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Prince Gong's Mansion,also known as the Prince Kung Mansion, is a museum and tourist attraction located in Xicheng District, Beijing, just north of the Shichahai Lake. It consists of large siheyuan-style mansions and gardens. Originally constructed for Heshen, an official renowned for being the most corrupt official in Chinese history, it was later renamed after Prince Gong, a Manchu prince and influential statesman of the late Qing dynasty, who inhabited the mansion in the late 19th century.
HISTORY:
Prince Gong's Mansion was constructed in 1777 during the Qing dynasty for Heshen, a prominent court official in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor renowned for being the most corrupt official in Chinese history. From a young age, Heshen earned the favor of the Qianlong Emperor and rose swiftly through the ranks in the imperial administration to become one of the top and wealthiest officials in the imperial court. In 1799, the Jiaqing Emperor, successor to the Qianlong Emperor, accused Heshen of corruption and had him executed and his property confiscated. The mansion was given to Prince Qing, the 17th and youngest son of the Qianlong Emperor.
In 1851, the Xianfeng Emperor gave the mansion to his sixth brother, Prince Gong, whom the mansion is named after.
In 1921, after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, Prince Gong's grandson, Puwei, offered the property as a mortgage to the Order of Saint Benedict of the Catholic Church. The Benedictines invested significant resources into restoring the dilapidated mansion for use as a university. It was then known as Furen Catholic University until the priests were deported from China in 1951.
During the Cultural Revolution, the mansion was used by the Beijing Air Conditioning Factory until it experienced a revival in the 1980s. In 1982, it was declared a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in Beijing. Since November 1996, the buildings and the gardens have become a tourist attraction. Renovation works on the mansion were completed on 24 August 2008 during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Structure of the compound
Prince Gong's Mansion is one of the most exquisite and best-preserved imperial mansions in Beijing and used to house several families, and has a total area of 60,000 square meters (650,000 sq ft).
The mansion buildings are located in the south; the gardens are in the north. The buildings include several siheyuan courtyards, two-story buildings, and a grand Peking opera house. Some of the courtyards house permanent exhibitions on the history of the mansion as well as temporary art exhibitions.
In addition to the mansion, there is a 28,000-meter (92,000 ft) garden with 20 scenic spots, pavilions, artificial hills including rock originating from the Lake Tai in Jiangsu, and ponds.
There is an eight-meter-long stele which bears the Chinese character 福 (fú: lit "fortune") based on the calligraphy of the Kangxi Emperor.
Waypoint 1 (The inscription):
At waypoint 1, you will find a hall. Go into the hall(which may be crowded) and find the part which shows a limestone rock and parts of the building. Look at the rock with an inscription.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock primarily composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of mineral calcite or aragonite. It is one of the most common and widely distributed rocks on Earth, with a wide range of uses in various industries and natural settings. Limestone forms through the accumulation and compaction of marine organisms, primarily the remains of shellfish and coral, over millions of years. This sedimentary rock can exhibit a wide array of textures and colors, depending on its composition, and it has been used by humans for countless purposes throughout history.
Composition: Limestone consists primarily of calcium carbonate, but it may also contain variable amounts of impurities such as clay, silt, and organic material. The presence of impurities can affect its color and texture.
Formation: Limestone forms in marine environments where the accumulation of calcium carbonate-rich organic debris, including shells and coral, is prevalent. Over time, these materials compress and harden, forming limestone deposits.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock that often exhibits sedimentary structures and textures that can give clues to its depositional environment and history. Some of these features include:
- Fossils: Limestone often contains fossils of marine organisms, such as shells, corals, and crinoids, that are preserved in the rock.
- Bedding: Limestone often has well-defined layers, or bedding, that can be horizontal or inclined.
- Ripple marks: These are small ridges on the surface of the limestone that form as a result of wave or current action in shallow marine environments.
- Mud cracks: These are polygonal cracks that form as mud dries out and shrinks, indicating that the limestone was deposited in an environment that alternated between wet and dry conditions.
- Oolites: These are small, rounded grains of calcium carbonate that are often found in limestone, indicating that the rock formed in a shallow marine environment with high carbonate precipitation rates.
- Grain size: Limestone can range from fine-grained to coarse-grained, depending on the depositional environment and the size of the original sediment particles.
- Color and texture: Limestone can vary in color from white to gray to brown, and can have a crystalline, clastic, or microcrystalline texture.
The sedimentary structures and textures found in limestone can provide important information about the environment in which the rock formed, and can aid in the interpretation of the geologic history of a region.
