Linhuxuan

Linhuxuan

Linhuxuan used to be the residence of leightan Stuart, President of Yanjing University, as a place for reception of distinguished guests and meetings. Ma Yinchu (1882-1982), former president of Peking University, also lived here. Now he is the VIP reception room of Peking University. Linhuxuan was named by Bing Xin, a famous writer and alumnus of Peking University.

The origin of the name

The site of linhuxuan is the "Linfeng Daiyue tower" of heshuchun garden in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. When Shuchun garden was destroyed in 1860, only the stone boat base and this building by Weiming Lake were preserved. When Yan University was founded, Mr. and Mrs. George, the Philadelphia friends of then president Leighton Stuart, donated money to repair the building and gave it to President Leighton Stuart as a residence. In 1931, it was named "linhuxuan" according to Bing Xin's proposal. Hu Shi's plaque was hung on the front door of the middle hall near the lake. It was actually a public place to receive visiting guests and hold important meetings.

Linhuxuan, as the name suggests, is on the Bank of Weiming lake. It is the oldest existing building in Yanyuan. In 1931, Bingxin, a teacher and writer of Yanda University, named the courtyard. Later, Hu Shi wrote a plaque.

Features of cultural relics

Linhuxuan is the oldest cultural relic in Yanyuan. It is surrounded by mountains and forests in the northwest, overlooking mountains and lakes in the northeast, bamboo forest as a barrier in the south, deep valley and pool in the East, and surrounded by dense forests. The environment is particularly quiet. The cultural relics are located on the hillside, high and low, with distinct functions and friendly scales. From a distance, you can only see the roof, but inside, there is a different world. The layout highlights the word "Zang".

Celebrity stories

The west room of our hospital used to be Michael Lindsay's bedroom. Michael Lin, British scholar. In 1937, he was employed as an economics tutor of Yanjing University and led the establishment of Oxford University style tutorial system. Under the control of Japanese imperialism at that time, Lin made several secret visits to the Anti Japanese guerrilla area in North China, and purchased medicinal materials and radio equipment from the Eighth Route Army in Beiping after the Japanese occupation. In 1941, the Pearl Harbor Incident broke out. With the help of the Eighth Route Army, the Lin family entered the Anti Japanese base area and took part in the Anti Japanese work in Jin chaji and Yan'an. It was not until 1945 that the Japanese surrender party returned to Britain with his wife and children. After liberation, Lin visited China several times.

Linhuxuan embodies the characteristics of Chinese classical architecture, it is not big, but there are many stories happened in this xuanzi. Two of linhuxuan's former and latter masters deserve special attention: Leiden Stuart, President of Yanjing University, and Ma Yinchu, President of Peking University. In 1929, Leighton Stuart presided over the wedding of Wu Wenzao and the writer Bing Xin. In 1935, Wu Wenzao's students Fei Xiaotong and Wang Tonghui also held a wedding here. The principal was Leiden Stuart.

Related events

At the beginning of the liberation, linhuxuan was still the president's residence. At first, Lu Zhiwei, the president of Yanda, lived in linhuxuan. In 1952, Peking University moved to Yanyuan, where Ma Yinchu also lived and welcomed guests. After Ma Yinchu left the post of president and moved out of linhuxuan, no president of Peking University lived here. It has been transformed into a guest house, which belongs to the Foreign Affairs Office of Peking University and becomes a special place for foreign guests.

Today, as a VIP reception room of Peking University, linhuxuan receives thousands of foreign guests (including foreign heads of state, experts and scholars) from dozens of countries, as well as compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and overseas Chinese, who visit Peking University every year. Leaders of the central government often stop here when they visit Peking University. The ancient trees outside the pavilion are quietly watching everything here.

Address: South Bank of Weiming lake, Peking University, No.5, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Longitude: 116.30902862549

Latitude: 39.993621826172

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