History, Architecture, and Symbolic Meaning of Ming and Qing Prince Gong’s Mansion

The Architecture of Ming and Qing
Prince Gong’s Mansion Ancient Architecture
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Introduction
 This paper aims to look at the history, architecture, and symbolic meaning of the mansion and its buildings. Prince Gong’s Mansion is the most extensive and well-kept in Beijing. The mansion is a valuable architecture seen as a preservation for the classic Chinese flair. Prince Gong’s Mansion is an essential bit of history for people interested in the Chinese antique society in the past. It has a fascinating story, and it is a spot for the local people and tourists to master the Chinese Culture and heritage. The mansion consists of more than 30 group buildings in several styles and has the most significant scale in Qing Dynasty. Heshen, a magnificently corrupt official, once inhibited the mansion in 1777, and then Yong Lin, Qing Prince of the Qing Court, occupied it in 1799. The mansion was named after Yi Xin, Prince Gong in the late Qing Dynasty, who occupied it during the 1800s. The mansion witnessed the regnant of seven emperors, rulers such as Xianfeng, Qianlong, Tongzhi, Jiaqing, Xuantong, Daoguang, and Guanxu. Prince Gong’s Mansion remained throughout history due to its good preservation and constitutes half of the antiquity of the Qing Dynasty.
The History of Prince Gong Mansion
Prince Gong Mansion was constructed in 1777 in the course of the Qing dynasty, specifically for eminent court member, Heshen under Qianlong Emperor. Heshen gained favorable recognition from the emperor and moved up the ranks in his early twenties. He quickly gained high positions in the emperor’s administration and became one of the wealthiest imperial court members. Heshen was then accused of being corrupt in 1799 after Jiaqing replaced Qianlong. Qianlong emperor had Heshen killed and then impounded his mansion, which he later gave to Prince Qing, his 17th grandson. The mansion was handed down again to Prince Gong later in 1851, the 6th brother of the Xianfeng Emperor. The mansion maintained Prince Gong’s name throughout history.
The Qing dynasty crumbled in 1921, and during this time, Prince Gong’s grandson, Puwei, proffered the mansion to the catholic church as a mortgage. The catholic church received the mansion and restored it to be utilized as a University named Furen Catholic University. The church’s priests were, however, deported from China in the 1950s. The mansion was used as an air conditioning business unit in the course of the Cultural Revolution and was proclaimed to be an important historical site in the 1980s. Prince Gong’s Mansion became a significant tourist attraction in Beijing in 1996; it went through more innovations in 2008 in preparation for Beijing Olympics.
Prince Gong Mansion Architecture throughout History
The mansion went through unmatched significant renovation and conservation at the beginning of the 18th Century. Dissimilar to the previous maintenance projects, the mansion’s renovation and conservation maintained the contrasting historical information in all structures of the architectural multiplex. The multiplex historical changes for over 200 years were retrieved through r...