Prince Zheng’s Residences

Located at 35 Damucang Hutong in Xicheng District,this was the house conferred to Jirhalang, a founding general of the Qing Dynasty. He was a son of Shurhaqi,the 3rd brother of Nurhachi--founder of Great Jin and predecessor of the Qing Dynasty.

Conferred the title of Prince Uncle Zheng in 1652, the 9th year of Emperor Shunzhi’s reign, Jirhalang was one of the distinguished Eight Iron-Hamlet Princes in the early years of the Qing Dynasty.Built shortly after the Qing Dynasty was founded, the residence was renovated and expanded by later hereditary princes.

Prince Zheng’s Residences

The most important expansion of its garden was made by the 8th hereditary Prince Pei, who renamed it as Huiyuan Garden which turned out to be the most beautiful of all the gardens in princes’residences of Beijing.

In the period of the Republic of China, the residence was at first mortgaged to Xishiku Church, then in 1925, again to the University of China as its campus.