According to Qing historical records, one day in 1905, a madman somehow sneaked into the heavily guarded Forbidden City, broke into the Taihe Hall, which symbolized the supreme imperial power, and danced alone.
Six years later, the 6-year-old young emperor left the throne of the Taihe Temple forever.
It is said that the Emperor of Heaven lived in the Purple Palace in the sky, and the emperor who was the "Son of Heaven" should also live in the Purple Palace. The Purple Palace is also forbidden for ordinary people to enter, so it is called "Forbidden City".
Forbidden city
The Forbidden City was built in 1406 during the Ming Dynasty. It was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and 24 emperors lived and handled the government here.
The architectural structure of the Forbidden City embodies the philosophical concept of the five elements of yin and yang in ancient China and the spirit of imperial supremacy. This grand architectural community. Located on the central axis of Beijing, it covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a total of 9,999 rooms and a half rooms, which are divided into two parts: the outer court ruled by the emperor and the inner court where the emperor lived.
Corner Tower of the Forbidden City
The emperor handled the government of the outer dynasty, with the Taihe Gate and the Taihe Hall as the center, and the inner court where the empress lived, with the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace as the main body. The Qianqing Gate, on the other hand, is the boundary between yin and yang, between the inner court and the outer dynasty.
Like a metaphor, in the 10 years from 1914 to 1924, the Qianqing Gate once again became a symbol in the Forbidden City complex. At that time, in the heavens and earth inside the Qianqing Gate, there was still the family of the last emperor who had stepped down. Chinese society outside the Qianqing Gate has entered another historical period.
Clear the door in the rain
In 1914, the outer part of the Qianqingmen Square was opened to the public as an "antiquities exhibition hall", and every day visitors came in to see the royal antiquities moved from the Imperial Palace in Shenyang and the Chengde Mountain Resort, and to increase their understanding and imagination of the court life of the Qing Dynasty that had ended.
In the public psychology seen in the Forbidden City from 1914 to 1924, the world inside the Qianqing Gate is still a mystery, and in the inner court across the door, the life of the emperor's family who stepped down is still going on.
In front of the Qianqing Gate, a bronze lion with ears pulled
Historical records have skimmed over the current situation of the Forbidden City in those 10 years, and there is no more detailed description. When the witnesses in the early 20th century came all the way along the avenue of the Wenwu Hundred Officials and finally arrived at the Qianqing Gate, their visit ended here.
In the eyes of later generations, the history of the Qing Dynasty still has many doubtful cases and no evidence. After the death of Kangxi, the image of Yongzheng, who succeeded the reunification in 1722, as soon as it appeared, was somewhat vague and full of short and long flights. Yongzheng did not follow the custom and moved to the Qianqing Palace to live. He said that he would keep filial piety for his father here in the Yangxin Hall.
Yongzheng clay sculpture, pinched according to his appearance, has been recognized by Yongzheng
Yongzheng, who had just lived in the Yangxin Hall, did not have an easy life. In June 1729, Yongzheng issued an edict to formally send troops to the northwest and southwest.
Yongzheng royal saddle
After sending troops, Yongzheng set up a duty room outside the south wall of the Yangxin Hall's sleeping palace to timely transmit forward news and the latest orders. Three years later, the duty room had the official title of "Handling Military Aircraft Department", referred to as the Military Aircraft Department.
Since then, the Military Aircraft Department has evolved into the Emperor's private confidential group, and its power is only under the Emperor.
The military aircraft department must personally handle the receipt and dispatch of documents by the military aircraft Zhang Jing, and no one is allowed to enter the military aircraft department without the emperor's special instructions, and the emperor discusses matters with the military aircraft minister, and no one is allowed to be present.
Iron handle shark skin sheath auxiliary sword
The instructions issued by the emperor were handed over from the Military Aircraft Department to the post of the Military Headquarters And Reported Office, and urgently delivered to the hands of the parties concerned as confidential documents. Because it came from the inner court of the imperial palace, it was simply called Tingji.
