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督军府旧址

督军府旧址, Former Military Governor's Office in Taiyuan, China

This former Military Governor's Office is a government complex in central Taiyuan built with traditional Chinese architecture, gray stone walls, and wooden structures arranged across the site. The compound contains several connected buildings organized around courtyards, following the typical layout of a Chinese administrative center.

The site began as a temple to Duke Wen of Jin and was rebuilt in 982 as the headquarters of general Pan Mei. Under the Ming and Qing it housed the Shanxi governor's office; on 29 October 1911 the Tongmenghui uprising set up the Shanxi military government here. In 1916 Yan Xishan made it his military governor's office, and from 1918 new halls and a clock tower were added.

The name changed with each regime: the compound was the office of Shanxi's military governor after Yan Xishan took the post in 1916, and since 2020 it has housed the Jin Merchant Museum, whose plaque hangs on the gate's right-hand colonnade. The Yimen, or second gate, takes its name from the phrase "有仪可象", meaning a model of proper conduct. Two stone lions south of it date from the fifth year of the Xianfeng reign (1855).

The complex stands at 101 Fudong Street in the Xinghualing district, with its core buildings on a central axis and the rest split into east and west routes. The gate tower, Yimen and Zisheng Hall come first, then Meishan hill and its clock tower at the rear. The Yimen was rebuilt between 2017 and 2019 on its original footprint from photographs.

The gate tower was originally a single-eaved Qing-era entrance; during the Republican period it was rebuilt as a two-storey double-eaved tower roofed in red and green glazed tiles. Two stone lions stand before it, and a blue plaque with gold characters reading "Jinshang Museum" hangs on the right-hand corridor pillar.

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