Former residence of Ronglu

Former residence of Ronglu

Ronglu's former residence is located at No. 3, No. 5, No. 7 and No. 6 of juer Hutong, Jiaodaokou, Dongcheng District. The house is divided into three parts: Western style buildings in the west, gardens in the middle, residences in the East and five entrance courtyards in the residential part. There are now seats and halls. The main building, CI hall and middle garden have all been demolished. There is only one two-story Western-style building in the West. Dongcheng District for the protection of cultural relics.

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Commemorative figures

Ronglu (1836-1903), whose name is Zhonghua, has a posthumous title of Wenzhong. He was born in the guarjia family of Manchuria and served as an official for several generations. During Xianfeng's reign, he was involved in officialdom and worked in the Ministry of industry and the Ministry of household successively. He was punished by SUSHUN for suspected bribery. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, he rose again and became the Minister of the military department. He mastered the most powerful army in the late Qing Dynasty, the Beiyang army. He gradually became a confidant of Cixi and a core figure of the later party. During the hundred day reform, he was transferred to Zhili governor to assist Cixi in cracking down on the reformers and launched the "1898 coup". In the "gengzi change", the boxers "helped the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries" and Ronglu "attacked and protected the embassies of various countries openly and secretly". After the Allied forces of the eight countries entered Beijing, they advocated peace negotiation, which led to the signing of the "Xin Chou treaty".

Rong Lu (1836-1903) was a minister in the late Qing Dynasty. The name is Zhonghua and the name is lueyuan. Guarga. Manchuria is a white flag people. Around the Xinyou coup, Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong Yixin appreciated it. He was the Minister of the house of internal affairs. In 1874, when Emperor Tongzhi died, Rong Lu took part in the determination of zaitan (Emperor Guangxu) to inherit the throne, which Empress Dowager Cixi relied on. In 1879, because of disobeying Empress Dowager Cixi, she was impeached to accept bribes and was demoted to a second rank, leaving her post for more than 10 years. At the end of 1891, he became general of Xi'an. In 1894, she was allowed to visit the capital to celebrate Empress Dowager Cixi's 60th birthday. It happened that the war between China and Japan was urgent. When she stayed in Beijing, she was given the command of the infantry and would run military affairs. After the war, he was awarded the title of prime minister, Minister of state affairs, Minister of the Ministry of arms, assistant bachelor, and supervising the training of the new army of Beiyang. In June 1898, during the hundred day reform period, the governor of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang was granted the right person to launch the coup by Empress Dowager Cixi. Immediately, he transferred the center of internal control, granted the Minister of military aircraft and the Bachelor of Jin wenyuange, managed the affairs of the Ministry of war, controlled the army of the northern ocean, controlled the land and sea, and unified the five armed forces of Kinki. He planned to establish Puzhen, the son of Duan Wang Zaiyi, as the eldest brother (crown prince), and to depose Emperor Guangxu. During the Boxer Movement in 1900, he advocated the protection of embassies in Beijing and the suppression of the boxers. In January 1902, after returning to Beijing with Empress Dowager Cixi, she transferred to Wenhua hall to manage the affairs of the household department. He died in 1903 and was posthumously named Wenzhong. To show his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. He edited Wu Yi Gong Shi Lue and wrote RONG Wen Zhong Gong Ji and Rong Lu Cun Zha.

The origin of place names

Ronglu's former residence: juer hutong is in the northwest of Dongcheng District, starting from Jiaodaokou South Street in the East and NanLuoGu Lane in the West. In Ming Dynasty, it belonged to jinggongfang. It was called juer Hutong in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. In Xuantong period, it was changed into Ju'er Hutong. In 1965, it was renamed Jiaodaokou South three, and in 1979 it was restored to Ju'er Hutong. No. 3, No. 5 and No. 7 in the Hutong were the former residence of Ronglu. In 1949, it became the Embassy of Afghanistan. It is said that No. 41 used to be a temple, in which lived a substitute monk of the Qing emperor.

Geographical discovery

The basic pattern of the residence still exists. The European style villa is unexpected. It goes beyond the street of di'anmenwai where people come and cars go, into the life scene of NanLuoGu lane, and leaves the gathering place of the royal residence around Houhai to the official residence area with grey walls and tubular tiles. Since the founding of Beijing in the Yuan Dynasty, Nanluoguxiang and Houhai have been included in the category of "nine longitudes and nine latitudes" and lived in many important officials of the imperial court. Ronglu is one of them. His former residence is in juer Hutong, NanLuoGu lane.

The reason why Ju'er Hutong is famous is probably because of the renovation project of the "Habitat Award" in the 1990s, in which a piece of dilapidated houses in the middle of the Hutong was transformed into a new quadrangle style building.

No. 3 juer Hutong, where Ronglu's former residence is located, is a cultural relic protection unit at the district level. It has not joined the transformed team and has been preserved to this day. Courtyard 3 in Ju'er Hutong: the "great change" in the gate

The reporter came to the front door of his former residence. The small door with No. 3 number plate was obviously opened from the back. The real "original door" should be the Jinzhu gate in the southeast corner of the courtyard wall. There is a sign of the housing authority on the door. Before entering the yard, you can hear the sound of electric drills inside. The "great change" of the world inside the door has not been completed, and the bricks and debris on the floor are all "new wounds". This used to be the first courtyard of Ronglu's former residence. Now it is separated, but it is still the house number of No. 3 courtyard.

