History has left Tianjin with nearly a thousand beautiful small Western-style buildings, walking on the five avenues of Tianjin, I can't help but look east and west, because the old charm of the small Western-style buildings along the way is very fascinating, British, French, Russian, Italian, German... With a variety of different architectural styles of buildings competing for each other, it is no wonder that Tianjin is also known as the "World Architecture Museum". These small western-style buildings are concentrated on the five avenues: Racecourse Road, Mu Nan Road, Dali Road, Changde Road, Chongqing Road, Chengdu Road, with different architectural styles, beautiful shapes and exquisite decorations.
Located in the south-central part of Tianjin City, Racecourse Road is one of the five avenues with a long history and a deep heritage, and is the boundary street between Heping District and Hexi District. It starts from Nanjing Road in the northeast, enters Hexi District from Wujiayao Avenue in the southwest, and ends at the Tianjin Industrial Exhibition Hall in the south. It is 3216 meters long and 18 to 50 meters wide, with two sidewalks each 2 meters wide. Originally an extended british concession, it was built in 1901 with the construction of a racecourse, hence the name Racecourse Road.
There are many famous modern buildings on both sides of the racecourse road, celebrity former residences, small Western-style buildings, to tianjin tourism must come to the five avenues, and to visit the five avenues must first tour the racecourse road, and the must-see attractions on the racecourse road are: The Northern Xinjiang Museum, Liu Guanxiong's former residence, Yong Jianqiu's former residence, Zhu Qizhao's former residence and so on.
Features: The building is a brick and wood structure, the outer wall is a light yellow cement mortar lump wall, and the tile ridge iron roof. There is a cement rain eaves waist line between the first and second floors, the rectangular windows are the mainstay, and some round windows are used as embellishments, and the square and round contrasts are rigorous and lively and exquisite. The interior is decorated with an oval arch corridor structure with a gray line of light on the ceiling. On the first floor there is a large living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen and toilet. On the second floor there is a bedroom, study and toilet. Filipino herringbone floors, double slot windows.
The racecourse road was rebuilt under the auspices of the British Jockey Club manager De Cunlin, widening the road and raising the roadbed, in stark contrast to the undeveloped "deserted" scene on both sides of the road. The southern side of the racecourse road does not belong to the British Concession, but to the German Concession. A young German officer took a fancy to the land on the southwest side of the intersection of Racecourse Road and Hebei Road. Legend has it that the officer had a soft spot for Spanish architecture, so instead of building a traditional German-style house, he asked the designer to design a small Spanish-style building. In 1905, the pale yellow Da Vinci Building was built on the south side of Racecourse Road. Unfortunately, in this small building, the German officer left no account of his personal experience, so much so that today we cannot even retrieve his name.
In many prominent places in the building, a beautiful clan emblem is engraved. For example, on the pillar of the staircase and the east façade of the Western-style building, a clear family emblem can still be found. It is the shape of a shield with two deformed letter combinations in the middle. One of the more recognizable letters is "F", and the other letter may be "T" or "J".
Age: Early 1920s
Building area: 3477 m2
Architectural features: The building is a brick-concrete, European-style conjoined apartment, consisting of 7 conjoined western-style buildings of the same shape. The main body is two floors, the local three floors, the entrance to the first floor has high stone steps, rectangular door openings, the second floor has a strip guardrail balcony, the third floor platform to build four support body closed balconies, the style is unique, 1-2 floors of the original small lift.
This small Western-style building is related to a Tianjin person, but this Tianjin person is not the owner of this small western-style building.
On April 1, 1989, at the capital airport in the cold spring, a special plane from Singapore slowly landed, sending Kim Nai-chi's body back to his homeland. The teacher of the Central Academy of Drama, who participated in China's first expedition to Southeast Antarctica, died of a sudden myocardial infarction on the way back, the first Chinese to die in the Antarctic cause. At that time, the whole country was sad.
Born in Tianjin, Jin Naiqian showed a talent for theatrical performance as early as when he was studying at Tianjin No. 1 Middle School. In the 1950s, he remained as a teacher at the Central Academy of Drama, training a number of actors who are now famous, and he himself created classic stage images such as Qu Yuan and King Lear.
Life is like a drama, and the death of a generation of theater masters is stifling and lamentable. Before embarking on the journey to Antarctica, he left his last days to Tianjin, in the quiet building at 30 Racecourse Road.