The most common feature of sedimentary rocks is that they are organized in layers of different composition piled on top of each other. Any layer of rock in a sedimentary sequence that can be distinguished from the layers above and below is a bedding plane. Bedding planes, also called beds or strata (singular: stratum) are the simplest sedimentary structures and the smaller lithostratigraphic unit used by geologists to describe sedimentary formations. What allows the differentiations of a bed from the surrounding ones are differences in lithology (e.g. alternations of limestone and shale) or grain size (e.g. alternations of sandstone and conglomerate). In geology each bed represents an event, i.e. a period of time in which the physical processes active in a sedimentary basin allowed the deposition of a specific sediment. An ‘event’ in geology can be a long period of time, for example the settling of clay particles on the seabed over thousands of years, but also a fast process, like the rapid deposition of a submarine turbidity current. Bedding planes deposit by gravity and are influenced by other physical processes like currents that distribute the sediments within the basin. The combined effect of these phenomena spreads the sediments laterally and horizontally, in some cases for hundreds of square kilometers, towards the margins of the sedimentary basin, producing horizontal with very limited thickness and wide lateral extension.
The order of beds in an undisturbed sedimentary sequence (i.e. when the sequence was not tilted/folded by tectonic processes) follows the order of deposition, with the younger strata on top and the older at the bottom (Principle of Superimposition). Each bed is unique and reflects an instant of the history of a sedimentary basin when its sedimentary input, energy, and eventual life forms (fossils) remained constant. A sequence of beds can, hence, be seen as the sequence of events that occurred over geologic time scales in a basin.
Laminations
In a sequence of sedimentary rocks, bedding represent the first-order lithological alternations that occurs at the scale of more than a cm (centimeters to meters). Subtler and less pronounced planar lithological alternations within beds, by convention at a scale smaller than the centimeter, are laminations or laminae (singular: lamina). Laminations are the smaller units in which a sedimentary sequence can be divided. Laminations are important, because their geometry provides information on the processes (e.g. currents) that were active during the deposition of beds.
How was taihu lake formed?
Scientific studies suggest that Lake Tai's circular structure is the result of a meteor impact, which resulted in shatter cones, shock-metamorphosed quartz, microtektites, and shock-metamorphic unloading fractures.The prospective impact crater has been dated to be greater than 70 million years old and possibly from the late Devonian Period. However, new research suggests that present evidence shows no impact crater structure or shock-mineral at Lake Tai. Fossils indicate that Lake Tai was dry land until the ingression of the East China Sea during the Holocene epoch. The growing deltas of the Yangtze and Qiantang rivers eventually sealed off Lake Tai from the sea, and the influx of fresh water from rivers and rains turned it into a freshwater lake.
What is a taihu stone?
Taihu stone is part of the three main sources for scholars stone.
- Lingbi stone (Lingbishi) (Chinese: 灵璧石) from Lingbi, Anhui province, limestone
- Taihu stone (Taihushi) (Chinese: 太湖石) from Lake Tai, Jiangsu province, limestone
- Yingde stone (Yingshi or Yingdeshi) (Chinese: 英石 or 英德石) from Yingde, Guangdong province, limestone
How are TaiHu stone formed?
Taihu stone (Chinese: 太湖石) or porous stone is a kind of limestone produced at the foot of Dongting Mountain (洞庭山) in Suzhou, which is close to Lake Tai. Due to long-term surging by water, this kind of stone features pores and holes.
Look at the limestone rock and answer your first two task
Task 1: What is the texture of the rock? is it crystalline,clastic or microcrystalline?
Task 2: Do you think the rock is made of calcite or aragonite
Waypoint 2 (Limestone stone) :
Look at the rock at waypoint 2 and answer the 2 following task:
Task 3: Look at the colours of the stone and feel the rock and look at the listing above. Do you think the rock contains impurities? and if so what impurities do you think is present?
Task 4: There are holes present due to long-term submergance in water. Estimate the size of the biggest hole
Waypoint 3 (The famous taihu stone):
The famous taihu stone is a stone from taihu lake.
Look at the famous Taihu stone at waypoint 3 and answer the following 3 task.
Task 5: Look at the stone and look at the listing. Do you see any ripple marks?
Task 6: Look at the Taihu stone. Do you see any bedding or oolites? If so state in your answer why they are there
Waypoint 4 (Towering above you):
At waypoint 4 you will find even more taihu stone but this time surrounding you and most importantly, towering above you (well technically but if you are very tall, it is not that high) and look at it and answer the following task(s).
Task 7: Do you see any beddings in this stone(s)?
Task 8: The rock here is darker than the others. Why do you think so?
