"Leisure and Slow Travel to the Forbidden City"
Cover testimonials
What to see in the Forbidden City, which route to take, do you have such confusion?
Now there is a talented woman who has studied the Forbidden City for twenty years, and interprets the Forbidden City for you in a pictured and textual way.
One hall, one room, one instrument and one object, the story inside the red wall tells you.
Her Forbidden City will give you a better understanding of the Forbidden City.
——Shan Jixiang, the sixth president of the Palace Museum
The Forbidden City, a city of six hundred years. The ancients said that the purple micro star wall lived in the middle of the sky and was eternal, so the "purple" in the emperor's residence was this meaning, and the twenty-four emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties appeared here and ended.
When it changed from the "Forbidden City" to the "Forbidden City", people from all over the world admired it and praised it, and got rid of the shackles of imperial power, it had a fresh breath and a dazzling charm of life.
The 720,000-square-meter, "nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms" punch card holy land, is unique, who can lead you through?
Han Bu, whose real name is Jia Lixin, has been doing the work of explaining and guiding for more than 20 years, and is now an associate research librarian at the Palace Museum. Before writing this book "Leisure and Slow travel to the Forbidden City", he published many articles and books about the Forbidden City.
Immersed in the Forbidden City for thirty years, she is almost already part of it. The long street is long, the deep alley is heavy, and it is nothing more than her palm prints that are clear in her heart. Pointing to the seven Bodhi trees in the courtyard of the Yinghua Hall, she will tell you that this was planted by the mother of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cisheng, and has been for more than 400 years, and it is still leafy and like an umbrella, and the Qianlong Emperor has also inscribed poems for it.
The Yanxi Palace, which shines in the TV series, has frequent fires in the Qing Dynasty. After the last time it was burned down during the Xianfeng period, the reconstruction project was interrupted by the abdication of the Qing Emperor and the loss of financial support, leaving only a rotten tail building of the "Crystal Palace" intended to extinguish the fire.
Her ultimate goal was to create a rare professional guide to the Forbidden City. So in "Leisure and Leisure in the Forbidden City", she talks about the beauty of the ancient construction of the palace platform, the head of the beast, the moi flower lattice window, and also talks about the beauty of the jade seal phoenix crown, calligraphy and ancient paintings, ceramic bronze cultural relics, and more importantly, the historical and cultural accumulation attached to it for six hundred years.
She divided the entire Forbidden City into several blocks, carefully formulated five different routes, indicated the length of time required, and made a large-scale colored and printed guide map, which was accompanied by the book.
Eyes full of yellow and green glass, gilded paint, vermilion palace walls... Which one to look at? Behind the various halls and cultural relics are the waves of political affairs, the human feelings of the emperor, and the sophistication of the monarchs and courtiers...
"Idle and Slow walking in the Forbidden City" is divided into two volumes. The first volume, "Rui Que Dan Chen", the overview of the Forbidden City and the central axis route; the second volume, "Heavy Jade Masonry", the route on both sides of the central axis, focuses on the six palaces of the East and West.
The Noon Gate was once the place where the Ming Emperor executed the scepter on his subjects. The Jiajing Emperor, who had inherited his cousin's throne, wanted to posthumously give his biological father the title of honorific title, and the tug-of-war with his courtiers lasted for three years, and finally he collectively reprimanded the officials at the noon gate, killing sixteen people on the spot, and the courtiers were silent, and the emperor got his wish.
Between the Qianqing Gate and the Qianqing Palace, there are forty rooms surrounding each other. Among them, the south study was originally the study hall of the Kangxi Emperor's early years, and at the age of sixteen, he summoned his powerful minister Ao Bai to this place to teach him books. In advance, the little eunuch prepared a chair with folded legs and stood behind the chair to support it. Ao Bai Shi Ran went straight in, Kangxi gave him a seat, and then gave tea. The teacup had just been boiled in boiling water, and Aobai couldn't hold it, and the cup slammed to the ground. The little eunuch took the opportunity to loosen the back of the chair, and Ao Bai fell to the ground. Kangxi shouted, "Ao Bai is disrespectful! A dozen well-trained teenagers rushed up and grabbed Ao Bai's uniform. The century-old Kangqian prosperous era has since begun.
The empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty was empress dowager Chongqing, the mother of the Qianlong Emperor. She enjoyed forty-two years of her son's consecration at the Cining Palace until his death at the age of eighty-six. Qianlong can be described as filial piety to his mother, hunting in the south and the north to serve his mother, and the scenery of the Imperial Garden in Beijing is often viewed with his mother. During the celebration of the 60th Holy Birthday, Qianlong presented more than 2,000 birthday gifts to her, including Buddha statues and Sutras, gold and jade antiques, rare spices, bead ornaments, mink coats, interstitial decorations, hand-scrolled calligraphy and paintings, and so on.
This is the historical situation attached to the carved beam paintings, and every detail may change the direction of China...
The imperial treasure seal of the Qing Dynasty was initially twenty-nine squares, and later increased to thirty-nine squares, and the Qianlong Emperor was initially set at twenty-five squares, and he hoped that the Qing Dynasty would last for twenty-five generations like the Eastern Zhou. Ultimately, though, it's just a beautiful fantasy.
Therefore, the ceiling in the palace, the Qing Gong Department listed more than ten styles, but the examples are much richer, such as gold ink and bamboo weaving. The sea flowers of the small opera stage in the tired qinzhai are painted by the Chinese students of the Italian painter Lang Shining, the wisteria flowers are completely shaped in color, and the traces of the lines cannot be seen, flourishing and hanging, giving people a wonderful three-dimensional illusion, which is the perfect fusion of Chinese and Western techniques.
This is the deep source of form under the tenon pattern, and any small component is the result of the painstaking efforts of generations of artists and craftsmen...
Writers Publishing House and Forbidden City Publishing House have joined forces to select precious pictures, full-color design, and exquisite binding. "The ceiling of the printing world" artron art printing company undertook the printing.
The birth of a good book is the perfect combination of graphic writing, binding design, paper, ink, printing and binding, and any slight weakness is a regret of white flaws.
"Leisure and Slow Travel to the Forbidden City" lasted two years from planning to publication, and every detail was carefully examined and considered. A large number of exquisite and rare pictures provided by the Palace Publishing House are selected and arranged by the art editors who are full of literary and artistic styles, and the layout and cover number are changed. The final design plan is based on the elements of the Tang Dynasty in the building of the Forbidden City, such as the knotted belt and the three-crossed and six-lined rhombus, and adopts the techniques of printing gold, gilding, drumming and so on, highlighting the cultural elements of the Forbidden City. The lock line is bound through the back, so that the entire book can be flattened without obstacles, improving aesthetics and reading comfort. Specially customized inner text paper for optimal color printing. The printing manufacturer is known as the "ceiling of the printing industry", And the finished product effect is amazing.
The beauty of the Forbidden City can withstand thousands of scrutiny. The charm of the Forbidden City must be repeatedly chewed and experienced. Whether it is reading on paper or immersed in the scene, idle and slowly walking through the Forbidden City, idle is the state of mind, slow is time, enjoying the gaze that communicates with its spirit.