This royal mansion is known as the 'Little Beijing beyond the Great Wall'

Inner Mongolia's Alxa Left Banner Dingyuan Camp and the Prince's Mansion of Heshuote: In the ninth year of the Yongzheng era, the Prince of Alxa, Abao, made military achievements in quelling the Galdan war, and the Qing court awarded Dingyuan Camp as the residence for the Prince of Alxa Heshuote Banner Zasak Doroi. According to the 'Ningxia Annals', Dingyuan Camp 'boasts of its garden's beauty, surrounded by white walls gleaming brightly', and is a typical Siheyuan (courtyard house) architecture, earning the reputation of 'Little Beijing beyond the Great Wall'. The Prince's Mansion of Alxa Heshuote is an important part of the ancient city of Dingyuan Camp, founded in the tenth year of the Qing Yongzheng era (1732), serving as the official residence and living place for successive princes of Alxa. The royal mansion was built entirely in accordance with the 'Complete Codes of the Great Qing' system, and the architectural complex not only embodies the hierarchical system of Chinese Confucian culture but also reflects the customs, folkways, etiquette, and ethics of the Heshuote people, becoming the only representative of Qing dynasty official architecture in Alxa. The mansion faces south with its back to the north, and the main gate has sixty-three studs arranged in seven rows horizontally and nine vertically. There are seven running animals on the hanging ridge of the mansion gate, all of which were part of the architectural regulations of the prince's mansion at that time, second only to the Forbidden City in Beijing.