North First Escort

North China First Posthouse Museum is located at No. 22 South East Street Road, Pingyao Ancient City. It is the first museum in the country to fully display the history and culture of the Posthouse. It covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters. It has three courtyards. The front yard is a commercial area, including the East and West cabinet rooms, the vault and the cabinet head rooms. It is the business place of the Posthouse. The hospital is an office area, consisting of three groups of buildings, including letter room, account room and middle hall, and is the office of the bureau; the backyard is a living area, including the ancestral teacher hall, kitchen and martial arts practice field, is the daily life of the teacher and the place to practice boxing and martial arts. The Museum of the First Posthouse in North China fully displays the historical evolution, organization and management of the Posthouse, and provides a good historical reference for studying China's economic development. The first bureau of North China refers to the three major bureaus of "Tongxinggong", "Taiwan" and "Changlong" established by Wang Zhengqing, Dai Erqian and Zuo Erqian in Pingyao, Jixian and Wenshui during the year of Daoguang. And Wang, Dai and Zuo three people, one Wude Zhao, famously up and down the river; the other is Wuyi Gaoqiang. Opening of the bureau, or cash delivery, disbursement, or cargo transfer, to meet the needs of commercial trade to implement the current bank settlement, so, once flourished. The ticket number was born, the business of the bureau fell sharply. The most prosperous period was the time of the chaos in the domestic situation at the end of Qing Dynasty. Entering the Republic of China, various armed military and police escorts appeared, and the post office was declining one after another, and it withdrew from the historical stage.

A professional museum covering more than 1,000 square meters is also the first museum in China to tell the story of the end bureau. The collection is very rich, the content of the talk is wonderful, knowledgeable, and interesting.