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Shi Family Grand Courtyard (Yangliuqing Museum) 石家大院Shíjiā Dàyuàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Tianjin, Tianjin
- Time needed
- 1.5 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Tianjin
- Region
- Tianjin
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Shi Family Grand Courtyard (Yangliuqing Museum)
The mansion of the Qing-dynasty merchant Shi Yuanshi, one of Tianjin's 'eight great families', begun in 1875 and now the Yangliuqing Museum, on the South Canal in the old canal town of Yangliuqing. Its courtyards are noted for brick, wood and stone carving and include a private theatre, one of the better-preserved closed residential theatres in China. Displays cover Yangliuqing New Year prints, brick carving, paper-cuts, kites and wedding and merchant customs.
How to get to Shi Family Grand Courtyard (Yangliuqing Museum)
On the South Canal in the old town of Yangliuqing, Xiqing District, about 0.8 km south of the Xiqing District government.
Nearby
- Five Great Avenues 五大道 20 km
Leafy lanes of century-old villas from Tianjin's treaty-port days
Also within 20 km: Yangliuqing Manor 杨柳青庄园 (under 10 km), Tianjin Tropical Plant Garden 天津热带植物观光园 (under 10 km), Shuigao Manor 水高庄园 (under 10 km), Pingjin Campaign Memorial Hall 平津战役纪念馆 (10 km), Memorial Hall of the Boxer Uprising (Lüzutang) 义和团吕祖堂坛口遗址 (10 km), Li Chun Ancestral Hall (Zhuangwangfu) 李纯祠堂 (10 km).
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