Former Residence of Ji Hongchang in Tianjin

　　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 built in 1917 and designed by Shadeli, an engineer from the Belgian-owned company Société Immobilière de Tientsin. The building consists of 11 rooms on the upper floors, 2 ground-floor rooms, 2 hallway rooms, covering an area of 1.45 mu, with a total floor area of 1,408 square meters. It has 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 of the French Concession in 1930, and his family moved in the following year. In 1933, after the Anti-Japanese Allied Army failed under attacks from both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese invaders, Ji Hongchang returned to Tianjin and lived here, continuing his anti-Japanese activities. After Ji Hongchang’s execution, the Red House was sold to another party in 1944, then purchased by the Heping District Traditional Chinese Medicine Joint Clinic in 1955, and is now used by Heping Hospital.

　　Ji Hongchang (1895–1934)　　Ji Hongchang In 1895, in the backyard of a small tea house owned by the Ji family in Lutan Town, Fugou County, Henan Province, a boy was born and named Hongchang. For Hongchang’s father, Ji Yunting, the addition to the family was a joy but also meant another mouth to feed. Ji Hongchang managed to reach the age of 18, and just as Feng Yuxiang was recruiting soldiers in Henan, he signed up and thus began his lifelong military career. From childhood, Ji Hongchang admired heroes such as Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang, so in the army, he was sincere, hardworking, disciplined, brave, and skilled in combat, earning the nickname “Ji the Bold.” The troops he led were known as “...   More+