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East Palace Gate
The main gate of the Summer Palace
The Eastern palace gate is
The Summer Palace
the
Front gate
. The palace gate has five doors, three light and two dark.
- Chinese name
- East Palace Gate
- Foreign name
- Eastern palace gate
- outline
- threefold Door opening
- anecdote
- Guangxu Emperor Imperial title gold plaque
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There are three doors in the middle. The middle door is called
Imperial road
Doors, for
Empress Dowager Cixi
Exclusive access to and from the emperor and empress; Both sides of the door for the maharaja ministers access. Under the eaves is
Guangxu Emperor
Imperial pen inscription "Summer Palace" plaque.
Under the eaves of the East Palace gate, there is a large gold-fingering plaque with three characters of "Summer Palace" in Kowloon, the handwriting is thick and vigorous, which is said to be the imperial pen of the Guangxu Emperor. In order to write this plaque, Guangxu Emperor visited the teacher to study, and passed down an interesting story.
After Cixi appropriated the naval budget to restore the Summer Palace, she ordered the Minister of Works to find a large plaque for the East Palace gate. The minister of the Ministry of work thought about it, and felt that only ask Guangxu Emperor to write the most appropriate, and for their own future promotion and wealth is more favorable, so they went to see the emperor. The Guangxu Emperor was very happy to learn this, and without saying a word, he began to write in a piece of white paper covered with the dragon case. The Minister of Works saw that the words "Summer Palace" were written crooked and ugly. Helpless, had to do according to its handwriting plaque hung.
When the big plaque was put up the next day, Cixi
Empress dowager
From the Forbidden City to the Summer Palace. She got off the bridge in front of the East Palace gate and saw the new bad word plaque on fire. Immediately send for the Minister of Works and ask who wrote the plaque? The Minister of Works dared not lie and truthfully stated that this was the handwriting of the Guangxu Emperor. Cixi glared at him and said, "This character is so indecent, how can it be put on the palace door, and take it off for me!"
Guang Xu
I broke out in a cold sweat when I heard this. He'll
The Ministry of Works in feudal China
Minister to consult, determined to practice calligraphy will write the plaque. But he couldn't write the word "Summer Palace" well for several days and sighed incessantly. Seeing this, the minister boldly said to Guangxu: "In the opinion of ministers, writing behind closed doors, it is better to visit the teacher to study!" Guangxu asked, "Who did you study at?" The minister replied: "When the garden was built, there was an old man named Wang Yongfu
Carpenter
Write a good hand, live outside the garden of Liulangzhuang, close at hand, it is better to seek advice from him. If it is inconvenient for the emperor to visit, can he be invited to teach in the garden?" Guangxu thought this was reasonable and nodded in agreement.
The next morning, the minister of works invited Wang Yongfu into the Yulan Hall, and the old man heard that it was the Pope who wrote on it, so as not to offend. Guangxu to the old man after modest respect, the old man see the emperor is really studying, just good promise down. The old man took it to learn the word paste, spoke calligraphy for the emperor, taught writing. Guangxu courageously recruited and treated the old man, and after some hard study and practice, he finally learned a good hand of calligraphy.
One day, Guangxu summoned
Civil and military
Minister, on the rice paper to write down the vigorous and powerful "Summer Palace" three characters, won the applause of the ministers. Guangxu presented this word to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and Lafer looked at it and was satisfied, and asked people to make a Kowloon gold plaque hanging on the east palace door.
