Xigong Barracks 洛阳西工兵营Luòyáng Xīgōng Bīngyíng

About Xigong Barracks

A modern-style barracks begun in 1914 under Yuan Shikai and greatly enlarged by the warlord Wu Peifu after 1920, which in the war against Japan served as headquarters of the First War Zone. The surviving core includes the headquarters courtyard, the two-storey house Wu Peifu built as his office, a study built in 1939 in the style of Yan'an cave dwellings and the remains of an old bridge over the Luo River. Since 2021 it has housed the Luoyang War of Resistance Memorial Hall, whose exhibition presents the Communist-led resistance in western Henan with photographs, documents and objects.

How to get to Xigong Barracks

At 401 Zhongzhou Middle Road, Xigong District, central Luoyang, near Jiefang Road station where Luoyang Metro Lines 1 and 2 meet.

Nearby

• Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟 10 km
  Some 100,000 Buddhas carved into riverside cliffs, watched over by a serene giant
• White Horse Temple 白马寺 20 km
  China's first Buddhist temple, with Thai, Indian and Burmese halls beside it
• Shaolin Temple 少林寺 50 km
  The cradle of Chan Buddhism and kung fu, at the foot of Mount Song

Also within 20 km: Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Museum 天子驾六博物馆 (under 10 km), Sui–Tang Luoyang City Site (Yingtian Gate and Mingtang) 隋唐洛阳城 (under 10 km), Zhougong Temple Museum 洛阳周公庙 (under 10 km), China National Flower Garden 中国国花园 (under 10 km), Sui–Tang City Site Botanical Garden 隋唐城遗址植物园 (under 10 km), Eighth Route Army Luoyang Office Memorial Hall 八路军驻洛办事处纪念馆 (under 10 km).

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