Guan Xiangying Former Residence Memorial Hall (Jinzhou)

Former residence and memorial hall of Guan Xiangying (Red Army general). The farmhouse courtyard on Xiangying Street in Jinzhou is the birthplace of senior Red Army general Guan Xiangying: the former residence is an adobe-house compound in southern Liaoning folk style, recreating the scenes of the young Guan Xiangying farming and studying; the memorial hall systematically displays his life—leaving Dalian for the revolution, serving as political commissar of the Second Front Red Army, opening the West Hunan-Hubei base area alongside He Long, until his death from illness in Yan'an in 1946; the name "Guan Xiangying" is still honored today in the street and schools of his hometown. The memorial hall is free; Jinzhou district is reachable by self-drive or bus and can be combined with old-town sites such as the Jinzhou Deputy Commander-in-chief's yamen into a half-day route; for visitors interested in Northeast China's revolutionary history, this site and the Russo-Japanese Prison site at Lüshunkou form the two ends of Dalian's "red memory"—within one city, a complete thread running from the humiliations of modern history to the struggles of revolution.

Getting there: Jinzhou district by self-drive / bus