
Located at the center of Yangliuqing Town, Xiqing District, it was originally the residence of Shi Yuanshi, the fourth son of Shi Fangcheng, one of the Eight Great Families of Tianjin City of Qing Dynasty. Built in 1875 and with a floor area of over 10,000 m2, it’s a large scale civil residence kept well and with unique features of Qing Dynasty in north China, and is titled as the No.1 Residence of North China. Today it becomes a Key National Cultural Protection Unit and a National Touring Site of 4A Class. The Tianjin Yangliuqing Museum, built here in 1991, is a dedicated museum presenting civil architecture art and north folk culture of Qing Dynasty, showing exhibitions of Brief History of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings, Tianjin Brick Sculpture, Tianjin Folk Culture and Shi Residence Recovery, etc. |