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Even so, I never blundered as badly as the dowager staying at the little Hotel La Quinta.
The Long Corridor begins at a fourth Qing building, the Hall of Happiness and Longevity (Leshou Tang), where the Empress Dowager slept.
Empress Dowager Cixi saw to a complete restoration in 1886, but the Western armies returned in 1900 in retaliation for the siege of the Foreign Legation during the Boxer Rebellion.
Two of the greatest Qing emperors, Kangxi and his grandson Qianlong, maintained the Ming Tombs and saw to the building of the Summer Palace, while the last great imperial ruler of China, the Empress Dowager Cixi, kept the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City in splendid condition into the early 20th century.
The Empress Dowager Cixi used to lodge overnight in this temple on her voyage by royal barge from the Forbidden City to the Summer Palace.