Former Residence of Pan Wenqi

Former Residence of Pan Wenqi

The former residence of Pan Wenqi is a cultural tourism attraction.

The former residence of Pan Wenqi is located at No. 42, Dongqiao Street, Zhucun, Tianhe District. Construction of the residence began in 1912. Due to Pan Wenqi’s clean official career and modest income, the building took ten years to complete, finally being finished in the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922). When his descendants reclaimed the house in 1997, they carried out minor renovations such as reinforcing the structure and fixing leaks.

This building is a two-story brick-and-wood structure Western-style house, facing south and backed by the north, with blue bricks and stone bases. Above the doorway is a wooden plaque inscribed with “Former Residence of General Pan Wenqi,” written by Wang Guangying, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.

The structure is shaped like the letter “7,” with two and a half courtyards, approximately 11 meters wide and 18.4 meters deep. The first section on the ground floor is the main hall; to the left is the bedroom, and to the right is the staircase. The second section features a central courtyard with grey relief carvings of landscapes combining Chinese and Western styles. To the left is the laundry room, and to the right is the guard room; the rear section is the kitchen. The upper floor is a wooden structure with flooring that includes two circular glass observation ports, each about 30 centimeters in diameter. It has a flush gable roof with grey barrel tiles and 17 roof beams.

On the wall of the upstairs hall hangs a large portrait of General Pan Wenqi. To the left is his bedroom—during the Whampoa Military Academy period, when there were no boats to return to Changzhou Island, Chiang Kai-shek sometimes spent the night in this room. Behind the bedroom is the pantry, and behind the pantry is the rooftop, where Soong Mei-ling once took photos. In 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy used the nearby hills of Zhucun as a field training base. Political and military figures such as Liao Zhongkai, Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, and Soviet advisor Borodin often visited Pan Wenqi here. Currently, the second floor displays a scroll from November 8, 1923, in which Sun Yat-sen praised Pan Wenqi as having “pure ambition and great reliability,” along with two commemorative group photos of Sun Yat-sen with various political and military leaders and favored officers—one titled “Commemorating the First Anniversary of the Great Marshal Sun’s Peril” and the other “Sun Yat-sen’s Journey South to Uphold the Constitution”—both featuring Pan Wenqi. There is also a calligraphic scroll by the late General Zhang Aiping inscribed for Pan Wenqi: “Even at dusk, the black dragon brings rain; even after snow, the cold plum blooms anew.” The first floor now serves as an exhibition room dedicated to General Pan Wenqi.

Pan Wenqi (1882–1949) was born into a poor family in Zhuzixiang, Lupu Division (present-day Zhucun, Dongpu Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. During the first and second establishment of Huangpu District, both Dongpu and Zhucun were under Huangpu District jurisdiction). In 1900, with the help of his teacher, he was admitted to the Huangpu Naval School (predecessor to the Whampoa Military Academy) to study navigation, as part of the eighth cohort of students. He graduated in the 29th year of the Guangxu reign (1903) and was sent to study in England. After returning to China, he became captain of the Yongxiang warship in 1919.

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