This question is not very accurate because the question is only 30 words. A more accurate question should be: Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace and Cixi's Palace, where are the rooms more luxurious?
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Empress Dowager Cixi
As a constitutional monarchy, the royal family symbolizes the cohesion of the country, although it does not have substantive power, but the British people's feelings for the royal family are like a long historical building, full of respect and awe.
The representatives of the British royal family, in addition to the Queen, are the most famous at Buckingham Palace.
In the late Qing Dynasty of China, the most representative figure was Cixi, and the thing that best represented the Qing Dynasty was naturally the Forbidden City, the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and the Queen Mother of China, their respective homes, have a comparison.
Some people say that the Queen's home is not only Buckingham Palace, but also Windsor Castle and so on. Yes, but Cixi's home is not only a Forbidden City, she also has places such as Chengde Mountain Villa and Yuanmingyuan.
Because the Queen of England often lived mainly in Buckingham Palace and Cixi mainly lived in the Forbidden City, we will simplify it and compare the two places.
1. Buckingham Palace has 775 halls and rooms, covering an area of 180,000 square meters (about 300 acres).
The Queen is located at Buckingham Palace in London, and has been the residence of the British Royal Family in London since Queen Victoria made it her residence in 1837.
After hundreds of years of construction, Buckingham Palace is also grand in scale and complex in structure.
Buckingham Palace
According to statistics, Buckingham Palace has 5 floors and 775 halls. In addition to the 19 State Rooms, Buckingham Palace has 52 Royal and VIP Rooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. There are also ballrooms, concert halls, ceremonial halls and galleries, as well as the Royal Stables and the Royal Gardens (both stables and galleries are currently open to the public).
This is the Queen's administrative headquarters and most of her work is done at Buckingham Palace.
The interior is palatial
Buckingham Palace's State Rooms are usually used to hold state banquets and host heads of state, and more than 50,000 people are invited to Buckingham Palace dinners, lunches, dinners, cocktail parties or Royal Garden parties each year, as well as places to discuss state events and hold large royal ceremonies.
Buckingham Palace, like the famous Tower Bridge and red double-decker buses, is an international symbol of London and the whole of the UNITED Kingdom. The Changing of the Guard ceremony at 11:30 a.m. every day, the most popular tourist, can witness the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace wearing black leather top hats and crimson shiny black uniforms.
Changing of the Guard show
Second, the Forbidden City has a total of 9,999 half-houses, covering an area of 720,000 square meters (about 1,081 acres).
The Forbidden City was built from Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty to Cixi for hundreds of years (longer than Buckingham Palace in Britain), so it was also grand in scale and imposing.
The largest and most beautiful palace complex
The Forbidden City has a total of 9999 rooms and a half houses, each house has its own unique history and culture.
Legend has it that when the Forbidden City was first built, Zhu Di planned to set the total number of rooms in the palace to 10,000, but in the end it was not built, because the minister Liu Bowen had a dream.
The chancellor Liu Bowen told Zhu Di that he dreamed that he had been summoned by the Jade Emperor to the Ling Xiao Hall of the Heavenly Palace and angrily rebuked him, Do you dare to build ten thousand rooms to despise me?
Zhu Di listened and thought, yes, the imperial power is granted, the Jade Emperor's Heavenly Palace is only 10,000 houses, I am the king of the underground, but I can't surpass the Jade Emperor in the sky. So how much to build? Too little is not like words, ah, yes, I will build 9999.5 rooms, jade emperor I give you face, I am less than half a house.
The Forbidden City is divided into two parts, the front is the place where Cixi's office handles government affairs, mainly including the Taihe Hall, the Zhonghe Hall and the Bohol Hall; the back is the place where Cixi sleeps and eats, which is also large-scale.
Where the Emperor sits when he ascends to the throne
now
Forbidden city
It has been renamed the Forbidden City, it is the largest royal palace in the world, and no ancient and modern Chinese and foreign architecture can be compared.
Although through war, robbery and theft,
A total of 1807558 sets of cultural relics are still preserved in the Forbidden City, and their historical and artistic value is immeasurable.
Treasures of the Forbidden City
If the Queen of England and Cixi met, I wonder if they would hold hands and compare?
Of course, if you want the two to communicate without obstacles, it is best for the Queen of England to learn Chinese first, and Cixi also found free time to memorize English.
Conclusion: In terms of quantity and scale, the queen has to lose the queen, but in terms of the comfort and modernity of living, the queen wins again. In general, both Buckingham Palace and the Forbidden City are outstanding models of human architectural art, and they are also the most famous cultural relics, which need to be protected by human beings.