Introduction to Baohe Hall: Located behind the Zhonghe Hall, the emperor hosted banquets here every New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival in the Qing Dynasty for princes, nobles and civil and military ministers. During the Qianlong period, the triennial palace examinations were moved here from the Taihe Hall. The verandahs on the east and west sides of Baohe Hall are now converted into art exhibition halls of past dynasties, displaying about six thousand years of Chinese art treasures from primitive society to the Qing Dynasty.