Go through the narrow passage in gate 3, walk up the three steps of the platform and look around. On the platform, the three main rooms and the left and right ear rooms are all ready, but they haven't been painted for a long time. The porch pillars and window lattice are dim. There are three East-West wing rooms and three reverse seat rooms, and there are brand-new brick houses outside the reverse seat room and the East Wing room, adding two beating colors to the gloom. There are some green grass on the steps leading to the West Wing room. In the past few years or even more than ten years, the use frequency of this room must be quite high. That's why it is so worn out. The door sill has been trampled down, the door has lost its support, and it is a bit inclined. In the middle of the yard planted a Ailanthus altissima, a bunch of spring, Ailanthus altissima is still hibernating, and the branches of spring, has been full of flowers. It's only three or five years since the Spring Festival. Ailanthus altissima looks tall, but it's only in its fifties. They haven't experienced the heyday of the yard.

Courtyard 5 in Ju'er Hutong: old garden lost

In 1836, in Ju'er Hutong, there was another male in guarjia's family. He was Rong Lu. Guarjia family is the first of the eight major families in Manchuria. It can be said that it is a famous family. Ronglu's ancestors and parents are all in the imperial class. Ronglu was destined to follow the footsteps of his ancestors as soon as he was born. In 1859, at the age of 23, Rong Lu offended his superior, Su Shun, and was almost executed. At that time, he had been an official for seven years. After escaping the disaster, Rong Lu returned to his home in Ju'er Hutong and lived in the garden. He began to think seriously about how to be an official.

No. 5 juer hutong is the garden of Ronglu mansion. In a novel with the background of the reform movement of 1898, there is a section of "Yin Jiaotou visits Ronglu mansion at night", which interprets the garden of Ronglu mansion, saying that there are "Xihu Pavilion", "jinlingxuan" and other pavilions in it. The No. 5 courtyard, which the reporter saw, has only two six story buildings and is now the dormitory of Xinhua news agency. The old residents of Ju'er Hutong recalled that before liberation, when they moved here, the garden did not exist. At that time, several rooms were built on the location of No. 5 hospital, where ordinary people lived. The gardens are gone, and the elegant names of the pavilions and pavilions can not be verified. However, relevant data show that the Ronglu family had no affinity with the West Lake and Jinling for generations. As military generals, they were used to the lonely smoke in the desert instead of the romantic scenery.

Courtyard 7 of juer Hutong: foreign style house is the main building

From 1861, Rong Lu came back for the second time and gradually became the backbone of the party. This choice pushed him to the peak of power, but also attracted him behind the curse.

In courtyard 7 of juer Hutong, there is a European style villa, which is also one of the main buildings of Ronglu mansion. After liberation, the Afghan embassy, which had been working for a long time, was later managed by Beijing Yiqing Research Institute, and now it is rented to children's fun publishing house. Walking into the hall, standing under the escalator and looking inside, you can see the chandeliers and red sofas in the reception room on the first floor. It seems that they are from an ancient costume drama with the French court in the 19th century as the background. Shouts loudly "the ancestor's law is immutable" Rong Lu actually has a European style villa?

Most of the posterity's views on Rong Lu came from Liang Qichao's "the coup d'etat of 1898", who believed that he was an accomplice in suppressing the reform of 1898. However, in the eyes of historical experts, Ronglu is different from those blind and exclusive bureaucrats. He worked in Shenji camp for nine years and knew the so-called western firearms equipment very well. During his tenure as governor of Zhili, he had run several new schools following the example of Beijing University and made achievements in the fields of culture, education and economy.

No.6 courtyard of Shoubi Hutong: ancestral hall turned into dormitory

Out of courtyard 7, around to Shoubi Hutong No. 6, this is the entrance to the courtyard after Ronglu's former residence. With the iron door closed, you can only see the "universe in the cave" from the letter hole. There are several old houses in it, which are similar to the specifications of No. 3 juer Hutong. At that time, the second courtyard was the ancestral hall of the Ronglu family, which was dedicated to the ancestral tablets of the guarjia family. Now, this is the dormitory of the Ministry of coal. I heard that there is only one family and most of the rooms are empty.

There were several old locust trees at the entrance of Shoubi Hutong, at least 100 years old. Only these old houses and ancient trees can truly witness history. I'm afraid they are the only ones who have the most say in Rong Lu's merits and demerits.

Folk memory

When I come back, there is no painting on the beam

Residents of No.3 courtyard of juer Hutong, Yangjie

I was born in the yard in 1953. Juer Hutong No. 3 was the house my father bought before liberation. My father revolted with Fu Zuoyi when he liberated Peiping in 1949. He once served in the Army School and was regarded as a major general of the Kuomintang. Before liberation, he went north from Shanghai and bought the courtyard of Ju'er Hutong. At that time, the yard included a front yard, the one that came in through gate 1. There are two doors between the front yard and the current No. 3 yard, and there is a cross yard on the East and west sides of No. 3 yard. After liberation,

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