Song Wei Zi's big party
Wu Zhai was severely damaged during the Cultural Revolution, and flowers and trees over a hundred years old and nanmu sculpture "Five Blessingg's Birthday" in Ming Dynasty were destroyed. More than 30 houses have been demolished, leaving only two halls, and the west yard has become a hardware processing factory and canteen. The house was occupied by various residents overnight, and the descendants of the Wu family lived with those forty or fifty families from now on. Forty or fifty families are chopping wood to make a fire, cooking oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, chickens and dogs. The second floor where the sundries used to be kept was also occupied, and a coal stove was built. Therefore, Wuzhai, a cultural relic protection unit in Hangzhou, is mainly made of wood structure and has become one of the "Top Ten Fire Hazards in Hangzhou".
Since 1995, Wuzhai residents have moved out one after another, and their houses have been handed over to the municipal cultural relics department for repair. Buildings on the central axis and the eastern axis have been repaired. The buildings and rockery ponds on the west axis have been seriously damaged, and it is impossible to imagine the local customs at that time.
At the beginning of 1999, the restored Wuzhai was officially opened to the public with the appearance of Hangzhou Traditional Craft Museum and Hangzhou Cultural Relics Supervision Market. In 2002, all the antique shops of the original famous houses on Xinhua Road were moved to Wuzhai, and the famous houses became the exclusive silk market. Since then, among the former giants, there are 48 shops, ranging from antique furniture to calligraphy and painting Yin Shi, where all the ancient things of China can be found.