Rouyuan Posthouse

Rouyuan Posthouse (Foochow Iù-uōng-ĭk), officially known during the Ming dynasty as the “Tribute Factory Rouyuan Posthouse”, and commonly known among local people as the Ryukyu Hall (Foochow Liù-giù-guāng), is a posthouse building in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. It is located at No. 40 Guanmei Street, Taijiang District. It was first built in the eighth year of the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, in 1472, and rebuilt in the sixth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty, in 1667. From the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty, it was used to receive tribute envoys, guests, and merchants from the Ryukyu Kingdom who came to China. After Ryukyuan tribute envoys landed in Fuzhou, they usually first stayed at Rouyuan Posthouse before traveling to the capital to have an audience with the Chinese emperor. Ryukyuan students who came to China at their own expense to study also often hired teachers and received instruction at Rouyuan Posthouse. At that time, Rouyuan Posthouse was large in scale and had affiliated structures such as the Tianfei Temple and the Tribute Factory. After relations between China and Ryukyu were severed in 1876, it lost its function as a tribute-envoy posthouse, and its building area was gradually encroached upon and reduced. Today, Rouyuan Posthouse has been converted into the Fuzhou Museum of the History of Foreign Friendly

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