Kunning Palace, the Ming Dynasty has always been the queen's residence. The Ming and Qing dynasties alternated, because of different cultures, the Manchus believed in shamans, and in the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655), the Kunning Palace was rebuilt in imitation of Shenyang Qingning Palace.
The Qingning Palace in the Imperial Palace in Shenyang is the queen's sleeping quarters. Its architectural form has Manchu characteristics. For example, its door is not opened in the middle, but in the east.
There is a swastika kang in the west, that is, a fire kang connected by the corners of the south, west and north. The north is cold in winter, and kang can be warmed. In addition to summoning officials and entertainers, this western room was also a place of shaman sacrifice.
Think about it, how difficult it is to be a queen! Shamanism, singing and dancing, the queen wants to sleep lazily, it is absolutely not OKAY, it is difficult to be quiet.
The eastern part is the empress's residence. Huang Taiji is sitting on this southern kang "no disease". After the death of Concubine Hai Lanzhu, he was not in good health, but he could still work. The Records of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty recorded in August of the eighth year of Chongde that "it was night, there was no disease on the top, and it collapsed while sitting upright.". According to modern medicine, it should be a sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
In the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City "Danchen Yonggu" exhibition held in the Forbidden City, cultural relics related to Kunning Palace were exhibited. In the Qing Dynasty, although Yongzheng no longer used the Qianqing Palace as her sleeping palace, the empress no longer used Kunning Palace as her sleeping palace, but chose a palace garden in the eastern and western six palaces as her own sleeping palace. Even so, the status of Kunning Palace as the middle palace has not changed.
The reconstructed Kunning Palace is not only the wedding place of the Qing Dynasty emperors and queens, but also the place of shamanic sacrifices. The reconstruction of Kunning Palace is a typical embodiment of the collision and integration of Manchu and Han cultures in the early Qing Dynasty.
Mink gold phoenix inlaid jewelry Queen Chaoguan Qing (1644-1911).
The crown is rounded with a brown lavender brim and a red velvet top. The center of the crown is a three-layer top with a golden silk phoenix, and the top is inlaid with one large eastern bead, and each layer runs through the eastern bead. The crown and feathers of the golden silk phoenix are inlaid with pearls. Zhu Wei is surrounded by golden silk phoenix seven, which is decorated with cat's eye stone one, and the top of the phoenix and the wings of the body are decorated with beads. The back of the hat is embellished with a golden silk phoenix, the phoenix body is decorated with cat's eye stone and several beads, and hangs "six lines and two", six lines refer to six strings of hanging beads, and the second refers to the knot decorated with lapis lazuli in the middle divided into two segments, falling coral falling horns.
The imperial crowns worn by the empress dowager and empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty in winter and the occasions for taking them were basically the same as the emperor's winter crowns, but the jewelry used for decoration was more, and there were differences between men and women in form.
Waist bell, clear.
Iron, 21 pieces, similar in shape and size, all of which are horn-shaped with a wide upper point and a lower point, and the ends are sewn on a long belt with hooks and eyes at both ends of the belt to facilitate the tie of the waist. The existing Kuning Palace.
According to Manchu folklore, the gods wrapped the waist bell around the battle dress, and the sound made the demon dizzy and frightened, and eventually was beaten into the ground, so the waist bell was still a thing to suppress evil.
Historical image: Khun Ninh Palace.
Kunning Palace was the empress's residence in the Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty it was changed to a place of shaman sacrifice. The eastern room was once the cave house of the three emperors of Kangxi, Tongzhi and Guangxu at the time of their big weddings, and the cave house was also set up here in 1922 by the great wedding of Emperor Puyi. The Kunning Palace in the photo is decorated with color tents and lanterns, which is a joyous atmosphere.
Floor plan of Kunning Palace, drawn in the 32nd year of the Republic of China (1943).
During the Japanese occupation of Beiping in 1941, due to fear that the ancient buildings in Beiping would be destroyed due to military disasters, Zhu Qiling, then president of the Construction Society, entrusted Zhang Wei to preside over the surveying and mapping of the main buildings on the central axis, which lasted for four years, from the Bell and Drum Tower in the north to the Yongding Gate in the south. The extremely detailed drawing and detailed data annotation are important materials for today's study of ancient buildings on the central axis of Beijing.
Guangxu Emperor's wedding ceremony album, Qing Qing kuan painting.
In the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888), the 17-year-old Guangxu married Longyu. The entire wedding ceremony was completed from the fifth day of october in the fourteenth year of Guangxu until the fifteenth day of february of the following year. There are eight volumes of "Guangxu Wedding Drawings", and the painter uses exquisite realistic techniques to truthfully depict the whole process of royal weddings such as the bride price, the great conscription ceremony, the book ceremony, the welcome ceremony, and the celebration and departure in order. In order to understand the late Qing Dynasty court customs, costumes, architecture, systems, etc., detailed information was left.
"Kunning Palace Ming" hanging screen, Qing.
It is located in the middle of the northeast kang north wall of the East Pavilion of Kunning Palace. It was the Xianfeng Emperor who copied the Qianlong Emperor's "Kunning Palace Inscription".
Kunning Palace Sunset Festival original state, Qing.
In the original form, there are scrolls of portraits of the gods of the sunset, red painted offering cabinets, and a set of copper offerings. The original set of five offerings consists of an elephant foot incense burner, two Buddha candlesticks, and two elephant vases. All are exquisitely crafted, chic in shape, simple and generous, and can be called the representative works of the Qianlong period.
Evening festival god image 轴,Qing.
This silk painting is dedicated to the North Kang of Kunning Palace, and there are 7 goddesses in the painting, all wearing phoenixes, accessories collars, wearing wide-sleeved robes and pleated skirts, wearing red Ruyi cloud-toe shoes on their feet, sitting on chairs, and their hands on their chests. The goddess in the center holds the gui, the right end of the goddess embraces Ruyi, the left end of the goddess holds the fang tian painting halberd, and the head of the halberd is tied to the jade chime and the jade fish, which means "auspicious celebration and more than enough".
Kunning Palace Xizi Gate, Qing Tongzhi.
Kunning Palace was the empress's residence in the Ming Dynasty, and after being rebuilt in the twelfth year of Qing Shunzhi (1655), it was the main place for shamanism to worship gods. The original door of the Ming room was changed to the opening door of the east and second rooms, and the original door was changed to a double plate door. The east side of the room is separated by two warm pavilions, which serve as living quarters, and the four rooms on the west side of the door are equipped with three kangs on the south, north and west sides, which serve as places of worship to the gods. After the reconstruction of Kunning Palace, it became the main place for shamans in the Qing Palace, and the status of the palace has not changed. In the fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1665), when Xuan Ye was married, the empress dowager designated her to perform the Ceremony of Harmony, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Puyi at Kunning Palace.
This happy character gate was made during the marriage of the Tongzhi Emperor, and each horn is decorated with dragon and phoenix auspicious patterns, and surrounded by flourishing gourd ornaments, that is, it means auspiciousness to ward off evil spirits, wealth and longevity, and generations of descendants.
Emperor's big wedding Kunning Palace cave room window tim an pattern, Qing.
This pattern is the style of the window of the cave room of the Kunning Palace during the emperor's big wedding.
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