According to records, Liu Yong, the prime minister of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, was located at No. 129, West End of Lishi Hutong, Beijing. There was a horizontal stone on the south wall of the street with the inscription "Former Residence of Mr. Liu Shi'an". Shi'an is Liu Yong's nickname. During the earthquake in Japan, Li Yanqing took the opportunity to make a fortune selling rice and bought this compound. After Li Yanqing was executed, the house was sold to Li Lingchen, the son of Tianjin salt merchant Li Shanren. Li Lingchen asked Zhu Qiqian's students to redesign it. After liberation, it became the Indonesian Embassy in China, and was later used by China Youth Daily and the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The architecture of the courtyard is very exquisite, especially in the traditional courtyard house, which introduces the beauty of southern gardens. The courtyard has rockeries, ponds, pavilions and pavilions. It has both ingenious artificial buildings and pleasant and quiet flowers and trees. In 1984, it was designated as a municipal cultural relic protection unit in Beijing. At that time, the film crew of the TV series "Mansion Gate" took a fancy to the "Mansion Gate" here and used it as a filming location. A two-story gray brick building at the corner of Ping'an Street on Progress Road in Tianjin (i.e., the Independent Division Hospital of the Tianjin Guard District, now demolished and rebuilt into a new building) was originally purchased by Li Yanqing. After Li Yanqing's death, Cao Kun took possession of it.
It is said that Li Yanqing secretly withheld three months of the military pay allocated to Feng Yuxiang. After obtaining this money, he hired a famous architect from Beijing to build a large-scale construction project in his hometown of Li Yuanzhai. A large palace-style house was built. All the materials used to build this compound came from other places. Li Yanqing used his young men to transport terrazzo blue bricks from Hebei, green tiles as tribute to the emperor from Shanxi, and red pine from the northeast to build this majestic and meticulously carved deep house compound.
During the Republic of China, Li Yuanzhai Village belonged to Ling County. Anyone who came to Ling County to be the county magistrate had to come to Li Yanqing's home to give gifts and greetings before taking office. Legend has it that a county magistrate came to Li Yuanzhai without a gift, and Li Yanqing's family did not receive him. The county magistrate was very angry and was afraid that he would not be able to sit firmly on this site, so he invited a Feng Shui master from the south. This person instructed the county magistrate to dig a large ditch in the east of the county town to destroy the feng shui of Li Yanqing's house. It just so happened that Li Yanqing was killed as soon as the ditch was completed. Since then, no one has lived in this compound.
In 1939, the Eighth Route Army’s night attack on Li Yuanzhai took place here. After liberation, the government took over the compound and turned it into a central primary school. In 1958, the Linzi People's Commune converted the compound into a grain center and has been using it ever since. In 2008, Li Yuanzhai’s Li Yanqing House of the Republic of China was listed as one of the first batch of cultural relics protection units by the Linyi County People’s Government.