Taoranting, located in the south of Xuanwu District, east of Caishikou Street in Taoranting Park, is one of the four famous pavilions in China.
The pavilion, is built with wood, stone, concrete and other materials, open-type buildings, generally built in gardens or scenic spots for tourists to look out, viewing and resting, China's existing number of ancient pavilions are many, the most famous of which are also counted as the Four Famous Pavilions .
That is, the Love Night Pavilion at the mouth of the Qingfeng Gorge on Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, Hunan Province, the Huxin Pavilion on the small island in the center of the West Lake in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the Drunken Pavilion on the Luangmu Mountain in Chu County, Anhui Province, and the Drunken Pavilion in the Right Anmen Gate in Beijing. Taoran Pavilion in Beijing's Right Anmen.
The Tao Ran Pavilion was built in 1695, when Jiang Zao, the then Minister of Public Works, had to supervise the construction of the Black Kiln Factory (north of the Tao Ran Pavilion), so he often visited Ci Bei An in his spare time. Seeing the elegance and chicness of the place, he built a small pavilion within it, and expanded it nine years later, taking Bai Juyi's poem "Waiting for the chrysanthemums to ripen, and getting drunk with you, Taoran" and naming it "Taoran Pavilion", also known as "Jiang Ting". Tao Ran Pavilion, also known as "Jiang Pavilion". Taoran" is the original meaning of the soothing and happy look . Jiang Zao also wrote the inscription of the two characters "Tao Ran" plaque.
Tao Ran Pavilion is located in the west end of the south courtyard of the Cibei Nunnery, and the modern "pavilion" is different, it is not a common garden in the various shapes of the pavilion, but a three-room sitting west to east two slopes of the roof of the open pavilion. Open Xuan beam painted with spinning paintings, the content of most of the birds and flowers figures, Xuan galleries are connected, and Cibei Nunnery skillfully integrated.
The south wall of the Taoranting is inlaid with two tablets, one is Jiang Zao in the pavilion after the construction of the "Taoran Yin", the other is his brother Jiang Gao wrote the "Taoran Pavilion Records", recorded the long history of the Taoran Pavilion.
Cibian was built in the Yuan Dynasty, and has a history of more than 600 years. Before the liberation of China, it was a place for secret activities of the underground party. In August 1920, Zhou Enlai, Li Dazhao, Deng Yingchao and other comrades held an important meeting in the north room of Cibianan, and between 1920 and 1923, Yun Daiying, Deng Zhongxia, and Gao Junyu held many secret meetings here.
After the renovation of Taoranting and Cibian, it was listed as a revolutionary memorial site by the municipal government in August 1979 and announced as a key cultural relics protection unit in Beijing, which is now open to the public.
The late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Taoranting near the garbage everywhere, mosquitoes and flies, due to the silting of the river, the clear pool into a stagnant puddle, the nearby reeds everywhere, piles of graves, a bleak and decaying scene. After the founding of New China, the Beijing Municipal Government Health Bureau dredged the stinking pond, the moat water into the lake, so that the stagnant water into living water.
The new lake dug up to 17 hectares, the lake will be dug up the soil piled up into a hill, the new pavilion on the hill, and improve the surrounding environment, planting flowers and grass, planting willow cultivation bamboo, paving roads and bridges, pavilions and pavilions built Xuan, Cibian as the center of the expansion of the park, which was opened in 1952 to the tourists.
Taoranting Park covers an area of ****885 acres, of which 225 acres of water, to the center of the island as the center of the lake is divided into east, west and south of the three lakes. The center island in addition to the Cibei Nunnery, there are Gao Junyu and girlfriend Shi Pingmei martyrs tomb and statue, Feng's Garden, Prickly Plum Garden, Ancestral Garden and other sites.
The three lakes are built on the shore of seven hills, one after another, opened up seven scenic spots: the north shore of the West Lake was originally under the Ministry of Public Works in the Ming Dynasty, one of the five plants of the Black Kiln Factory, also known as "Kiln Terrace", is specializing in firing black glazed tiles of the kiln factory. Due to the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period of the black kiln factory to the kiln family management to prepare for the office, and then gradually deserted.
But the black kiln factory is higher, and close to the Taoranting waters, so it becomes a good place for people to cool off and relax in the summer. In May every year, people set up a pergola on the kiln platform, the establishment of a food market and teahouse for tourists to excursions to climb high, far view of the scenery, after the world known as the "Yao Terrace".
In the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, on the kiln platform built on top of the Taiqing Hall, the platform built under the Iron Horse Guandi Temple; West Lake on the west bank of the Shengchun Mountain House Scenic Area , located in the birds and flowers of the Moon Garden; West Lake on the south bank of the whole from the South China Sea in 1954 to relocate Yunyilou, Qingyinge two groups of ancient architectural clusters;
Its west is in accordance with the Central Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC). >
Its west is built on the mountain of the historical pavilion scenic area, scenic area modeled on the domestic famous pavilion, according to the 1:1 ratio imitation construction of a number of famous pavilions, each with its own characteristics, there is a commemoration of the "tea saint," Lu Yu's Two Springs Pavilion ,
commemorating the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan's
Banban Banishment Pavilion in honor of Li Bai, the "Poetry Immortal";
Drunken Pavilion in honor of Ouyang Xiu, the literary scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty; and Lan Pavilion in honor of Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty. strong> Orchid Pavilion and Goose Pond Stele Pavilion ,
Shaoling Cao Tang Stele Pavilion in honor of Du Fu, the "Sage of Poetry,"
Moon Dipping Pavilion in honor of Bai Juyi, the famous poet of the Tang Dynasty. Moon Pavilion
As well as Canglang Pavilion, Blowtower Pavilion and so on;
The south shore of the East Lake is the Jiuzhou Fangyuan scenic spot; the north shore of the East Lake is the Wangchun Mude scenic spot. The park has formed a pavilion culture-based, patriotic education as a supplement to the landscape garden, so that people in the leisure and recreation time to learn, understand the history, accept the patriotic education.
In addition to the historical pavilions in the scenic area of the pavilion, the park in the water at the top of the hill and built a number of famous pavilions, such as the Spring Pavilion, leaning on the new Pavilion, know the Jin Pavilion and so on. Inside the park, the water is clear, birds and flowers, grass and trees Peng Peng (péng), breathtaking, but also built an open-air dance floor, theater, children's playground and other recreational facilities, become the best place for people to relax and have fun.
Taoranting Road, from Taiping Street in the east to Caishikou Street in the west, is located in the north side of the Taoranting Park, 1,238 meters long, 10 meters wide, in the Taoranting Park was built after the construction.