Prince Chun Mansion (chn)

Prince Chun Mansion

Prince Chun Mansion ranks 4,156th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Todi, Salzwedel, and Gimje. 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.

Prince Chun's 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 was later be seized by Heshen, a favorite of the Qianlong Emperor, and following Heshen's purge and execution in 1799, it was bestowed on Yongxing 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, it was granted to Yixuan, the biological father of the Guangxu Emperor, by his sister-in-law, Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1891, the Yixuan died, and his title and mansion were inherited by his second surviving son, Zaifeng; Zaifeng's own eldest son, Puyi, the last Qing emperor, was born at this mansion in 1906. Read more on Wikipedia