The Former Residence of Qi Baishi, a well-known Chinese artist, is located near the western entrance of Picai Lane in the West City District.
Artists and VIPs from all over the world converged at Qi Baishi' s home in the seven or eight years before his death in1957. Though the government had given him another house on the east side, he preferred his own garden, full of the more mundane crops, such as towel-gourd, peanuts, pumpkins, grapes and morning glory. His famous works"Towel-Gourd and a Bee,""Grapes and a Dragonfly," are all taken from the yard on Picai Lane.