Belvedere of Literary Profundity

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]

Belvedere of Literary Profundity
文渊阁
Wenyuan Ge
General information
Type	Palace building
Town or city	Beijing
Country	China
Coordinates	39.91629512740444°N 116.39952820366824°E / 39.91629512740444; 116.39952820366824
Completed	1776
Website
www.dpm.org.cn/explore/building/236513.html

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. 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.^[3]

The existing hall which is patterned on the Tianyi Ge in Ningbo was rebuilt behind the Wenhua Palace, in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Completed in 1776, it was a kind of library and stored numerous works, including a copy of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries. The Wenjin Ge in the Chengde Mountain Resort is its counterpart.^[3]