What historical stories can be learned by visiting Gongwangfu 。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

Beijing Gongwang Mansion is the largest royal residence in the Qing Dynasty, the history has been illustrious for a while, through the Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong, where seven generations of the rule of the emperor, such as a mirror, witnessed the Qing Dynasty from the heyday to the demise of the historical process, carries an extremely rich historical and cultural information, so there is a "Gongwang Mansion, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty," said. The old Beijingers used to say: "When you come to Beijing, you will be able to see the history of the Qing Dynasty. Old Beijingers used to say: to Beijing, we must go to the Forbidden City to dip Wang Qi, to the Great Wall to dip the hegemony, to the Gongwangfu dip Fu Qi!

■Wangfu culture is an important part of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, is a bridge connecting the palace culture and civilian culture. The Prince Gong's Mansion, located on Qianhai West Street in Xicheng District, Beijing, is the most well-preserved Qing dynasty royal residence among the existing royal residences in China, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit, which represents the culture of Chinese royal residences.

■ "Crescent River around the house like a dragon coiled, the western mountains look away like a tiger," this is the history of the Palace of King Gong described. In terms of its location, it occupies an excellent position in the capital. Ancient people build houses and gardens pay much attention to feng shui, Beijing is said to have two dragon veins, one is the earth dragon, that is, the Forbidden City's dragon vein; the second is the water dragon, refers to the line of the Back Sea and the North China Sea, and Prince Gong's Mansion is exactly in the Back Sea and the North China Sea on the connecting line between the line of the dragon vein, so the feng shui is very good.

■Wangwang Mansion covers an area of about 31,000 square meters, divided into the middle, east, west, three-way building, by the strict axis through the, more into the courtyard composition. The mansion is not only wide, but also the architecture is the highest regulation. The obvious sign is the face and the number of houses. The Prince's Mansion has a facade of five rooms, seven rooms in the main hall, five rooms in the back hall, seven rooms in the back bedchamber, and there are supporting halls on the left and right.

■ The ancients took water as wealth, in the Prince Gong's Palace, "water everywhere", the largest Lake Pavilion of water, is introduced from the Yuquan Lake, and only inward not outward, so more in line with the feng shui convergence of wealth. It is said that the place with the most long-lived old people in Beijing is in the neighborhood of Gongwangfu, which shows that this place is really a piece of fengshui treasure.

■ The pool in front of the rockery in the back garden is shaped like a bat and a Yuanbao, so it is named Bat Pond, and the water can only flow from east to west, not in the opposite direction, otherwise it would mean the loss of money. Pool planted above the elm tree, every elm ripe season, the leaves will fall all over the pool, yellow leaves are like the copper, and the pool is a treasure bowl. Secretly marveled at such a very symbolic design at the same time, see Heshen's good intentions.

■恭王府is called "half of the history of the Qing dynasty", is closely related to the three generations of masters living here. As we all know, the first generation of the House Lord Heshen, is the late Qianlong Zaifu, the university scholar, but also in the history of the famous corrupt officials, in the Qing Dynasty history is very eye-catching, about his legend is also therefore numerous. Especially his son Feng Shen Yinde, later married to the Qianlong emperor's youngest daughter solid Lun and filial piety princess as his wife, so that the mansion has become a virtual princess house ......

Jiaqing four years, Heshen for the crime of death, the Jiaqing emperor will be the mansion transferred to his little brother Qing County King Yong Lin. Yong Lin is probably the most favorite of all the owners of this mansion. As early as when Heshen was in power, Qianlong's sons will get together to negotiate, no matter who became emperor in the future, to "do" Heshen, but the seventeenth son of the emperor Yonglin said: "the future no matter which brother when the emperor, as long as the Heshen's mansion reward to me, I will be satisfied! " As for Prince Gong Yixin, that is one of the most important political figures in modern Chinese history, he participated in the Second Opium War and almost all the major political activities in the aftermath (between 1853-1898), "Xin You Coup", it was he who put Cixi on the "curtain to listen to the government". "Curtain" throne ...... It is no exaggeration to say that if there is no Yixin, the whole of modern Chinese history, and even later Chinese history will be rewritten.

