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Huguang Guild Hall 湖广会馆Húguǎng Huìguǎn
National heritage site · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- 1 hour (or an evening performance)
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Huguang Guild Hall
A guild hall for officials from Hunan and Hubei, built in 1807 and given its galleried opera theatre in 1830, where Sun Yat-sen spoke at the founding meeting of the Kuomintang in August 1912. The richly painted theatre still stages Peking opera, and the complex has housed a small museum of Peking opera history; it reopened in January 2024 after renovation.
How to get to Huguang Guild Hall
At the Hufangqiao crossroads in southern Xicheng District, next to Hufangqiao metro station.
Nearby
- Qianmen Street and Dashilar 前门大街·大栅栏 under 10 km
A pedestrian avenue below Qianmen gate and a lane of shops trading since Qing times - Tiananmen Square 天安门广场 under 10 km
A vast ceremonial square below Tian'anmen gate, where the national flag is raised at dawn - National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆 under 10 km
Ancient bronzes, jades and porcelain in a vast museum beside Tian'anmen Square - Temple of Heaven 天坛 under 10 km
Where emperors prayed for harvests, and where Beijing now dances, sings and plays cards - Forbidden City 故宫 under 10 km
Six centuries of imperial power behind vermilion walls in the heart of Beijing
Also within 20 km: Anhui Guild Hall 安徽会馆 (under 10 km), Fayuan Temple 法源寺 (under 10 km), Temple of Agriculture 先农坛 (under 10 km), Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Nantang) 宣武门天主堂 (under 10 km), Taoranting Park 陶然亭公园 (under 10 km), Niujie Mosque 牛街礼拜寺 (under 10 km).
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