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Modern Express (reporter Chu Xihao, Hu Yumei) The Jinshui River corresponds to the Milky Way in the sky; the Punishment Department, the Inspectorate, and the Dali Temple, which are in charge of justice, correspond to the stars in the sky... On new Year's Day, the Nanjing City Wall Museum is full every day, attracting Nanjing citizens to punch cards. In the museum, the multimedia display of the "Capital City Planning, Like Heaven and Earth" section makes the citizens feel fresh.
At that time, when Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital city of Nanjing, did he really have a great layout and hide a heavenly opportunity? The Modern Express reporter interviewed relevant experts.
△ Nanjing City Wall Museum
Purple Micro Wall in the sky, Ming Forbidden City on the ground
In the heavens, in the earth.
△ "Celestial Signs and Cities" exhibition area
In ancient times, Our country divided the starry sky into three walls and four like twenty-eight stars. The "three walls" are Ziweiyuan, Taiweiyuan, and Tianshiyuan. Among them, Ziweiyuan is the "Middle Palace", named after the North Star (Purple Micro Star), which is considered to be the lord of the stars and represents the Emperor Star. According to the celestial signs, ziweiyuan is equivalent to the imperial palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor who paid attention to feng shui and public opinion, not only set up a stargazing tower, but also set up two Qin Tianjian in the south and a north to observe the heavens. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered the feng shui master who understood celestial phenomena, Yushi Liu Ji and others to revise the "Book of Astronomical Divisions of the Great Ming and Qing Dynasties".
Where is the Royal Palace located? Zhu Yuanzhang and his courtiers, under the guidance of the idea of "like heaven and earth", corresponded the imperial palace to the purple micro wall in the sky, and the moat Jinshui River corresponded to the milky way in the sky...
The most important buildings of the Imperial Palace are the Three Great Halls of The Fengtian Hall, the Canopy Hall, and the Hall of The Body. Their name also hides the "Celestial Machine". Located just north of the Fengtian Gate, the Fengtian Hall is the core building in Miyagi Castle, where the emperor ascended the throne and accepted the ceremony of the Wenwu Hundred Officials, commonly known as the "Golden Ruan Hall". The reason why it was named Fengtian Temple is to emphasize that "Fengtian" needs to act in accordance with the laws of "Heaven" and cannot rely on one's own selfish desires.
The "prudent body" of the temple means that the ruler acts according to the mandate of heaven, so he must be careful and diligent.
△ Canopy star in the purple micro wall
"Canopy" refers to the umbrella cover on the imperial car, corresponding to the canopy star of the Ziweiyuan Five Emperors Inner Constellation. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Huagai Hall was a place for the emperor to take a nap before heading to the Fengtian Temple. Every Spring Festival, the winter solstice and the emperor's birthday, it is necessary to first accept the visits of cabinet ministers and court deacons before going to the Fengtian Hall to receive pilgrimages from hundreds of officials. After the hundred officials had finished their performances, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a banquet at the Fengtian Gate or the Huagai Hall and the Wuying Hall to reward the hundred officials.
△ Miyagi and Imperial Castle in the Hongwu Capital City Atlas
There is a "through the rope" star in the sky, and there is a city on the ground
Experts from the Nanjing City Wall Protection and Management Center said that not only the imperial palace in the early Ming Dynasty corresponded to the stars in the sky, but also the stars in the sky, including the Nanjing City Wall.
△ The star of the sky in the city wall
The "Three Walls" in the heavens symbolize the bazaar. In the TianshiYuan, there are nine stars surrounding it, and the arc-shaped semi-encircling structure is the Guansuo Star, symbolizing the Heavenly Prison.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the central government office inside the Zhengyang Gate in the east of the capital, distributed along both sides of Yudao Street. The exception is the office in sole control of justice. At that time, the Punishment Department, the Inspectorate, and the Dali Temple were located outside the Taiping Gate and were named "Guancheng".
This is also set up in imitation of the Heavenly Dao. Zhu Yuanzhang held that if there is no star in the sky, it means that the criminal law on earth is proper and the official in charge of the prison is fair and competent; if there is a star, it means that there is an unjust case; if the star in the rope is very bright, it means that there are important people who are not guilty and imprisoned.
△There are many tourists in the Nanjing City Wall Museum
The heavens are south of the Big Dipper, and the walls of the city are on the ground
Of course, the most legendary is the Nanjing City Wall.
Some people say that the Nanjing city wall is surrounded by Zhu Yuanzhang's "horse face"; some people say that the Nanjing city wall is "shaped in the shape of a non-square, non-round, irregular, multi-angle unequal woven rice dumpling"; others say that the Nanjing city wall along the imperial city, commercial district, military district "surrounded by twists and turns with the terrain, its total plane is narrow in the northwest, wide in the east and west, and in the shape of a palace fan"...
In this exhibition, a multimedia presentation shows the views of Yang Guoqing, a scholar of the Nanjing City Wall. In 1999, Yang Guoqing proposed that the shape of the nanjing capital city wall is mainly imitated by the projection of cosmic celestial phenomena, and combined with the historical background at that time, the special geographical conditions of Nanjing's hills, rivers and lakes, and the use of Nanjing's old city walls and military defense, the floor plan of the Nanjing city wall is the aggregation of "Nandou Star" and "Big Dipper Star".
This view of Yang Guoqing also represents the views of some experts and scholars. They believe that this is also the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's "imperial power" realizing the integration with China's thousands of years of "seeing the heavens and the earth" to create city walls.