After more than 15 days of work, under the cleaning and restoration of German experts, the black moss on the noon gate of the Gate of the Forbidden City in Hue, Vietnam has been cleaned up, restoring the original appearance of the Hue Noon Gate when it was built 186 years ago, reproducing the majesty of the emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty in the past.
In the early 19th century, in the early years of the first emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, Jia Long, established the imperial city in the south of the Nguyen Dynasty capital city of Fuchun, and built the South Que Tai in the front and center of the imperial city, and built the Qianyuan Hall on it. The left and right doors are two, the left end door, there is a (right) end door, and there is a civil office on the left and a military office on the right. Later, the Nguyen Dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam, inherited the ideas of the southern and northern emperors of the Vietnamese dynasties, the southern and northern emperors refer to the division of the Chinese world into the north and south, the Chinese dynasty is the northern dynasty, and the Vietnamese dynasty is the southern dynasty, all of which are Huaxia orthodox. By the time of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the Vietnamese said that the Manchu Qing dynasty was the Xiongnu emperor, and the real China was Vietnam. All the systems of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam at that time were imitating the imperial scale of the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as the successive monarchs of the Nguyen Dynasty were called Emperor Jieyuan, and the second largest emperor set the name of "Great South", and after becoming strong, the Ming Dynasty began to expand the imperial city, and this imperial city was imitating the pattern of the Forbidden City of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1833), the Ming Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty ordered the former South Que Tai to be rebuilt into the Noon Gate, with the Chinese character Noon Gate written on the middle and upper, and the left and right Gate Two, and the left and right Que Gate Two, the door was built on the Five Phoenix Tower, with the left and right courtyards to be leaked, and then this reconstructed Noon Gate was used as the main gate of the Imperial City of the Nguyen Dynasty. The afternoon gate of the reconstructed Hue Imperial Palace in Vietnam is made of granite and is supported by a total of 100 wooden pillars, of which 48 penetrate from the lower level to the upper level. The Noon Gate imitates the "Five Phoenix Tower" built at the Noon Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, only the middle tower is covered with yellow tiles, and the others are paved with green tiles, and the ancient Nguyen Emperor will preside over the official ceremony in the central city tower, laying yellow tiles to show honor.
The Hue Noon Gate is a model of the Noon Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, and it is said that Emperor Ming sent craftsmen to Beijing to draw and investigate in order to build the Noon Gate. The Noon Gate of Beijing City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was the south gate of the Forbidden City, while the south gate of the Forbidden City of Hue was the Grand Palace Gate, and the Hue Noon Gate was the south gate of the entire Imperial City of the Nguyen Dynasty. The "Noon Gate" of the Hue Imperial Palace in Vietnam is the most exquisite building in the architecture of the Hue Imperial City, witnessing the most brilliant period of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam, witnessing the history of Vietnam becoming a French colony, and the place where the last emperor of Vietnam, Bao The Great, announced his abdication, and witnessed the end of the Vietnamese monarchy.
In the Vietnam-French War in 1947, the Noon Gate was one of the only remaining Nguyen Dynasty buildings, and the City Tower of the Noon Gate was badly damaged in the Vietnam War and repaired after the victory of the war. After the reunification of the north and south of Vietnam, the Hue Noon Gate and the Hue Imperial City became Vietnam's first World Cultural Heritage Site in the 1990s because of their unique historical value.
In recent years, Vietnam has restored the Hue Imperial Palace with the help of Japan and Germany, and Japanese experts have first helped Vietnam rebuild the dilapidated Noon Gate Tower, which covers glazed tiles. The entire building recreates the momentum of the former emperor's mansion.