"Butterfly house built nine mile three, and built in surprisingly state. Thousands of people have been hurt and the tears of the poor have dried up. " It can be said that the Butterfly House was not only a mansion at that time, but also an unjust prison!

Nowadays, the luxury and domineering of aristocratic families have disappeared. Empty courtyards, dilapidated pavilions, fragrant magnolia flowers, pigeons flying in the air ... Suddenly, the feeling of isolation suddenly drowned out history. ...

Butterfly House in Mameng section 1938, the Japanese invaders bombed the northwest, and Wuwei City, the resident of Mameng, was also greatly threatened. So he decided to send his family back to his hometown Linxia to live. In Linxia, he built a mansion, not only the East Mansion, but also the Butterfly Mansion.

On April 10, 2003, the reporter came to Linxia City, Gansu Province, interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Literature and History Information Committee of Linxia Autonomous Prefecture, and witnessed the destroyed site of Butterfly House.

When Zhang Xiaoying, a new wife, was bought with a lot of money, his parents married him, while the original wife only gave birth to a daughter. Later, Ma was dissatisfied with his original wife and divorced. Later, he married Ma and gave birth to a son. When Ma was in Wuwei, he married a woman named Li, and later he married a woman named Li as his concubine in Xunhua.

1944, when Ma was watching a play in Lanzhou, he took a fancy to a beautiful young actor named. At that time, she was married. Ma tried every means to seduce her and finally took her away with a heavy sum of 7,000 yuan. Immediately, he was placed in a special room in Lanzhou, and they were inseparable all day. In this regard, the two Li's in Linxia Dongfu were greatly dissatisfied. In desperation, they had to try to invite them to live in Linxia to avoid spoiling their husbands in Lanzhou. In the name of congratulations, he sent Ma Deqing to Lanzhou and invited the new lady to live in Linxia. Ma Qing Bu promised to come back and promised Zhang Xiaoying that he could build a new house and settle down after coming back.

After returning to Linxia, Ma bought a large area of land and houses in Hengmozhuang, Xiangjiangzhuang, Baijiazhuang, Zhujiazhuang, Songshutai and other villages in the west of Linxia, forcing 73 households to leave here, covering an area of more than 50 mu, and began to build a big house for Zhang. When the house was first built, it was called "Yong Paradise", and later it was changed to "Qin 'an Village". After completion, the main building looks like a butterfly, so it is called "Butterfly Building". First, five small Chinese-style two-story buildings with a width of12m were built in the center of the compound, three side buildings with a width of10m, and five annex buildings were built on both sides. In this way, the style of the whole building looks like a butterfly, that is, the main building is the body of the butterfly, and the auxiliary building is the wings of the butterfly. The 2-meter-wide corridor at the bottom of the building looks like a butterfly foot.

The center of Butterfly Building is the living room, the side building is the study room, and the front part of the building is the bedroom. There is a wire spring bed in the bedroom with a glass brick mirror around it. Behind the bedroom is the dressing room, which is equipped with an exquisite dressing table and excellent foreign essence and powder paste. Then the bathroom and toilet, and the last room is the maid's house. The partitions upstairs are all patterned glass tiles, and the floors upstairs and downstairs are covered with all kinds of velvet carpets.

Behind the building is a flower garden, with more than a thousand pots of flowers, most of which are precious bonsai, such as crape myrtle, bauhinia, rhododendron, begonia, pomegranate, plum blossom and purple blue. These bonsai are cultivated and managed by special personnel. Behind the garden is a pigeon house with thousands of domestic pigeons. It is said that the most expensive pair of pigeons is worth 70 silver dollars. In addition, there are more than 10 birds of various colors and cages for more than 20 big dogs. A 2-meter-wide river was excavated around the building, and a small bridge was built on the river in front of the building. More than a hundred steps in front of the building, there is a living room; It used to be guard dormitory, warehouse yard and stable; There is a small yard to the east of the building, where the kitchen maid lives.

In the process of building the butterfly house, Ma sent people to look around and bought thousands of apricot, plum, peach and jujube trees, which were planted in the yard and grafted by special personnel, making the butterfly house a garden full of various fruits and trees. There are peony, peony, chrysanthemum, bayberry and other flower beds in the hospital, which are open in turn all year round.

The extravagant life of horses is extremely extravagant in food, clothing, housing and transportation. He buys good things when he sees them, and sends people to other places to buy them when they don't have them locally.

