Qinghuaxuan

Qinghuaxuan is a courtyard with two entrances to the west of paiyunmen, back to wanshoushan and facing Kunming Lake. The white walls on the left and right sides of the gate are inlaid with assorted leaky windows of various shapes. There are more than 40 houses in the courtyard. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, this is a group of subsidiary buildings of the temple of Da Bao en Yan Shou, named "Luohan hall". There are five hundred Arhats in the hall. The five hundred Arhats in those days were made of colored sculptures of fragrant noodles, imitating the Arhats in Jingci Temple of West Lake in Hangzhou. The British and French allied forces burned down the Buddhist Pavilion, the great benediction temple and the Rohan hall. During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Buddhist pavilion was restored. Dabaoen Yanshou temple was rebuilt into the paiyun hall that people see today, and today's Qinghua pavilion was built on the site of Luohan hall. The octagonal lotus pond in front of Luohan hall and the single hole stone bridge above the pond are also preserved in the new qinghuaxuan courtyard built by Empress Dowager Cixi. The bridge is located on the central axis. The body of the bridge is made of white marble. There is a viper on the vault, a pillar on the top of the cloud, a hollow fence carved with Ruyi carving in Ping'an. There are guardrails with the same texture as the bridge fence around the pool. You can pass through the bridge and reach the main hall of Qinghua Pavilion.

Qinghuaxuan

Qinghuaxuan is a courtyard with two entrances to the west of paiyunmen, back to wanshoushan and facing Kunming Lake. The white walls on the left and right sides of the gate are inlaid with assorted leaky windows of various shapes. There are more than 40 houses in the courtyard. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, this is a group of subsidiary buildings of the temple of Da Bao en Yan Shou, named "Luohan hall". There are five hundred Arhats in the hall. The five hundred Arhats in those days were made of colored sculptures of fragrant noodles, imitating the Arhats in Jingci Temple of West Lake in Hangzhou. The British and French allied forces burned down the Buddhist Pavilion, the great benediction temple and the Rohan hall. During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Buddhist pavilion was restored. Dabaoen Yanshou temple was rebuilt into the paiyun hall that people see today, and today's Qinghua pavilion was built on the site of Luohan hall. The octagonal lotus pond in front of Luohan hall and the single hole stone bridge above the pond are also preserved in the new qinghuaxuan courtyard built by Empress Dowager Cixi. The bridge is located on the central axis. The body of the bridge is made of white marble. There is a viper on the vault, a pillar on the top of the cloud, a hollow fence carved with Ruyi carving in Ping'an. There are guardrails with the same texture as the bridge fence around the pool. You can pass through the bridge and reach the main hall of Qinghua Pavilion.

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During the period of the Republic of China, yuan Keding, the eldest son of Yuan Shikai, lived in qinghuaxuan. Like Lin Biao, yuan Keding was the legal successor of Hongxian Dynasty. It's just that the party constitution was not written in at that time. This prince yuan studied in Germany and knew German and English well. During Yuan Shikai's official career in North Korea, Jinan, Tianjin and Beijing, yuan Keding was on his side, so he was very familiar with the old officialdom. Originally, yuan Keding had some residences in Beijing and Tianjin, but because of his extravagance, some of the legacy Yuan Shikai gave him (there are 400000 yuan in cash alone) was squandered within a few years. During the Japanese occupation of Beijing, Cao Rulin, a traitor living in the garden, advised yuan Keding to sell his hometown huanshang village garden to the Japanese, but yuan refused. Japanese spy chief Kenji Takehara wanted to get yuan Keding to work in the puppet regime in North China, but he still didn't agree. In March 1949, he was told to move out of the garden. When he checked out, he was unable to pay the rent, so he had to mortgage the cultural relics temporarily. Mr. Zhang Boju, a famous cultural relic collector, saw that his family had run out of money and his life was unsustainable. He took him from the summer palace to his home until he died at the age of 80 ten years later.

management

The two princes who had lived in this nuisance courtyard did not come to a good end. After the Lin Biao incident, there were two opinions on how to deal with the stone bridge: to blow it up or not. In the end, it was preserved, so there was such a spectacle of double bridges in this ancient garden. Qinghuaxuan also witnessed two successors in different periods.

Address: in the summer palace, No.19, Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Longitude: 116.27281391621

Latitude: 39.998151911192