Introduction to the former residence of Zhou Libo

Zhou Libo is a famous writer with far-reaching influence in my country who came out of the hot land of Yiyang. In his lifetime, he published more than 5 million words of novels and short stories, essays, poems, translations, and reportages. He has won the Stalin Prize for Literature and the Stalin Prize for Literature and Art, and has made immortal contributions to my country's literature and cultural undertakings. After liberation, he was elected as a representative of the first, second and third National People's Congress and a member of the fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The former residence is the prototype place where Zhou Libo was born and grew up and where he returned to his hometown from 1955 to 1965 to "three-in-one" with the peasants and wrote novels such as "Great Changes in the Mountain Country" and "The Family on That Side of the Mountain". Therefore, a large number of his works have been preserved. relic. Since the opening of the former residence, Zhou Libo's great achievements and spirit have attracted tourists from home and abroad to visit. His masterpieces "The Storm" and "Great Changes in the Mountain Country" have influenced and educated a generation. At present, the former residence has three parts: restoration exhibition, Zhou Libo's life exhibition, and Zhou Libo's literary research room. Among them, the restored display of the former residence mainly displays the life scenes of Zhou Libo when he returned to his hometown in the 1950s to create "Great Changes in the Mountains and Countryside".

Since its opening to the outside world on September 15, 2008, the former residence has received more than 800,000 Chinese and foreign tourists and more than 200 new rural construction inspection groups. The village where the former residence is located has been rated as a "new rural area" in Hunan Province. "Construction Demonstration Site", "Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Site", "Provincial Ecological Tourism Village", and "Famous Landscape Tourism Village". The former residence has also become a demonstration village for the construction of a new socialist countryside in Hunan Province, a patriotism education base for local college, middle and primary school students and an education base for the advanced nature of party members in various units. The status of Zhou Libo’s former residence as a core tourist attraction in rural areas inside and outside the province has been further demonstrated. Visiting the former residence, one can not only understand Zhou Libo's life experience in growing into a famous writer, but also learn the spiritual demeanor of a people's writer for the people.