The Forbidden City is located in Beijing, ming chengzu Yongle four years, the Yongle Emperor began to order the construction, has been built for eighteen years, until 1420 is not completed, to now more than 600 years. The Forbidden City covers an area of about 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, more than 70 large and small palaces, and more than 9,000 houses.
After more than ten years of successful construction, it can be seen that the amount of construction projects is huge, the materials required are numerous, and where did you find so much wood to maintain the construction of the Forbidden City at that time?
At that time, the materials used for the construction of these buildings were all made of wood, but where did the wood for building so many houses come from? And it won't rot after hundreds of years?
To know the geographical location of Beijing, Beijing is located in the North China Plain, and the climate is not suitable for the growth of a large amount of wood, so it is impossible to build the Forbidden City to use local materials.
Therefore, the officials of that year went to various places to supervise the matter and collected the timber needed for the construction of the Forbidden City, shangshu Song Li of the Ministry of Works was in Sichuan and other places, Jin Chun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Punishment, Shi Kui, the right attendant of the bureau, was collected in Huguang, the left shilang of the household department was gupu in Jiangxi, and The imperial history Liu Guan was in Zhejiang, and the senator Chai Che was in charge of Fujian. Because the amount of wood needed was too large, the emperor ordered it to be raised in Yungui, Jiaotong (Vietnam) and other places. A large amount of high-quality wood is found in deep mountains and old forests, and people are rare, so the mining of wood is difficult.
After the timber was harvested, but the transportation technology was backward at that time, how was the timber transported to Beijing, thanks to the hard work and wisdom of the ancient working people, the timber was eventually sent to Beijing through the river.
The Forbidden City has not decayed for 600 years, and one of the main reasons is the selection of wood, the wood of the Forbidden City is selected from high-quality wood, and the selected wood is nan wood, fir wood, and juniper wood.
It is because of this that the extremely precious golden silk nan wood was cut down in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the high quality of the wood determines that it is not easy to be corroded, such as the golden silk nan wood, a good golden silk nan wood grows for about two hundred years, and its wood texture is very hard, and it is not afraid of flooding and insects and rats.
And the craftsmen at that time would brush the wood with thick paint, which made the wood more protective. The Forbidden City still exists today, and it is also related to the excellent construction technology at that time, when the craftsmen fully considered the drainage problem of the Forbidden City, so the Forbidden City is not easy to accumulate water, so the wood will not be soaked in water, so it is difficult to be corroded.
In addition to the above aspects, the non-perishable Forbidden City is also closely related to the geographical location, located in the north, very dry and well ventilated, and the climate is also very cold, insects and ants are difficult to survive, so naturally will not find trouble in the Forbidden City.
And the Forbidden City as the Ming and Qing Dynasty monarchs lived and worked in the place, each generation of emperors may repair and maintain it, to the third generation of Kang Yongqian is the Forbidden City overhauled, so with such careful maintenance, the degree of preservation of the Forbidden City is of course very good.
Time has entered the modern era, we have also carried out many repairs to the Forbidden City, and set up a special department to do the maintenance of the Forbidden City, now the feudal monarch has long moved out of the Forbidden City, the Forbidden City is not a private thing, but belongs to the country belongs to the nation, the Forbidden City as a museum for people to visit and learn, the Forbidden City as a witness to history, let us see the glory of that era.