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Checking into the Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel in Chengde, China? According to legend, this is a haunted hotel, and the ghost in question is none else than the former Empress Dowager Cixi.
Checking into the Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel in Chengde, China? According to legend, this is a haunted hotel, and the ghost in question is none else than the former Empress Dowager Cixi.
In the mountains to the northeast, three hours from Beijing is the city of Chengde in Hebei province, home to the Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel (承德云山饭店) situated by the Yangtze River and was built as the modern pride of the city to welcome guests.
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The Hotel has around 220 rooms and is the old imperial resort destination of Chengde and was the first four star hotel in the city meant to cater to foreign tourists as well as locals. The hotel is also known as one of the more haunted hotels in the country.
The Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel overlooks the Yangtze River and is said to be the haunting grounds of Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) from the Qing Dynasty, the last empress of China.
Empress Dowager Cixi governed the country for 47 years until her death in 1861 after working her way from the position as a concubine and was a highly controversial figure, often depicted as a ruthless despot that was a big reason for China’s corruption problem, anarchy and revolution that came in the following years.
Although in recent years, other perspectives on her have emerged as well as many, this meant that the problems in China at the time were much more deep rooted to blame on just one regent.
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The Empress is said to watch over her former gardens which the site where Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel is built on used to be a part of. The Empress Dowager Cixi is said to be appearing at the end of the hallway on the 8th floor dressed in the traditional Chinese clothes from the late 1800s.
For what reason The Empress Dowager Cixi is said to be haunting this exact hotel is uncertain and in no sources found do they state a connection to the place other than the gardens.
The Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel is not a hotel with just one ghost if we are to believe the legend though. The Hotel is also said to be haunted by a man wearing western style clothes who also hangs around on the same floor as well as the ghost of the The Empress Dowager Cixi.
Whether this particular ghost actually was a western visitor or just wearing the clothes are never really made clear. Although the female ghost both has a name and a history, the ghost of the man is for now nameless and no one knows who it can be.
The one problem encountered with this story of a haunted hotel though is the lack of Chinese sources for it. Why are they all seemingly just speaking in English? Have the ghosts just been seen by foreign tourists? Did the haunted rumors just happen to be jotted down in English on English sites or are the ghost stories about the former dowagers thinner than the top haunted lists would have it?
The question remains, is there actually a more deep rooted ghost story in The Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel?
Yun Shan Fan Dian In China Is Haunted By The Emperess Cixi.
