Although the Qing Dynasty has been destroyed for more than a hundred years, but the Forbidden City is still well preserved, and now it has been built into a museum, as long as you buy a ticket to enter and visit, the Forbidden City as the world's largest existing royal palace in people's hearts has always been magnificent, I believe that everyone to visit the Forbidden City is the same feeling, as the palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City has had too much history, especially in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the country is decayed and backward, and the Forbidden City has also experienced humiliation.
The supreme ruler of the late Qing Dynasty was Empress Dowager Cixi, the Guangxu Emperor was only a puppet in her hands, as the supreme decision-maker of the dynasty, in the face of imperialist aggression, Cixi would only cut the land and pay reparations, when she first issued a war letter to the Western powers, as a result, after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, Cixi immediately fled with the Guangxu Emperor and the princely ministers, leaving only Li Hongzhang to negotiate with foreigners, and the Forbidden City also instantly became an empty city, abandoned for many years, here is already decaying grass and yang.
After Cixi fled, a Japanese architect Ito Tadao because of his admiration for Chinese culture and architecture, so he came here to study and visit, especially the Forbidden City has always been his dream, but did not expect that when Ito Tadao arrived at the Forbidden City, it was already dilapidated, people can't believe that this is the imperial palace of a big country, when the Forbidden City was just looted by foreigners, plus the palace women and eunuchs were scattered and fled, there was no one to maintain it, so it was devastated.
Ito Tadano took a lot of photos of the Forbidden City, although it was far from the palace he imagined, but he felt that this was very historical value, so it has been preserved, and now we see these photos again, will we be shocked in our hearts, the vicissitudes of the sea are just a moment in history, watching him rise up the tall building, watching him feast on guests, watching him collapse. Our country has a long history and has had countless glorious moments, but it is really sad that modern history has been humiliated.