The reason why Yangxintang is named Yangxintang is actually to cultivate the mind and cultivate the nature, that is, not to have so many desires. Self-cultivation has multiple meanings in the classical world, such as "Mencius wholeheartedly": "Self-cultivation is not good at lacking desires, but it also lacks desires, although few people are absent-minded; He is also a person with a lot of desires, although there are very few people. " "Xunzi cultivate one's morality": "A gentleman is not good at raising his heart sincerely, and sincerity is not for things." The name of "Yidexuan" in hall of mental cultivation, an accessory hall in western Guizhou, is "Yidexuan" in "Easy Cohesion": "Persistence and virtue." The name of "Ai Renzhai" attached to Yangxintang in the east of Guizhou is "Yilin Needs of Big Animals", "Bow down to Ai Renzhai, Shangde will stop the lawsuit, live in Pingcheng, and be safe for 300 years". "
Hall of mental cultivation, located on the west side of Gan Qing Palace in the Forbidden City, was built in the Ming Dynasty, covering an area of 7,707 square meters, including hall of mental cultivation, I-shaped Gallery, Houdian, Meiwu and other buildings 18. It is a typical official building in Ming Dynasty. However, after becoming the center of the empire in the Qing Dynasty, Manchu culture was introduced into the decoration, and unique Qing court landscape paintings were created with paintings imported from the West. This group of buildings in hall of mental cultivation was written by Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, in Volume 17.
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To the west of Yuehuamen, the dining kitchen door is called Zunyi Gate. South is called hall of mental cultivation. The front east wing is called Lu Renzhai, and the front west wing is called Adexuan. The back hall is called Han Chun Hall, the east hall is called Longxi Hall, and the west hall is called Xiangzhen Hall. If the temple gate faces north, the ceremony supervisor will print the pen for the room. Later, there was a row of big rooms next to Longdaoge, and the ancestral palace was also equipped with a dining room. Inverse Xian moved the dining room to Yi Temple and changed it into a value room. The southwest of hall of mental cultivation is called Xiangning Palace. People who went to the north of the palace said that there was no Liang Dian, and it was also the place where Sejong made an alchemy. It is made of bricks and stones, not a piece of wood. Yuehuamen stands tall in the southwest, called Longdaoge ... "
These records show that hall of mental cultivation was not the residence of the emperor for a long time in the Ming Dynasty, but the Emperor Wanli once lived here. Later, it gradually developed into the highest power decision-making center of the Qing Dynasty, because many of the emperor's reading and decision-making orders were issued here. The emperor not only works here, but also lives here. Hall of mental cultivation has been well preserved so far, and traces of the late Qing Dynasty can be clearly felt here.
After the death of Emperor Kangxi, Yong Zhengdi began to move his residence to hall of mental cultivation, and listened to politics directly in hall of mental cultivation. Later, Emperor Qianlong lived in hall of mental cultivation for more than 60 years. What many people don't know is that the emperor shunzhi, the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, died in hall of mental cultivation. The emperor shunzhi was only six years old when he became king. Although he is very young, he did a lot of things during his reign. During his reign, all aspects of the Qing Dynasty developed rapidly.
The emperor shunzhi has two queens. The first queen was helped by others, and was later abolished by the emperor shunzhi. The second queen Shunzhi didn't like it either, but it hasn't been abolished because of the queen mother. The woman the emperor shunzhi really likes is Dong E Fei. Although she used to be the wife of the emperor shunzhi's younger brother, the emperor shunzhi married her only after the death of the Prince. However, in the culture at that time, this was not very rare. The emperor shunzhi twice granted amnesty to this concubine, but their son died soon after his birth. Even Princess Dong fell ill, and later died of depression. Therefore, the amorous the emperor shunzhi wanted to become a monk, but the Queen Mother didn't agree, but Shunzhi died of smallpox soon after.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, hall of mental cultivation was transformed into a place where royal goods were made. At that time, it was the place with the highest technology in the country. Later, Yong Zhengdi became Yongzheng's bedroom, and he built a bucket altar in it, because Yong Zhengdi had been in poor health. However, after a Taoist priest built a bucket altar for Yong Zhengdi, Yong Zhengdi's condition actually improved, so Yong Zhengdi became keen on building a bucket altar.
Later, Empress Dowager Cixi staged a famous palace coup in Beijing, seized power from then on, and began her career of listening to politics in Yangxintang. At that time, she was only twenty-five years old, and the first class was forty-eight years.
Yangxintang experienced the "Eight Emperors' Residence" where three emperors, Shunzhi, Qianlong and Tongzhi, died successively, leaving many traces of Qing emperors in Yangxintang. There are the West Warm Pavilion, which was reviewed and memorialized by Dai Yue, the Sanxi Hall, where calligraphy treasures were stored, and the East Warm Pavilion, which was listened to by Empress Dowager Cixi.
After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, it was still the place where the last emperor Puyi lived. Puyi lived a nominal imperial life here. He left hall of mental cultivation after being forced to leave the Forbidden City in 1924, and hall of mental cultivation was officially opened to the public in 1925, so that people could see the former emperor's residence. The renovation of hall of mental cultivation began on 20 18, and will reappear as a "imperial residence" in 2020, reopening as when the Qing emperors lived.