Tiger Panther Villa Restoration Reappears Conservation Consultant of the Ten Kings Palace: Relief, Relief, or Destroyed

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Written by: Wang Jieen

2020-01-09 07:30

The thing that the Tiger and Leopard Villa made the last generation of Hong Kong people remember must be the adjoining Wanjinyou Garden that year. There are relief murals such as hook bars and falling oil rafts in the garden, which are collective memories of many people. Although the Haw Par villa has been reactivated and reopened, the Wanjinyou Garden, which used to be a hell scene, has become part of the mansion.

Luo Jiayu is a conservation consultant for Haw Par Villa. He said with a smile that the familiar "eighteen-story hell" relief was actually the "Ten Kings Hall." After the demolition of Wanjinyou Garden, he had visited the warehouse where the old gardens were collected, but there were no relevant reliefs in it. "Putting it down" or "demolition", "It's a pity that all the pictures remembered by the public are the Wanjinyou Garden ... but helplessly it has disappeared."

The former Wanjinyou Garden has been razed to the present, and a "famous door" of luxury mansion has been built. At present, the landscape behind Haw Par Villa only has high-rise buildings. (Photo by Gong Jiasheng)

As early as the 1930s, "Wang Jinyou King" Hu Wenhu bought land and built a house. He spent more than 20 million yuan to build a tiger and leopard villa. Later, he successively acquired adjacent land and built Wan Jinyou gardens. The park was opened to the public to "play with the people." Relief murals are very famous, and the pictures such as Gou Jinjin are more alarming, which became a "nightmare" for many visiting children at that time.

Hu Wenhu "supervises" the garden in the villa

However, with the acquisition of Wanjinyou Garden's land by the developer Changshi, many people's "childhood shadows" have been leveled out and turned into the "famous door" of luxury mansions, while the Haw Par villa was handed over to the government and retained. Looking around at Haw Par Villa, I saw high-rise luxury homes.

"Ms. Hu Xian (daughter of Hu Wenhu) once said that the master room of the Haw Par villa was facing the other side of the garden, but Hu Wenhu often used the terrace on the other side of the room to watch the workers build the Wanjinyou Garden and looked at them as" supervisors. "Luo Jiayu stood outside the Haw Par villa and pointed at the current "Famous Door".

The activation team remade the stone sculpture of the "Ten Kings Hall" and placed it outside the mansion. (Photo by Gong Jiasheng)

The relief of the "Ten Kings Palace" no longer exists, and today it can only be reproduced with stone carvings. (Photo by Gong Jiasheng)

It is expected that the relief of the Ten Kings Palace has been "smashed"

Luo Jiayu said with a smile that the "eighteen-tier hell" in the garden was actually the "ten kings hall." After the demolition of Wanjinyou Garden that year, the relief no longer exists, and now it can only be reproduced by stone carving. Luo Jiayu said that the relief is a complex of many Hong Kong people, so the activation team remade the stone sculpture and placed it outside the mansion.

Some of the old things in Wanjinyou Garden were sealed in the government warehouse. Luo said that he had visited the warehouse, but there was no relief in the "Ten Kings Hall" inside. Because the relief was made of lime and stuck to the wall, it was very large, so it was difficult to remove it like a general statue. It is estimated that the relief was in the garden. During the demolition, it has been "pumped out" or "demolished". The old "Mr. Tiger" statues, etc., were unsealed in the warehouse and are now reappearing in the public eye.

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Luo Jiayu is responsible for revitalizing the Haw Par villa, but Wan Jinyou is also unique to him. He sighed, it was a pity not to keep the garden. (Photo by Gong Jiasheng)

The public remembers the hell relief relief consultant: it's a pity to disappear

Luo Jiayu is responsible for revitalizing the Haw Par villa, but Wan Jin You also has a meaning to him. He said that when he was a child, he was very ill and often used "Wang Jinyou" to relieve his abdominal pain. In addition, the Wan Jinyou Garden at that time was a "must-go place" for autumn travel in elementary schools, so it meant a lot to him. Gao ... It's so expressive. It's really scary to see the intestines of the relief figures leak out! "

Haw Par Villa was a private villa in the past and will not be open to the public. Only Wanjinyou Garden is free for public viewing. Time has changed, and when the Haw Par villa was opened to the public, the garden had disappeared into dust. Luo said that when the Haw Par villa was built at a high price and the materials were very high-grade, most of the facilities in the mansion were preserved even after years of baptism. He lamented that after the revitalization, the building's special style and most of the interior decoration of the house still retain the original appearance, but Wanjinyou Garden has disappeared. "Unfortunately, the public remembers all the pictures of Wanjinyou Garden, such as the 18-floor hell ... but helplessly It has disappeared. "

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