His family has hundreds of boxes of clothes, including precious golden monkey coats and otter coats, as well as sea dragons, seals, minks, lynxes, black and white foxes, black and white lambskin coats and so on. Among the materials of all kinds of clothes, there are all kinds of domestic silk, silk and satin, and many imported ones; There is a box of silk, wool and velvet socks for men and women; There are no fewer than 1000 pieces of silk, wool and carpets. The largest carpet is 5 meters wide and 70 meters long. In terms of eating, there are all kinds of delicious food, such as bird's nest, tremella, shark's fin, sea cucumber, foreign powder, indica rice and so on. And all kinds of dried and fresh fruits.

After liberation, Ma's family stored more than 65,438,000 cans of animal and vegetable oil. Horses like smoking, so the white pulp and Yunnan paste in Hexi are standing tobacco food. Cigarettes and cigarettes are brand-name products such as Jialike, Dabao, Grand Commander, Qianmen and Xiandao. There are also many precious Chinese and western medicinal materials, such as ginseng, velvet antler, musk, safflower, bezoar, bear gall, Tongrentang ointment, pills, powder, imported antibiotics and vitamins. He has two cars from Lanzhou to Linxia. His family usually uses cars when they go out, and more than a dozen rubber-tyred vehicles are used to pull goods and grain. On the eve of liberation, I bought another big truck.

The musical instruments commonly used in his family are not only diverse in name, but also exquisite and gorgeous. Porcelain includes Han porcelain, Ming porcelain, Kangxi porcelain, Hongxian porcelain, western porcelain and other ancient porcelain, and sent people to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province to order nearly 100 tables of banquet tableware printed with the words "Qin Antang". Small tableware, such as saucers and small wine glasses, are all silverware. There are hundreds of clocks and watches in his house. The biggest pair of clocks is more than one meter high and is placed on the butterfly building. Others include calendars, newspapers, people and animals, birds and animals singing.

In the three-story building of Dongfu, there are many antiques on display, including Ming Xuande bronze furnace, Kangxi porcelain bottle, coral tree more than two feet high, jade, agate and so on. The most precious is a pearl necklace made of 108 pearls. Wear it on the body in hot summer, and the whole body is cool. He also collected many valuable paintings and calligraphy, including Dunhuang manuscripts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, calligraphy by Zhu Zhishan, Dong Qichang, He, Prince Cheng, and Chinese paintings by Tang Yin, Chou Ying, Wang Shigu and Zhao Chonggu, some of which are originals and some are fakes. Wang Shigu's painting was bought from Shaanxi, and the price was 3000 yuan. Ma Qing Bu also loves glasses, including sunglasses, teacups and cups. The most precious pair of sunglasses costs 2400 yuan, and the rest is several hundred yuan.

Ma founded the girls' school in Linxia, which not only accumulated wealth for himself, but also did some good things for the local government. While in Wuwei, he founded a school in qingyun middle school and bought books, teaching instruments and equipment for the school, with more than 500 students. States have also established 43 primary schools. In order to solve the school funds, all counties set up Qingyun Yicang, and allocated the surplus rations (more than 1,000 square meters in big counties and several hundred square meters in small counties) to the masses for loans, and charged one tenth of the interest as the fixed funds of all primary schools.

After his family returned to Linxia, he founded a qingyun middle school He 12 Qingyun Primary School in Linxia. Students are free of tuition, miscellaneous fees and books. Ma's stepwife, Ma, founded a girls' primary school named "Su Qin Girls' Primary School" in Eight Directions Second Society, in view of the fact that there were no girls in Linxia school at that time. In addition to providing free books and pens, students will also get a dress. Although there were not many female students at that time, it played a positive role in changing customs for Linxia, which had a strong feudal color. Later, the school moved to Wang Si Street and changed to Qingyun Girls' School. When Ma and his family started school in Linxia, it coincided with the large-scale invasion of China by the Japanese army, the national crisis, the shortage of funds and the serious shortage of schools. Therefore, his actions left a good impression among the masses. After 1944, Qingyun School was renamed as "Fuxing" School.

Besides running a school, Ma also invested in a coal-fired power plant, a bath, a theater and a hotel in Wuwei. After returning to Linxia, engineers were hired to survey the hydraulic resources of Xiehu Gorge and Wangjiayatou, but construction was not started because of the large project and high cost. When Matthew built the Daxia River Bridge, Ma donated 5000 yuan. In addition, Ma is also very enthusiastic about the construction of the * * * Temple, and has donated 50,000-60,000 yuan for the restoration of Hua Temple, Xiguan Temple and Ershe Temple, and 20,000 yuan for the restoration of Awakening Pavilion.

1949 When Linxia was about to be liberated, Ma and his family took more than 27,000 taels of valuables such as gold and fled to Hong Kong via Chongqing, and finally settled in Taiwan Province Province. (Editor's Note: The picture in this article shows Linxia Dongfu and Mafu, and words are related to things. Author: pleasing to the eye)