Lobby introduction: The lobby is the main building of the Presidential Palace. It is shaped like a single-story, double-eaves Chinese-style building with a hard top. It is connected to the second hall by a corridor and is in the shape of a "worker". This place was originally the Golden Dragon Hall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, also known as the Glory Hall. According to legend, Hong Xiuquan was buried here after he died of illness. After the Qing troops captured Tianjing, the main hall was destroyed; Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang, rebuilt the lobby of the Governor-General's Office here in the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870). On January 1, 1912, the inauguration ceremony of Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president of the Republic of China was held in the Xinuang Pavilion behind the lobby. After the Nationalist Government established its capital in Nanjing in 1927, it was used as the lobby of the Nationalist Government.

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