The pavilion housed books and paintings, and for a time the Song emperor Renzong (r. 1023-1063) even opened it to close and trusted ministers and relatives, for "men and women to view on separate days." This must surely be one of the more unusual rules applied in any museum in any age.
樓中不僅藏書，而且掛畫。宋仁宗還曾經讓近臣、家眷「男女隔日參觀」，該算是古今中外博物館參觀守則的的罕例。