Xiao Shenyang, the first owner of Gongwangfu.
The Palace is located in Qianhai West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. The front and back of a mansion consist of houses and gardens. It is 330 meters long from north to south and 180 meters wide from east to west. It was built in accordance with the highest regulations. The mansion is divided into east, middle and west roads, 108 rooms. Gongwangfu is now a national key cultural relics protection unit, and many people visit it every day. Tracing back to the history of Gongwangfu, we should start with the famous minister Xiao Shenyang.
Xiao Shenyang 1750 was born in Fengtianfu, whose surname is Niu Zhilu, and Manchu is Red Flag. Little Shenyang has been very clever since childhood, and can speak four languages: Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan. His innate talent made his family have high hopes for Little Shenyang. 1773, Xiao Shenyang became the finance minister, studied financial knowledge, and was promoted to the imperial bodyguard two years later. With the rise of status and the prosperity of the family, Little Shenyang began to build its own mansion.
1776, Little Shenyang chose this piece of land on the connecting line between Houhai and Beihai to build a mansion, which is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. During the year of building the house, Xiao Shenyang was promoted to assistant minister of Zuohu Department, assistant minister of right official department, and concurrently served as commander of the army. It can be seen that the emperor is really fond of little Shenyang. Even the ten princesses of the emperor are married to Feng?enyende, the son of little Shenyang, and live together in this mansion after marriage.
Xiao Shenyang was impeached on 1778. When I was an official, I also wanted to be an honest and clean official, but there were many temptations in officialdom, which led to the famous Ann. Since then, Manchu civil servants began to impeach Xiao Shenyang many times, and Xiao Shenyang held a grudge against it. 1780, Xiao Shenyang started Daxing Wenzi Prison, but his power was too great for ordinary courtiers to bring down. 1784, Xiao Shenyang was promoted to be the official minister and became one of the four major forces in North Korea.
Later, Qianlong became seriously ill, Jiaqing ascended the throne, and small Shenyang began to expand its ambitions. He controlled the state affairs on the grounds of conveying the orders of Qianlong, and Jiaqing saw it in his eyes. After Qianlong's death, as soon as Xiao Shenyang finished the business, it was announced by Jiaqing to seal up the property. This property was found to have hundreds of millions of taels of silver, which is more than the annual tax revenue of the country. Finally, for the benefit of Xiao Shenyang, Xiao Shenyang committed suicide, and the mansion was given to Prince Xi.
This ancient house has changed hands several times.
The first thing Lin Yong did after he got the mansion in Little Shenyang was to rebuild it, not because the place where Little Shenyang lived was unlucky, but because the mansion was too luxurious, and even the mansion was one of the targets of impeachment and bribery by courtiers.
At that time, the silver in the small Shenyang family was converted into more than 80 billion now, but it was not in the room. It was a soldier who accidentally broke the wall and exposed these treasures. It turned out that all the treasures were sealed in the wall.
There is also a hall made of golden nanmu in the room, called Jialetang. How luxurious is this hall? Even the pillars are made of golden nanmu. At the current market price, a gold nanmu is as high as 2.4 billion yuan. When such a house is built, the degree of luxury is evident. It's true that even the richest man in the world can only appreciate it and can't afford it at all. The house built in this way makes people feel that Xiao Shenyang is the first greedy minister.
After Lin Yong got this mansion, because ten princesses of the first emperor still lived in the mansion, the mansion was divided into two parts, one part was Qing Wang Fu where Lin Yong lived, and the other part was Princess House where ten princesses lived. It was not until three years before Lin Yong's death that all the luxury houses were acquired, and after Lin Yong's death, the luxury houses belonged to his descendants. 185 1 year, Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne. Because Sun Ziyi's title is only a general of the auxiliary country, the mansion was nationalized.
Soon after, because Cixi got the help of Prince Gong in the turbulent period of Qing Dynasty, in order to reward Yixin, Cixi gave the mansion to Yixin and renamed it Prince Gong Wang Fu.
During the frequent wars at that time, many houses were sold, and so was Gong. This mansion was sold to the church by Yi Xin's grandson Pu Wei. After that, the mansion and the garden were divided into two parts, and Pu Ru, Puyi's second brother, sold the garden to Fu Jen Catholic University.
1979, the state began to restore and renovate Gongwangfu, and 1982 was listed as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units. After years of restoration, it was not completed until 1986, and the construction and renovation of Gongwangfu was studied through numerous meetings for several years. It was not until 20 12 that Gongwangfu was regarded as a national 5A scenic spot for people to visit and travel.
Gong Wangfu preserved the original historical appearance to the greatest extent and presented it to people.
After hundreds of years of wind and rain, Gong Wangfu was not repaired in the war, which led to the collapse of walls and some houses, but it was lucky to retain the pattern at that time.
However, the introduction of Gong is very rare in history, and it is very difficult for experts to repair Gong. Because there is no detailed historical record, experts can only study the historical features of this building from the existing traces left by Gong.
According to the internal structure of Gong Wangfu and the preserved Jin Sinan wooden columns, experts come to the conclusion that from the period of Little Shenyang to the period of Gong Wangfu's residence, the house was not repaired very much, and many things were preserved. Some brick carvings of the house were typical architectural techniques in Qianlong period, and finally the design sketches of Gong Wangfu were preserved, which provided some clues for experts to find the original appearance of Gong Wangfu.
In fact, when people visit Gongwangfu, the most regrettable thing is that many objects of Gongwangfu have been scattered all over the world. Whether lost in the war years or sold by later generations, many of them are hard to find. People can only understand those cultures through existing historical relics and introductions. For example, the "Fu" tablet in Gongwangfu is awarded by the emperor to princes and ministers every Spring Festival. An official has such a memorial tablet at home to show his love for the minister.
The word "Fu" in Gongwangfu is the treasure of Kangxi, which is very precious, as well as the Nanmu Temple of Golden Silk, Gongwangfu Garden and so on. Everything tells people that history.
Many people who love literature and history like to visit these places of cultural relics and historical sites, but in fact, everyone in China should visit these scenic spots that record the historical wind and frost, and learn how our country has developed to this day, and the wealth left by history and culture is also precious.