Jinzhou museum, a Qing Dynasty Military Yamen
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 0.54 mi
- Elevation gain
- 10 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 10 ft
- Max elevation
- 72 ft
- TrailRank
- 51
- Min elevation
- 41 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 23 minutes
- Time
- one hour 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 160
- Uploaded
- October 17, 2023
- Recorded
- October 2023
near Yuanyicun, Liaoning (China)
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Itinerary description
a Dalian City Major Protection Building, and
a Dalian City Patriotism Education Base.
Also wander a couple of blocks to the NE of the Yamen to see more historical Jinzhou Buildings in a small shady forest park.
For foreigners your passport is needed to register (name and passport #). An in-China phone number must also be provided. Foreign guests are apparently very rare. Some Mandarin skill is advisable, or a bilingual helper. Free admission.
The former site of "Jinzhou Deputy Dutong Yamen" (Military Govn't Office). Established in the 23rd Year of Qing Emperor Daoguang’s reign (1843). Typical of the style of Ming and Qing Dynasty with offices in front and residences in the back, preserved in good condition. Set up as a museum, it covers the local history throughout the Qing dynasty, up to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, which resulted in continuous Japanese occupation to 1945.
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Museum
57 ft
Museum entrance
Photos: nearby streets, old walled city map (walls not preserved), old gatehouse photo, yamen entrance. Summarizing select Mandarin script from the displays: It governed the Manchu population and Military Affairs in Jinzhou Town, and the surrounding area and was subordinate to the Manchu Capital at Shenyang. It was established to strengthen the coastal defence of in southern Liaoning Province.
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47 ft
First Courtyard
Jinzhou city was originally founded in the Liao Dynasty (907–1125). During Ming Dynasty a green brick city wall replaces the earlier rammed earth wall. In 1616 the Jin Dynasty (Manchu-Mongol) incorporated the Jinzhou area. Manchu Emperor Taizong invaded Beijing, overthrew the Ming Dynasty in 1644, and became the first Qing Emperor, ruling all of China. In 1778 Qing Emperor Qianlong rebuilt and repaired a rectangular city wall of 930 x 760 meters and 6 meters high with a 15-meter wide and 5-meter-deep moat, and Gates on the central N, S, E, and W sides. The manufacture of firearms flourished in the Early Qing Dynasty, but after Emperor Yongzheng and the stabilization of the regime, development and production of firearms was neglected and equestrian archery was again advocated. This widened the gap with western powers in military technology and was a factor in China’s defeat during the Opium Wars and the First Sino-Japanese War. In the 1830’s and 1850’s Britain imported opium and other drugs into China as trade commodities, bringing disaster to the Chinese people. This activity included Southern Liaoning, and threatened the Manchu (Qing) capital at Shenyang and places further north. In 1840 the British launched a war to protect their opium trade and the southern Liaoning coast was briefly invaded at that time. From then on Jinzhou Yamen was responsible for the military defense of Southern Liaoning. In 1856 Britain and France launched 2nd opium war, and Southern Liaoning was among the ravaged areas. In April 1860 British troops landed here to plunder and to spy on the coastal defenses of the Qing Empire, staying one month in this area. This prompted the Qing court to upgrade the local coastal defenses.
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51 ft
Second Courtyard
Summarized from Hanzi script captions: In the 20th year of Qing Emperor Guangxu (1894) Japan launched a premeditated war of aggression against Northern China (The First Sino-Japanese War). Japanese advance spies were captured and executed outside the west gate of this Yamen. Initial battles were directed from the Yamen and waged on ‘Taishan’ (Daheishan and adjoining peaks with their Buddhist heritage and infrastructure) immediately east of Jinzhou (e.g./ The Stone Gate Battlefield – 5 km East of Jinzhou). However, with backward weapons and disparity of troop strength, many Qing troops refused to go out to meet the enemy. On November 6, 1894 the large Japanese Army stormed Jinzhou Town using 36 heavy artillery pieces against the 700 defenders, then moved on to take all of the Liaodong Peninsula with brutal atrocity. In April 1985 the Western Powers, led by Russia, using diplomatic effort, forced Japan to withdraw from China. In July, 1900, the Tsarist Russian Army occupied Jinzhou by force on the pretext that its Qing Officials had colluded with the local Boxer anti-colonial Rebellion. Qing officials were deported to hard labour camps in Sakhalin Island, Russia until September 1901. Russia occupied all of NE China at that time, built Russian style in the cities, and installed key railways. In 1904 Japan invaded Russian occupied Liaoning, and fought a brutal war for the Liaodong Peninsula. The Japanese retook Jinzhou Town and Nanshan Hill a few kms to the SW (see Wikiloc at the Nanshan Battle site) then swept west to retake Port Arthur and the entire Liaodong Peninsula.. The few remaining Female survivors in Jinzhou resorted to mass suicides down a well as the victorious Japanese troops rampaged and looted. The Russo-Japanese war initiated the Japanese Occupation (Manchukuo, 1905-1945). Chinese administration at Jinzhou ended and moved to Shenyang and Changchun in the form of a puppet govn’t under The Last Emperor (Puyi). The Yamen became the Japanese police office and enslaved the people. During the Republican Period and Civil War (1911–1949) the office was not reinstated. After Mao’s Red Army took the area, a Communist Administration occupied the buildings. In 2000 the Public Security Bureau moved out and the Yamen was restored and rebuilt as a museum.
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66 ft
Far Northern Court
Items from earlier dynasties are displayed outdoors. There is not much translated English information about pre-colonial times in Liaoning. However, it is said to have enjoyed the glories of the Tang and Northern Sung Dynasties. There is a bamboo grove and water feature.
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