What is the brief introduction of Zhan Tianyou s former residence?

Zhan Tianyou's former residence is located at No. 51, Dongting Street, Jiang'an District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, built in 1912, and was designed and supervised by Zhan Tianyou himself during his tenure as the chief engineer of the Hanyuechuan Railway.

The former residence is a Western-style two-story building with a brick and wood structure. Its eastern, southern, and western sides are surrounded by corridors, and the corridor on the east façade adopts the coupon column type, and the south and west facades are corridors. The main entrance is a figure-of-eight stone staircase, and the gate and corridor are located in the center, presenting an inner corridor layout.

There are three rooms of different sizes on each side of the corridor on the upper and lower floors, and the upper right front room is Zhan Tianyou's bedroom. The top is a red-tiled four-sided sloping roof, with an attic and dormer windows. In front of the building is a courtyard where grapes and flowers are planted.

Now it is well preserved, and there is Zhan Tianyou's former residence on display. �

On June 25, 2001, Zhan Tianyou's former residence, as an important historical site and representative building in modern times, was approved to be included in the list of the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

At No. 42, Sprouts Lane, Twelve Fu West Street, Enning Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou. Zhan Tianyou was born in Xiguan Twelve Fu, Guangzhou, the former residence was in disrepair for a long time, and the relevant departments rebuilt the Zhan Tianyou Memorial Hall in situ according to the original appearance.

Zhan Tianyou's ancestral home is Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province.

From 1912 to 1919, Zhan Tianyou presided over the construction of the Hanyue-Sichuan Railway, where he worked and lived until his death. He moved his family several times for the construction of China's railways, and the former residence is the only one that has been preserved to this day. In 2001, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The building was designed and built by Zhan Tianyou himself.

The house covers an area of 782 square meters, with a construction area of 920 square meters, and is a two-story brick and wood structure with European style. In 1912, Zhan Tianyou and his family moved here from Guangzhou. During his time in the Han Dynasty, Zhan Tianyou successively served as the office and supervisor of the Han-Guangdong-Sichuan Railway, and the first technical supervisor of the Ministry of Communications.

He is in charge of the national railway transportation technology leadership. He founded and led the multidisciplinary Chinese Engineering Society to develop the academic specialty of modern engineering in China.

He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1916. In February 1919, he went to Vladivostok and Harbin on behalf of China to attend the conference on joint supervision of the Far Eastern Railway. During the meeting, due to hard work day and night, abdominal disease**, he took leave to leave Harbin on April 18, returned to Hankou on the 20th, entered Hankou Renji Hospital on the 21st, and died in Hankou on the 24th due to severe abdominal illness, which led to heart failure, at the age of 59.

In order to carry forward the cause of science and technology of the motherland and stimulate the patriotic spirit of future generations, in 1992, the people of Wuhan moved out of the building and repaired it to restore its original appearance. In January 1993, the Zhan Tianyou Former Residence Exhibition Hall was established, and it was officially opened to the public on April 26 of the same year. In 1995, it was listed as a patriotic education base for young people in Wuhan.

Over the past ten years, it has received more than 100,000 visitors from home and abroad. The display of Zhan Tianyou's former residence is divided into original display and auxiliary display. The original display mainly restores Zhan Tianyou's studio on the first floor to reproduce the situation when Zhan Tianyou worked and studied here.

On the second floor, preparations are underway to restore the homes of the Jens and their children). The auxiliary exhibition on the first floor is entitled "Outstanding Patriotic Engineer Zhan Tianyou" in four parts: Part I:

He studied in the United States at an early age and introduced Zhan Tianyou's experience of studying hard as a teenager.

Part II: Dedication to the Railroad. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Zhan Tianyou presided over the construction of the first railway founded by the Chinese, the Beijing-Zhangzhou Railway, and the main achievements of the construction of the commercial Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Han railways.

Part III: Revitalizing Science and Technology. It reflects Zhan Tianyou's outstanding achievements in cultivating young engineers and technicians, carrying out academic research and presiding over the national transportation technology work.

Part 4: Trying to protect the road and defend the country. It describes the deeds of Zhan Tianyou who fought to the last moment of his life to safeguard national sovereignty, as well as the people's remembrance of him.

Zhan Tianyou's former residence has 43 sets of cultural relics. Among them, there are wooden boxes used by Zhan Tianyou when he studied abroad, slide rules used when building railways, English-Chinese dictionaries for work and study, and ** given to his son by Zhan Tianyou's own inscription.

National leaders: Lu Jiaxi, Song Jian, Qian Weichang, Yan Jici, Wu Xiuquan, Zhou Peiyuan, Hong Xuezhi, etc., have successively inscribed the former residence.

Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919) died at the age of 58, called Chengcheng, the word Dachao, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, ancestral home in Wuyuan, Jiangxi, was China's first railway engineer, responsible for the construction of the "Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway" and other projects, known as the "father of China's railways".

Zhan Tianyou was born in 1861 into a family of ordinary tea merchants. As a teenager, Zhan Tianyou was very interested in machines, and often worked with the neighborhood children to imitate various machine models out of clay.

In 1872, Zhan Tianyou, who was only 12 years old, went to Hong Kong to apply for the "Preparatory School for Young Children to Go Abroad" organized by the Qing Dynasty. After passing the examination, my father drew a pledge on a certificate of going abroad that stated "If there is an illness and death, each has a destiny".

He graduated magna laude from New Haven High School in 1877. In May of the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University, specializing in railway engineering. During his four years in college, Zhan Tianyou studied hard and ranked first in the graduation examination with outstanding results.

In 1881, among the 120 Chinese students who returned to China, only two received degrees, and Zhan Tianyou was one of them. After returning to China, Zhan Tianyou was full of enthusiasm and was ready to contribute the skills he had learned to the railway cause of the motherland.

In November 1882, he was sent to the flagship "Yangwu" as a pilot officer, directing drills.

In 1888, he finally transferred to the China Railway Company as an engineer, which was the beginning of his dedication to China's railway career.

There are two former residences of Zhan Tianyou, one is located in Xiguan Twelve Fu West Street, Nanhai County, Guangzhou, which is now Enning Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou, which is the place where Zhan Tianyou was born and raised; One is No. 51 Dongting Street, Jiang'an District, Wuhan City, built in 1912, which was designed and supervised by Zhan Tianyou himself during his tenure as the chief engineer of the Han-Guangdong-Sichuan Railway.