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Former Residence of Ji Hongchang in Tianjin

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The former residence of Ji Hongchang is located at No. 5 Huayuan Road, Heping District. It is a three-story British-style small building with a courtyard, also known as the Red House. The building was initially constructed in 1917 and designed by the Belgian company SADLER, an engineer from the Société Immobilière de Tientsin. The structure includes 11 rooms on the upper floors, 2 single-story rooms, 2 hallway rooms, covering an area of 1.45 mu, with a total floor area of 14

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The Former Residence of Ji Hongchang is a cultural tourism attraction.

The former residence of Ji Hongchang is located at No. 5 Huayuan Road, Heping District. It is a three-story British-style small building with a courtyard, also known as the Red House. The building was initially constructed in 1917 and designed by the Belgian company SADLER, an engineer from the Société Immobilière de Tientsin. The building has 11 upper-floor rooms, 2 single-story rooms, 2 hallway rooms, covering a site area of 1.45 mu, with a total construction area of 1,408 square meters. It is a brick-and-wood structure with exposed red brick walls. The building is currently used by Tianjin Heping Hospital.

Ji Hongchang purchased this building on Route 40 in the French Concession in 1930, and his family moved in the following year. In 1933, after the Anti-Japanese Allied Army failed under the combined attacks of Chiang Kai-shek’s forces and the Japanese invaders, Ji Hongchang returned to Tianjin and lived here while continuing his anti-Japanese activities. After Ji Hongchang was executed, the Red House was sold to another party in 1944, then repurchased by the Heping District Traditional Chinese Medicine United Clinic in 1955, and is now used by Heping Hospital.

Ji Hongchang

In 1895, in the backyard of a small tea house owned by the Ji family in Lvtan Town, Fugou County, Henan Province, a boy was born and named Hongchang. To Hongchang’s father, Ji Yunting, the addition of a new child was a joy but also meant another mouth to feed. Ji Hongchang managed to reach the age of 18, and at that time, Feng Yuxiang was recruiting soldiers in Henan, so he signed up and began his lifelong military career.

From childhood, Ji Hongchang regarded heroes such as Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang as role models. As a result, in the military, he treated people with sincerity, endured hardship, adhered strictly to military discipline, and was brave and skilled in battle... More details about Ji Hongchang ++