In front of the Imperial Pole Hall in the Forbidden City in Beijing, there is a place that almost every tourist who visits the Forbidden City must go--- Jiulong Wall, which was built in the 38th year of Qianlong, and the front is made of 270 pieces of fired glass plastic blocks, but in fact, careful tourists will look closely and will find that there is a piece of glazed tile on the third white dragon from the east that is not colored correctly, in fact, it is Nan wood, not glazed tile.
What the? Isn't it a crime for a craftsman to use wood as glazed tiles?
The question of the Nine Dragon Wall will be answered later, and the meaning of the question will be returned to first.
The stone lion in front of the Tiananmen Tower, awe-inspiring, exquisite carving technology, only in front of the royal palace, you can use such a majestic stone lion, ordinary people, even if it is a high-powered person, can not casually place stone lions in front of the door, which is very exquisite.
Although these four stone lions were in pairs left and right, and a pair of eyes were staring intently at the imperial path in the middle, just like the loyal guards around Tianzi, I don't know if passing tourists have carefully observed these four stone lions.
Careful visitors will find that the stone lion's smooth chest located on the west side of Tiananmen Square and on the north bank of the Jinshui River has a very obvious scar.
How did this scar come about? The Tiananmen Tower has armed police sentries on duty 24 hours a day, and there is no dead angle monitoring at 360 degrees, which is certainly not man-made destruction, and no one will deliberately destroy national cultural relics.
Could it be the mistake of the craftsman who carved that year? Speaking of craftsmen, here can be the answer to the question of the Nine Dragon Wall.
The above mentioned Nine Dragon Wall glazed tiles were stolen to change the day, it is indeed the craftsman of the year, accidentally broke a piece of glazed tiles, and Ma Dechun, as the person in charge of the project, in order to pay the errand on time, temporarily thought of using Nan wood to conceal the customs, Qianlong finally did not find out, and this piece of wood after years of wind and rain baptism, has become black, showing a very "dazzling".
However, the scars on the stone lion can be clearly seen not caused by the craftsman's mistake, but were forcibly scratched later.
At that time, Cixi abandoned jiangshan and sheji and openly declared war on the world, although the Qing court was superior in numbers and the weapons were still said to be in the past, but the soldiers' thinking was still stuck in the era of cold weapons, and the result was that the Qing court was hanged by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Later, on August 28, 1900, the troops of various countries actually held a military parade in front of the Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty, and the Russian military band at that time also played the national anthems and songs of various countries.
And a Japanese officer ordered that the stone lions in front of the door be pulled away, at first due to insufficient equipment strength can not move the stone lions, and so after the equipment is transferred, just after the bundled stone lions are ready to be transferred, other national officers saw the situation and stopped him, not how kind he is, he just does not want to leave evidence of guilt, the treasure in the palace is lost, may be remembered by posterity, but the door of the royal palace is certainly not bare.
In this way, the stone lion was put back to the same place, and the Japanese officer was very angry, pulled out his saber and swung it hard at the stone lion, and the scarred stone lion reluctantly accepted.
Therefore, the scars on the stone lion of the Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Square were left over from the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance, when the war was chaotic and strife, the country would not be a country, people lived in the water every day, no one would pay attention to the stone lion, and when people held their heads high later, people no longer wanted to repair it for her, because that was the witness of history, the wound of the stone lion would never be smoothed, but what about the stone lion?