The Forbidden City is the imperial palace of two dynasties, which experienced the rise and fall of China's last dynasty and has great value for history, because of the close age, which is why it has been preserved in its entirety to this day. However, during the six hundred years of the establishment of the Forbidden City, it also suffered countless baptisms, nearly a hundred fires in the Ming and Qing dynasties, lightning strikes, and of course, man-made destruction, so there must be a reason why it survived. Luck is not always available, because with the help of too many people, the Forbidden City has been preserved to this day.
During the Cultural Revolution,Chinese the Forbidden City was regarded as a relic of the feudal period, and the Red Guards went to the Forbidden City to prepare to demolish it, and it was Premier Zhou who, after learning the news the night before, led troops into the Forbidden City overnight, under the protection of the People's Liberation Army, which saved the Forbidden City. At this time, the Forbidden City was already overgrown with weeds because it was abandoned all year round, and the People's Liberation Army used its hands to remove those weeds one by one, and then the state decided to transform it into a museum, and found a group of professional cultural relics restorers and architects to restore the original appearance of the Forbidden City.
Because of the chaos in the palace at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many cultural relics were lost, and a large number of cultural relics in the palace were destroyed, those plaques, as well as beds and dragon chairs were destroyed in the days when Yuan Shikai was called emperor, and then this dragon chair was found by the staff in the warehouse, but it has been destroyed, in order to repair this dragon chair, experts spent two years. Zhu Jiaxuan is one of the famous restoration masters, he worked in the Forbidden City all his life, almost all of his painstaking efforts were given to the Forbidden City's cultural relics, half of the original cultural relics of the Forbidden City were restored by his hands.
During his work, he almost regarded the Forbidden City as his home, he liked the Forbidden City, liked those cultural relics, in addition to being a restoration master, he was also a famous collector, he as a cultural relics conservator, the salary was not low, but he looked very poor, that is because he spent all his money to buy cultural relics, he liked to visit the cultural relics market, relying on his many years of experience, encompassing a lot of treasures. However, because of the particularity of the two identities, he did not cause him any trouble, and he was even charged with embezzlement and was imprisoned for investigation.
Later, after retiring, many people knew that he had a collection in his hands and came to buy them, he was worried that these things would be targeted by thieves, so he donated these cultural relics to the state, and also donated tens of thousands of ancient books in his home to the research institute. He did not want any compensation, and in his later years he and his family lived in a small house of thirty square meters, the courtyard was chaotic, but it was enough for an old man who was bent on quiet. When he was collecting, he did not try to change his life with these cultural relics, but simply liked it.