Yangliuqing

Yangliuqing is a marketplace metropolis in Xiqing District, inside the western suburbs of Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Despite its fairly small length, it has been named given that 2006 within the "well-known historic and cultural market cities in China". It is fine acknowledged in China for developing nianhua or Yangliuqing nianhua. For more than 400 years, Yangliuqing has in impact specialized in the introduction of these woodcuts for the New Year. Timber block prints the use of bright colourschemes to portray traditional scenes of children's video games regularly interwoven with auspiciouse objects.

As of 2011, it had 27 residential communities and 25 villages underneath its management. Shi Family Grand Courtyard is located in Yangliuqing Town of Xiqing District, that's the former residence of rich merchant Shi Yuanshi - the 4th son of Shi Wancheng, one of the 8 top notch masters in Tianjin. First constructed in 1875, it covers over 6,000 square meters, along with large and small yards and over 200 folks homes, a theater and over 275 rooms that served as flats and locations of enterprise and worship for this effective family.