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The floor tiles of the Forbidden City were damaged, and the craftsmen found a "secret" when repairing them, expert: Zhu Dixin was really cruel.
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The golden and brilliant Forbidden City, the Red Wall Palace, the Ten Thousand Gates
As the first of the five major palaces in the world, the Forbidden City is one of the most preserved wooden structures today, and since 1987, the Forbidden City in Beijing has become a member of the World Heritage Site.
In ancient times, there was no advanced technology, and it was possible to build buildings that were still very impressive by manpower alone, and the hardships and financial resources expended were enormous. And as the Forbidden City has been passed down from generation to generation, it also hides many royal secrets.
With the continuous improvement of technology and the continuous disintegration of the feudal system, these secrets have been solved one by one, and now any of us can travel to Beijing to visit this splendid palace.
First, "golden bricks", a piece of 720 days
The most discovered secret in the Forbidden City is the floor tiles, and many people may have heard of the floor tiles in the Forbidden City, but in fact, they are all made of gold bricks. Of course, the meaning of the gold bricks here does not mean that the floor tiles are made of gold, but to describe the overall luxury of the Forbidden City.
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The harmonic sound of ", the golden brick also represents
Kyo bricks
。 This was because zhu di moved the capital of the Ming Dynasty to Beijing when he ascended the throne, so he ordered the construction of the Forbidden City to begin. At that time, the floor tiles in the Forbidden City were manufactured by the Lu mu brick kiln in Suzhou, and since then, the village of this brick kiln has been called the Royal Kiln Village by others, and because it is specially supplied to the capital of Beijing, so people at that time called the floor tiles in the Purple City as Beijing bricks, and after a long time, due to the harmonic reasons, they were called golden bricks by posterity.
At that time, the production process of these floor tiles was also one of the reasons for comparing the bricks with gold, and it was rumored at that time"
One or two gold and one brick or two
" statement. In fact, the manufacturing process of a brick on the surface is extremely complicated, and the time it takes for a brick to take is also very long.
The manufacturing time of a single tile in the Forbidden City takes 720 days, and a total of 7 processes are required. After taking the soil, it is necessary to make all of them into clay, and then remove the bubbles in the clay and a series of processes, which already takes a year and 7 months.
After the clay manufacturing is completed, the brick burning process also takes 5 months, so in general, the manufacturing time of a brick takes about two years.
This shows how expensive the time cost of making a brick is, so it is not an exaggeration to equate it with gold. The bare surface bricks in the Forbidden City took a lot of time and money to make, and later experts discovered a surprising secret in it.
2. 80 million pieces, 15 floors
When the experts overhauled the Forbidden City, they found that there was another layer of floor tiles under the floor tiles in the Forbidden City, which they had never imagined, and after the excavation of the second layer of floor tiles, they found that there was a third layer of floor tiles.
Finally, under their investigation, they found a total of fifteen floor tiles in the entire Forbidden City. From this, it can be seen that the amount of work in the Forbidden City is too large, after the experts' estimation, there are about 80 million floor tiles in the palace, you can imagine how much financial and manpower was spent to build the Forbidden City, and why build fifteen floor tiles, is one floor tile not enough?
The reason for this was that Zhu Di wanted to prevent someone from breaking into his palace by digging tunnels, so he ordered others to build so many layers of floor tiles. Supposedly, the craftsmen who could build such a magnificent palace, and who could build fifteen floor tiles, should be rewarded handsomely, but according to historical records, after the completion of the Forbidden City, Zhu Di had all these craftsmen turned dumb with poison. No wonder some experts can't help but say:
Zhu Di's heart is really fierce!
Until now, it is difficult for people to understand Zhu Di's approach at that time, and this is not his own mausoleum, and it is reasonable to say that there is no need to be so cruel.
epilogue
From this incident, we can see how inhuman the ancient feudal system was, the emperor spent so much money and manpower just because of his own will, and we can only be glad that we are now living in an era of peace and democracy. But what we cannot deny is that the Forbidden City is indeed one of the most glorious palaces in the world, but behind this splendor is the blood and tears of countless people.
When we see a majestic building, we must not only lament the designers who designed it, but also thank those who have worked hard to build it, and it is their sweat that can make such a majestic building stand in front of our eyes.