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Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

The Pavilion was located at Huaqing Palace in Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, halfway up the mountainside of Lishan Mountain, where two generals, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang, captured Chiang Kai-shek. The pavilion was built in March 1946 by Hu Zongnan and was named after: "Zhengqi Pavilion", "Catching Jiang Pavilion", and "Bingzhi Pavilion".

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Catch Jiang Ting. Kuomintang members Chen Cheng, Dai Jitao, Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, Hu Zongnan, Wang Yaowu, Dai Fuxian, Wei Lihuang, Wu Bofeng, and Gu Fengming arrived one after another to carve a stone chronicle. The inscriptions include "Tiger Valley Dragon Rock", "Chinese and foreign common admiration", "righteous righteousness", "righteous qi Haoran", "looking up to Migao", "sincerely saving the country and inspiring the golden stone", "sincere to the point, the golden stone is open" and so on.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

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Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Lishan, Huaqing Palace.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Yang Guifei's bathing pool, Guifei pool (hibiscus soup, begonia soup). Shaped like a begonia, and also shaped like a "petal", it was built in 747 AD. Surely back then it was more elaborate and clean than it is now.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Noble Concubine Out of the Bath Sculpture.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

A corner of the interior of the five halls. In October and December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek entered Shaanxi twice, taking Huaqingchi as the "walking dragon" and staying in five halls, whose glass windows and walls still retain the bullet marks from the fierce battles of the soldiers.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom in the five halls, next to the guifei bath, during the "Xi'an Incident", Chiang Kai-shek jumped out of the rear window and fled to the back mountain. The five halls, from west to east, are: the secretary's room, Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, Chiang Kai-shek's office, the conference room where the red army was deployed, and the office of Qian Dajun, director of the attendant room.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

Bullet holes left in the wall that year. On the morning of December 12, when the military advice broke out, Jiang's bodyguards rushed out of the door and desperately resisted with the buildings in the courtyard.

Photo of Chiang Kai-shek: Figure 8 Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, adjacent to the guifei bath, Figure 10 Chiang Kai-shek hiding in a stone cave

While sleeping, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly heard the sound of gunfire, and Cangchao escaped from the back window of the five halls of Huaqingchi under the support of two bodyguards, passed through the Feihong Bridge, hid in the Stone Gorge Cave on the east side of a grouper in the middle of the mountain, and was later discovered by the mountain search troops and helped down the mountain.

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