Stone Courtyard

Shi Jia Courtyard in Tianjin is actually the biggest surviving courtyard in China.In 1994, Zhang Yimou returned to a courtyard set for Huo Zhe (To Live). The film may have lost out to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction for the Cannes Film Festival's main prize, but it was still awarded the Grand Prix de Jury, the first Chinese film to pick up this aw. Many scenes were shot in the Shi Jia Courtyard.The courtyard is located in the Town of Yang Liu Qing near Tianjin city. Yang Liu Qing is ... View Detail

Tranquil Garden

Jingyuan Garden was named by Puyi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty when he settled here. "Jing" means "stillness" and the Garden was named after the emperor who try to strengthen himself with noble spirit by living in a peaceful environment.Constructed in 1921, Jingyuan Garden is located at 70, Anshan Road, Heping District, the heritage site under city protection and the important historic architecture under the special protection area of Tianjin. Originally named Qianyuan Garden, it was the ... View Detail

The former residence of Cao Kun

Former residence of Cao Kun is located on No.27, 29 Minzu Road, is the private garden of Cao Kun who is the leader of the Northern Warlords. This is a Chinese and western style garden, not only with traditional Chinese ancient architectural small chic, but with the western architectural style of the villa.Cao Kun (December 12, 1862-May 15, 1938) was a military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army, and trustee of the Catholic University of Peking. Cao Kun infamously acquired the ... View Detail

Zhan-Yuan House

Built in 1940, the residence has two buildings of mixed design. The exterior structure of the simple courtyard villa contains both square and rounded features. Wang Zhanyuan was a general as well as an entrepreneur and the villa belonged to his three sons. Now it serves as a hospital and becomes Tianjin cannot move of cultural relics.Wang Zhanyuan (1861- 1933), is Guantao County of Shandong. He ever appointed warlord of Hubei Province and stadholder. View Detail

Former residence in the Ark

The Former Residence of Yu Fangzhou is located in Biaokou Village Biaokou Country Ninghe Town.Comrade Yu Fangzhou was the earliest Party member when the Communist Party of China was founded in Tianjin and the founder and leader of Tianjin Local Executive Committee of the Communist Party. By making a detailed analysis of his nine May 4th Zhuzhici poem, created during the period of patriotic May 4th Movement of 1919 in Tianjin, the paper verifies the number of arrested representatives mentioned in ... View Detail

Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang

Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang (3 June 1901, Haicheng County, Fengtian Province - 14 October 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii), occasionally called Peter Hsueh Liang Chang in English, nicknamed the Young Marshal, was the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of North China after the assassination of his father, Zhang Zuolin, by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an incident he spent over 50 years under house arrest, but is regarded by the People's Republic of China as a ... View Detail

Liang drinking ice room Den House

Liang Qichao (February 23, 1873 - January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher and reformist during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), who inspired Chinese scholars with his writings and reform movements. He died of illness in Beijing at the age of 55.Liang Qichao(1873-1929) is considered as the initiatory ideologist of the bourgeoisie in modern China as well as political-campaign specialist and learned master.Liang Qichao,alias Rengong and host of Yingbing Room,styled himself ... View Detail

Tang Yulin House

Tang Yulin was a Chinese warlord in the Fengtien clique and Chairman of the government of Rehe (Jehol). Tang Yulin was born in 1871 in Fuxin, Liaoning. In 1902 he joined the Fengtian First Road Defense Sentry patrol battalion as an officer. In 1912 he was given command of the 27th Regiment, 27th Cavalry Division and the following year was promoted to command the 52nd Brigade. In 1917 he participated in Zhang Xun's Manchu restoration, after Duan Qirui defeated Zhang he fled to Fuxin to live ... View Detail

Former Residence of Sun Chuan-fang

Sun Chuanfang (1885 - November 13, 1935) aka the "Nanking Warlord" or leader of the "League of Five Provinces" was a Zhili clique warlord and protege of the "Jade Marshal" Wu Peifu (1874-1939). Sun Chuanfang was born in Lichen, Shandong. Educated in Beiyang military school in 1904 and sent to Japan for more education, upon his return he joined the Beiyang Army and later joined the Zhili clique, rising quickly through the ranks.[2]. Sun became the military governor ... View Detail

Former Residence of Li Shutong

Li Shutong (1880-1942), also called Hongyi Great Master, was born in Tianjin to a banking family originated in Hongdong County, Shanxi, that immigrated to Tianjin in Ming Dynasty though her mother was from Pinghu, Zhejiang province. At one side he was both a forerunner of the New culture Movement (around the time of the May 4th Movement is 1919) and at the other side he was a Chinese artist and art teacher in his ages.The residence is a typical building in Qing Dynasty,it's got a history of ... View Detail