Attached 01 - Introduction to Jingren Palace

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Jingren Palace, one of the six palaces in the east of the inner court. Ming Yongle 18 years (1420) was built, the beginning of Changning Palace, Jiajing 14 years (1535) renamed Jingren Palace. The Qing Dynasty continued to use the old name of the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt in the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655), and repaired successively in the 15th year of Daoguang (1835) and the 16th year of Guangxu (1890).

The palace is the second courtyard, the main gate is southward, the name Jingren Gate, there is a stone shadow wall in the door, it is said to be a relic of the Yuan Dynasty. The main hall of the front yard is Jingren Palace, the face is wide 5 rooms, the yellow glazed tile rests on the top of the mountain, the eaves corner places 5 beasts, the eaves are applied with a single warp and a single ang and five steps on the bucket, decorated with dragon and phoenix and seal color painting. The front and rear eaves of the bright room open the door, the second and the tip are the sill wall, the sill window, the door and window double cross four rhombic flower fan type. Hanging Qianlong imperial inscription "Zander Palace" plaque in the bright room. The ceiling pattern is two dragons playing with pearls, and the inner eaves are dragons and phoenixes and seal color paintings. The indoor square brick is on the ground, and there is a wide platform in front of the palace. There are 3 rooms with the hall in the east and west, the door is opened in the bright room, the yellow glazed tile is hard mountain top, and the eaves are decorated with the color painting of the spindle. There are ear rooms in the north and south of the side hall.

The main hall of the backyard is 5 rooms, the door is opened in the bright room, the yellow glazed tile is hard mountain top, and the eaves are applied to the bucket, decorated with dragon and phoenix and seal color painting. Transepts were built on each side. In front of the palace, there are 3 rooms of the east and west with the hall, and it is also the open door of the bright room, the yellow glazed tile hard mountain top, and the eaves are decorated with rotor color paintings. There is 1 well pavilion in the southwest corner of the courtyard. This palace maintains the pattern of the early Ming Dynasty.

Jingren Palace was the residence of concubines in the Ming Dynasty. After the first empress of Ming Xuanzong, Hu was deposed, she lived in this palace. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, it was the residence of Empress Tong Jiashi (Concubine Tong at that time). In March of the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), Emperor Kangxi was born in this palace. In the forty-second year of Kangxi (1703), Prince Fu Shuoyu was mourned, and Emperor Kangxi mourned his brother and lived in this palace again. Since then, this palace has been used as the residence of the concubine. Emperor Guangxu's favorite concubine, Concubine Zhenta, also lived in this palace.

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