30 Racecourse Road is not Kim Nai-chion's former home, it is actually his uncle's home. In the home of The owner of No. 30, Kim Nai-hyun, Kim Nai-chion's brother Kim Nai-gang and several cousins reminisced about the eldest brother and the pride of their family. After his birth, Jin Naiqian lived at No. 48 Changsha Road and No. 7 Dunhouli, and after being admitted to the Chinese Opera, he lived in Beijing for a long time. In the 1970s, Jin Naigang moved his family to Guangxi, and since then, every time Jin Naiqian returns to Tianjin, he has used his uncle's house at No. 30 Racecourse Road as a place to stay.
Architectural features: three-storey building, eclectic style, square doors and windows, multi-bowa roof, perfect living facilities.
The houses on Racecourse Road, starting from Xinhua Road in the west and then turning north to the side of Xinhua South Road Elementary School, were once "Xu's Old Houses". This Xu Shi, no one else, is xu Shichang, the president of the Republic of China. The former residence of Hu Ruoyu mentioned yesterday is actually the old residence of xu's family. Xu Shichang had no sons, only two daughters, one of whom was married to Xu Dachun, and the house where Xu Dachun lived was the dowry that Xu Shichang gave to his daughter when he married Miss Xu.
In the "Former Residence of Xu" lived Xu Shichang and his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. The houses are connected together, and inside each house are people close to the Xu family. But with the change of the times, after Xu Shichang's death, it was difficult for the Xu family to continue to live in this "mansion", so most of the houses were rented out, and a few houses were sold to outsiders. The house where Xu Dachun once lived was one of the first properties sold by the Xu family.
Xu Shichang (1854-1939), bureaucrat of the late Qing Dynasty and Beiyang government, president of the Beiyang government. Zi Bu Wu, the number Ju ren, also known as Tao Zhai (number water bamboo estate people), late number water bamboo village people, Shimen Mountain people, East Sea residents and so on.
Compared with the luxurious and aristocratic life in the TV series, after Xu Shichang became a Yugong in Tianjin, he had strict requirements for the daily life of his family, and the whole family lived a frugal and simple life.
The Xu family's daily family banquet usually has only two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian, no matter how many people eat, generally do not add dishes. Unless the elderly have a birthday or other important holiday, the Xu family rarely sees a scene of eating and drinking at the table. After Xu Shichang's death, the elders of the Xu family were his two wives, and the descendants of the Xu family, under the words and deeds of the two old people, developed the habits of living from an early age, such as the difference between the elderly and the young, cherishing grain, and being diligent and thrifty. For example, at the dinner table, children who are too young are not allowed to eat at the same table with the elderly, when the children grow up a little and understand some rules, they are not allowed to talk when eating with the elders, they are not allowed to leave leftovers, and when they are sandwiched, they must leave the best to the elderly... In film and television works, the picture of those stupid children wolfing at the dinner table will not appear at all in the real presidential home.
Xu Shichang did not have the imaginary "horizontal expropriation" and "plundering of people's wealth" in his life, and in the early days of his tenure as president of the Republic of China, president Feng Lu was paid an annual salary of 200,000 oceans. In the first two years of his term, he should have received an annual salary; but in the later stages of his term of office, the "Zhifeng War" broke out, the domestic situation was chaotic, and the president's annual salary almost became a blank piece of paper. Xu Shichang has been an official for most of his life, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, if he wants to "embezzle and corrupt", the opportunities should be countless, but Xu Shichang despises such behavior very much. His good friend Wang Huaiqing, in the name of "Lady Xu Rouge Fee" sent 100,000 oceans, Xu Shichang was angry, regardless of what old friendship, Ren Wang Huaiqing waited in the living room for a long time, Xu Shichang just avoided seeing.
Among the several presidents of the Republic of China, Xu Shichang may be the "poorest". In addition to some of the real estate purchased, Xu Shichang did not invest, and in his later years he devoted all his personal energy to poetry and song, calligraphy and painting, and the hobby of writing books and collecting books. He made his family frugal in their daily lives, but he did not hesitate to write books and collect books in "useful places".
Xu Shichang composed more than a thousand poems in his lifetime, and in his later years organized the "Late Qing Poetry Society" and compiled the "Evening Qing Poetry Collection". His calligrapher Cheng Yan Su (承燕苏), who has learned from his many strengths, has published such as "Water Bamboo Estate People Linti" and "Shimen Mountain Lintu Ti", and has a monograph on the "Hundred Yan Spectrum". His paintings, shanshui and pine bamboo, like to draw fans, very accomplished, and his representative works include "Four Bamboo Diagrams of the Sunny Wind and Dew Moon". Later generations commented on Xu Shichang, "Plain and innocent, meaning high and ancient; sharp brush strokes, like jade; poetry and paintings reflect each other, calligraphy and painting are the same body; the charm is connected, refreshing and extraordinary." ”
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