The former residence covers an area of 330 square meters, with traditional wooden frames, wooden doors and windows, white walls and black tiles, and green slate steps on both sides of the steps, which is quite typical of Jiangnan residential style. More than 100 pieces of Huang Yuan's creative manuscripts, books, daily necessities and correspondence with cultural celebrities such as Lu Xun were displayed in the old residence. Through the organic combination of showcase, drawing board, multimedia demonstration and life scene layout, Huang Lao's glorious life was displayed.
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Huang Yuan (1905-2003), whose real name is Qiyuan and the word Heqing, is a native of Haiyan, Zhejiang Province, a translator and a student and comrade-in-arms of Mr. Lu Xun in his later years. Studied in the middle school affiliated to Southeast University, chunhui middle school and Lida College. In the late 1920s, he devoted himself to the New Culture Movement in China. 1937, the Japanese attacked Shanghai. 1938, Huang Yuan joined the army and went to southern Anhui to join the New Fourth Army. He used to be a member of the Cultural Committee of the Military Department, a member of the editorial board of Anti-Enemy magazine, and the editor-in-chief of One Day of the New Fourth Army. After the founding of New China, he successively served as the Vice Minister of Culture of East China Administrative Committee, the Vice Minister of Culture and Education of Zhejiang Provincial Committee and the Director of Provincial Culture Bureau. In his later years, he served as honorary chairman of Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
In his early years, Huang Yuan forged a deep friendship with Lu Xun, Chen Yi, Mao Dun, Ba Jin and others. He presided over the adaptation of Kunqu Opera "Fifteen Passes" and gained the reputation of "saving a drama with one drama". In 2003, 98-year-old Huang Lao died suddenly in Hangzhou.