At present, the most well-preserved large palace in Qing Dynasty is located beside Shichahai in Beijing. This king is also the largest quadrangle in the world, covering an area of more than 60,000 square meters. It is the very famous Gongwangfu in Qing Dynasty. Gongwangfu has been established for more than 200 years. It experienced the prosperity of Qianlong dynasty and the decline of Qing dynasty, which is a well-deserved historical witness.
▲ Gongwangfu stills
0 1 Gongwangfu not only has an excellent geomantic location, but also its construction technology is second to none. The first half of it is a magnificent mansion, and the second half is a well-designed China classical garden. Some scholars believe that this is the prototype of Guo Rongfu and Daguan Garden in A Dream of Red Mansions. However, the owner who once lived here had a lot of fate, either dying or having few children.
Although the Palace Wang Fu is called the Palace Wang Fu, its first owner was not the Palace King, and he was not a sovereign at all. However, when he was alive, he was far more powerful than many monarchs. He is Xiao Shenyang, the powerful minister of the Qianlong Dynasty.
▲ Small Shenyang and Gan Long stills
Little Shenyang was very imperial, and was in power at that time. Emperor Qianlong also married his daughter to Feng?enyende, the son of Xiao Shenyang. Xiao Shenyang held dozens of positions at the peak of his power. He loves not only power, but also money, and relies on the trust and love of Qianlong to abuse power for personal gain.
It is said that Xiao Shenyang decided to build a big mansion after taking office, so he chose a former temple address after careful selection. The environment here is beautiful and the feng shui is excellent, so Xiao Shenyang paid a high price to buy it, and then built the famous "Hehe" at that time. After the completion of the residential building in Little Shenyang, not only the officials in the court at that time were amazed, but even many princes with more noble origins were envious. However, this magnificent mansion has also become one of the evidences of the downfall of Little Shenyang. At that time, one of the crimes of Xiao Shenyang was that his house was beyond the prescribed organizational system.
▲ Gongwangfu invited Taiwan.
According to Xiao Ting Miscellaneous Notes, Emperor Qianlong 17 Prince Lin Yong once said that he did not dare to covet the world, but "one more day will be enough to give little Shenyang Didi a place to live." After the fall of Small Shenyang, Emperor Jiaqing really gave the former residence of Small Shenyang to Lin Yong. Since then, the "river bank" has become a celebration palace.
However, strictly speaking, in the beginning, Lin Yong only got half of the palace. Because Emperor Jiaqing's sister and Feng?enyende still live in the original Hodi, this luxurious house is divided into two parts, the Wang Fu in Yongqing in the west and the Princess House where Princess and Feng?enyende live in the east.
▲ Feng?enyende stills
However, the princess and Feng?enyende's only son died young, and Feng?enyende left no descendants before his death, so the family in Little Shenyang was cut off. After the princess and Feng?enyende died one after another, Lin Yong took back the other half of the house and finally got a complete small Shenyang house. However, Lin Yong's descendants did not last long. After his death, his son became an attack knight and became childless. Later, his sixth brother adopted his son Yi Kuang.
But Yi Kuang hasn't been able to hold the Qing Palace. Because of accepting bribes, he was punished by the court and moved out of the Qing palace. Later, the owner of the Qing Palace was replaced by Prince Gong Yixin, which is the origin of the name of Prince Gong Palace in Beijing now. Prince Gong Yixin was an important official in the late Qing Dynasty. He made important contributions to the Westernization Movement, the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the recovery of Xinjiang by the Nian Army. Prince Gong has also experienced several ups and downs in politics, and his family life is also unfortunate.
▲ Old photos of Gong Yan Prince Xin
I have four sons, but three of them died before him. None of the surviving children were very successful. His family has lived in Gongwangfu for no more than three generations. In CreditEase's grandson, Pu Wei, and his younger brother, Pu Ru, successively mortgaged Gongwangfu to the Catholic Church and Fu Jen Catholic University. For a long time, all the property rights of Gongwangfu were in the hands of Fu Jen Catholic University.