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Jingren Palace

2018-09-19

The Jingren Palace, originally called Chang’an Palace, was built in 1420 in the Ming Dynasty and got its present name in the Jiajing Period. It was rebuilt in 1655, the 12th year of Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. “Jingren” means great humanity. This two-row courtyard remains the layout of the original construction built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. There is a white jade screen wall at the gate of the Jingren Palace. The wall is said to be a relic of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jingren Palace was the residence of concubines. It is worth noticing that Concubine Tunggiya gave birth to Xuanye, the future Kangxi Emperor the Qing Dynasty, in the palace in March, 1654, the 11th year of Shunzhi’s reign. Besides, Senior Concubine Xi of Emperor Yongzheng and the mother of Emperor Qianlong and Concubine Zhen of Emperor Guangxu once lived in the palace.

Today, this palace is the pavilion specially for displaying donated cultural relics in the Palace Museum. Inside the pavilion is the “Jingren Honor List”, which carries the meaning of “adoring humanity and virtue” in the Jingren Palace to extend admiration and gratitude to people from all walks of life that have donated cultural relics to the Palace Museum.

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