According to the tradition in China, the main entrance of the mansion should be in the south. In order to show the style of the presidential palace, Yuan Shikai opened the three floors of Bao Yue, which is only a few meters inside the south-central wall of Hainan Island, and transformed them into gates. A gap was opened in the red wall of the imperial city in front of the door, and two "splayed walls" were added to connect the gap with the gate. He also built a large screen wall with yellow tiles and red walls inside the door to block the view of outsiders. The rebuilt Bao Yue Building was named "xinhua gate". At that time, the government of the Republic of China named the section of West Chang 'an Avenue in front of Xinhua as "Fu Qian Street" and the newly opened road on the west side of Zhongnanhai as "Fu You Street". The "house" here refers to the presidential palace Since then, the road rebuilt on the drainage ditch south of Liubukou has been named "Xinhua Street", and a western-style flower wall has been built on the south side of "Fu Qian Street" opposite to xinhua gate, so as to shelter the messy and dilapidated old houses behind and improve the view in front of the presidential palace. All these projects were built by Zhu Qiqian, then Minister of the Interior, and supervised by the Kyoto Municipal Office.
19151213 Yuan Shikai gathered hundreds of officials in Jurentang, Zhongnanhai to congratulate him and declared him emperor. Yuan Shikai renamed the Presidential Palace "Xinhua Palace", and sent people to decorate the three halls of the Forbidden City to prepare for the enthronement ceremony. Mr. Wang Kaiyun, a Hunan celebrity who opposed the imperial system at that time, deliberately mocked Yuan Shikai's subordinates in front of Xinhua: "My eyes are dim and I saw the unlucky name' New Busy Gate' written on the plaque." It turns out that the traditional Chinese character "Hua" is a bit like the word "Mang". "Xin Mang" is Wang Mang who usurped the Han Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor.
1965438+On June 6, 2006, Yuan Shikai, whose dream of the emperor was shattered, died in Jurentang due to renal failure. On June 28th, Yuan Shikai's coffin was carried out by xinhua gate, loaded on the train at Qianmen West Station (the starting point of Han Jing Railway) and transported to Anyang for burial. Since then, Zhongnanhai has become the presidential palace of successive Beiyang governments and the headquarters of Fu. It was not until after liberation that it became the political center of new China. After 1928, the Kuomintang government was located in Nanjing, and Beijing was renamed Beiping, which was called Beiping Special City. Zhongnanhai has become a park. I remember that the horizontal plaque of Zhongnanhai Park inscribed by an old man hung at the bottom door of Xinhua Gate Building. It was not until Peiping was liberated that it was renamed Beijing. Located in Zhongnanhai, the Central People's Government still uses xinhua gate as the main entrance of the government.