Ji Xiaolan’s Former Residences

Ji Xiaolan’s former residence in Beijing is located at 241 Zhushikou Xidajie of Xuanwu District.

Ji Xiaolan’s Former Residences

Ji Yun(1724-1805), also known as Ji Xiaolan, was from Xianxian County in Hebei Province. As a palace graduate and renowned scholar of Emperor Qianlong’s reign period (r.1736- 1795) of the Qing Dynasty, he was minister of rites and assistant grand secretary in the Grand Secretariat. He was in charge of the compilation of the Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature). The wisteria and Chinese flowering crabapple tree in the courtyard were grown by Ji Xiaolan himself. In 1930, a patriotic democrat Liu Shaobai rented this house, thus this Yuewei Caotang (Thatched Abode of Close Observations) became Liu’s Mansion. In 1936, Fu Liancheng bought this house for his traditional Peking opera school as students’dormitory and training ground.