Wanrong's former residence

Wanrong old house

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Wanrong's former residence generally refers to Wanrong's former residence

Wanrong's former residence, No. 35 and No. 37 of South Maoer Hutong, Gulou, Dongcheng District, Beijing, was originally the premarital residence of Guo Buluo Wanrong, Queen of Puyi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty, and was built by Guo Buluo Changshun, Wanrong's great grandfather.

This was just a more ordinary house. After Wanrong was canonized as "Queen", her father was granted the third class Chengen mansion, and the house was upgraded to Chengen mansion. As a "rear residence", it will be expanded. West Road four into the courtyard. The east road is a courtyard with three entrances. There are rockeries and pools in the backyard and ancestral temples in the East. The main house on the west road is where Wanrong lives. It is a key cultural relic to be protected in Beijing.

In May 2016, the Ministry of Commerce started the maintenance work on the roofs of some houses in Wanrong's former residence. However, after more than 20 days of repair construction, it was stopped by the cultural security department. "Law enforcement officers told the construction team that the construction was suspected of damaging cultural relics and needed rectification."

brief introduction

The gate of the mansion was changed into three rooms, and two small doors were opened at the original inverted room in the west, one No. 37 and the other No. 35. No. 37 of Maoer hutong is a dormitory and No. 35 is an office. The two houses are listed as cultural relics protection units in Beijing. It was built by great grandfather Guo bro Changshun. Changshun was only a garrison general, so the house was not prominent. It used to be an ordinary house, divided into East and West roads. However, after Wan Rong was canonized as "Queen", Guo bro Rongyuan, the father of Wan Rong, was granted the title of minister of internal affairs and was granted the title of third class Chengen mansion. Therefore, the house was upgraded to Chengen mansion, so it was transformed. Another reason is that since Wanrong has been registered, this is the "Houdi". In order to make it convenient for Fengyu to travel when she was married to the empress, the gate and front yard of the mansion must be expanded. After the reconstruction, the house door has three tubular tile shed roofs, the middle door has a copper plated door ring, the left and right two ridge walls are carved with four water chestnut leaves, the door has a shadow wall, and the left and right four screen doors. When you enter the west gate, you can enter the courtyard of West Road. There are four courtyards: seven inverted rooms, two vertical doors in the north, three halls in the East and West, one ear room in the left and one ear room in the right. Behind the hall is a long and narrow courtyard, with a green lacquer gilded tuanshou wood screen wall in the middle. The third courtyard is shangfangyuan, with a green lacquer gilded panel wall in the south, a brick xumizuo in the bottom, and a hanging hilltop wood in the middle Screen door. There are five main rooms with one ear room on the left and one on the right. The roof of the room is a ridge of hard hill and tile water. It comes out of the corridor in the front and the mansion in the back. There is a ceiling at the mouth of the well in the room. In the Ming Dynasty, there is a flower cover with Phoenix and peony on the ground. It is very delicate and seems to be an old thing in the palace. There is a board wall inlaid with seven oval mirrors in the west room, and a mercury brick mirror of the whole wall is inlaid in the north wall of the west room. There is also a blue gauze cabinet in the east room and the east room. There are three East and three West Wing rooms in the hospital, all of which are hard mountains and clear water ridges with corridors in front. There are seven back covered rooms, two platform eaves and two East and West platform rooms. The east road is a courtyard with three entrances. The entrance is the moon light gate, and the rockery stone is past the moon light gate. There are three East and West Wing rooms on both sides of the stone. There is a front porch leading to the backyard. There are three main rooms, which are Hewa Qingshui ridge, with corridor in front and Baoxia in back. The north wall of the indoor outdoor room is also inlaid with glass brick mirrors of the same size as the wall.

Before her marriage, Wanrong lived in this house with her father Rongyuan, mother Hengxin, brother and so on. The main house on the west road was where Wanrong lived. When she got married, she went out of the house and entered the palace through the Di'an gate. At that time, many people in the capital came out to watch the excitement, and the restaurants around the back door bridge were occupied.

Layout of old houses

Wanrong former residence is composed of East and West roads. The west road is a residential area and consists of four entrance courtyards. The east road is a small private garden with three entrance courtyards. The two roads used to share three gates reconstructed in Xuantong years. Wanrong was canonized as the queen. Here is the hidden residence of the queen. According to the regulations, the gate of the mansion and the front yard were expanded. After the reconstruction, the front of the house is three rooms wide, the tiles pass through the ridge, the middle door is opened, and the left and right windows are in the form of ridge walls and lattice windows. There is a pair of stone in front of the door. There is a large shadow wall in the door. There are four screen doors on the left and right. When you enter the West screen door, you will enter the West Road courtyard. In the south, there are seven rooms, in the north, there is a hall, a scroll of vertical flower gate, and a plagiarism corridor. In the east of the corridor, there is a screen door leading to the garden, and in the west, there is a screen door leading to the backyard. On the north side of the courtyard are three Hall rooms with East and West ear rooms. The third entrance is the main room courtyard. There are five main rooms in the courtyard, with one ear room on the left and one ear room on the left and one ear room on the right. There are three East and three West rooms with front porches. The buildings of the West courtyard are hard mountain with tile roof and clear water ridge, which is the general practice of the official residence in Beijing. The most beautiful part of this house is the interior decoration of the main room. There is a ceiling at the top of the well. There is a delicate flower cover of Qifeng peony on the ground in the Ming room. There are seven oval glass screens in the west room. The north wall of the west room is inlaid with mercury glass mirrors. There are blue gauze cabinets in the east room and the east room. There are seven rooms with front porches, and the roof has been rebuilt.