Task 9 (OPTIONAL) take a picture of the rocks or passageway to prove you were there.
Send your answer to me through the message centre via the app/web. You do not need to wait for a response to log the cache as a found it. If anything is wrong I will message you. DO NOT mention anything regarding the answers in your log. Any spam/fake log will be deleted.
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恭亲王府，又称恭亲王府，是位于北京市西城区，什刹海以北的博物馆和旅游景点。它由大型四合院风格的豪宅和花园组成。它最初是为和深建造的，赫申是一位以中国历史上最腐败的官员而闻名的官员，后来以19世纪后期居住在这座豪宅的满族王子和晚清有影响力的政治家恭亲王的名字重新命名。
历史：
恭亲王府建于1777年清朝时期，是为乾隆皇帝统治时期的著名宫廷官员和深建造的，以中国历史上最腐败的官员而闻名。从年轻时起，和深就赢得了乾隆皇帝的青睐，并在朝廷中迅速晋升，成为朝廷中最上层和最富有的官员之一。1799年，乾隆皇帝的继任者嘉庆皇帝指控和燊深腐败，处死他，没收财产。这座宅邸被送给了乾隆皇帝的第17个也是最小的儿子庆亲王。
1851年，咸丰皇帝将这座宅邸交给了他的六哥恭亲王，公宅就是以他的名字命名的。
1921年，清朝灭亡后，恭亲王的孙子普维将该房产作为抵押给天主教会的圣本笃骑士团。本笃会投入了大量资源
修复破旧的豪宅，用作大学。它当时被称为辅仁天主教大学，直到1951年神父被驱逐出中国。
在文化大革命期间，这座豪宅被北京空调厂使用，直到1980年代才复兴。1982年被北京市列为国家级重点文物保护单位。自1996年11月以来，建筑物和花园已成为旅游景点。2008年8月24日，在2008年北京夏季奥运会期间，豪宅的翻新工程完成。
化合物的结构
恭亲王府是北京最精致、保存最完好的皇家宅邸之一，曾居住过几个家庭，总面积为60,000平方米（650,000平方英尺）。
豪宅建筑位于南部;花园在北部。这些建筑包括几座四合院、两层楼的建筑和一座宏伟的京剧院。一些庭院设有关于豪宅历史的永久展览以及临时艺术展览。
除了豪宅外，还有一个 28,000 米（92,000 英尺）的花园，有 20 个景点、凉亭、人造山丘，包括源自江苏太湖的岩石和池塘。
有一块八米长的石碑，上面刻有汉字福（fú：点亮的“财富”），以康熙皇帝的书法为基础。
航点 1（铭文）：
在航点 1 处，您会发现一个大厅。进入大厅（可能很拥挤），找到显示石灰岩和建筑物部分的部分。看看带有铭文的岩石。
石灰石是一种沉积岩，主要由碳酸钙 （CaCO3） 以矿物方解石或文石的形式组成。它是地球上最常见和最广泛分布的岩石之一，在各种行业和自然环境中具有广泛的用途。石灰石是通过海洋生物（主要是贝类和珊瑚的遗骸）在数百万年的时间里堆积和压实而形成的。这种沉积岩可以表现出各种各样的纹理和颜色，具体取决于其成分，并且在历史上被人类用于无数目的。
成分：石灰石主要由碳酸钙组成，但也可能含有不同数量的杂质，如粘土、淤泥和有机物质。杂质的存在会影响其颜色和质地。
形成：石灰岩形成于海洋环境中，富含碳酸钙的有机碎片（包括贝壳和珊瑚）普遍存在。随着时间的流逝，这些材料会压缩和硬化，形成石灰石沉积物。
石灰岩是一种沉积岩，通常表现出沉积结构和纹理，可以为其沉积环境和历史提供线索。其中一些功能包括：
化石：石灰石通常含有海洋生物的化石，如贝壳、珊瑚和海龟，它们保存在岩石中。
层理：石灰石通常具有明确的层或层理，可以是水平的或倾斜的。
涟漪痕迹：这些是石灰岩表面的小脊，由于浅海环境中的波浪或水流作用而形成。
泥浆裂缝：这些是泥浆变干和收缩时形成的多边形裂缝，表明石灰石沉积在干湿条件交替的环境中。
