Xinhuamen

Xinhuamen is located in the west section of West Chang'an Street in Beijing, which is the main entrance of the CPC Central Committee. Its entrance is a two-story building with classical style glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings. The upper floor of the building, surrounded by the fan, Zhu LAN Gallery, gives a cheerful and elegant feeling. The three character chess plaque of "xinhuamen" in regular script of gold in shiqingdi is hung under the eaves of the building. The large national emblem of golden and Red Cross splendor hangs high on the eaves of the second floor. In front of the entrance is a big shadow wall with blue bricks to the top, and a pair of giant stone lions stand in front of the door. Standing in the middle of the field outside the gate is a big flagpole with a five-star red flag. On the eight character walls on both sides of the gate are two big slogans with red background, gold margin and white characters: "long live the great Communist Party of China" and "long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought". In front of the gate is Chang'an Street, a clean and spacious traffic artery across the East and West cities.

Xinhuamen

Located in the west section of West Chang'an Street in Beijing, xinhuamen is the main gate of Zhongnanhai, the seat of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and also a symbol of the highest executive power.

Xinhuamen is reconstructed from the Baoyue building of that year. The gate is a two-story building with classical style glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings. The upper floor of the building, surrounded by the fan, Zhu LAN Gallery, gives a cheerful and elegant feeling. The three character chess plaque of "xinhuamen" in regular script of gold in shiqingdi is hung under the eaves of the building. The large national emblem of golden and Red Cross splendor hangs high on the eaves of the second floor.

In front of the entrance is a big shadow wall with blue bricks to the top, and a pair of giant stone lions stand in front of the door. Standing in the middle of the field outside the gate is a big flagpole with a five-star red flag. On the eight character walls on both sides of the gate are two big slogans with red background, gold margin and white characters: "long live the great Communist Party of China" and "long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought". In front of the gate is Chang'an Street, a clean and spacious traffic artery running through the East and West cities.

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essential information

Location: 174 Xi Chang'an Street, Xicheng District, Beijing

Original building: Baoyue building

Reconstruction time: 1913

Presided over by Zhu Qiqian

Purpose: Zhongnanhai main entrance

brief introduction

Xinhuamen, originally Baoyue tower, was built in 1758. Emperor Qianlong also inscribed a plaque with "looking up and looking down" on Baoyue tower with seven rooms above and below.

It is said that Baoyue tower was built by Emperor Qianlong to win the favor of Xiangfei. After entering the palace, Xiangfei thought of her hometown and was depressed all day long. Emperor Qianlong built Baoyue building and built Huiying and mosque opposite the building, so that Xiangfei could see the scenery of her hometown. Later, when the Empress Dowager learned about this, she hanged Xiangfei secretly. Although most of the fictional elements in this legend are fictional, some moving stories have been derived from it.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai took Zhongnanhai as his presidential palace and rebuilt Baoyue building into the gate of the presidential palace, which was renamed xinhuamen. Since then, xinhuamen has replaced xiyuanmen as the main gate of Zhongnanhai. Xinhuamen is the South Gate of Zhongnanhai.

Among them, Zhongnanhai is the most mysterious place in China and even in the world. It is the precipitation of history and the product of modern society.

Main attractions

Xinhuamen is a two-story open-air building with classical style glazed tile top, carved beams and painted buildings. The upper floor of the building has seven bays, each bay has four fans, and the Zhulan corridor. The building is cheerful and elegant, belonging to the royal architectural style. On the doorframe, there is a three character chess plaque of "xinhuamen" written in regular script in stone green, which is hung under the eaves of the building. On the eaves of the second floor, there is a large national emblem of gold and red. Facing the front door is a big screen wall with blue bricks to the top. On the screen wall are five red gold characters (Mao Zedong's handwriting) of "serving the people" pasted with gold foil.

The screen wall blocks people's sight and can't see anything inside. Xinhua gatehouse has three doors, and the doors on both sides of the main gate are always closed. There is a pair of giant stone lions in front of xinhuamen. Standing in the middle of the field outside the gate is a big flagpole with a five-star red flag. On the eight character walls on both sides of the gate are two big slogans in red, gold and white: "long live the great Communist Party of China" and "long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought". Looking at the whole picture of xinhuamen, it is solemn, gorgeous and world-wide.

In addition, there is a flag raising and lowering ceremony in xinhuamen every day, which is no less than the flag raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square

There are few people. I suggest you enjoy the flag raising ceremony in front of Xinhua Gate.

Practical information

Safety tips

Xinhuamen is the main gate of Zhongnanhai. The security measures are extremely strict. Only pedestrians are allowed to pass in front of the gate, and long stay is not allowed. There is a yellow cordon in front of the door that can not be crossed. There are guards at the door. There are police and security personnel in front of the door to maintain order. There are a large number of plain clothes on the opposite side and around. If you want to visit or take photos in front of the door, it is recommended that more than two people go together, try not to stay too long in front of the door, and obey the management of the security personnel.

