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Eight of the Qing Dynasty, starting with Emperor Yongzheng, lived here. There is a throne in the front hall, where emperor handled state affairs and received his officials.
On the west, there is a large room between two small rooms. The large room was for emperor's officials in charge of confidential work, and a small room in the back of it is the famous San Xi Tang (Room of Three Rarities). The east room has two thrones, separated by a yellow gauze curtain, behind which the joint empresses Dowager Ci Xi and Ci An supervised the court in the late Qing Dynasty.
The rear hall was where emperor slept. In the center of the hall is a kang (a heatable brick bed) for people to sit on. In the east room there is a throne. The west room holds a large clothes closet decorated with dragon and cloud patterns, and a kang for sitting on it.
The rear hall holds a large number of ornaments. According to the "Archive of the Ornaments of yang Xing Dian", the rear hall has a total of 724 ornaments. On the left side of the rear hall is Ti Shun Tang (Hall of Consolation), and on the right side is Yan Xi tang (Hall of Swallow's Happiness).
In 1911 (the third year of Xuantong reign period), the revolution of 1911 broke out. Empresse Dowager Longyu held a "palace meeting" here, at which she decided to abdicate.
The words "Yang Xing" come from Mencius, meaning "the best way to cultivate one's mind is to reduce one's desires". |
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