卵石：这些是小而圆的碳酸钙颗粒，经常出现在石灰岩中，表明岩石是在碳酸盐沉淀率高的浅海环境中形成的。
粒度：石灰石的范围可以从细粒到粗粒，具体取决于沉积环境和原始沉积物颗粒的大小。
颜色和质地：石灰石的颜色可以从白色到灰色再到棕色不等，并且可以具有结晶、碎屑或微晶质地。
在石灰岩中发现的沉积结构和纹理可以提供有关岩石形成环境的重要信息，并有助于解释一个地区的地质历史。
太湖是如何形成的？
科学研究表明，太湖的圆形结构是陨石撞击的结果，导致破碎锥、冲击变质石英、微晶和冲击变质卸荷裂缝。这个预期的撞击坑的年代超过7000万年，可能来自泥盆纪晚期。然而，新的研究表明，目前的证据表明太湖没有撞击坑结构或冲击矿物。化石表明，在全新世时期东海进入之前，太湖是旱地。长江和钱塘江不断扩大的三角洲最终将太湖与大海隔绝开来，河流和雨水的淡水涌入使太湖变成了淡水湖。
什么是太湖石？
太湖石是学者石的三大产地之一。
灵璧石（中文：灵璧石）来自安徽省灵璧，石灰石
太湖石（Taihushi）（中文：太湖石）来自江苏省太湖，石灰岩
英德石（英石或英德石）（中文：英石或英德石）来自广东省英德市，石灰石
太湖石是如何形成的？
太湖石（中文：太湖石）或多孔石是一种产于苏州洞庭山脚下的石灰石，靠近太湖。由于长期被水汹涌澎湃，这种石材具有气孔和孔洞的特点。
沉积岩最常见的特征是它们被组织成不同成分的层，彼此堆叠在一起。沉积序列中任何可以与上面和下面的层区分开来的岩石层都是层理平面。层理平面，也称为层或地层（单数：地层）是最简单的沉积结构，也是地质学家用来描述沉积地层的较小岩相单位。允许地层与周围地层区分开来的是岩性（例如石灰岩和页岩的交替）或粒度（例如砂岩和砾岩的交替）的差异。在地质学中，每个床代表一个事件，即在沉积盆地中活跃的物理过程允许特定沉积物沉积的一段时间。地质学中的“事件”可以是很长一段时间，例如粘土颗粒在海床上沉降数千年，但也是一个快速的过程，例如
海底浊流的快速沉积。层理平面在重力作用下沉积，并受到其他物理过程的影响，例如在盆地内分布沉积物的水流。这些现象的综合作用使沉积物横向和水平扩散，在某些情况下长达数百平方公里，向沉积盆地的边缘扩散，产生厚度非常有限的水平和宽阔的横向延伸。
未受干扰的沉积层序中的地层顺序（即当层序未被构造过程倾斜/折叠时）遵循沉积顺序，较年轻的地层在顶部，较老的地层在底部（叠加原理）。每张床都是独一无二的，反映了沉积盆地历史的一瞬间，当时其沉积输入、能量和最终的生命形式（化石）保持不变。因此，地层序列可以看作是盆地中在地质时间尺度上发生的事件序列。层压
在一系列沉积岩中，层理代表了在超过一厘米（厘米到米）的尺度上发生的一级岩替。根据惯例，在小于厘米的尺度上，床内更微妙和不太明显的平面岩性蚀变是层状或层状（单数：层状）。层状岩是可以划分沉积序列的较小单元。层压很重要，因为它们的几何形状提供了在床沉积过程中活跃的过程（例如电流）的信息。
看看石灰岩，回答你的前两个任务
任务1：岩石的质地是什么？是结晶型、碎屑型还是微晶型？
任务2：你认为这块岩石是由方解石还是文石制成的
航点 2 （石灰石） ：
查看航点 2 处的岩石并回答以下任务 2：
任务 3：看看石头的颜色，感受岩石，看看上面的清单。你认为岩石含有杂质吗？如果是这样，您认为存在哪些杂质？
任务4：由于长期浸没在水中而存在孔洞。估计最大孔的大小
航点3（著名的太湖石）：
著名的太湖石是来自太湖的石头。
在航点 3 处查看著名的太湖石，并回答以下 3 个任务。
任务 5：看石头，看清单。你看到任何涟漪痕迹了吗？
任务六：看太湖石。你看到任何床上用品或卵石吗？如果是这样，请在您的答案中说明他们为什么在那里
航点 4（高耸入云）：
在航点 4 处，您会发现更多的太湖石，但这次围绕着您，最重要的是，高耸于您上方（从技术上讲，但如果您很高，它就不会那么高），然后看着它并回答以下任务。
任务 7：你看到这块石头上有铺垫吗？
任务8：这里的岩石比其他岩石更黑。你为什么这么认为？
任务 9（可选）拍一张岩石或通道的照片，以证明你在那里。
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