The Origin of Hedong Garden in Hong Kong

1923, Sir He Dong of Tai Jia, Hong Kong and his flat wife Zhang bought the land located at No.75 Peak Road, Taiping Mountain, Hong Kong Island to build a house. The original site is a Western-style villa called Waterfall, which is owned by J.Y.Vernon, a partner of Chattervaleon Brokerage Company. This building was designed by Gonghe Foreign Firm. The original design included a large living room, a mansion with 65,438+03 bedrooms and a maid bedroom, and an ancestral building where ancestors' souls were placed. The latter is a building in China. At that time, the British Hong Kong government originally intended to reject the construction plan, but there were few strikes in various provinces and ports, which changed the political atmosphere at that time. Finally, the mansion officially started construction 65,438+0925.5000010606. In the early colonial era, Chinese architecture was not allowed to be built in the peak area, which restricted Chinese people from living in the peak area. Therefore, He Dong became the first non-European who was allowed by the British Hong Kong government to live in the Peak District.

He Dong and Mai Xiuying live in a red house at No.8 Seymour Road, so the waterfall has always been regarded as a place where flat wife Zhang meets her children and grandchildren, entertains private friends and retreats to give lectures. Zhang, a Buddhist, also used Hedong Garden to entertain monks and nuns. After the completion of the mansion, Zhang died in the waterfall named 1938. He family held a funeral for her in the mansion, and China political and business leaders and even the people attended the ceremony. In the same year, what was the official name of this mansion, East Garden? In memory of Zhang, He Dong and her alias, He Hezhong, were named Garden, and a granite monument in China was built at the entrance of the building.