Mencius said: "Nourishing the heart is not good at widowhood." ”
Mencius's meaning of this sentence is that the best way to cultivate the mind is to reduce desire. It is precisely because of this sentence that there is a palace in the Forbidden City, called the "Hall of Nourishing Hearts". Built in 1406 during the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City, which employed millions of migrant workers and was completed in 1420, is a magnificent palace with a history of more than 600 years.
Among them, the Yangxin Hall was the most favored place for the Qing Emperors, and a total of 8 emperors of the Qing Dynasty lived in this Yangxin Hall successively. About the Forbidden City, there have always been many legends, and the Yangxin Hall is a strange place, the Forbidden City is located in the northern part of the mainland, the local climate is relatively dry, no more than the Jiangnan water town, and in the great Forbidden City, the Yangxin Hall is particularly cold and humid, why is this?
To understand the Yangxin Hall, you must first understand the Forbidden City, which is a royal palace, after two dynasties, when it was built, it was extremely particular about the feng shui pattern, and every door of the Forbidden City and every palace revealed mysteries everywhere. For people who do not understand feng shui, the most emotional thing is the grandeur of the ancient building of the Forbidden City.
Since ancient times, the guoshi have predicted auspiciousness through astrology, and the purple weiyuan in this astrology is located in the middle of the sky, which represents the place where the heavenly emperor lives, in order to correspond to this, so the Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City. Not only is this big pattern exquisite, but even a nail in the Forbidden City has to pay attention to yin and yang gossip.
But what is puzzling is that in the Forbidden City, shouldn't the Yangxin Hall where the Son of Heaven lives should not be full of masculinity? Why is it cold and humid? Before the scientific explanation was obtained, and there was no abnormal discovery, there were all kinds of speculations, and even some people associated the cold and damp with supernatural events, and even spread more and more evil.
However, this is a society that believes in science, and the average person will think that this aspect can be understood, but scientists will always find out and give the truth, the Yangxin Hall is so special, probably because there is something different in architecture, from the structural point of view, the Yangxin Hall belongs to the "gong" glyph, using yellow glazed tiles, the top of the mountain. However, from the perspective of building materials and building structures, these cannot make the Yangxin Hall wet and cold, so there may be other mysteries.
The cause of indoor air humidity, if not air circulation entrained, then it is the underground seepage, the former may have been completely ruled out, then only the latter is waiting to be verified, so the experts pried open the floor tiles, and sure enough, in this place found the mechanism, the original under this ancient palace is also buried in the water pipe, which is incredible.
The role of these water pipes is to regulate the temperature in the house, in the summer, these waters are cold, and in the winter, these waters are warm, these water pipes make the Yangxin Temple can play a role in warming in winter and cool in summer, which is more environmentally friendly than the current air conditioner. When the emperor is in charge of official business inside, even in the summer, he will not be so hot that he just wants to take a nap, and in the winter, it is like there is a floor heater, and he is not afraid of being too cold to write.
As a modern person who accepts scientific knowledge, when he encounters something that is difficult to explain, he thinks about the metaphysics of ghosts and gods, and I have to say that it is not until the truth is revealed that it is that everyone underestimated the wisdom of the ancients.
Ancient buildings are more magical also in Zhejiang Baoguo Temple, this temple is located in the southern part of the mainland, the south is rainy, the weather is humid, especially in the rainy season, many people have to mold at home, but the Baoguo Temple is built in a special way, for many years the temple has never appeared moldy phenomenon, after identification, the air in the temple is dry, shocking.