The Book of the Later Han Dynasty states that "there is a purple micro palace in the heavens, which is the dwelling place of God." The king establishes the palace, and the elephant does it. ”
In China's myths and legends, Ziwei Palace is the place where the Heavenly Emperor lives, and the emperor on the ground is "Tianzi", and its residence also corresponds to the Heavenly Emperor, so the imperial palace is synonymous with Ziwei, Ziyuan, Purple Palace, etc., such as sui tang Luoyang Palace is called "Ziwei City".
In the early Ming Dynasty, Beijing was originally a fiefdom of Zhu Di, the son of Ming Taizu, and in 1403, Zhu Di won the victory in the Battle of Jingnan and ascended to the throne as Ming Chengzu (Jiajing Emperor was previously called Ming Taizong, Jiajing Emperor was later Ming Chengzu), and decided to move the capital, Yongle four years (1406), Zhu Di ordered the Nanjing Imperial Palace as a model to build the Beijing Imperial Palace and city walls.
In the fifteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di moved to Beijing with his harem concubines and civil and military officials, and in the same year, he recruited craftsmen from all over the country to continue the construction of the project, and the 18-year-old craftsman Qu Xiang served as the designer of the major project of the imperial palace. He spent 40 years in Beijing, serving as the Yongle Emperor, the Hongxi Emperor, and the Zhengtong Emperor, and was responsible for building the Chengtian Gate, the main gate of the palace, and the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe, and Baohe.
Later, after the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne, the palace in Beijing was renamed the "Forbidden City", "Purple" is still the residence corresponding to the Heavenly Emperor, and "Forbidden" is because the emperor's residence belongs to the forbidden land and ordinary people cannot enter, so it is named.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Chengtian Gate was burned down again, and the Ming Dynasty seemed to have ended in this fire, in 1651, the Shunzhi Emperor ordered the reconstruction, the main entrance of the palace was 33.7 meters, 9 rooms wide, and 5 deep rooms, to show the dignity of the emperor, renamed Tiananmen.
The Forbidden City witnessed the rise and fall of the Ming and Qing dynasties, after the end of the Qing Dynasty, in October 1925, the Palace Museum was established, after which it was called the "Forbidden City", and people also found that there was an arrow inserted in the plaque located in Longzongmen. Why is there an arrow inserted here, and no emperor has dared to pull it out? Who shot it?
Historians have studied the relevant history and found the answer to all this. During the Jiaqing period, there was a man named Lin Qing, his father was a scrivener of the Inspection Department of The South Road, but Lin Qing's life was full of twists and turns, running for his livelihood all day, he had done a lot of work, and seeing that there was no way out, Lin Qing was introduced by his brother-in-law to the Longhua Society, and the Longhua Society was a branch of the Hongyang Sect in the Gyeonggi area.
Soon Lin Qing mixed with the religion, and became the leader of the Longhua Society, and then merged the Kangua Sect and the Xiangxian Zhengua Sect, founded the Tianli Sect, the leader of the Tianli Sect, under the slogan of "anti-Qing uprising", at this time Lin Qing no longer had to worry about not having money, and in order to attract more people to join the religion, Lin Qing generously donated money, declaring to the outside world that "whoever gives money and grain, Xu Qian Li Wencheng (the leader of the Zhen gua Sect) after the completion of the matter, give land acres, official positions, every money hundred wen, Xu land one acre..."
This temptation was very great, so Lin Qing's team instantly expanded by dozens of times, and even the eunuchs in the palace and some flag people joined in, and after Lin Qing's preparations were completed, he launched an action to seize the throne.
In September 1813, the Jiaqing Emperor took the Wenwu Hundred Officials to the Mulan Paddock to hunt, and the heavy soldiers in the palace naturally followed in order to protect the safety of the emperor, so the security in the palace was not very strict, but the Jiaqing Emperor and the group of ministers did not expect that a group of people had entered the Forbidden City, and Lin Qing's rebel army and the Qing soldiers launched a fierce battle, once hitting the Yangxin Hall, during which an arrow was shot on the plaque of the Longzong Gate.
However, Lin Qing did not sit on the throne in the end, and after the failure of the uprising, he was executed by Ling Chi, and the Jiaqing Emperor rushed back after hearing the news, looking at the mess in the palace, and scolded: "How strong I was before the Qing Dynasty, now I am to blame for this matter." ”
In order to remember this humiliating day, the Jiaqing Emperor ordered that no one should be allowed to remove the arrow from the plaque of the Longzong Gate, but this arrow also seems to indicate the decline of the Qing Dynasty and its gradual demise.