A century-old western-style mansion in Foshan
Jiujiang Overseas Chinese Museum, also named as “Wu’s Mansion”, is a complex built more than a hundred years ago. Home to Lingnan-style wok houses and western-style buildings, it is not only the first overseas Chinese museum in Foshan, but the largest existing houses built by overseas Chinese in Jiujiang Town.
Time Garden: a new spot for photography
Time Garden is a leisure space where visitors are welcomed to take a rest and enjoy a cup of flower tea in this beautiful building.
Most surprisingly, you can find the most popular game machines and snacks in your childhood.
In this picturesque corner decorated with over 30 kinds of flowers and plants as well as different bonsai, you are able to take beautiful pictures easily.
Stunning buildings glut your eyes
Taking a walk here, you may find that old times are capsuled here. Tranquil gardens, quaint corridors and each black tile seem to be telling the old stories about this house to you.
Overseas Chinese brothers in Vietnam, Wu Geng Nan and Wu Chang Ru, built the mansion in 1887 during the reign of Emperor Guangxu in late Qing Dynasty. 6 houses of the same size in two rows are well-preserved today.
Towering western-style buildings, like watchtowers, are surrounded by ancient trees.
Arches with Roman columns
The architecture, combined Chinese style with western one, looks modern enough.
Wus Mansion also boasts 8 exhibition halls themed on the hometown and history of overseas Chinese, showing this unique culture, changes of times and achievements in Jiujiang Town.
Wus Mansion Reading Station (top 10 reading stations in Nanhai District) and Jiujiang Culture and Art Center were also planned out here.
Reportedly, more activities protecting and celebrating intangible cultural heritages will be held here.
Tickets: free of charge
Author | Ivy
Revisor | Jersey, Jessica
Photo | Foshan Bureau of Culture, Sports, Television, Radio and Tourism,; Liang Ping, Ding Jinxuan, Zeng Zhaohong, Foshan News Network