In which city is Jiangnan Gongyuan, the largest imperial examination center in feudal China, located?
Nanjing City.
Jiangnan Gongyuan is located on the east side of the Confucius Temple Academy in Qinhuai District, Nanjing City. It is also known as Nanjing Gongyuan and Jiankang Gongyuan. It is the largest and most influential imperial examination center in Chinese history. It is open to students in southern China. It is also one of the three major ancient building complexes in the Confucius Temple area and an important part of the Qinhuai Scenic Area of Confucius Temple.
Jiangnan Gongyuan was built in the fourth year of Qiandao in the Song Dynasty (1168). After successive renovations and expansions, it reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there were 20,644 examination rooms alone, which could accommodate more than 20,000 people. Several candidates take the exam at the same time, plus hundreds of ancillary buildings, covering an area of more than 300,000 square meters. In terms of its large scale and vast area, it ranks first among the Gongyuan Palaces in all provinces in China, and is the largest imperial examination center in ancient China.
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Since the abolition of the imperial examination system at the beginning of the last century, Jiangnan Gongyuan has undergone tremendous changes. The buildings of Jiangnan Gongyuan were gradually occupied, modified and demolished until today, leaving only Mingyuan Tower, Feihong Bridge and some inscriptions.
The boundaries of Jiangnan Gongyuan have been blurred, the pattern of Jiangnan Gongyuan no longer exists, and the environmental landscape of Jiangnan Gongyuan has undergone earth-shaking changes. Mingyuan Building has been surrounded by small commodity markets, Feihong Bridge is trapped by the modern high-rise buildings of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, and the Gongyuan Stele has also moved away from its original location.
Many commercial buildings such as the Water Conservancy Building, Zhongtian Building, Huanxin Hotel, and Yong'an Commercial Building stood within the original Jiangnan Gongyuan area. They were built in different ages from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Mingyuan Building, and Feihong Bridge. , the architectural styles are very different; the degree of damage to the buildings is different, and the area is completely in an "out of control" state, with a mixture of good and bad.
In 2014, with the completion of the China Imperial Examination Museum designed by the team of Professor Liu Kecheng of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, the prelude to reshaping the 1,300-year history of imperial examination culture gradually began. The "One Bamboo Slip" laid the historical cornerstone of the Nanjing Jiangnan Gongyuan as the historical cornerstone of China's imperial examination culture from the two dimensions of architectural form and building materials.
The spatial axis of the horizontal layout - Yimen, Longmen, Imperial Examination Museum, Mingyuan Building, Zhigong Hall, Feihong Bridge, etc. are distributed to form a clearer axis relationship of imperial examination culture.
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