Xi Zhong's former residence, Yuan Shikai's former residence, is located 7.5 kilometers southeast of Xiangcheng District, in Yuanzhai Administrative Village, Wangmingkou Town, 9 kilometers north of 106 National Road, 5 kilometers north of Luo Fu Railway and 7 kilometers north of Luo Fu Expressway. In and out of Yuan Shikai's former residence, it is planned to build an asphalt pavement with a width of 8m and a length of12000m. Yuan Shikai's former residence is the birthplace of Yuan Shikai, a famous historical figure and the first president of the Republic of China. In the seventh year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Jia took a fancy to Yuan Zhai, a treasure trove of geomantic omen, bought it at a huge sum of money and began to expand it until the end of Xianfeng's ten years. The former residence covers an area of 270 mu, with 248 buildings with Ming and Qing characteristics and traditional styles, surrounded by 1800 meters long and 10 meters high walls, a beautiful and unique garden, six gun towers and three moats. Yuan died in Beijing, but he had many wives and concubines and many houses in Tianjin. Among them, Davenport Road (No.64 Jianshe Road, Heping District), a British concession, was built by him in the 27th year of Guangxu (190 1), with 65,438 buildings and 65,438 bungalows. This house is a combination of Chinese and western architecture, with Chinese eaves galleries and western spires.
Landscape of Yuan Shikai's Former Residence (2) (13 photo)
Jintang No.2 Road, Austrian Concession (No.39 Haihe East Road, Hebei District) He bought a piece of land with a total area of 5.7 mu at a low price in Guangxu thirty-four years (1908), and built a magnificent big house, which was designed into a European classical building by British and German architects. It is a three-story building with brick and wood structure, with a total of 54 rooms and a construction area of 2089 square meters. The design features of this building are: there are so-called "stable positions" and "escape positions".
"Invisible place" is a small door on the right side of the second floor. There are reinforced concrete stairs and iron railings in the door, which can go up to the roof and down to the basement. If the door is closed, there is nowhere to go upstairs and downstairs. The "escape place" is an iron staircase in the pavilion on the third floor, which leads directly to the door left in the back garden for your escape. In addition, an octagonal house with several windows facing the Haihe River was specially designed between the second and third floors of this building. Whether the tide is high or low, the river seems to flow into the octagonal building, symbolizing that countless financial resources flow to the Yuan family.