I think that the palace museum in China and notre dame in Paris are the same in terms of cultural relics, and they are irreplaceable cultural treasures in the history of human civilization. However, in terms of the number and scale of the complex, the Forbidden City has more than 9,000 rooms and ten Notre Dame Cathedrals are not as good as one Forbidden City.
We can explore and analyze the properties of the building, its historicity, and the value of the artifacts in its collection.
The first is the historicity of these two buildings. We can start from the time when these two buildings were built, as well as the characters who built around this building and the history involved.
The history of the establishment of the Palace Museum is that the Palace Museum was built on the basis of the Forbidden City in modern times in 1925. The history of the Forbidden City can be traced back to 1406, during the Reign of Emperor Ming Chengzu Yongle.
At that time, we all know that Zhu Yuanzhang initially set the capital at Nanjing, but after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he was not very interested in Nanjing, so in the 14th year of Yongle, he summoned the ministers at that time, and then discussed with them about moving the capital, at that time, there were many people who adhered to the ancestral precepts did not agree, so Zhu Di ordered the punishment of these ministers, so that no one dared to oppose it anymore.
By the 15th year of Yongle, Zhu Di ordered craftsmen to imitate the appearance of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and then began to build a new capital city in Beijing, and in the 18th year of Yongle, the Beijing Imperial Palace and the Beijing City were built. The Beijing Imperial Palace is modeled on the Nanjing Imperial Palace, the scale is slightly larger, and the newly built Beijing City has a circumference of 45 miles, forming a regular square, in line with the shape of the ideal capital city in the Zhou Li Examination Workers' Record. It conforms to the architectural form of the central axis of the Confucian concept.
After the establishment of the capital, Zhu Di ordered the official relocation of the capital, and then began an era of Beijing as the political center of the country.
Notre Dame de Paris was built much earlier than the Forbidden City in Beijing, and in 1160, when the bishop of Paris began to plan the establishment of Notre Dame de Paris, and in 1163 the foundation stone began, so that the era of notre dame construction officially began, and the building was built for more than 200 years, until 1345.
On the site of Notre Dame, there used to be several churches, but due to poor maintenance, the church was in ruins, and the bishop at that time, Annhes de Suri in 1160, began to build a plan for Notre Dame.
The second is the nature and function of these two buildings.
Judging from the process of their construction of the two buildings we have mentioned earlier and the historical events related to their construction, Notre Dame de Paris is a church of a public nature, while the Forbidden City is the place where the rulers of the era of Chinese totalitarian rule lived and lived, the former was of a religious nature, and the latter had a certain ruling function.
Judging from the nature of the building and its role and function, although Notre Dame belonged to the church at that time, it had a certain public nature, that is, it was a place for the people to pray and carry out religious activities at that time, and his posture at the beginning was for the general public, and it was a religious building church about the people. This partly determined his pro-people nature, as well as its position among French civilians at the time and later in France, so much attention was drawn when Notre Dame was burned down.
The Forbidden City in China, on the other hand, was the private property of the emperor at that time.
The reason why we say this is because we all know that there is such a sentence: Under the whole world, there can be no royal land, and the coast of the land can be the shore of the land, and there can be no royal subjects.
What he meant was that everything under the heavens belonged to the emperor, all the property under the world belonged to the emperor, and all the talents in the world belonged to the emperor.
Then where the emperor lived, the emperor's house naturally belonged to the emperor's private property.
In this sense, including the Yuanmingyuan, it does not have public attributes, it has a certain degree of exclusivity and privacy, and it is the private garden of the royal family at that time and the place where the royal family lived and lived.
We all know that the Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City, why is it called the Forbidden City?
Purple means the color that represents purple, and in ancient times, purple is the highest status of all colors, symbolizing unlimited imperial power, if red represents power, then the red purple purple represents the supreme power, forbidden is forbidden, the reason why it is forbidden, because this is the place where the emperor lives, it is not allowed to live here and other commoners.
So this is very different from Notre Dame cathedral as a church at that time.
The Palace Museum, which has been preparing for construction since 1925, although it is organized and constructed on the basis of the Forbidden City, but its positioning from the beginning is a museum with cultural education and history, so it belongs to a public nature and a place of close to the people and an educational nature, as a museum, to a certain extent, the private mansions of the Forbidden City have become the common cultural heritage of all the people.
Finally, from the perspective of the value of cultural relics.
Let's first talk about the value of architecture, the Forbidden City needless to say, the Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters, the construction area is 15 square meters, there are more than 9,000 rooms, which to a certain extent determines the Forbidden City complex is China, but also the world's largest and most complete preservation of the ancient architectural complex.
In terms of quantity, ten Notre Dame Cathedrals are also inferior to one Forbidden City.
The architectural complex of the Forbidden City very clearly shows the architectural culture in traditional Chinese culture and the confucian idea of moderation, highlighting the solemnity and inviolability of imperial power.
And Notre Dame de Paris is a church, the public nature is the most important object of expression, it was built in the European medieval period, so its architectural style is a typical Gothic style, this architectural style is more perfect to show the culture of the medieval period and the level of architecture at that time.
Therefore, these two buildings, whether they are in the historical longevity, their value to the people at that time, and later in the sense of the history of architectural relics, they are the treasures of human historical civilization.