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Tianjin Boxer Memorial Hall
The Boxer Rebellion Memorial Hall is located at No. 18, Hejia Hutong, Ruyi'an Street, Hongqiao District, Tianjin. It is a Taoist temple dedicated to Lü Dongbin in the Qing Dynasty. In the 26th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1900 AD), the Boxer Rebellion arose. The famous Boxer leader Cao Futian set up the main altar here, which became the center of the Boxer Rebellion activities at that time. After restoration in 1985, the "Tianjin Boxer Memorial Hall" was established. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The Boxer Rebellion is one of the three major revolutions in modern Chinese history. Sun Yat-sen called it a model for the Revolution of 1911, and Premier Zhou Enlai called it "one of the cornerstones of the great victory of the Chinese people fifty years later."
Cao Family Garden
Cao's Garden, located on Wuma Road in Hebei District, Tianjin, was originally Sun's Garden. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was built by Sun Zhongying, a comprador and arms merchant. Today, it is the location of the 254th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army. Sun Zhongying, a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu, initially worked in a bank in Shanghai. In the 16th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (1890), he came to Tianjin to do business and worked as a comprador in a foreign company. He met Li Hongzhang and then engaged in arms business, making a lot of money. In the 29th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (1903), it was the period of development of the Hebei New District. He bought land in Hebei, starting from Yuanwei Road in the west, Zhouwei Road in the east, Wuma Road in the south, and Xinkai River in the north, covering an area of more than 200 acres, built a house and a private garden. The garden is full of flowers and trees, pavilions and pavilions, and the stream flows around, which is also quite elegant, so it is called Sun's Garden. In the 32nd year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (1906), in order to make friends with the new rich, he sold the garden privately to Cao Kun. Cao Kun, courtesy name Zhongshan, was from Tianjin and sold cloth in his early years. In the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1882), he joined the Xinjian Army as a soldier and was selected to study at the Tianjin Military Academy. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he attached himself to Yuan Shikai and was promoted to the commander of the Third Army of the Xinjian Army in the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu. Cao Kun took a fancy to the Sun Family Garden and bought it from Sun Zhongying with a large sum of money. Since then, "Sun Family Garden" was renamed "Cao Family Garden". After that, Cao Kun relied on his power and used the wealth he had plundered to expand the garden site and built a large number of buildings in the garden. He demolished the old houses and rebuilt them into palace-style buildings, with corridors connecting each building. He also built Western-style double-column gates and curved eaves for his children. The Prince's Building and the Princess' Building were also built. Rockeries were piled up in the garden, an artificial lake was dug, a pavilion in the center of the lake was built, and a swimming pool was built. Stone men, stone horses, stone sheep, and stone lions were placed in front of the door of each building. The garden is lush with trees and flowers, elegant and pleasant, and was the best private garden at that time. During the expansion and renovation of Cao's Garden, many stones came from other garden sites such as Shuixizhuang.
Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China Memorial Hall
In October 1943, during the anti-Japanese war in Pingxi, Comrade Cao Huoxing created this song of truth in Tangshang Village, Xiayunling Township. In 2001, the Xiayunling Township Government and Tangshang Village invested millions of yuan to renovate the site where the lyrics and music of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" were created, and the exhibition hall of the site where the lyrics and music of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" were created was established. A memorial sculpture with the theme of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" was built in the courtyard. In March 2002, the site was rated as a municipal patriotic education base by the Beijing Patriotism Education Leading Group. On June 26, 2006, the "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" Memorial Hall was newly built. The main building of the memorial hall is 1,800 square meters, the singing stage is 4,000 square meters, the parking lot is 2,200 square meters, the road construction is 850 meters, and the large theme exhibition is 1,100 square meters. The memorial hall adopts a single-story connected construction method based on the terrain, reflecting the style of Pingxi mountain dwellings, and is divided into three areas: A, B, and C. The large-scale theme exhibition is divided into three parts. In the exhibition art expression, it comprehensively uses traditional and modern artistic means such as text, photography, painting, relief, wax figure, and phantom imaging. The entire exhibition displays 800 photos, 1 oil painting, 1 large relief, 1 wax figure, and 1 phantom imaging. The memorial hall can accommodate 500 people at the same time.