Racecourse Road

Racecourse Road

Located in the central and southern part of Tianjin city, it is one of the most famous five avenues in China, which has a long history and profound foundation. It is the Boundary Street between Heping District and Hexi District. It starts from Nanjing Road in the northeast, enters Hexi District from Wujiayao street in the southwest, turns south and ends at Tianjin Industrial Exhibition Hall. It is 3216m long and 18-50m wide, of which the sidewalks on both sides are 2m wide. It was originally a British concession. It was built with the construction of Racecourse in 1901, so it was named Racecourse road. Most of the buildings on both sides are British style, similar to the architectural style of munan Road, Changde Road, Chongqing Road and Dali Road, which is known as the five western style roads. Along the street are the Municipal Bureau of agriculture and forestry, the Municipal Federation of social organizations, the Municipal Institute of foreign languages, the Municipal Local Records Office, the fine arts publishing house, and the cadre club. Since April 2000, the racecourse road has been comprehensively renovated. High quality pavement has been rebuilt, street lamps have been replaced, water supply and drainage, gas supply city and other pipelines have been replaced, and buildings on both sides have been renovated. It has become one of the important welcome roads in the urban area.

Main attractions

Beijiang museum is the earliest Museum in northern China and one of the earliest museums in China. It was built in 1922. The museum is located in Tianjin Institute of Commerce and industry (now Tianjin Institute of foreign languages). It is the second Catholic University founded in China by the Jesuit Church of Xianxian parish of French Catholic Church. At present, Beijiang museum is a cultural relic protection unit and a key protected historic building in Tianjin. Now it is the storeroom of Tianjin Museum of nature, and there are a large number of specimens.

In 1922, the office building of Beijiang museum was completed. It was designed and supervised by binai, the architect of Bishang Yipin company at that time. It was located in the courtyard of industrial and Commercial University at that time. The whole building was a three story reinforced concrete structure building with a height of 21 meters and an area of 300 square meters. The interior of the building consists of a laboratory, an office, a collection room, security doors and double windows. In 1925, the exhibition hall of Beijiang museum was completed and designed by Yonghe construction company. It was located at the west end of the office building at that time. It was a three story building with fire, anti-theft, dust and shock prevention measures. The building also had high windows for natural lighting. According to the construction requirements of the museum, sang Zhihua inlaid the flat glass in the reinforced concrete window frame to avoid the invasion of dust and heavy rain, and fixed the display cabinet directly on the wall to make the light more transparent. The internal exhibition room adopts the center bracket structure. In 1929, the Museum of Northern Xinjiang was expanded for the second time. A two-story building was built parallel to the main building, and an air passage was set between the two buildings to connect the three buildings built in different periods, forming an "I" shape.

In the 1920s, Shanghai has appeared the Sinian Museum and Shanghai Museum. At that time, sang Zhihua, a French missionary sponsored by the Jesuit society of Tianjin, collected a large number of specimens and fossils from geology, rocks, paleontology, animals and plants, and stored them in Chongde hall, the tent of the Jesuit society of Tianjin. Later, specimens gradually filled all the rooms and basements of Chongde hall. Therefore, sang Zhihua asked the Jesuits to establish a museum. In 1922, with the support of the French Catholic Church and the administrative authorities of the French concession in Tianjin, and considering the proposal of Sang Zhihua, it was decided to build a museum at the same time in order to solve the problem of specimen collection. Sang Zhihua built a three story building with an area of 300 square meters and a height of 21 meters on the south side of Machang road. Sang Zhi named it "Musee hoangho Paiho", that is, "Yellow River Baihe Museum". Later, due to the expansion of collection sources, it was named Beijiang Museum. Now there are signs in Chinese and French on both sides of the building, which is the original appearance.

In May 1928, the exhibition hall of Tianjin Beijiang museum was officially opened to the public. There were 20000 species of plant specimens, 35000 species of animal specimens, 7000 species of rock and ore specimens, 18000 kg of animal skeleton fossils, 133 maps of geography, mountains, rivers, soil, animals and plants, more than 3000 photos, and investigation reports on anthropology, industry, commerce and agriculture. In combination with the exhibition, lectures on scientific knowledge are also held. Sang Zhihua also wrote a series of publications to introduce the collection of Beijiang Museum. At that time, the museum not only had a display room, but also a laboratory. Later, a new laboratory building and a public museum were built, covering an area of more than 2000 square meters. All kinds of specimens displayed in the exhibition room are open to the public on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Sang Zhihua is the president of the museum, and de Rijin is the vice president. The specimens of the four paleofaunas discovered by sang Zhihua are in the North Xinjiang Museum: the Hippophae fauna in Qingyang, Gansu; the Pleistocene mammals and stone tools in Salawusu, Inner Mongolia; the Pliocene mammals in Nihewan, Yangyuan, Hebei; and Yushe, Shanxi.

