Why is it said in history that "a Gongwangfu is half of history of qing dynasty"? Thank you for your questions.

Why do you say "a palace is half the history of Qing Dynasty"? This is inseparable from his three masters. His first master was Xiao Shenyang. He was not only a Zaifu and a university student in the late Qianlong period, but also a famous corrupt official in history. He is very eye-catching in Qing history, and there are countless legends about him. In the forty-first year of Qianlong, that is, 1776, Xiao Shenyang began to build his luxurious mansion in this place, which is called "river bank" with Qianhai in the east and Houhai in the back. According to historical records, this place is "the crescent river is surrounded by houses like dragons, and the western hills look like tigers from afar." As far as its location is concerned, it occupies an excellent position in Beijing. The ancients paid great attention to geomantic omen when building houses and gardens. It is said that there are two Long Mai in Beijing, one is Longtu, the Long Mai of the Forbidden City; The second one is a waterspout, which refers to the connection between Houhai and Beihai. Gongwangfu is just on the connection between Houhai and Beihai, which is Long Mai, so Feng Shui is very good. The ancients took water as their wealth and "saw water everywhere" in Gongwangfu. The water in the largest pavilion in the middle of the lake is imported from Yuquan Lake, but it can't get in, which is more in line with the saying that Feng Shui collects money. China's top ten marshals, Guo Moruo and others all lived near Gongwangfu and lived for a long time. It is said that the oldest place in Beijing is near Gongwangfu, and all kinds of evidence show that it is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. His son later married Gulun, the youngest daughter of Qianlong, and Princess Xiao, making this mansion once a real princess mansion. I have to mention the ethics and filial piety of this country. The princess is the most legendary princess in history of qing dynasty, and her biological mother is the favorite concubine king of Emperor Qianlong in his later years. In the first month of forty years of Qianlong, when the little daughter, whose temperament and appearance made her father cool, came to the world, the emperor was already sixty-five years old. Although the tenth princess is a woman, she is born with divine power, can open ten hard bows, and often rides with her father to hunt. So Qianlong loves her more than all her children. He sighed more than once: "If you are a brother, this throne will belong to you later!" " Indeed, the ten princesses are not only superb in martial arts, but also extraordinary in mind. In the heyday, Xu was spoiled by his father's power. The princess once severely reprimanded him: "You accept your father's great kindness and don't think about returning, but you only know how to take bribes. I'm worried about you. When I lose my fortune, even I will be tied up by you! " Although Ten Princess's words were unfortunate, Emperor Jiaqing finally remembered the love between brother and sister and did not deprive him of the title of Miss Husband. The princess and his wife still live in their original home. So this mansion is divided into two parts, the west is the Qing palace; To the east is the Princess Mansion. It was not until the princess died on September 10th in the third year of Daoguang (1823) that the whole mansion was completely under the name of the Qing king. At that time, Yongyun had been dead for more than three years ... This is about his second master, Jiaqing's younger brother, Prince Yong, who "loves luxury houses but doesn't love mountains and rivers". When it comes to Lin Yong, or many people are not familiar with it, but when it comes to his grandson, Yi Kuang, the Qing prince who signed the "Xin Chou Treaty" with Eight-Nation Alliance together with Li Hongzhang, I'm afraid everyone knows it again. Yi Kuang is also a famous corrupt official in the modern history of China, but compared with Baylor, the cowardly and incompetent prince of the late Qing Dynasty, he is still a man who dares to take responsibility and entrusts with important tasks. Therefore, since the Tongzhi period, Yi Kuang has been favored by Empress Dowager Cixi. Before Xianfeng moved to Prince Gong, he lived here as a general of the auxiliary country. On the third day of the first month of Jiaqing four years, Taizong died. The next day, Jiaqing deprived Xiao Shenyang of his military minister and nine prefects, and copied his home. It is estimated that the total wealth is worth about 22 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing government for half a year. Therefore, there is a saying that "small Shenyang falls, Jiaqing is full." On the 18th day of the first month of the same year,1February 22nd, 799, Xiao Shenyang was ordered to commit suicide. As early as when Little Shenyang was in power, the governors of Qianlong got together to discuss that no matter who became emperor in the future, they would "deal with" Little Shenyang, but Lin Yong, the seventeenth prince, said, "No matter which brother became emperor in the future, as long as I was given this mansion in Little Shenyang, I would be satisfied!" This mansion will always belong to. At the same time, Princess Xiao, the daughter of Qianlong and married to her son, still lives in the semi-mansion. In the first year of Xianfeng, that is, 185 1 year, Prince Gong Yixin became the third generation owner of this house and changed his name to Gong, whose name has been used ever since. Prince Gong Yixin is one of the most important political figures in China's modern history. He participated in the Second Opium War and almost all the major political activities since then (between 1853- 1898). During the "Xinyou coup", it was he who put Cixi on the throne of "listening to politics" ... It is no exaggeration to say that in the early years of the Republic of China, Prince Gong's grandson Xiao Gong Wang Puwei pledged part of the "Dragon Seal" in Prince Gong's mansion to the Sishiku Church, a Catholic church in Beijing, at a low price of 80,000 silver dollars. After more than ten years, the mortgage of Gary's 80,000 silver dollars rolled to nearly 200,000, and Puyi, who was at the end of the road, was unable to repay this huge debt. 1932, Fu Jen Catholic University, founded by the Roman church, compensated the loan with 108 gold bars due to the church relationship, and the property rights belonged to the university. 1937 Fu Jen Catholic University expanded the girls' dormitory, reclaimed the property, used the mansion as a women's courtyard, and closed the passage from post-Gai Lou to Cui Jin Garden, so the mansion and the garden began to separate. In the same year, Pu Ru, the second brother of Puyi, who originally lived in Yuan Di, sold the garden to Fu Jen Catholic University at a price of100000 silver. 1949, Gongwangfu Garden was changed into a dormitory for state organs; The building is used by the Art Teachers College, the China Conservatory of Music and the Art Research Institute of the Ministry of Culture. 1952, China Conservatory of Music demolished the government gate and entered the quadrangle to build a "modern style" canteen; 1959, all the houses outside the gate of the original mansion were demolished, and an arc piano building and a zigzag painting building were built. During the "Cultural Revolution", the factory bridge air-conditioning factory occupied half of the eastern part of the garden, such as the Grand Theatre Building. The kindergarten of the State Organs Administration Bureau occupies the West Road Building. Due to unreasonable use and earthquake damage, by the middle and late 1970s, the garden to the south of Fudi East Road, part of the verandah of the main room and the east and west wing rooms of the courtyard collapsed one after another, and other buildings were damaged to varying degrees, but fortunately, the overall pattern of the palace was not damaged.