Former Residence of Rong Wan

Wanrong's former residence, the old house at No. 35 and 37, Nanmaoer Hutong, Gulou, Dongcheng District, Beijing, was originally the residence of the emperor of the last Qing Dynasty before his marriage. This was originally just a more ordinary residence. After Wanrong was canonized as "Empress", her father was named the third-class Duke Chengen, and the house was upgraded to Duke Chengen's mansion. As a "back house", it was expanded. West Road four enters the courtyard. East Road is a three-entry courtyard. The backyard has a rockery, a pool, and a family ancestral hall in the east. The main room on West Road is where Wanrong lives. It is a key protected cultural relic in Beijing. Wanrong's former residence is composed of two roads, east and west. Among them, the west road is a residential area and consists of four courtyards. The east road is a small private garden with three courtyards. door. Wanrong was canonized as the queen, and here is the queen's hidden residence, and the gate and front yard were expanded according to regulations. After the renovation, the facade of the mansion is three wide, with the tiles passing over the ridge and ridge, the door opening in the middle, and the two left and right rooms are in the form of sill wall lattice fan windows. There is a pair of mounted stones in front of the door, and there is a large shadow wall in the shape of a character inside the door. There were originally four screen doors on the left and right. Entering the West Screen Gate, you enter the West Road Courtyard. There are seven rooms in the south, and the north is a hall with a scroll of hanging flower gates, with a chasing gallery, which is enclosed to form a second courtyard. On the east side of the veranda, there is a screen door leading to the garden, on the west side there is a screen door leading to a passageway to the backyard, and on the north side of the courtyard are three hall halls with east and west side rooms. Then there is the third entrance, namely the main room, with five main rooms in the courtyard, front and rear exit corridors, each with a side room on the left and right, and three east and west side rooms with front corridors. The buildings in the west courtyard are all hard mountains with tile roofs and clear water ridges, which is the general practice of Beijing official residences. The beauty of this house is the interior decoration of the main room. There is a wellhead ceiling on the top, and there is an exquisite phoenix peony floor flower cover in the bright room. There is a slot with seven oval glass mirror screens in the west room. Mercury glass mirrors, as well as biscuit cabinets in the Dongci and Dongshao rooms, are rare in ordinary dwellings. Passing through the corridor outside the east wing, you can enter the fourth courtyard. There are seven rooms with a front porch in the rear, and the roof has been rebuilt. After entering the gate, go through the Moon Gate on the northwest side of the first yard, which 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 tortuous route. It is necessary to bypass the rockery and pass through the cave to see the three main rooms under the shadow of rocks and trees. The building is three wide, with double volumes linked together, with a front corridor, and a hard mountain and clear water ridge. The interior is also equipped with biscuit cabinets, glass mirrors and other eaves decorations. There is a veranda on both sides of the main room, which extends forward from the two wings, and half surrounds the front courtyard. There are assorted windows on the inner wall of each porch, and there are upside-down lintels and bench railings on the outside. And it has been extended to the north to the backyard and connected to the back house. According to old sayings, there were rockeries and pools in the third courtyard at the back, and a family ancestral hall was built on the east side, but now there are only three back houses in the north and the platform porches on both sides. The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty now, the original Chengfu gate has been converted into three houses, and two small gates have been opened in the west of the original downside house, one is No. 37 and the other is No. 35. The main buildings in the courtyard have basically remained as they were, except that the ancestral hall in the east and the rocks and pools in the backyard of the east road have been converted into houses. The interior decoration of the main room in the west courtyard is basically intact. Now the west road is a dormitory for a certain unit, and the east road is for the office of a certain unit. In 1984, the house was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Beijing.