■ A "Fu" word, actually carries a lot of legends, and listen to the details: First, the Royal "Fu" plus the seal, to become the only one to be able to pass on the world can not be hung upside down "Fu". character. Since ancient times, paintings and calligraphy are located in the lower left or upper right, and this "blessed" on the jade seal in the top, is the meaning of "luck at the head of the lucky star, the town of all the world's evil". Second, this "Fu" is different from the previous full and square writing style, but thin and narrow character shape - "thin" sound harmony "life! "People call it "Long Thin Fu", which means "Long Life Fu". Third, the right half of the character "福" is exactly Wang Xizhi Lanting Preface in the character "寿 "writing. Therefore, this character has also become the only existing ink treasures of the past generations will be "Fu" "Shou" written in the same character, folk called "Fu in the Shou, Fu Shou double" of the blessing. If the character "福" is taken apart, the upper right part is the character "多", the left part is the character "子", the upper left part is the character "才", the right part is the character "才", and the right part is the character """. "The upper right part of the character is the character for "longevity" in the Lanting Preface, and the lower right is the character for "field". One character includes several layers of meanings of "many sons, many talents, many fields, many lives, many blessings", which is the unique "five blessings" in one "blessing" character in the past and present. The word "Tian" has not been sealed yet, so it is said that "Hongfu has no boundaries".

■Who in the world does not want to have happiness and joy, who does not want to bring home the blessing?

■Fu culture can be said to be ubiquitous in the entire Gongwang Mansion, it is said that the buildings in the Gongwang Mansion *** there are 9,999 bats ("Fu" and "Bat" harmonized), coupled with the imperial pen of Kangxi "Blessed" monument, exactly 10,000 "Blessed" word, so it is also known as "Ten Thousand Fortunes Garden". It can be said that there are countless dragons in the Forbidden City, and there are countless blessings in the Gongwang Mansion.

■ Christine's Palace in the "blessed" monument hidden in the garden of the rockery, the rockery is made of glutinous rice masonry, very strong, the mountain with two tanks, the bottom of the tank has a pipe to the rockery, through the tank in the water to increase the humidity in the courtyard. Under the rockery there is a quiet "cave", called Secret Cloud Cave, the hole in the middle of a Kangxi Emperor for his grandmother Empress Xiaozhuang birthday written "Fu" tablet, engraved with "Kangxi Royal Pen" of the seal. Tablet height of about 1 meter, about 80 centimeters long, through the entire rockery. It is said that when the Jiaqing raid Heshen House, want to move this word of fortune to the palace, but because of Heshen clever design, move the blessing to move the dragon vein, which is the emperor's most taboo, under the wrath of the order will be the fake mountain sealed, from now on, the Kangxi ink treasure word of fortune disappeared in all the history books. Until the beginning of the founding of the country, Premier Zhou in a meeting with foreign guests in the garden after inadvertently found above the rock wigwam in the shape of a stone like a dragon's head, according to the dragon's head there must be a national treasure, and then immediately called Guo Lao (Guo Moruo), open the door of the hole was sealed, found the blessed monument, through the cultural relics department of the authentication, confirmed that it is written for the year of Kangxi to Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's blessed word, and cover the blessed word in the center of the engraved "! Kang Xi's Royal Pen of the treasure" of the seal has become the world's only remaining complete seal of Kang Xi's seal.

■Gongwangfu 'Fu' monument for the Kangxi imperial brush of the treasure, hidden in the Miyun Cave, known as the 'Cave of Heavenly Blessings', look at the Kangxi emperor's handwriting of this 'Fu' word strong and powerful, quite powerful, the upper right corner of the strokes like a 'more' character, the lower side of the 'field', and the left side of the extreme like the 'son' and 'talent' characters, the right side of the word like a 'longevity' character, so the whole 'Fu' character can be broken down into 'more fields, more children, more talent, more life, more happiness', the whole 'Fu' word can be broken down into 'more fields, more children, more talent, more life, more happiness'. Therefore, the whole character "福" can be decomposed into "多田多子" (many fields, many sons), "多才多寿多福" (many talents, many lives, many blessings), which skillfully constitutes the meaning of the character "福", which is extremely artistic and meaningful. What is more precious is that on the upper right side of the stele, there is a jade seal of Kangxi engraved in order to suppress the blessing, so this character "福" is known as the world's first blessing.

■In the tour of Gongwangfu, you can find that the culture of "Fu" is always present.

■Gongwangfu contains the most fundamental cultural connotation is "Fu". Fu culture is not just a civilian culture, "Fu" is China's history, "Fu" is China's culture, "Fu" contains the history of the Chinese nation, the soul of culture, is the highest pursuit of the Chinese nation. It is the highest pursuit of the Chinese nation.

■Fu Shou Cake, eat Fu into the belly.

■Chinese Fu post office, I guess the world is the only one, right?

