Daily recommendation of scenic spot：Tianjin Old City
发表日期：2018年9月1日 共浏览228 次
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The Tianjin Old City Museum is within Xu’s family mansion on Dong Mei Li Ave, East, in the Old City of Tianjin. The Museum seats in the former residence of Mr. Xu Puan, an agent of then British Chartered Bank of Tianjin. His residence was constructed in early 1900’s, occupying about 2,400 square meters. Part of the residence, the west wing of the third yard from within, is restored to a living quarters typical of historical Tianjin with a purpose to showcase the life style of city dwellers at the turn of the century. The whole residence was designed and constructed in a classical and delicate Chinese way utilizing grey bricks, mountain shaped roofing, facing the south. The whole residence consists of three courtyards centrally aligned with hallways on both sides. It has exquisite architectural style and decorated by the elegant carvings. This is the only well preserved traditional courtyard house in Tianjin City. The residence totals 1381 square meters, housing 711 square meters.Before the restoration of Tianjin’s Old City, a well-known novelist, Mr. Feng Ji Cai and some preservationists surveyed the historical site. They suggested the idea of converting Xu’s residence into a museum with donated household items called the Old City Museum. It is the first of its kind in Tianjin. The Museum exhibits donated household items from the local people totaling 3,600 plus pieces. Among them, the “official scale” used to weigh crops from old ship dock of Tianjin, lamp holders made of rosewood, corner stone tablet of Jiangsu Club, antique refrigerator, hand assembled books with threads, gramophone LPs. You can also find old furnace, bed, clocks, hand operated gramophone LP players, radios, etc
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