According to legend, Zhu Shouqian was made king when he was young, and he had a close relationship with his father Zhu Wenzheng, and was praised as "the fifth star in the world" by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Wenzheng once defended Hongdu to the death and won the final victory, which changed the whole situation at the end of Yuan Dynasty and decided Zhu Yuanzhang's great cause of being king.
1372, in Jingjiang Wang Fu, Nanjing, Zhao Yun, a group of long historians, was sent to Guilin to explore Feng Shui and find auspicious land. They found that the unique mountain peak in Wanshoutang, where Yuan Shundi moved, rose from the ground, surrounded by mountains and stood tall, which was unique to me and had a natural king's momentum. They quickly decided to build Jingjiang Wang Fu Tower on the site of Wanshou Palace at the south foot of Duxiufeng.
In the year of 165438+ 10, Zhu Shouqian, king of Jingjiang at the age of 15, came to Guilin with the imperial edict of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, and his grandfather's tablet, and became the first vassal of Jingjiang Wang Fu in Guilin.
Jingjiang Wang Fu broke ground at 1372 and was completed at 1376. It was the earliest Wang Fu in the Ming Dynasty. That year, Jingjiang Wang Fu also opened a tomb at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain in the eastern suburb of Longteng.
Jingjiang Wang Fu was built at the earliest, partly because its scale was smaller than that of other official pro-princes' palaces, and there was no round hall, purpose hall and ancillary buildings behind the communication hall, and the city walls were relatively short. However, other palace buildings were the same as ancestral halls, state and official pro-princes' palaces, which reflected the status of King Jingjiang as a collateral prince.
1393, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Ming Dynasty ordered the renovation of Jingjiang Wang Fu. The reason for the renovation is not the dilapidated palace, but the change of specifications. This is the largest renovation in the construction history of Jingjiang Wang Fu. Except for the city wall, the West Gate Tower and the ancestral hall, other palaces and yamen have been rebuilt.
In June of that year, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Guangxi department commander Tongzhi Xu Pu, the Ministry of Industry Shangshuge and the eunuch Mao Zhili to preside over the Jingjiang expansion. "All the palaces and yamen in the palace were rebuilt and completely renewed." Later, the city wall was repaired. More than 30 years earlier than the Forbidden City in Beijing, it looks like Jingjiang Palace in Nanjing Mingnei Palace.
At that time, there was a famous natural cave at the west foot of Duxiufeng, formerly known as "Xiyan", which was the place where King Jingjiang worshipped immortals, and it was dedicated to the Xuanwu Emperor and the statue of Sixty Jiazi, among which the stone carving of Cliff of Sixty Jiazi was the only one in China. According to legend, King Jingjiang found a "Taiping Bao Tong" copper coin in the rock, which was considered auspicious and later renamed as "Taiping Rock".
Sixty jiazi protects the gods, which is what people usually call sixty "tai sui". It is said that everyone has his own "Tai Sui", and the year of birth is usually easy to "commit Tai Sui". Therefore, people have the custom of worshipping themselves in the animal year, and also have exquisite gestures and procedures.
According to the map of Wang Fu drawn by Xuande edition of Guilin County Records in Ming Dynasty, the rebuilt buildings of Jingjiang Wang Fu Palace are all single eaves, while the four gate towers that have not been rebuilt are all double eaves. Obviously, the specifications of the rebuilt Jingjiang Wang Fu are lower than when it was just built.
Although Ming Taizu lowered the specifications of Jingjiang Wang Fu, it is not a crime to license its yard to be built from the roof, which is not available in other Wang Fu.
Later, Jingjiang experienced the decline of the Yongle Dynasty, but in the Yongle era, King Jingjiang still enjoyed the treatment of "king of the county, semi-official prince", but the book was printed as "king of the county". By the time Xuande arrived, the situation of King Jingjiang had improved.
By the time of orthodoxy, the birthright of collateral prince was basically restored. The imperial court set up officials and bodyguards for King Jingjiang according to the example of relatives, and awarded the title of attacking prince according to the etiquette of prince, and included King Jingjiang in the routine reward of prince. So King Jingjiang began to invoke the concession in Ming Taizu to build a small quadrangle in the government.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Fu in Jingjiang built a sacred temple on Duxiu Peak, named Xuanwu Pavilion, to protect Long Mai. Because there is an extremely rare snake-shaped Xuanwu statue of natural turtle in the open air on the left, the word "Shou" is naturally generated on the stone wall on the right, and Xuanwu Pavilion naturally becomes the first of all the giving places in Fiona Fang.
Since then, Xuanwu Pavilion has been listed as a royal forbidden area by Jingjiang Wang Fu, because King Jingjiang prayed for good weather, a permanent throne and a long life. Even in the Qing Dynasty, only a few political celebrities and literary giants were lucky enough to be here.
As a vassal palace, its status is lower than that of the emperor, but higher than that of ordinary subjects and ministers. Therefore, Jingjiang Palace in Ming Dynasty developed to Wanli, and after several generations of renovation and expansion, its scale has been very grand, surrounded by huge stones, and it has become a city of its own in Guilin, so it is also called "Jingjiang King City".