Introduction to Tan Junpei Mansion: Tan Mansion is located at the southern end of Bei'an Fucheng. It is the earliest celebrity mansion built in Zhenyuan. The mansion is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with Pingmao Mountain behind it being lush and green, towering into the clouds, and the quiet Wuyang River in front of the door. Down the river, it meanders.
Tan Mansion is a rectangular courtyard building with a high wind and fire wall facing north and south. It is about 10 meters high, 30 meters wide and 45 meters deep. The main entrance is a narrow stone library door with beveled corners and a half-walled corner gatehouse above the lintel. It is unique and unique; the courtyard inside the wall is deep, with bluestone paving, smooth and smooth; there are front rooms on both sides, a living room in the middle, and a nave and main building behind it; behind the main building is a patio and a backyard, with back rooms built along the walls on both sides. Flower beds and pools are built along the walls; the entire hall and building have thick beams and huge pillars, which are majestic; and the houses and bedrooms have carved railings and windows, which are elegant and elegant.
According to historical records, Tan Mansion is also known as "Maoming Hall" and "Zhongji Di". The owner Tan Junpei is from Zhenyuan, whose ancestral home is Maoming, Guangdong. He passed the Jinshi examination in the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1862 AD), and served in Changzhou during the Guangxu period. , the prefect of Suzhou, served three times as governor of Jiangsu, twice as governor of water transportation, and served as minister of treaty exchange with Brazil. He was later transferred to governor of Hubei and Yunnan, and concurrently served as governor of Yunnan and Guizhou twice. Tan Junpei was an honest official, diligent and caring for the people throughout his life, with outstanding achievements and excellent reputation. In order to repay the kindness of his hometown, he generously donated 5,000 taels of silver to establish the "Zhenyuan Junpei Library", which became one of the earliest libraries in Guizhou.