On December 1st, 1927, Jiang Jieshi(Chang Kai-shek) and Song Meiling got married. Finally, Song Ziwen bought a large enough western-style garden house as a wedding gift for Song Meiling which stood on today's No. 9 Dongping Road. The English-style garden villa is now transformed into Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe. In 1927, when Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) took office in Nanjing, he regarded the villa as his temporary dwelling house every time he visited Shanghai.The villa was nominated as 'Ai Lu', which means 'one's favorite house'.