In the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen centralized rule, Zhu Yuanzhang established a system of dividing the kings with the same surname, in an attempt to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty. The king's power is very large, and the royal palace has set up a prince to escort and command the envoys, control a certain amount of armed forces, have the power to move the central government to demand traitors, and can even raise troops to "jing difficulty". Qingzhou was an important military town, and the kings of Qi, Han, and Heng were successively sealed in Qingzhou. Among them, Hengwangfu has the longest history and the greatest influence.
The first Heng King, Zhu Youyi, was the seventh son of Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Jianshen, and his mother was Princess Zhuang Yi Zhang Defei. Zhu Youyi was a man who kept ancient rituals and was kind and charitable, and was the younger brother of Emperor Xiaozong of the ming dynasty, and was deeply loved by the newly enthroned Emperor Mingxiaozong. When Zhu Youyi celebrated his birthday, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming allocated special funds to build the Noon Dynasty Gate Stone Fang for Hengfu and gave the inscription on the forehead of the fang; the front square was "Happy And Good Legacy", and the back square was "Filial Piety and Generosity", which was greatly praised.
The last Heng King Zhu Youling was The Hengxian King Zhu Chang? The third son. Zhu Youling was initially made a general of the Zhenguo State, and in April of the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), he attacked the king of Heng and reigned for twelve years. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1644), after Li Zicheng personally led the rebel army to occupy Beijing, he sent the general Yao Yingfeng to lead troops to garrison Qingzhou. Li Shiyuan, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, killed Yao Yingfeng, found Zhu Youfeng, and persuaded him to take the throne as emperor and raise a banner to resist the Qing. However, Zhu Yuling did not dare to take risks and was willing to resign himself to fate, but instead surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. In order to stabilize the overall situation, the Qing Dynasty adopted a policy of appeasement and temporarily let the Heng Dynasty stay still.
In the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645), the Qing Dynasty summoned Zhu Youling to the capital and put him under house arrest under the pretext of the rebellion of Prince Heng's disciples against the Qing. The following year, he killed Zhu Youling on the grounds of rebellion and beheaded the Heng Dynasty. The Hengwang family was forced to flee for their lives, and those who could not escape were sold into slavery, and the family treasures were "half returned to the Zen brake, half into the Houmen", and the magnificent Qingzhou Hengwang Mansion was instantly razed to the ground.
The Hengwang Mansion was located on the west side of the south gate of Qingzhou City, and before Zhu Youyi arrived in Qingzhou, a magnificent royal palace was built for him. There are still two Shifang buildings in the Hengwang Mansion, which are the buildings on the Yongdao Road in front of the Hengwang Mansion in that year, and the local people call it the "Noon Dynasty Gate". There are two stone squares, north and south, 43.5 meters apart, with the same architectural form and the same size. The two stone squares are four-pillar, three-door archway structures, composed of 28 boulders carved. It is 11.5 meters wide from east to west, 2.78 meters deep from north to south, 7.25 meters high in middle, and has a sumi-shaped seat, with a height of 1.2 meters and a width of 1 meter. Divided into three layers, the lower layer is engraved with the animal foot case shading and the lotus pattern, the middle layer is engraved with peony and lotus patterns, and the upper layer is engraved with lions, unicorns, tangled peonies and lotus flowers, and the diamond lion pattern carved at the corner is rare in the world.
The stone pillar on the base, which is square, is inserted in the middle of the Meru seat, with the middle two pillars 6 meters high and the two sides of the columns 4 meters high. Each pillar is inlaid with 1 dragon with a vertical see-through carving in each column. Above the four pillars, a horizontal plaque is embedded in the middle, and the plaque is embossed with two dragon play beads and bucket arch patterns. There are two plaques embedded in the middle door, the inscriptions on the plaque are all in the bottom yang text, the two sides of the south stone square horizontal plaque are "Leshan Relic" and "Xiangxian Yongyu", and the north stone square is "filial piety and wide benevolence" and "Daya Buqun". According to research, these inscriptions were written by Yan Song of the Ming Dynasty.
In the old days, the stone lion in front of the gate of the Hengwang Mansion is now placed in front of the Qingzhou City Museum; the bronze bell of the Hengwang Mansion is now displayed in the Qingzhou City Museum; the iron crane cast by the Royal Palace is also placed in the Qingzhou City Museum Courtyard; and the world's first "Shou" character carved for the birthday of the Heng King is suspended on the top wall of Yunmen Mountain.
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