Traffic information

Bus No.14, No.70, No.7, NO.901 express, NO.901 express, No.52, No.5, No.99, No.1 sightseeing line, No.2 sightseeing line, No.1 subway line, Nanyuan Airport special line, No.2 special line, etc.

Construction process

The location of xinhuamen was originally just the south wall of the Imperial City, with no "gate". The opening of xinhuamen can be traced back to 1913 when Yuan Shikai was the president in the early years of the Republic of China. At that time, the provisional parliament decided to take Zhongnanhai as the location of the grand presidential palace. Zhongnanhai was the "Xiyuan" of the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty. There was only Xiyuan gate opposite to the Xihua gate of the Forbidden City, and there was no main gate facing south.

According to Chinese tradition, the main entrance of the mansion is to be opened in the south, so a main entrance facing south must be opened on the imperial wall of West Chang'an Street. Therefore, the Baoyue building, which is only a few meters inside the south wall of Zhongnanhai, is transformed into a gate. The reconstructed Baoyue building was named "xinhuamen". This is the process of opening up xinhuamen.

Baoyuelou was built in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. It is said that Emperor Qianlong built it for his beloved Hui imperial concubine Xiangfei. The concubine was a Hui nationality in Xinjiang. After she was elected to the palace of Qing Dynasty, she often missed her hometown and the social life of the Hui people. Therefore, Emperor Qianlong built this Ming building, and turned the south side of the street facing the building into a "huihuiying" and moved into the Hui tribe. In this way, Xiangfei, who miss her hometown, can go upstairs and look at it to comfort her nostalgia.

In 1913, the provisional parliament decided to take Zhongnanhai as the location of the grand presidential palace, and specially opened the main entrance of the presidential palace facing south in West Chang'an Street. At that time, it was just a section of the red wall of the whole imperial city. Originally, there was no entrance. Inside the wall is the South Bank of Taiye pool in Zhongnanhai. Baoyue tower does not face the street. It is still some distance away from the city wall. Finally, it was agreed to adjust measures to local conditions, so the Baoyue building was put to use. First, a section of the Imperial City in front of Baoyue building was demolished, and then two new eight character walls were built to connect the imperial city and Baoyue building. On the north side of the building, a large shadow wall is built near the lake. From the outside, you can't see through. Inside, there is a blue lake, blocking the view of outsiders. The main entrance of the new presidential palace is named "new Huamen".

The reconstruction project of xinhuamen was presided over by the then interior Premier Zhu Qiling. He named the section of West Chang'an Street in front of xinhuamen as "Fuqian Street", and the newly opened road on the west side of Zhongnanhai as "Fuyou Street". The "Fu" here refers to the presidential palace. After that, the reconstructed Road on the drainage ditch South of Liubukou was named "Xinhua Street", and a western style flower wall was built on the south side of "Fuqian Street" opposite to xinhuamen to block the messy old houses behind and improve the view in front of the presidential palace.

The plaque of xinhuamen was written by yuan Lizhun. Yuan Lizhun was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He worked as a editor and lecturer in the 24th year of Guangxu. In the 30th year of Guangxu, he worked in the South study. In the last year of Guangxu, he served as the general manager of the school of Beijing Normal University. After the revolution of 1911, he taught the history of Chinese painting in the Department of Chinese painting of Furen University. Mr. Yuan is good at painting and calligraphy. "Xinhuamen" plaque is 1.6 meters wide and 0.64 meters high. It is in the style of authentic Pavilion. The font is vigorous and powerful. It is still hanging on the door.

Stone lion in front of Xinhua Gate

It's the biggest couple in Beijing. In August 1966, the red guards swept through Beijing, and the stone lion in front of Xinhua Gate was also listed in the list of "breaking the four olds". On August 26, 1966, Premier Zhou Enlai, proceeding from the protection of cultural relics and historic sites, patiently persuaded the red guards to order that the stone lion in front of the gate of Xinhua be removed, thus effectively protecting this historic site. Later, the stone lions returned to their original place.

In xinhuamen, five scarlet letters "serving the people" were carved on wood

Two slogans, also carved in wood, were made on both sides of the door, and the content is now familiar: "long live the great Communist Party of China! Long live the invincible Mao Zedong thought It was probably in May and June of 1967.

By about 1970, Zhongnanhai renovation office had processed the words "serve the people" and two slogans on the screen wall of xinhuamen, pasted the five words "serve the people" with gold foil, turned them into gold characters on a red background, and made the two slogans into plexiglass light boxes. Later, the two slogans were changed into white characters with gold foil. "After liberation, Chairman Mao wrote the five words" serve the people "many times. The five words on the screen wall of new Huamen are the best one among the many banners he wrote after liberation

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