Jingjiang Princes Palace

Jingjiang Princes' Palace is a historic website in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It now features as both Guangxi Normal University and as a visitor enchantment. The Jingjiang Princes' Palace typically called Wangcheng is placed inside the inner town of Guilin and became constructed between 1372 and 1392 AD throughout the Ming dynasty close to the Solitary Beauty Peak. It become in the beginning the respectable house of Zhu Shouqian - the excellent-nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, the primary Ming dynasty emperor.

After Zhu Shouqian turned into d Prince of Jingjiang through Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, his palace turned into set at Jingjiang. It took more than twenty years to construct the capital, which now has a history of over 630 years and is older than the Forbidden City in Beijing. During the 257 years from the constructing of the mansion to the end of Ming dynasty, 14 kings from 12 generations lived right here. Sun Yat-sen stayed there whilst on the Northern Expedition in 1921. In the wintry weather of 1925, it turned into installed as Yat-sen Park and now is one of the schoolyards of Guangxi Normal University.

The carved balustrades and marble steps of the mansion still remain to today. Over its records of extra than six hundred years the metropolis become burned down numerous times, however it remains as the pleasant preserved Princes' City in China. Notably, the carved balustrades and marble steps nonetheless stay. The Chinese Government gave the site national protection status in 1993.