■Turn your luck around and dip your hands in the blessings.

■ Some scholars have found that Cao Xueqin in the "Dream of Red Mansions" on the portrayal of Jiafu from the environment of their own lives, that is, Cao's house, the more interesting is the "Dream of Red Mansions" depicted in the Jiafu scenery and the Prince Gong's House has many dark places. For example, King Gong's House of Tianxiang courtyard and the Dream of Red Mansions in the Tianxiang Pavilion, Xijinzhai and Yihongyuan, and so on. According to some scholars believe that the predecessor of the King Gong's Mansion for Cao Xueqin grandfather Cao Yin's mansion, as early as the Kangxi period has existed.

■ After the cover of the building, the King Gong's House of a great, the so-called "great" refers to its length of the Qing dynasty royal building regulations in the back of the cover of the floor of the most, and the building along the back of the wall layer of the shape of the brick carvings of 44 brocade windows. This building for two floors, 45 rooms per floor, two floors *** counted 90 rooms, the corner of more than 10 not counted, more than 150 meters long, is the longest building of the domestic Wang Fu class building, described as "ninety-nine and a half". (Note ninety-nine and a half: one said to take the Forbidden City 9999 the end of the number, another said "modest by posthumous, full of loss", hundred for full, so the name ninety-nine and a half)

■■Windows in various forms, surprisingly, there is not the same one is the same, there is a round, square, pomegranate-shaped, scroll-shaped, chime-shaped, fish-shaped, bat-shaped and so on, the symbol of The windows are round, square, pomegranate, chime, fish, bat and so on, which symbolize the meaning of "blessing and celebration", so they are also known as "assorted windows".

■ Gongwang Mansion Garden is also a masterpiece, the shape of its stretching smooth Western style, imitation of the Yuanmingyuan Dafa Hai round door system, because the Yuanmingyuan has been burned by the Anglo-French allied forces in 1860, so this door is the best preserved alabaster arch, because the two sides of the turn pattern and windows are very much the flavor of Western architecture, so it is called the door of the West. Is the third owner of the garden - Prince Gong Yixin period built, Prince Gong Yixin is one of the advocates of the foreign affairs movement, he hoped to save the Qing dynasty through the study of advanced technology in Western countries. The stone carving on the gate is "Quiet with Taikoo" and "Xiuyi Hengchun", which is the guiding principle of the master to build the garden, taking the quietness of Taikoo in the midst of the bustle and the meaning of the garden full of beautiful colors for the spring forever.

■This group of buildings because of the shape of the bat and called the bat hall, the whole building like a huge bat, four sides of the corridor before and after the large open windows, rare in the north, very much the characteristics of the Jiangnan gardens, characterized by so that from morning to night each room has enough light, the corridor built around the outside of the sun will not be direct sunlight into the room.

■This pavilion like the Cixi hat is called Miaoxiang Pavilion, the original surroundings are full of lilac flowers, flowers bloom fragrant, so the name Miaoxiang Pavilion. It is a wooden structure Begonia-style square pavilion, two layers of 12 columns, the bottom of the octagonal, on the lotus-shaped flat roof, on the round below on behalf of the heaven and earth, heaven and earth, the country is rare. Prince Gong's grandson Pu Ru often writes poems and paints here. (Legend has it that Prince Gong for the Empress Dowager Cixi curtain rule made great achievements, but the result was cut back to home, the heart of the depression, build this pavilion is intended for Prince Gong stood in Cixi's head to vent his anger.)

■ South end of the two mountains between a section of the castle-style wall, the top of the wall built into battlements, the heart of the wall to open the coupon hole, the coupon hole in the north embedded stone forehead, engraved on the Elm Pass, Elm Pass, that is, the alias of the Great Wall, the Great Wall of symbols, known as the world's first pass of the name of the year, the Emperor of the Qing dynasty is the entry into the customs in the garden to set up the pass enough to say that the master of the Qing dynasty ancestor from the Shanhaiguan into the Central Plains of the great achievements.

■ and adults of the mansion with the architectural characteristics of the old Beijing courtyard house, the overall division of three major parts, the East Road to the big theater as the main building, the West Road to the square ponds and water parlors as the main building, the most important buildings are concentrated in the middle of the road (such as: the Western Gate, Duluo Peak, Bat Pond, Anshantang, the Bat Hall, the Fukuji monument), the front of the Bat Pond, the back of the Bat Hall, to take the meaning of the Fukufu mutual sealing 。。。。。。。。。。。