After entering the gate, pass the moon gate on the northwest side of the first courtyard, and it is the East Road courtyard. Inside the moon gate is the second garden style courtyard. Since the moon gate is not located on the central axis of the West courtyard, it forms a zigzag route. You have to go around the rockery and through the cave to see the three main rooms hidden by rocks and trees. The building is three rooms in width, with double rolls, a front porch, a hard tile hill and a clear water ridge. The interior is decorated with blue gauze cabinet, glass mirror and other eaves. On both sides of the main entrance room, there is a corridor extending forward from both wings, half surrounding the front courtyard. There are assorted windows on the inner wall of each corridor, and upside down lintels and stool railings on the outer side. It extends northward to the backyard and connects with the back room. According to the old saying, there used to be rockery and pool in the third entrance courtyard behind, and there was a ancestral temple on the east side. Now there are only three back rooms and platform porches on both sides in the north. Now, the original Chengfu gate has been changed into three rooms, and two small doors have been opened in the west of the original inverted room, one is No. 37, the other is No. 35. The main buildings in the courtyard are basically unchanged, except that the eastern ancestral hall and the rocks and pools in the backyard of the east road have been converted into houses. The interior decoration of the main house of the West courtyard is basically in good condition. Now the west road is the dormitory of a unit, and the east road is the office of a unit. In 1984, the house was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Beijing.

Historical evolution

Wanrong's former residence is commonly known as "Niangniang mansion". Wanrong was born in 1906, married Puyi in 1922, and lived here for 16 years. She belongs to guobuluo family of Zhengbai banner, and her full name is guobuluo Wanrong. Wanrong's ancestors had never been a great official, and her father, Guo bro Rongyuan, had no prominent position. This house was built by Guo bro Changshun, the great grandfather of Wanrong. It used to be an ordinary house. After Wanrong was canonized as "Queen", her father was granted the third class Chengen Duke, and the house was upgraded to Chengen mansion, which was "the father borrowed the daughter's light". In order to facilitate the entrance and exit of Fengyu, who welcomed the queen during the wedding, the gate of the mansion and the front yard were expanded to form the present scale. It has been 83 years since Wanrong entered the palace. The magnificent gate of Maoer Hutong has disappeared. In the original gate position, there were three houses. Two small doors were opened in the west of Maoer Hutong, which are now managed and used by two different units. There are 4 courtyards on the 37th, and there are 7 inverted rooms with hand reading Gallery in the first one. In the second entrance, there was a decorative door, which was old and the red paint fell off so that the color could not be seen. It seemed that it had not been repaired, and the piers on both sides were well preserved. This vertical flower gate is different from others. It has two ridges to show its status. Now the second entrance has become one of its own, and the third entrance has to pass through the corridor on the west side. The third entrance is shangfangyuan, which has five main rooms. It is the residence of Wanrong. It is on the top of the ridge of a hard hill with tile and clear water. It has a corridor in the front and a mansion in the back. It is very old. The courtyard is very quiet with flowers and trees. The house is now rented by a Russian named Alexandria. He wanted to repair it, but he was worried about the damage to the cultural relics, so he never finished it. It is said that there are seven back rooms in the fourth courtyard, but they can not be found. After analysis, they may have been assigned to other courtyards.

Both houses are not open to the public, but tourists from home and abroad often come to visit them. Many people want to find the graceful figure left by the "last queen" from the huge palace mirror, or witness the rise and fall of the Qing Empire. Whether from the perspective of history or architecture, these two houses are worth watching and tasting carefully.

historical background

In November 1931, Puyi secretly left Tianjin alone and fled to the Northeast under the deception and planning of Japanese imperialism. Until two months later, accompanied by Puyi's two younger sisters and brother PuJie, Wanrong transferred from Tianjin to Dalian and then to Lushun to reunite with Puyi. But at this time, Puyi had become a puppet at the mercy of Japanese imperialism, and she did not expect to fall into the trap of conspiracy. In Changchun, everything has to be arranged by the Japanese. Even her every move has been monitored, and she can't even step out of the gate. Wanrong can't bear the humiliation of the Japanese and is determined to escape from this hell on earth.

In the Memoirs of Gu Weijun, the first foreign minister of the former Kuomintang, there is such a paragraph: "we stayed in Dalian for one night, and an interesting thing happened. One of my entourage used to be a policeman in Beijing and was one of my four guards. Because of the bombing in 1925, he stayed for my bodyguard. He's north

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