The Forbidden City has now become a famous tourist attraction in China. The reason why it is called the Forbidden City is because it was once the "imperial palace" where the imperial family lived during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. The construction of the Forbidden City began in the Ming Dynasty
Yongle years.
Beijing, known as Beiping in ancient times. Before the Ming Dynasty, Beijing had been the main battlefield between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Northern Wangs. Beijing is located in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which was occupied by the northern ethnic minorities for a long time during the Song Dynasty, and by virtue of this strategic advantage, the northern ethnic minorities completed hundreds of years of military suppression of the Song Dynasty, and eventually led to the collapse of the Song Dynasty. This shows the importance of Beijing's strategic location.
A corner of the Forbidden City
During the Yuan Dynasty, this place was once used as a place
Most of the Yuan Dynasty
。 It was an important frontier position for the Yuan Dynasty to rule the Central Plains. In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang led an army from south to north to defeat the Yuan army. General
Xu Da
Conquered Peiping in one fell swoop,
Yanyun Sixteen States
After being ceded by Shi Jingyao, after more than 400 years, he finally returned to Han rule again.
Since Ming Taizu was emperor in Nanjing, Nanjing naturally became the capital city in the early Ming Dynasty. However, for the capital city of Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang was never satisfied. An overview of the history of our country is not difficult to find.
The truly unified dynasties in history have mostly been centered in the north. Therefore, during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he wanted to move the capital many times.
Nourish the heart
He successively inspected his hometown of Fengyang and Bieliang, which had once been the capital of the Song Dynasty, but eventually gave up because the local area had been in war and was in ruins. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the eldest grandson
Zhu Yunjiao
Succeeded to the throne, his uncle
Zhu Di
launch
"The Battle of Jing"
The seizure of power is for
Yongle Emperor
。
Since Zhu Di originated from Beijing, after becoming emperor, Zhu Di began to move the capital, and finally, in the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421 AD), Zhu Di officially moved the capital to Beiping.
Changed Beiping to Jingshi
。 Since then, the Forbidden City has undergone several expansions and reconstructions, but it has generally maintained its original appearance.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Forbidden City has become a famous tourist attraction in the country, welcoming a large number of tourists every year. However, something unusual always happens in the Forbidden City. Like what
The Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City has been cold and damp for many years
Whether the outside weather is cloudy or sunny, rainy summer or dry winter, nothing has changed here. Such a strange phenomenon has puzzled people for a long time.
It wasn't until a renovation of the Yangxin Hall that the mystery was finally solved.
Interior view of the Yangxin Hall
As we all know, the Forbidden City already exists
600 years
Over time, many of these structures have aged. In order to make the cultural heritage of the Forbidden City last for a long time, the staff organizes renovation work every year. As mentioned above, the Yangxin Hall is cold and damp all year round, and the wooden doors and windows here are also the most susceptible to moisture deformation, so they should be repaired frequently.
In the process of a new repair, the staff decided to completely solve the problem of cold and damp in the Yangxin Temple.
So the experts pried open the floor tiles of the Forbidden City, which did not look unknown, and they were surprised by the staff involved in the maintenance, and they were deeply impressed by the wisdom of the ancestors.
In recent years, various kinds of Qing palace dramas have been on fire, which has also set off a wave of enthusiasm for understanding the history of the Qing Dynasty. Through these Qing Palace dramas, we can know that the Yangxin Hall is generally the place where the emperor works, which is equivalent to the emperor's office. In ancient times, in order to facilitate the office, many times the emperor lived directly here. It can be said that this is the emperor's second residence. So since the emperor has to live here all year round, why is it still so cold and wet? Aren't you afraid that the emperor will get sick?
In order to solve this problem, the experts decided to start at the source and stop focusing on the regular
Moisture deformed
of the wood, but began to look for reasons from the floor. After the staff pried open some of these floor tiles, they made a surprising discovery.
It turned out that under the floor tiles of the Forbidden City's Yangxin Hall was not solid, but covered with crisscrossing pipes. It is the residual water vapor in these pipes that has caused the perennial dampness and coldness of the Forbidden City, so the question is, what are these pipes for?
Pipes under floor tiles
After consulting a large amount of information, the experts came to their conclusions.
These pipes are the ancient floor heating system. In ancient times, science and technology were not developed, and there were not many measures to keep warm, in order to ensure that the emperor was not frozen when he was working, the craftsmen at that time came up with this method. By injecting circulating hot water into the pipes, the Yangxin Hall can be kept warm even in winter.
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When they learned of this news, the staff could not help but feel a sense of admiration and were impressed by the wisdom of the ancestors.
In the ancient society with backward technology, the ancient craftsmen exerted their wisdom to the extreme, and finally created this miracle that was hundreds of years ahead of the world. This also fully proves that the Chinese nation is a nation full of creativity and a nation with an infinite bright future.
Resources:
"Ming Shi Taizu Benji"
Geography of Ming History