When tourists stroll on Guling Street and wander on the Changchong River, while marveling at the charm of Guling, they can't help but think about the history of Guling. However, when talking about the history of Guling, Li Deli cannot be avoided in any case.

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Guling is the center of Lushan. Guling is also a symbol of Mount Lu. When tourists stroll on Guling Street and wander on the Changchong River, while marveling at the charm of Guling, they can't help but think about the history of Guling. However, when talking about the history of Guling, no matter what, I cannot avoid the person Li Deli . Li Deli, a completely Chinese name, but he is a genuine British man and a Christian missionary. In the "List of Missionaries from Foreigners to China", Li Deli's resume can be easily found. He was born in 1864 in England in , Kent . In 1886, he came to China at the age of 22 and began his missionary career.

Lushan flavor: Celebrity and Lushan - Li Deli and Guling

As a missionary, Li Deli seems to have made no achievements, but the two things he did in China left a deep mark. One thing is that during the 1911 Revolution, Li Deli played a role in making a match for the " North-South Peace Agreement" between the Revolutionary Army and the Qing government. For this reason, he was commended by Mr. Sun Yat-sen and was awarded the "Peace Envoy" Medal. Another thing is that since 1895, Li Deli opened up Guling, Lushan, making Guling an internationally renowned tourist summer resort. The name of Guling is evolved from Li Deli's Chinese name and English COOLING, and it has the reputation of being a cool world.

Lushan flavor: Celebrities and Lushan - Li Deli and Guling

In the summer of 1889, Li Deli began to implement the plan to open up Guling. He wrote to the two county roads to negotiate the purchase of Guling land development rights. At the beginning, the magistrate of Dehua thought Li Deli was a Chinese and agreed to his application. After learning that Li Deli was originally a British, he asked to take back the land deed, so a protracted lawsuit began. It was not until November 1895 that Jiujiang Daotai signed the "Twelve Articles of the Guniuling Cases" with the British Consul. Li Deli successfully rented Guling for 999 years and had a rent of 12,000 yuan per year.

Li Deli, who obtained the land development rights of Guling, immediately started to develop and build Guling. He established Guling Company and divided the leased land for sale, and welcomed people from all over the world to come and buy land to build summer villas. By 1930, Guling had more than 1,000 villas in style, including Britain, the United States, France and Russia, and it had become a modern villa museum. In these villas with different styles, residents from 18 countries including Europe, America, Asia, etc. live, thus turning the cool world of Guling into a veritable "world village".

Lushan flavor: Celebrities and Lushan - Li Deli and Guling

In the development and management of Guling, Li Deli did not care that there was no provision for the right of autonomous police and tax rights in the lease agreement. He established the Guling Municipal Council on his own, composed of representatives sent by residents of various countries, implemented autonomous management of Guling, and established a patrolman, levied the land tax from the owners on his own, thus making the British land leased in Lushan become the actual "British Concession". Li Deli thus became a powerful figure in Lushan, and became a star that was noticed by politicians and religious circles in various countries in China.

The formation of Guling Mountain City, in addition to Li Deli's forced development, was also related to the economic development and convenient transportation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River at that time. Due to the hot climate in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, diplomats, merchants and churches in various countries need a convenient summer resort. At that time, the golden waterway of the Yangtze River was the best transportation condition.

Temperament of Lushan: Celebrities and Lushan - Li Deli and Guling

The emergence of Guling villa group is a concrete embodiment of Western architectural culture and a unique product that appears in the geographical environment of Lushan. The architectural art and natural environment are perfectly reflected and combined in Guling, and vividly incorporate the cultural characteristics of an era, and ultimately create a habitable and tourist destination.

In 1935, amid the strong call for the people of Lushan to regain sovereignty, the National Government took back the leased land in Guling, and the unequal transaction that Li Deli had done was completely abandoned.The saying of "Forever inheriting Mount Lu" was also gone with Li Deli, who left Guling as early as 1928. Li Deli has bid farewell to Mount Lu and forever bid farewell to the world. However, the Lushan Guling he developed and the operating mode of using tourism resources for economic development that he created has been left behind.

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