Ni’s Ancestral Home is the former residence of Ni Tianzeng, the former Vice Mayor of Shanghai, located in the south of Shaojianggang, built during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The overall architecture is simple and restrained, without any flamboyance, and is a typical representative of Confucian thought. Xitang has five major surnames: Ni, Jiang, Zhu, Bu, and Lu, with Ni being the foremost. The Ni family is a scholarly family in the town, and Ni Tianzeng’s grandfather was a scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Ni Tianzeng was born in 1937 and served four consecutive terms as Vice Mayor of Shanghai, beloved by the people. Unfortunately, due to long-term excessive work, he passed away at the age of 54 due to a heart attack, and was praised as ‘the servant of the people’ and ‘a model of diligence, sweating in Pudong, with merits for thousands of years’. Ni’s Ancestral Home is a typical style of Ming and Qing residential architecture, originally with five depths, with a porch in front and a garden at the back. Currently, only two depths have been restored, and the last three depths are still inhabited by local residents and not open to the public. The first depth is the entrance hall where the statue of Ni Tianzeng is located; the second depth consists of a courtyard and the main hall, named ‘Chengqing Hall’. On both sides of the main hall are the music room and the chess room. On the upper floor, there is an exhibition of Ni Tianzeng’s relics, as well as his life’s photographic materials and inscriptions from central leaders. It is open all year round from 08:00 to 17:30, with the specific business status subject to the day’s opening conditions.
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