Du Jinsheng's Life Story and Former Residence

Du Jinsheng's former residence is located in Maojiabu, Xihu District, Hangzhou. Du Jinsheng is the founder of Hangzhou Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Factory and a famous patriotic industrialist. His former residence consists of ancestral home, workshop, memorial room and exhibition room, which shows Du Jinsheng's life and silk culture.

Du Jinsheng, 1898 was born in Maojiabu, West Lake, Hangzhou in February. I like painting scenery and photography since I was a child. 19 19 graduated from Zhejiang a industrial school (predecessor of Zhejiang university) and stayed there as a pattern teacher. They boldly innovated and transformed the scenery of the West Lake into brocade; 192 1 year, I personally woven nine rivers and eighteen rivers, and the following year I founded Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Factory. 1926 Night Tour of the Palace Princess won the gold medal at the Philadelphia World Expo. To 193 1, its sales offices have spread all over China 13 big cities. After the fall of Hangzhou, Du Jinsheng silk weaving factory was forced to stop production and the machine was transferred to the French Concession in Shanghai. The family 1938 moved to Shanghai. 1943, Du Jinsheng died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 45.