If you mention China's tourist attractions, the Forbidden City in Beijing definitely ranks first, as the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it covers an area of 720,000 square meters, including more than 70 large and small palaces, more than 9,000 houses, which can be described as "the essence of ancient Chinese court architecture". And among these many palaces and houses, there are many mysterious buildings, and today we are going to talk about one of them.
It leans on The North Ningshou Palace, the south is bordered by Gyeongbokgung Palace, and the six rooms in the east and west are respectively dedicated to a large pagoda with filigree enamel, and the pagoda has a large thangka on three sides of the pagoda, and 54 statues of the protector of the Dharma, and this pavilion is called the Fanhua Building. Its architectural style is typical of the "Liupin Buddha Building", in fact, there are more than one such Buddhist building in the imperial palace, but they are either destroyed by fire or destroyed, only the Fanhua Building has been completely preserved.
In fact, this is inseparable from Qianlong, Qianlong thirty-seven years, Qianlong daxing civil engineering to rebuild Ningshou Palace, for himself to become the Empress Taishang to enjoy the old age, considering that the residence needs to be quiet and private, he also built the Fanhua Building in the northeast corner of Ningshou Palace, and decreed: Ningshou Palace is a place for retirement, you must not move around. After that, the FanhuaLou was not touched until Qianlong's death, and it was not until the Guangxu period that there were records of the Fanhualou, which was the last time it appeared in the historical materials of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1926, after the QingMu Aftermath Committee officially counted the cultural relics in the Fanhua Building and confirmed that it was no different from the archives, the Fanhua Building became the warehouse of the Forbidden City and was sealed. Because of its remote location, it luckily escaped the looting of the Japanese army invading China, the eight-power alliance war of aggression against China, and the "Cultural Revolution" and other cultural relics disasters, and for nearly half a century, the cultural relics in the Fanhua Building have been preserved intact.
In the late 1980s, the staff of the Palace Museum finally tore off the seal and opened the long-sealed door in order to study Tibetan Buddhist relics. When they stepped inside the door, the air was dusty, as if the sun could no longer shine in, and the solemn nature of the relics was also obscured by a thick layer of dust. Since then, there has been a tradition: every time you push open the door of the Fanhua Building, you must shout , "Open the door, disturb you!" In fact, there is a certain superstition in this way, it is said that the house that no one has entered for a long time, especially the Forbidden City, which is an ancient building that has been hundreds of years old, shouting is also afraid of disturbing the former dynasty, but this kind of thing is also believed, and there is no belief.