Prince Chun Mansion (chn)

Prince Chun Mansion

Prince Chun Mansion ranks 3,238th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hod HaSharon, Changgyeonggung, and Moers. Memorable people born in Prince Chun Mansion include Puyi, Guangxu Emperor, and Pujie. Prince Chun Mansion has been the birth place of many politicians. Prince Chun Mansion is located in China.

The Prince Chun Mansion, also known as the Northern Mansion, is a large residence in the siheyuan style with lavish private garden located near the Shichahai neighborhood in central Beijing. The grounds had been part of a villa built by Mingju, an official in the court of the Kangxi Emperor. It would later be seized by Heshen, a favorite of the Qianlong Emperor, and following Heshen's purge and execution in 1799, it would be bestowed on Yongxing, Prince Cheng, by his brother, the Jiaqing Emperor, and the mansion was renovated. The mansion would change hands several times, eventually ending up as the residence of a minor Qing official named Yusu. In 1888, was granted to Yixuan, Prince Chun, the biological father of the Guangxu Emperor, by his sister-in-law, Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1891, the First Prince Chun died, and his title and the mansion was inherited by his second surviving son, Zaifeng. It was at the mansion, in 1906, Puyi, the last Qing emperor, was born to Zaifeng. Read more on Wikipedia