Former Residence of Wang Jingguo

Former Residence of Wang Jingguo

The former residence of Wang Jingguo is located in Xinhé Village, Taicheng Town, Wutai County. Wang Jingguo (1893–1951), courtesy name Zhian and art name Mengchen, was a native of Xinhé Village in Wutai. During the Xinhai Revolution, he participated in the Shanxi New Army Uprising as part of the Xindai Ning Public Corps. Later, he was selected by Yan Xishan to study at the fifth class of the Baoding Military Academy, where he was known as one of the “Thirteen Tigers” alongside Fu Zuoyi and others. He successively served as division commander, army commander, and group army commander of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. During the liberation of Taiyuan, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Taiyuan Garrison. On April 24, 1949, when Taiyuan was liberated, he was captured. He died in prison in 1952.

The residence faces south and has a traditional quadrangle courtyard layout, covering an area of 456 square meters. It is a Qing Dynasty structure. In front of the main gate stands a screen wall, and the gate itself consists of a single room with corridors in the front and rear, featuring plank doors, a flush gable roof, an octagonal decorative wall, and a brick arched doorway. Upon entering the gate, there is a screen wall directly opposite. Originally, the courtyard was divided into upper and lower sections, connected by a floral-pendant gate (now demolished), with brick flower-lattice walls on both sides. The upper courtyard now contains a three-bay-wide north house with five rafters in depth, topped with a flush gable roof, the central bay featuring a corridor, while the side bays were originally used as schoolrooms, each flanked by half-bay wing rooms. There are three three-bay-wide wing rooms on each east and west side (the western room has been modified), each with three rafters in depth and a flush gable roof. The lower courtyard has a three-bay-wide south house with three rafters in depth, also with a flush gable roof, the central bay featuring a corridor, and four-panel lattice windows with wind-door window frames, flanked by schoolrooms on either side; there are also two three-bay-wide schoolrooms on the east and west sides, each with a flush gable roof. (From “A Collection of Cultural Relics in Xinzhou”)

Source: Xinzhou Website

Wang Jingguo (1893–1952) was from Xinhé Village, Wutai County, Shanxi Province. He was a general and commander of the 13th Army Group during the War of Resistance and the leader of Yan Xishan’s elite “Iron Army” organization. He was born in 1893. As a child, he studied in his village …

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