Belvedere of Literary Profundity

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Belvedere of Literary Profundity
文渊阁
Wenyuan Ge
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TypePalace building
Town or cityBeijing
CountryChina
Coordinates39°54′59″N 116°23′58″E / 39.91629512740444°N 116.39952820366824°E / 39.91629512740444; 116.39952820366824
Completed1776
Website
www.dpm.org.cn/explore/building/236513.html

The Belvedere of Literary Profundity (simplified Chinese: 文渊阁; traditional Chinese: 文淵閣; pinyin: Wényuān Gé; Wade–Giles: Wen-yuan Ko; Manchu: ᡧᡠ
ᡨᡠᠩᡤᡠ
ᠠᠰᠠᡵᡳ
šu tunggu asari), Wenyuan Ge or Wenyuan Library is a palace building in the Forbidden City in Beijing.[1]

The hall was an imperial library, and a place for learned discussion so several Grand Secretaries were assigned here.[2] It was sited to the east of the Fengtian Gate in Nanjing, during the Hongwu era. The Yongle Encyclopedia was stored at the site until 1421, when the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing and placed the Yongle Dadian in the Forbidden City. [3] After the Yongle Emperor made Beijing China's capital, its name continued to be used for the lobby in the east of the Cabinet Hall of the Forbidden City, which was burnt down in the late Ming period.[4]

The existing hall which is patterned on the

Complete Library of the Four Treasuries. The Wenjin Ge in the Chengde Mountain Resort is its counterpart.[4]

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