Liu's manor in Dayi, Manor estate in Anren Town, Sichuan Province, China.
Liu's Manor in Dayi is a large residential and agricultural estate in Anren Town, Sichuan, made up of five separate buildings with gray brick walls, stone foundations, and carved wooden details in the western Sichuan style. The compound contains courtyards, storage rooms, and living quarters arranged across the grounds.
The estate was begun in the late Qing dynasty by the Liu family of Anren Town and expanded in several stages until it reached its present scale at the end of the Republican era. It comprises five family mansions and the ancestral residence, with 545 rooms across more than 70,000 square metres. In October 1958 the Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall opened there; it was renamed Dayi Liu's Manor in April 1997 and listed as a national key cultural relic in 1996.
The estate belonged to Liu Wencai, a Sichuan gentry figure, and his brothers, who built five mansions alongside the family's ancestral residence. Since October 1958 the site has operated as a museum, opened as the Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall and renamed Dayi Liu's Manor in April 1997. In 2000 it was named a national youth education base.
The manor is in Anren Town and can be reached from Chengdu in about an hour by car or bus. Walking through the grounds takes time, so comfortable shoes are a good idea as some paths are uneven.
One of the exhibition halls contains handmade clay figures showing scenes from rural life in the region during the estate's active years. These figures were originally created for a political exhibition meant to contrast the lives of landlords with those of ordinary farmers.
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