Jiangwutang, the Yunnan Southern Army Military School, was built in the late Qing Dynasty, and remains a key national-level cultural preservation site.

The structure of Jiangwutang

It was one of the earliest Western-style military academies in China.

The training field in Jiangwutang

Most of its students were members of Sun Yatsen's fraternal organization, and the school played an important role in the 1911 uprising that overthrew Qing rule as well as the "Protect the Nation" movement several years later.

Training artillery (1908)