hangsha Huaming Tower (Huaming Lou) [Changsha]

Huaming Tower is in a beautiful small town of South Changjiang. It is located on the bank of Jinjiang River, northeast border of Wangcheng County, in the southeast of Ningxiang County boundary, Hunan Province. Its neighboring is Xiangtan and Xiangxiang city in southwest and is 30 kilometers east from provincial capital Changsha. The distance from Mao Zedong’s hometown, Shaoshan, is 37 kilometers on the south and is 30 kilometers west from the county. On 24 November 1898, Liu Shaoqi was born in one of the families in Huaming Tower. That was a typical peasant family. Liu Shaoqi’s former residence is a wooden structure central courtyard house. There is a pond in front of the house with the wood surrounding the house. There are more than 30 grass tile-roofed houses in the courtyard. Other than the bedroom, there are many farming tool rooms, pig fence room and barbeque room in addition of rooms specifically for children to study. It showed that the Liu family placed much importance on children’s education