Prince Zhuang's residence

Chang-wang-fu

synonym

Zhuangzi palace generally refers to Zhuangzi palace

Located at No. 82, Baidi Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, Zhuangwang mansion was originally the ancestral hall of Li Chun, Jiangxi governor of Beiyang government. It is one of the largest antique buildings in the city. It is a municipal cultural relic protection unit and Tianjin key protection level historic building. According to textual research, its predecessor is the Zhuangzi palace in Beijing, which is an authentic palace system building. As the only ancient architectural complex with Qing Dynasty Royal color outside Beijing, it is known as "Tianjin little Forbidden City" and "jinmenzhuang Palace".

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General situation

Under the premise of effective protection, after more than a year of restoration, the present zhuangwangfu scenic area covers an area of nearly 20000 square meters, maintaining the standard "green brick, green tile, Red Gate" official architectural style of the Qing Dynasty. From south to north, there are huge screen wall, front garden and three entrance courtyard.

"Zhuangwangfu" in Tianjin is characterized by Wangfu theme tourism, supplemented by intangible cultural heritage exhibition, Wangfu culture series exhibition, real life performance, Chinese folk wedding and interactive entertainment projects. Layout planning

According to the plan, this cultural tourist attraction is divided into five parts: leading space (gate, garden), first courtyard, second courtyard, third courtyard and green belt. Among them, Wangfu garden area of nearly 9000 square meters, for the royal garden style.

Walking up from the high terrace on the side of Baidi, the first thing you see is a large courtyard. The main hall opposite to the north and the south is built in the middle. The smaller East-West rooms on both sides are slightly smaller, and the winding corridors extend into the deep backyard. The square bricks on the ground are still so complete. Some places are shining because they are often stepped on. Beside the four corner walls, the green moss does not know when to climb up the wall base. Looking up, the green glazed tiles on the main hall are neatly arranged on the roof, and the big kisses, hanging beasts and running beasts on both ends of the roof are peacefully guarding their permanent positions. It seems that their "faith" of being loyal to their duties has not changed slightly with the age.

According to Wei kejing's investigation, the ancestral hall of Li Chun was designed according to the intention of facing south, so the main gate should start from the Zhaobi in the south of the house. "Many people think that the entrance at the southeast corner of Baidi road is the main entrance, which is wrong."

"Although the buildings of Li Chun's ancestral hall are all the buildings of the palace, the original layout of the palace was reversed when it was rebuilt. It turns out that the layout of Prince Zhuang's residence should be the same as that of other kings' residence, first residence, then garden. But Li Chun's ancestral hall, on the contrary, built the garden at the gate, and the other four entrance courtyard (originally four entrance courtyard, now the last courtyard has been built as a new building) after the garden. This is one of the reasons why some people mistakenly think that the front door is the main door of the house. " Li Chun ancestral hall took 10 years to complete, covering an area of 25600 square meters. It is a rectangular architectural layout, consisting of garden, screen wall, stone archway, stone arch bridge, gate, front hall, middle hall, back hall, side hall and cloister. The color of the whole building is gorgeous, Biwa and Zhulan are magnificent.

Although the screen wall of the whole building is still there, it has been blocked by some bungalows built later. We can't see its original appearance clearly. Only the two stone lions guarding the gate are still squatting there. Touching the smooth stone lions, Wei kejing told the reporter: "these two stone lions were left by the Ming Dynasty. They must have been taken in together when the house of King Zhuang inherited Liu Jin's house. I didn't expect to come back to Tianjin hundreds of years later. " Mr. Wei kejing said that the first generation of Prince Zhuang was Nurhachi's brother. After the Qing army entered the pass, Prince Zhuang's palace was the residence of Liu Jin, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty.

After the entrance of the archway, the back is the back of the Tuo stele. The huge white marble stele has not a word engraved on it, just like a wordless stele. The animal carrying the stone tablet is called "mian". It is said that the Dragon gave birth to nine sons. It is one of them. Because it has a long life and is good at loading, the ancients used it to carry the stone tablet in their buildings. There is also a popular saying that "if you touch your head, you won't worry about anything; if you touch your back, you won't be affected all your life; if you touch your teeth, you will come whatever you want; if you touch your tail, you won't regret all your life.".

After walking through the garden, you can see a small bridge in front of you. Under the slightly arched stone bridge, there is still a narrow moat. Walking across the small bridge is the main entrance of Li Chun ancestral hall. I wanted to cross the bridge at will, but Wei kejing stopped. "Do you think there is anything special about this bridge?" Mr. Wei kejing asked. "No!" Looking left, right, up and down, the bridge is still very simple. "You've all seen the Jinshui bridge in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. The bridge in front of Li Chun's ancestral hall is that kind of design. In fact, it's a reduced" Jinshui bridge. ". In the past, only in front of the palace could there be such a small bridge. It was forbidden for other houses to have such a building. "

Fortunately, Li Chun ancestral hall was built after the Republic of China, otherwise he would be killed. At that time, Li Chun built a house here. I'm afraid senior officials of the government have heard of the publicity. It's said that Yuan Shikai also asked about it. It may also be that under the pressure of Yuan Shikai, Li Chuncai called it the ancestral hall of the Li family, but did not dare to say that it was his own residence.

Tour guide

Address: No.82, Baidi Road, Nankai District, Tianjin

Admission: 50 yuan for ordinary adults, 25 yuan for children, 25 yuan for half price tickets, and 25 yuan for groups of more than 10 people.

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00.

Route: take bus 609, 640, 849, 859 to Nankai Cultural Palace Station;.

Address: North of taipingcang Hutong Road, Xisi North

Longitude: 116.376448

Latitude: 39.931572

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