective brick surface
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The brick surface is pointed according to the original raw materials, and finally the flat color is enhanced, so that the facade after the renovation is consistent with the original appearance of the building Fully coordinated, not only reappear the style of the building, but also let the public tourists have a good impression
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At the same time, in the construction process, the overall protection of the indoor exquisite decoration, such as ceiling, fireplace, iron protective window decoration, mosaic floor tiles, etc., without damaging the key protection parts, the mechanical and electrical system has also been updated, and the structure has been reinforced
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In addition, the original solid wood shutters, solid wood inlaid glass doors and windows were completely protected and repaired, and the defects were also restored by the original technology
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The value mining and function improvement of the attic space is another highlight of the renovation design
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During the renovation, the design team removed the gypsum board ceiling of the original compressed space, so that the original wooden frame structure of the building was completely displayed in front of the public, and a large exhibition space was harvested for use
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The loft salon space created by innovation fits the function of the literary salon at the beginning of the establishment of the left wing League, and reproduces the scene of the left wing League and the literary salon from the form of goods
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At the same time, the space also has practical functions such as exchange and discussion, lecture salon, reading and rest
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Here, cry, midnight, destruction More than 200 left-wing related books are displayed on the wall of the exhibition hall to form a “book wall”, which focuses on the representative achievements of left-wing culture and attracts tourists to stop
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The main punch point is the salon space in the attic, which is undoubtedly the most wonderful net red punch point in the former site of the left League
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At the same time, the precious original manuscripts of various publications published by the left-wing literary circles at that time are also very spectacular
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If you have time, you can also sit here and watch a black-and-white film of the left wing writers’ League, and more intuitively feel the left wing writers’ League and the Chinese left wing literature and art movement’s fighting spirit for national liberation, national independence and people’s happiness
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Opening hours: 9:00-11:30 a.m
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from Tuesday to Sunday, 13:00-16:00 p.m
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admission: visit the surrounding scenic spots for free
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Recommend Duolun Road
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In the 1920s and 1930s, many cultural celebrities on Duolun Road were shouting here to contribute to the progress of culture and society
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Excellent buildings with different styles, such as Ramos apartment, also made Duolun Road an “open-air museum” of Shanghai style architecture
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Today, Duolun Road has become a “open-air museum” of Shanghai style architecture All these have become the strong cultural atmosphere of today’s Duolun Road.
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