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Originally known as the "Right Wing Banner King's Mansion of the Qaraqin Banner", the Qaraqin King's Mansion was the residence of the Prince of Gong of the Qing Dynasty, and was the former residence of the outstanding Mongolian thinker, politician and reformer Gongsan Norbu, and has now been opened as the Qaraqin Banner Palace Museum. Located in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Qaraqin Wangyefu Town, was founded in the eighteenth year of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi (1629), is the earliest built in Inner Mongolia, the largest architectural scale, the highest specification level, the current situation of the best preserved Mongolian royal palace, reflects the regional characteristics and ethnic and religious characteristics, represents the basic style of Qing Dynasty official architecture, has important historical, cultural and scientific value, in 2001 by the State Council listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Wangfuyuan covers an area of more than 300 acres, more than 490 houses, the overall building is magnificent, the layout is rigorous, the system is huge, and the structure is exquisite. There are five courtyards in the front and back, and the main buildings are the lobby, the second hall, the ceremonial hall, the hall and the Chengqing Building. The central axis is symmetrical, the east and west sides are cross-courtyards, and they are composed of a number of small courtyards, and the heavy courtyards are connected by a road hanging flower gate. The West Courtyard is a place for political activities and religious sacrifices, with temples, ancestral halls, living rooms, deliberative halls, study halls, and martial arts training grounds. On the east side is the living area, which has a theater building, the bedrooms of Wang Ye and Fujin, a warehouse, and a dining room. Behind the palace is a garden, built on the mountain in the style of a private garden in Beijing. In the garden, there are courtyards and houses, including the Old Master's Ancestral Hall, the Horse King Hall, the Land Ancestral Hall, and there are also theater buildings, flower cellars and deer farms. There are pavilions of different shapes, low-lying flat bridges, babbling springs, and rockeries surrounded by stacked rockeries, a jiangnan garden scenery. There are several ancient elms in front of the palace gate, and thirteen Ao Baos lined up in the square. The hall of the house is dan qing doucai, the pavilion carved beam painting building, the flower garden is purple and red, and the birch cypress is majestic. The whole palace is solemn and elegant, and the momentum is magnificent.
After more than three hundred years of wind and rain, the eastern courtyard has disappeared, the west courtyard has not survived much, the back garden has long disappeared, and only the main building has been preserved. Since 1997, the local government has invested heavily in rescue and protective maintenance, restored the original style of the ancient buildings in the central axis area and the east-west span, and restored the zhaobi wall and the weeping flower gate. After the restoration, the prince's palace has the palace gate, car hall, back office, council hall, Chengqing Building, calligraphy and painting hall, concession hall, shushu, Fujin living room and other buildings, and held large-scale exhibitions such as "Restored Exhibition of Prince Qaraqin's Palace" and "Qing Dynasty Inner Mongolia Royal Palace History Exhibition", which was praised by cultural experts as the largest Mongolian royal palace museum in China and also a national aaaa-level scenic spot.
There were twelve generations of Mongolian princes in the Qaraqin Banner Palace, and Gongsan Norbu was the last generation of princes of the Qaraqin Banner, who devoted himself to reform, implemented the New Deal, established education, established industry, trained the army, and created the "Five Firsts" in Inner Mongolia. The first school-running hall, Chongzheng Academy; the first women's school,Yuzheng Girls' School; the first to send international students; the first to run a newspaper; and the first to run a post and telecommunications office. After the Xinhai Revolution, he resolutely supported the republican revolution in safeguarding the reunification of the motherland and opposing national separatism, and showed a high degree of patriotism and national integrity. In 1912, he became president of the Mongolian and Tibetan Academy of the Republic of China government, and became a leading figure among the Mongol princes for sixteen years. Gongsan Norbu is an important pioneer in the modern history of the Mongol nation, and the most famous historical figure in the modern history of Chifeng and Eastern Mongolia. Therefore, walking into the Qaraqin Banner Palace Museum, you can still see the traces of Gongsan Norbu's life here.