Yan Xi Palace is located in a remote place in the East Sixth Palace. There were several fire accidents in ancient times, and it was not very popular. The popularity of Daoguang in the twenty-five years destroyed 25 engineering buildings such as the main hall, the back hall and the annex hall of Yan Xi Palace, and now only the North Palace Gate of the Summer Palace remains. Yanximen President Dan Jixiang once said in a special lecture that in Xuantongyuan, a western-style engineering building was just started on the old site of Yan Xi Palace, and the original appearance of Yan Xi Palace has completely changed since then. In the year of Xuantongyuan, Princess Duankang decided to rebuild the Yan Xi Palace and build a three-story Western-style engineering building on the old site, that is, an aquarium called the Water Hall, whose real name was Ling Nv Man Xuan.

The ancient buildings in China pay attention to symmetry, which is particularly evident in the overall architectural aesthetics of the Forbidden City. The foundations of the East Palace, the West Palace and the Sixth Palace are symmetrically arranged according to the square layout, and the form is very neat. Each palace is a closed and independent courtyard, which is divided into four main halls: front, back, left and right, with attached rooms on both sides. The sixth palace of the concubine covers an area larger than the third palace of the emperor. The Sixth Palace refers to the area where concubines live. In addition, there have been many fire accidents in Yan Xi Palace in history, which is really ill-fated. It is said that the suffering of Yan Xi Palace is its geomantic problem. Because it is located in Bagua Valley, thunder often rumbles.

In the zhang xun restoration in 19 17, the northeast of Yan Xi Palace was bombed by the airport of the directly affiliated army. 193 1 year, the Palace Museum transformed it into a precious cultural relics warehouse. Of course, today, the water hall of Yan Xi Palace is still an unfinished building. Due to the standard that no new building or reconstruction is allowed in the protection of cultural heritage, the restoration and reconstruction of the water hall has also retained its original unfinished appearance. Three precious cultural relics storehouse has been fully used as the ancient porcelain inspection and research laboratory, ancient porcelain research institute and Gu Shuhua research institute of the Forbidden City.

In 20 10, Yan Xi Palace was opened to the public as an exhibition hall of ancient porcelain. There will be more porcelain and calligraphy exhibitions here in the future. In the early days, the Palace Museum carried out a month-long exploratory maintenance work on the Lingnv Pavilion in Yan Xi Palace. It is understood that Yan Xi Palace will be restored and opened to the public on February 22, 2020.