"The Chicken Man reported the chips, and Shang Yi Fang entered the Cui Yun Qiu." Nine days opened the palace, and all the nations were crowned with crowns. After the early dynasty, Wang Wei, a top celebrity of the Tang Dynasty, looked at the Daming Palace, which was known as the palace of a thousand palaces and the oriental temple of the Silk Road, and did not issue this sigh.
So why did the Tang Dynasty rebuild the Daming Palace when it already had the Taiji Palace? It all starts with a dark night...
On the fourth gengshen day of the first month of June of the ninth year of Wude (July 2, 626 AD), Li Shimin, the king of Qin, launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and after Li Shimin successfully ascended the throne, he began to listen to the government at Taiji Palace.
Because the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty at that time only had taiji palaces and no second palace to go to, Li Yuan, who was forced to abdicate, still lived in taiji palaces as emperor taishang.
The Sui Empire built Chang'an City under the guidance of the Qiangua theory of Zhou Yi. The genius builder Yu Kai chose the corresponding ground to build the monarch's palace by the purple microstar in the celestial phenomenon surrounded by stars.
However, he calculated the heavens and the earth, but he did not calculate the location of the Taiji Palace and was stuck in the lowest-lying area of Chang'an City, which was humid and hot during the summer rainstorms, and the user experience was very poor.
Moreover, according to historical records, in his later years, Li Yuan was depressed, never asked about political affairs, and indulged in pipa playing all day. In 623, Emperor Taizong wanted to take his father to Jiucheng Palace (present-day Baoji
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Relax in the heat.
However, it has long been rumored in Chang'an City that Yang Jian was killed by Yang Guang at Jiucheng Palace, which made Li Yuan, who had witnessed his sons killing each other for power, reluctant to accompany him.
Seeing that his father was so sad physically and mentally, Emperor Taizong was also sleeping soundly.
So an official named Ma Zhou suggested that Emperor Taizong build a new palace for Emperor Taishang in the north of Chang'an City, "in preparation for the summer", in order to "say that the hope of all parties is great, and filial piety is great."
After two years of preparation, the site was selected "Longshouyuan" and named "Yong'an Palace", which was intended to ask the Emperor Taishang to be Yong'antai. A huge project began.
In the spring of the ninth year of Zhenguan (635 AD), watching a large number of craftsmen and outstanding architects gather in Chang'an, they began to build a large number of civil engineering in the northeast direction, and Emperor Taizong sincerely hoped that his father would be able to recover from the dragon body and enjoy eternal happiness.
Unfortunately, the project lasted only half a year, Li Yuan passed away, and then the construction of the Yong'an Palace came to an abrupt end, and it was renamed Daming Palace.
No one would have thought that this shutdown would be 27 years. It was not until Emperor Taizong's death and Gaozong Li Zhi succeeded to the throne that daming palace appeared in people's field of vision again. In the second year of Long Shuo (662 AD),
Due to the long-term residence in the humid and hot Taiji Palace, Gaozong, who was only 35 years old, suffered from "wind disease", coupled with his poor health, so located in Longshouyuan, the cool climate of Daming Palace Highlands, got Li Zhi's attention.
Once again, tens of thousands of craftsmen gathered in the northeast direction of Chang'an City, and the construction of daming palace began again. The overseer of the entire project is named Liang Xiaoren, and the person in charge of engineering design is Yan Liben.
Due to the urgent needs of the emperor, the work was carried out very quickly. In 664, on the first day of the first lunar month, imperial officials entered from the main gate of daming palace, the Danfeng Gate.
It is facing the square with a depth of 630 meters, and at the end of the square is the main hall - the Hanyuan Hall. Located on a three-story platform, the temple foundation is fifteen meters above the ground, and on the east and west sides are tall que towers, such as Xiangluan Pavilion and Qifeng Pavilion, and two ramps have been built for the convenience of officials to go up to the court, called Longwei Road:"
And then look up, the head of the dragon and the wings of the phoenix; retreat to look at it, and the tree is upside down and the clouds are at the end. ”
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It became the largest of the three main palaces in Tang Chang'an City, the "Three Great Interiors" (Daming Palace, Taiji Palace, and Xingqing Palace), called "Dongnei".
It has three major halls including the Yuan Hall, the Xuanzheng Hall, and the Purple Palace Hall, more than 30 pavilions of several other halls, and the magnificent Tailiu Pond. It was described by Cen Shan as: "Jin Que Xiao Zhong opened ten thousand households, and the Jade Rank Immortals supported thousands of officials".
Since then, the center of power of Datang has shifted from taiji palace to daming palace covering an area of 350 hectares. During the Xuanzong period, in order to facilitate himself to wander between daming palace and Xingqing palace, in the fourteenth year of the new century (726 AD), he built the Jiacheng Fudao, starting from the East Palace Wall of Daming Palace in the north and the East Guo City Wall of Tang Chang'an City in the south, and reaching Xingqing Palace.
Du Mu's "Six Flying South Luck Furong Garden, Ten Miles of Fragrant Fragrance into the Sandwich City" is written in this sandwich road.
Since Emperor Gaozong of Tang, 17 Tang emperors have handled the government here, which lasted for more than 200 years. Until 880 AD, Huang Chao's army captured Chang'an, and the Daming Palace was badly damaged in the war, and the Hanyuan Hall and the Linde Hall were burned down. And in the next ten years, Daming Palace suffered several devastating blows.
In 904, Zhu Wen burned down the houses and palaces in Chang'an, and the Daming Palace was completely reduced to ruins.
From the date of its completion, Daming Palace survived for 222 years.
Wei Zhuang's "Qin Women's Yin" entered a bustling city, how it became a ruin: Huaxuan embroidered hubs were scattered, and there was no half of the Jia Di Zhu Men. The inner library was burned to splendid ashes, and the heavenly street trampled the bones of the secretary of state.
Sunset Daming Palace, the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty are approaching. At the end of the tenth century AD, the Tang Empire came to an end.
In 2010, the Daming Palace National Heritage Park established in Xi'an City on the original site of Daming Palace was opened.
The phoenix nirvana was reproduced and the fire was reborn. Looking at daming palace today, while lamenting the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it is still full of tears for the peak period of Chinese civilization.