The emperor approved documents and exercised power, using the jade seal. A large seal is covered, and the offender pays for his life. The 25 square treasure seals treasured by the Forbidden City were still selected by Qianlong himself to be stored in the Jiaotai Hall.
The Qianlong Emperor used the 櫜鞬
Qianlong liked to fight, and fought 10 big battles. The life of Qianlong's son Jiaqing was not as proud as his father. In 1813, a peasant rebel army invaded the Forbidden City. The one that entered the Xihua Gate forced it to the Longzong Gate in one breath, and the melee ended for two days and one night.
The arrows fired by the peasant army into the wall are still in place and are called the arrows of the 19th century.
Arrows on the plaque
Also during the Jiaqing period, the Military Aircraft Department wrote the "Great Qing Huidian" and was listed as an official state institution. Historians agree that the special status and power of the military aircraft department shows that the imperial power is high, and the emperor's centralization has developed here, which has surpassed the previous generation.
Qianlong jade handle golden peach skin sheath cold front waist knife
The military aircraft was "uploaded and issued" between the emperor and the world, and some of the state institutions that had already existed in the Qing court were idle, and the officials of the institutions had to engage in some calligraphy, painting and poetry activities to serve the emperor.
In the 267-year history of the Qing Dynasty, the Military Aircraft Department existed for 182 years.
The eunuchs in the palace were another group of people with special status and status in the court.
In many cases, the emperor learned about the outside world through eunuchs, close to the people.
Eunuchs could enter and exit the inner court and the outer court, and learned many palace secrets.
Empress Dowager Cixi travels
The emperor traveled in the palace, and the eunuch who carried the palanquin was also a eunuch. In the Qing Dynasty, there were special institutions for serving the emperor to sit on various palanquins, and more than thirty eunuchs waited in the palace every day, ready to carry the palanquins on the road.
Empress Dowager Cixi's civilian clothes resemble screens
In the early Qing Dynasty, there were strict requirements and restrictions on the behavior of eunuchs, and the Qing Dynasty Zu Shunzhi stipulated that "eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in the government of the dynasty." But in the era of Cixi's reign, eunuchs were favored, and it was always the eunuchs in the palace who guarded her every day.
The elderly Cixi sometimes discussed state affairs with eunuchs. The eunuch she admired was also promoted to high-ranking official.
Empress Dowager Cixi enjoys snow at the Summer Palace
In November 1924, the world of Qianqingmen came to an end. In the 10th year of the opening of the Antiquities Exhibition Hall of the Forbidden City, 19-year-old Puyi and his family were asked to move out of the inner court of the Forbidden City and live in his father Zaifeng's home.
In 1925, the civilians who first entered the Forbidden City to count the property of the Qing Dynasty saw that the Forbidden City was dilapidated and desolate.
When the last emperor left the Forbidden City, he was only allowed to take away a large number of gold and silver treasures from the treasury, and more court objects and historical collections remained in the Forbidden City. A large number of historical relics and rare treasures were unveiled for the first time in front of the world.
Gold-inlaid pearl-inlaid gemstone five phoenix tin
On October 10, 1925, the Palace Museum was announced and officially opened to the public. For the first time, the gates erected in the palace and the people were really opened, and the civilians rushed in.
To this day, some visitors from the West say that it is not like a museum, but more like a royal palace. What Chinese civilians want to see is the imperial palace, that is, how luxurious the people living in the palace are.
Mink inlaid with beads queen winter crown
Some experts said that only by looking at the Jingshan Mountain in the Imperial Court's Back Garden could we give a summary of the entire palace in one go. The closing part of the forbidden city building is obviously more exciting than the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Since 1925, countless visiting civilians have entered the site, leaving their mark inside and outside the world's largest royal palace. People remember that the madman who entered the Forbidden City and broke into the Temple of Taihe in 1905 was a civilian who entered the forbidden city before them.