The Forbidden City is located in the East Sixth Palace Zhongzi Palace in the Ming Dynasty Longqing years for the crown prince lived, to the Qing Dynasty became the living quarters of the consorts. During the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial Palace Yuxing Palace is the Prince's residence. Yuking Palace was built for the Crown Prince Yinreng during the Kangxi period, and after the Yongzheng period, in order to avoid the tragedy of the "nine sons of the first wife", no longer pre-established the Crown Prince, changed to the residence of the Crown Prince.

After the entry of the Qing Dynasty, the early emperors (Shunzhi, Kangxi) were young to take the throne without being a crown prince, until after the establishment of Prince Yinreng, Kangxi Emperor ordered people to repair the Forbidden City east of the Jaigong and Fengxian Temple between the Temple of Ming Feng Ci, changed to Yuking Palace, as the Crown Prince Yinreng lived in the East Palace, in order to show favor.

And experienced the nine sons to seize the throne and successfully ascended the throne of Yongzheng Emperor in order to avoid such a situation again, so no longer pre-established the crown prince, Yukqing Palace was also changed to the residence of the emperor.

The last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Aisin Gioro Puyi, in his autobiography, "the first half of my life" chapter 2, has written about his own reading in Yuk Qing Palace plot: "reading the study was first in the Zhongnanhai Yinghe supplementary Tong Shuji, and later moved to the Forbidden City, Jaigong right of Yuk Qing Palace - it is! Guangxu hours of study place, and then earlier, is the Qianlong's son, stern Diem (that is, later the Jiaqing Emperor) of the bedchamber.

Yuk Ching Palace's courtyard is small, the house is not big, is an I-shaped palace, tightly sandwiched between two rows of short and small houses. Inside the partition into many small rooms, only the west side of the larger two open room used as a study, the rest are empty.

The two study, and the palace compared to other houses, the arrangement is relatively simple: the south window is a long several, above the hat, vases and other things; against the west wall is a row of kang. In the beginning, studying was done on the kang, and the kang table was the desk, but later it was moved to the floor, and the eight-immortal table took the place of the kang table. Against the north wall were two tables, where books and stationery were kept; against the east wall were a row of chairs and coffee tables. On the east and west walls hangs the Prince of alcohol Xian's handwriting to Guangxu wrote Chengmian poem bar screen."

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