Speaking of the Forbidden City, that is, the Forbidden City, everyone must be familiar with it, as a palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has a history of more than 600 years. Especially in most of the remade Qing Palace dramas today, they are basically filmed in the Forbidden City, which also has a certain impression of the Forbidden City for some people who have not been to the Forbidden City.
Most people's evaluation of the Forbidden City is almost one word: big. In fact, the Forbidden City is indeed one of the largest ancient buildings today, and it is precisely because of its grandeur and grandeur that it is famous all over the world. In ancient times, many ordinary people from commoner families dreamed of entering the palace, women wanted to enter the palace as concubines, and men wanted to enter the palace as guards, but this could only be a dream after all. In ancient times, the Forbidden City did not exist guards all the time, and the same is true, how many people have never stepped into the Forbidden City in their lifetime.
In recent years, the Forbidden City has slowly begun to open to the outside world, so every year tourists from all over the world who come to Beijing will definitely go to the Forbidden City to see and feel its magnificence. If we see the Forbidden City for ourselves, we will definitely be conquered by its majesty.
In that era of underdeveloped technology, every brick and tile of the Forbidden City needed to be completed by manpower, and every palace in the Forbidden City was extremely exquisitely designed, and their grades were also well divided. In particular, the forbidden city building uses unique wood and the golden splendor of the palace to highlight the royal dignity.
Every emperor in ancient times had strict requirements for the architecture of the Forbidden City, so that the Forbidden City could be preserved intact for more than 600 years after the baptism of time. When everyone laments the fine architecture of the Forbidden City, they may overlook a feature, every palace in the Forbidden City has almost no birds on the roof, and there has been no bird droppings for more than six hundred years. Why is that?
For such a phenomenon, some experts have made an explanation after research, and the reasons for this are even more amazing, and the wisdom of the ancients is infinite! The ancient emperors and ministers and construction workers must have taken this into account, so the materials they used in construction were more special.
This material is also very precious, the emperor is afraid that the birds will always stay on the roof to leave bird droppings, so he let the construction workers choose the best material, extremely smooth, if the birds want to stay on it, the friction is too small, it is not stable at all.
Not only that, we can also see in the TV series of the Qing Dynasty that the shape of the roof of the Forbidden City Palace is pointed, moreover, each palace occupies a large area, and the roof must have a certain slope, which is also very unfavorable to the perching of birds.
Although the chance of bird droppings appearing on the roof is extremely small, it is not completely impossible, and the royal family will have a special officer to clean the palace and regularly clean up all parts of the palace. In this way, even if there is bird droppings on the roof, it can be cleaned up in time.
For more than 600 years, the various reasons why the Forbidden City has been well preserved are breathtaking. In the architecture of the Forbidden City, we can not only feel the ideas and concepts of the ancient royals, but also fully feel the infinite wisdom of the ancients for these architectural problems. It is precisely because of the hard work of the ancient working people and the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people that we can still feel the grandeur of the Forbidden City today, more than 600 years later.