Museums and historic buildings

The Mao Museum
Not far from the main road of Yin Shan Jie on the hilltop, is the Mao Museum. Reputed to be the place where Mao stayed when he visited Moganshan, the museum is stark and empty except for an iron bedstead. It must be noted however that Mao did not in fact stay overnight but only had an afternoon powernap here during his visit.
 

White Cloud Castle (Baiyun Hotel)
The Baiyun Hotel complex boosts the house that once belonged to a Kuomintang foreign minister, Huang Fu and where Chiang Kai Shek spent a few days on his honeymoon with Song Mei Ling, in 1927.  It was also here in this museum that Chiang Kai Shek and Zhou Enlai met to discuss how the Kuomintang and the Communists might co-operate against the Japanese.

Wulingcun
This spur of the mountain, originally named Mt Clare by the foreigners, was the site of some of the earliest houses in the very late 1800s. On the north side of the entrance to the Moganshan Shanzhuang is a gully, which sucks up a constant draft. The prime plot, in those days before air conditioning, was right at the top of it, where the Moganshan Shanzhuang now sits. Of the buildings now scattered across the flat top of the spur, Number 550, the Songyue Ting, was the scene of Chiang Kai Shek’s last visit to and meeting on the mountain, to launch a new paper currency for China, in 1948.