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Zhili Governor's Office
The Zhili Governor's Office is located at No. 301, Yuhua West Road, Baoding City, Hebei Province. It is the best-preserved provincial government office of the Qing Dynasty in my country. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a patriotic education base in Hebei Province, and a demonstration base for clean government culture education in Baoding City. "Where there are officials, there are government offices." The Zhili Governor's Office was built in accordance with the custom of the Zhili Governor. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it inherited the Ming system and actively promoted the provincial system throughout the country, and listed the governor and governor as the head of the officials of one or several provinces. The Ming Dynasty Northern Zhili, located in the capital, was subsequently changed to Zhili Province. The Zhili Governor was established in the second year of Yongzheng (1724), and the Zhili Governor's Office was built in the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729). In the second year of Yongzheng's reign (1724), Li Weijun, the Zhili governor stationed in Baoding, was promoted to the position of Zhili Governor-General due to his outstanding political achievements. He was in charge of all officials below the rank of Zhili governor-general. The Zhili Governor-General's Office located in the northwest corner of Baoding was therefore upgraded to the Zhili Governor-General's Office. As the post of Zhili Governor-General gradually became a custom, the Governor-General's Office, which was "cramped and shabby, with an undignified appearance", seemed increasingly incompatible with the identity of the Zhili Governor-General, a first-rank official. In the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign (1729), Emperor Yongzheng specially ordered the Imperial Observatory (an institution in the Qing court in charge of observing astronomy and meteorology and compiling calendars) Jian Zheng Mingtu and the head of the Ministry of Revenue Guan Zhining, who were on a business trip to Yizhou, to pass through Baoding to select a new site for the Governor-General's Office. After careful investigation, the General's Office in the city was finally selected. After the approval of Emperor Yongzheng, Yang Kun, the Governor-General of Zhili, recruited workers and selected materials, and built it with public funds. The construction officially started on the fourth day of March of that year, and it took 8 months to complete on the 23rd day of November (January 11, 1730). In the same year, Tang Zhiyu, the Acting Governor-General of Zhili who succeeded Yang Kun, officially started working in the newly built Governor-General's Office. From then until the third year of Xuantong (1911), this place had been the Governor-General's Office of Zhili for 182 years through 8 emperors. Successive governors sat here and issued orders from here, interpreting the history of Zhili for nearly two centuries.
Prince Gong's Mansion
In the southwest corner of the scenic Shichahai in Beijing, there is a long, quiet street shaded by green willows. In this street, there is a prince's mansion, which is the most intact Prince Gong's Mansion among the existing prince's mansions. The predecessor of Prince Gong's Mansion was the residence of Heshen, a powerful official in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the residence of Yonglin, the younger brother of Emperor Jiaqing. As the residence of a prince in the Qing Dynasty, Prince Gong's Mansion has a regular architectural layout, excellent craftsmanship, and staggered pavilions, which fully reflects the glorious and wealthy style of the royal family and the elegant and simple charm of the people. Prince Gong's Mansion consists of two parts: the mansion and the garden. It is about 330 meters long from north to south and more than 180 meters wide from east to west. It covers an area of about 61,120 square meters, of which the mansion covers 32,260 square meters and the garden covers 28,860 square meters. The mansion buildings are divided into three roads: east, middle and west. Each road from south to north is composed of multiple courtyards with a strict central axis running through it. The main buildings in the middle road are Yin'an Hall and Jiale Hall. The roof of the hall is made of green glazed tiles, which shows the majesty of the middle road and also reflects the prince's status. The main house in the front yard of the east road is called Duofuxuan. There is a wisteria that has grown for more than 200 years in front of the hall. It is still growing well today, which is extremely rare in Beijing. The main house in the back yard of the east road is called "Ledao Hall", which was the living place of Prince Gong Yixin. The quadrangle of the west road is relatively small and exquisite, and the main buildings are Baoguang Room and Xijinzhai. The masterpiece is the tall and imposing Xijinzhai. There are exquisitely carved nanmu partitions in the hall, which are the style of Heshen imitating the Ningshou Palace in the Forbidden City (this is one of the "twenty major crimes" for Heshen's extravagance and excessiveness). At the deepest part of the mansion, there is a two-story rear building, which is 156 meters long from east to west. There are 88 windows on the back wall and 108 rooms inside, commonly known as "99 and a half rooms", which means "full when full" in Taoism.
Yaoshan Wang Family Manor
The Wang's Manor in Yaoshan, Baoding, was built in the early Qing Dynasty. It is located in Yaoshan, Baoding, Hebei. It was built by Wang Xigun, the ancestor of the Wang family. It has a history of nearly 400 years. It is the largest and most complete mansion of a general in the Qing Dynasty and a wealthy merchant in China. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit. The manor architecture of the Wang's Manor in Yaoshan is different from the palace and the government office, and is different from ordinary residential buildings. It is the best of the residential architecture in northern my country. Therefore, there is a saying that "the royal architecture can be seen in the Forbidden City, and the folk architecture can be seen in Yaoshan (Wang's)". The manor covers an area of 279 acres, and originally had more than 50 houses and more than 500 houses. The main buildings of the manor are arranged in a square shape, facing north and south and arranged in a straight line. The whole building is mainly gray, simple and generous, giving people a solemn and elegant feeling. One of the most important features of the architecture of the Wang's Manor in Yaoshan is its exquisite carvings. These carvings include brick carvings, stone carvings and wood carvings. The contents are all based on the theme of "blessing, fortune and longevity", and the auspicious blessings are composed through the homophony of the carved objects. After investigation, relevant experts believe that Wang's Manor belongs to the category of northern courtyard houses and was built in imitation of the prince's mansion in Beijing. It is different from the Qiao Family Courtyard in Shanxi and the Hakka folk houses in Guangdong. The architectural skills of Wang's Manor are also superb. For example, the use of grinding bricks and seams. In those days, grinding bricks required the outside to be large and the inside to be small, the inside to be plastered, and the outside to be tightly seamed. In order to make the adhesion firm, egg white and glutinous rice juice were mixed into the white lime paste. The large screen wall opposite the main entrance of Renhe Hall is all made of grinding bricks and seams. It is about 9 meters long. Such a large screen wall is very rare in folk houses in northern China. It is not only a precious material for studying the folk customs of the Qing Dynasty, but also a good place for tourism. In recent years, it has also become a filming location for film and television. Many scenes in the movies "Storm Beginning" and "The Decisive Battle" and the TV series "Hot Land", "Song of Youth" and "The World's Granary" were shot here.