Antai Fire Fighting Club

The old building located on the old street of Shantang, Suzhou, was first built in the Republic of China. The place is not big. There is a sign and introduction to the fire rescue meeting at the door. Now the building is rented to the merchants. On one side is the old photo gallery, and the other has an embroidered cloth museum.

From Tonggui Bridge, the Antai Fire Rescue Club is directly opposite, not far from the ancient stage, a small place, upstairs seems to sell ancient books or something, passing by just a little visit.

Antai Fire Rescue Club is an old building in Suzhou City, located on Qili Shantang Street, is an iconic building in Shantang Street, witnessing the history of Suzhou City and Shantang Street, you can go and see when you go shopping in Suzhou.

This is the old, Qing Dynasty fire brigade daily

The streets of Shantang Street are narrow and there are many shops. It is very prone to fires. Therefore, the merchants of Shantang Street and the government jointly established this Antai Fire Rescue Club. Antai Fire Rescue Club began in the late Qing Dynasty and early Minxi. The reason why the name "Antai" means two: one is that the words "An" and "Tai" have the meaning of peace and peace; the other is that the name contains the meaning of "peace and stability as Mount Tai". The old site of Antai Fire Rescue Society still holds stone inscriptions and book stones, which are precious historical business cards of Antai Fire Rescue Society. Among the stone inscriptions and bookstones, there are two rectangular granite boundary monuments and three bookstones, three of which record the Antai Fire Rescue Association at the time to raise funds to buy fire boats, the names of the donors were engraved on the bookstone.