Zhongnanhai facts for kids

Zhongnanhai is in the Imperial City which is inside Beijing.

Xinhuamen, the gate that leads into Zhongnanhai.

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Images for kids

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  A schematic diagram of Zhongnanhai. At the bottom (south) of the diagram is Xinhua Gate. The island on the foreground lake is Yingtai Island. To the northeast of Yingtai is Qinzheng Hall while to the northwest is Beneficence Garden. Huairen Hall is in the center-west and Ziguang Hall is in the north.

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  A replica of West Flower Hall built in Tianjin

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  Ziguang Hall, circa 1879

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  Huairen Hall in 1954

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  Qinzheng Hall in its pre-1980 configuration during the signing of the Seventeen Point Agreement

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  Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi and Zhang Wentian outside of Dianxu Hall in the Garden of Abundant Beneficence

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  Yingtai Island sometime before 1949

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  A map of Zhongnanhai from the Republic of China era, with the two lakes colored green in the center. The western edge of the Forbidden City is shown at right.

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  The Pavilion of the Water and Cloud, on the eastern bank of the Central Sea.

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  The Hall of Purple Light (Ziguang Ge) today, used for state receptions.

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  Late 18th-century painting showing the reception for the victorious Qing Army from the Jinchuan Campaign (1771–1776) at the Hall of Purple Light in Zhongnanhai

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  The Empress Dowager Cixi and servants on a boat in Zhonghai in the early 1900s.

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  Procession of Leo Karakhan, USSR Ambassador to China 1923–26, outside the Xinhua Gate of Zhongnanhai.

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  Leaders of the People's Republic, from left, Zhu De, Mao Zedong, Chen Yun and Zhou Enlai outside the Hall of Purple Light (Ziguangge) in 1954.

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  Chinese President Hu Jintao with U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush in Zhongnanhai on August 10, 2008.

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  Office buildings inside Zhongnanhai

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  The western wall of the Zhongnanhai compound and Imperial City of Beijing

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  Road inside Zhongnanhai

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  From the central part of Zhongnanhai across the Middle Sea, to the bridge that divides Zhongnanhai from Beihai Park, with the White Stupa of the Beihai Park seen in the distance