Gongwangfu is the residence of Prince Gong Zhong, the sixth son of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty. Formerly known as the former residence of Little Shenyang, University of Qianlong. In the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), Xiao Shenyang was convicted and his mansion became an official. Emperor Jiaqing gave a part of it to his younger brother, Prince Chino, for celebrating the palace. Later, Xianfeng took back the Qing Palace and gave it to his younger brother Yiyi as Gongwangfu. During the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, it was renovated and a garden was built behind the mansion.
The building of Gongwangfu can be divided into two parts: the mansion and the garden. The mansion covers an area of 46.5 mu and is divided into three roads, East Road and West Road. Each road is composed of multi-entrance quadrangles, surrounded by two-story back-cover buildings, with a length of160m. Behind the building is a garden, covering an area of 38.6 mu. The buildings in the park also generally form east-west roads, as well as scattered rockeries, winding pavilions and ponds.
In front of the middle road is a three-room-wide gate and a second five-room-wide gate. The original main hall in the gatehouse, Yin 'an Hall, has been destroyed, and the existing back hall, namely Jialetang Hall; East Road consists of Sanjin Courtyard, which is the living room of Prince Gong. The main building of West Road is Xijinzhai, with a grand courtyard, cloisters and extraordinary style. There are more than 40 two-story back buildings behind the No.3 Courtyard, which are 160m long from east to west, with the famous Zhanwu Building in the east and the famous Bao Yue Building in the west. Behind the building is a garden-Ping Jin Garden, commonly known as Gongwangfu Garden, covering an area of 28,000 square meters. The buildings in the park are divided into three roads in the Middle East, and there are also similar axes, staggered rockeries, winding cloisters and pavilions, and flowers and trees in the pool. The main buildings are Scorpion Pavilion, Invitational Desk, Grand Stage and Gentiana Pavilion.