In Nanjing, there is a noon gate, also known as the noon gate, which is the highest specification and most important city gate in the Ming Dynasty project in Nanjing, and it is also the south gate of miyagi at that time. He was sitting north facing south, with five city gate holes, lined up in a row, and on both sides were originally concave and glyph-shaped finch towers, just like the noon gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
But this one in Nanjing, because of the war during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, was completely demolished in the late Republic of China, originally, there were five phoenix towers on top of it, which was quite spectacular. When it comes to the noon gate, many people will first think of a sentence, "launch the beheading outside the noon gate." In fact, we are all misled by the writers and directors of these movies and TV series. No emperor in history has ever put a prisoner at the gate of the main gate of his palace to be executed, even if a common man kills a chicken at home, killing a goose will not be placed at the front door of his own home.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang even set up the three divisions, the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the Punishment Department that were adjudicating the case to the Taiping Gate in Nanjing, just outside the capital. In fact, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Xingxing was a special place, that is, Caishikou. In this way, on the one hand, you can stay away from the palace, and on the other hand, you can kill chickens and monkeys.
The status of the Noon Gate is very high, not everyone can walk, especially the middle of this city gate hole, usually only the emperor can pass. Secondly, when the emperor gets married, the empress's luan can go once. In addition, whenever the big examination is held, after the list is released, the top three champions, list eyes, and tanhua of the temple examination can go once, and the princes and nobles, and the civilian officials and military generals with more than three pins can only pass through the four door openings on the left and right sides. In fact, our real role is to promulgate the Emperor's Holy Will, and the place where the Emperor used the staff when he punished his ministers.
This city gate cave is very tall, this height is eight meters, this width is also six meters, and the carved Square Shenwen on the throne of Meru. The grass patterns, the cloud patterns are very, very exquisite, and some of the stones are the clouds left over from the original 600 years ago, and I see the traces of the vicissitudes of time, and the rut marks.
On the top of the city tower, the original ruins of the Five Phoenix Tower, we can see a lot of stone piers, this is the stone pillar foundation of the Five Phoenix Tower, such a thick stone pillar foundation, you can imagine that this Five Phoenix Tower must also be carved beam painting building, into this Five Dynasties Gate, that side is the palace inside. The first palace we can see is the Fengtian Hall, which is where the emperor ascended to the throne. Further after that are the Hall of The Body and the Hall of the Canopy. These three halls correspond to the Taihe Hall, the Zhonghe Hall, and the Bohe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing today.
Although the Forbidden City in Nanjing no longer exists, through this ruins of the Noonday Gate, we can still imagine how brilliant he was back then.