In 1937, the Anti Japanese war broke out, and most areas of northeast, North and East China were occupied by the Japanese army, which forced sang Zhihua's excavation work to be interrupted. During the Japanese occupation of Tianjin, sang Zhihua returned to France, and the North Xinjiang Museum basically stopped the excavation and research work. In 1939, Tianjin suffered from flood, and part of the collection of Beijiang museum was moved to the new museum near the French Embassy in Beijing.

In 1952, Tianjin Municipal People's government took over Beijiang Museum and renamed it Tianjin People's Science Museum. In November 1953, the exhibition hall opened again. At that time, the exhibits were divided into four categories: Paleontology and minerals, vertebrates, animal evolution and agricultural diseases and pests. In 1958, Tianjin nature museum was officially established in the building of Beijiang Museum. In 1959, the exhibition and office address were moved from Beijiang museum to the former British country club (now Tianjin cadre Club) at 272 Machang road. The building of Beijiang Museum became a storehouse for collecting precious specimens. Since the 1960s, the northern Xinjiang Museum has been closed to the outside world. Only researchers and Museum administrators can enter. There are a large number of specimens in the warehouse of Tianjin Museum of nature.

Former residence of Liu Guanxiong

It is the residence of Liu Guanxiong and his son, the first commander of the navy of the Republic of China. It was built in 1922 and is located at No. 6 Road (now 123 Machang Road, Hexi District, Tianjin) in the German concession promotion area of Tianjin at that time. It is a key protected historic building. It is now used in the office building of Tianjin University of Finance and economics. It is a European architecture with symbolism style.

Liu Guanxiong's former residence covers an area of 3325 square meters, covering an area of 9.190 mu. It is a European style building with a basement of Western brick and wood structure. There are three buildings in total, namely the middle building, the West Building and the north building. Among them, due to the master's status as a Naval General, the middle building is a three-story building imitating an aircraft carrier, with a standing telescope on the front. The West building is cruiser type, and the north building is telescope type. At present, the middle and West buildings have been demolished. The north building is a three story building with a basement. The facade is made of red machine brick fair faced wall matched with mixed water line decoration. Part of the building is decorated with sand and stone cover. The whole building is in the shape of a vertical face. The Philippine Binmu double slot window has a large eaves and a Roman style roof. The back of the building is sunny, with two 8 steps and a balcony of more than 80 square meters. There are 81 rooms in the building. The first floor is the hall, dining room, study and reception hall. Among them, the foyer is supported by four square pillars, and the top and ceiling are decorated with flowers and patterns. 2、 The third floor is the living room. The basement has a kitchen, a boiler room and a utility room. In addition, the top of the west side of the north building was originally equipped with a carved building elevator, which was later removed.

Liu Guanxiong's former residence was built in 1922. There are three original buildings, namely the middle building, the West Building and the north building. Since then, Liu Guanxiong rented the north building to the North China Water Conservancy Commission in order to repay the mortgage of the property on Guangdong Road. After Liu Guanxiong's death, in 1936, Liu Guanxiong's son paid the debt to Xiannong company. Later, the family moved out because they were unable to repay. The house was used by private Zhida middle school before the founding of the people's Republic of China and taken over by Tianjin Municipal People's government after the founding of the people's Republic of China. It is used by Tianjin 22 middle school and Tianjin Housing Administration Bureau, and now it is used by the branch of Tianjin University of Finance and economics.

Northern Warlord Ni sichong Garden

Ni sichong garden is one of the three former residences of Anhui warlord Ni sichong in Tianjin. It was originally located in Machang Road (now the site of children's Hospital) in the British concession. After Ni purchased the land, he planned to build it as Ni's garden in his later years. Apart from two western style buildings, this house has rockeries, pavilions, flowers and trees. It is a quiet garden house where Ni lived after he left the field. In addition, the former tian'anli building in the Japanese concession is also Ni's property. It was originally the residence of Japanese police officers, but later it was converted into shengdeli

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Former residence of song qieqing

Founded in 1937, it is the residence of song Jiqing, chairman and manager of Tianjin East Asia woollen textile Co., Ltd., member of the first CPPCC National Committee of the people's Republic of China and member of the financial and Economic Committee of the Government Affairs Council. Located at race course road (116 and 116-118 of Machang road in Heping District) in the British concession of Tianjin at that time, the building is a historical building with key protection level. The building is now the ninth kindergarten in Heping District of Tianjin.

Song qieqing's former residence consists of two brick and wood structure British courtyard buildings with red tile roof, with a total construction area of 2018 square meters. There are spacious courtyards in the former residence of song qieqing, and the overall courtyard is a garden pattern.

Chinese PinYin : Ma Chang Dao