Hall of Happiness and Longevity

Traveling to Beijing, visiting the Summer Palace, Leshou Hall is one of the buildings, which was built in the 15th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and was celebrated by the Qianlong emperor on his mother's 60th birthday, and later was the bedding palace of the Queen Mother Cixi. Outside here is the water wood self-proclaimed pier, there is a archway, is one of the earliest places to install electric lights in Qing Palace.

Leshoutang is the building in the middle road back area of the Forbidden City, known as the Ningshou Palace in the city. This is the beding palace in Ningshou Palace after Qianlong abdicated. Cixi also lived here. In the courtyard in front of Leshou Hall, there is a huge stone with the Qianlong inscription "Qingzhiyu". Leshoutang Zhongzhu back screen above the second floor, with a partition wall, the middle hanging "Xinghe Qiyou" paper basket and the link are all Qianlong's questions. Leshoutang throne behind the middle pillar is the teak frame clip screen back screen, the top of the head is the teak wood carved flat chess ceiling, the Forbidden City is the only place, I am afraid that the sea is also an isolated case. The partition here has a very nice name, called Back Jin, so the hall of Leshou Hall is also called Xianlou. In the middle of the back court of Leshoutang, there is a large jade carving called Daqian Zhishui. This jade carving was made and Qianlong for 52 years. The stone material is Xinjiang Hotan Qingyu, weighing more than 5,000 kilograms, and is one of the largest jade carvings in the world.

The Forbidden City Leshou Hall imitates the Changchun Garden Suihuaxuan regulations, and its north and south courtyards are embedded in the east and west corridors of Jingsheng Zhaite stone carvings. Emperor Qianlong took this as the bedding palace after abdication, and the imperial title "right book entertainment painting scene" was a joint sentence, so this hall is also called Ningshou Palace Reading Hall. Guangxu 20 years (1894), Queen Cixi lived here, with the West Nuan Pavilion as the bedroom. The hall Xianlou and the east and west of the south, north corridor, mezzanine, pavilion road decoration style unified, mostly using teak wood wrapped with purple teak, pear and other precious wood, inter-trimmed jade, glaze and other accessories. Leshou Tang Xianlou is one of the representative works of the Qianlong period architectural decoration. Smallpox is wood carving, and the whole interior decoration is set off, and it is elegant and elegant.

Leshou Hall faces Kunming Lake, backed by Wanshou Mountain, Dongda Renshou Hall, and the corridor to the west. It is the best place to live and play in the park. The black-bottomed gold word "Leshou Hall" in front of the hall is the Guangxu handbook. There are thrones, royal cases, palm fans and glass screens in the hall. There are two large disks of green dragon flowers for fruit smelling and four large copper stoves for nine peaches for burning musk. The West Suite is the bedroom and the East Suite is the dressing room. The indoor purple wardrobe is the relics of Qianlong. The courtyard of Leshoutang is displayed with copper deer, copper crane and copper vases, which means "Six He Taiping". The flowers in the courtyard are planted with magnolia, seagulls, peony, etc. The famous flowers are full of courtyards, and the meaning of "Yutang rich and noble". The magnolia here is very famous, and the one in front of the invitation is Qianlong transplanted from the south.

Leshou Hall is the bedding palace of the Queen Cixi. It is set on the "Royal Throne". At both ends of the "Royal Throne", there are also a pair of large green and flower fruit plates for fruit. Each plate can be stacked with four or five hundred fruits of various colors. This is for the "smell". In the four corners of the living room, there are also four gold-plated nine peach copper stoves, which are specially designed to ignite musk to adjust the indoor air. There are also two "eight fairy fish tables" in the middle, which are quite exquisite: the tabletop is a two-layer glass structure, and the mezzanine is embedded with (brook bird) wood. --The name of the waterbird and the rather delicate "pavilion" carved from ivory. Under it, a square fish tank, you can keep "goldfish". The beautiful goldfish swim between the pavilions and pavilions, so that they can enjoy the beauty.