Witness the history of Garden Hotel in Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, the most prosperous Huaihai road, there has been a century-old Hotel - Garden Hotel. This hotel from her date of completion in 1916, have continued to experience the changes in modern China. From warlords to the revolution, from one war to another war, although the historical change in the constant, this hotel has to be strong and lasting vitality of her time to witness the great era of change.
In 1916, Suzhou, Ji BAT businessman Wu Jihong (characters Sheng-yuan) funded 20000 silver coins brought in from Shanghai, construction technician, modeled on the German was the most fashionable villas style, the construction of the garden restaurants, auditoriums equipped with mahogany furniture, room facilities, fireplace heating, equipped with Western-style toilets, while the North-South hired chef, the main reason in the Western point. Elegant and luxurious Western-style facilities, all kinds of Chinese and Western cooking fine cuisine, so Garden Hotel 1:00 Mingzao province, became the domestic warlords and dignitaries, celebrities come to Xu gentry, after check-in, dinner first choice.
1916, "braid Shuai," Zhang Xun was in this north-south Qingshijiuchen dense Please snowball effect, drawing, consider ways to restore the great cause. In the warlord period, Zhang Zongchang, Chu Yupu, Sun Chuan-fang, Chen Yuan and other warlords transfer giants have to live here. In 1927, the famous "Xuzhou conference" held here, together with Chiang Kai-Shek Wu Chih-hui, Hu Han-min, Li Lieh-chun Feng Yu-hsiang and others, reached a joint "party purge" and continue to the Northern Expedition of the agreement, the meeting so that Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yuxiang alliance and thus changed the political situation in China at that time. In 1937, the KMT 5th Theater Commander Executive Garden Hotel in Xing Yuan Li Tsung-jen to headquarters, command of the Japanese army's "Taierzhuang Battle." Well-known writer, poet Yu Da-fu, the journalist Fan Changjiang as a war correspondent in this interview, and met the highest in China and later became chief of staff of Allied Colonel Stilwell. In the famous writer Sheng Rong's "memories of Yu Da-fu" and writes: "This afternoon I met Yu Da-fu in the garden restaurant of the U.S. Embassy military attache, Colonel Stilwell, who lives in the backyard, only the walls of the compound, he said he wanted to Taierzhuang, But the wartime military orders, no foreigners are allowed to go to the front, that is not allied lines, a few days ago just a few Italian journalists have been arrested, reportedly suspected collaborators ... "
In 1938, Xuzhou fall of the Japanese occupation of Garden Hotel, opening the Japanese senior guest house "Crane houses" hotel.
After the war, Zhou Enlai, Zhang Zhizhong, Marshall's three-person team composed of the KMT military mediation to stay at Garden Hotel, Xu, check the implementation of the Armistice Agreement, and with the military people in here, Xuzhou, posed for pictures. Early in 1948, between the Kuomintang generals stay at Garden Hotel more, with Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Wei, Liu Zhi, Li Mi, Ching-Chuan Chiu, Yu Yu-jen, Du le monde, Huang and others, in this banquet of procedure.
In April 1949, Xuzhou Municipal People's Government took over the Garden Hotel, and received honorable Chairman Mao Zedong, as well as our military Zhu De, Chen Yi, Liu Bocheng, Su Yu and other senior generals.
In 1951, People's Government to 440 million yuan (old currency) to buy over-consistent, Garden Hotel, Xuzhou city government to become the first guest houses.
Now, if you wander in the garden inside the hotel, there is also preserved when the KMT-CCP talks rosewood conference tables, used by Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-carved bed. Countless heroes have all stood the Millennium pomegranate tree had stood, felt everywhere around the thick atmosphere of history, perhaps this is the historical realism of the bar!
dkj
October 2003
Author: dkjcd
