Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
"Forbidden City fever", hot not only to see the halls, pavilions, carved beams and paintings of the liveliness, but also to experience its golden splendor after the historical and cultural heritage.
The grandeur of ancient Chinese architecture is not highlighted by the magnificence of individual buildings, but by the perfection of group combinations. In the 720,000 square meters of space of the Forbidden City, there are nearly 1,000 buildings and more than 100 courtyards. Each courtyard is a closed introverted space, self-contained, and it is a university question to visit. As an ordinary tourist, how can we visit the Forbidden City more fruitfully?
Shan Jixiang: Her Forbidden City will let you know more about the Forbidden City
In the spring of 2022, the full-color illustrated guide book "Leisure and Slow Travel to the Forbidden City", which was jointly created by writers publishing house and palace publishing house and carefully created over two years, was published. Shan Jixiang, who served as the director of the Palace Museum, wrote in a review of the book: "Now there is a talented woman who has studied the Forbidden City for twenty years, interpreting 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. ”
"Leisure and Slow Travel to the Forbidden City" divides the entire Forbidden City into several blocks, carefully draws up five different travel routes, indicates the required time, and makes a large-scale printed map in color, which is included with the book. Sensing the blankness of the professional guide books of the Forbidden City on the market, she deliberately distinguishes it from the manual with a single role, focusing on the vivid details of history and culture. The book not only contains the beauty of the ancient buildings of the palace platform, the head of the beast, and the lattice window of the moai, but also contains the beauty of the cultural relics of the jade seal phoenix crown, calligraphy ancient painting, and ceramic bronze. Of course, what is more important is the vicissitudes of the twenty-four emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties who appeared here and ended.
Thirty years of Forbidden City people, combing through the Forbidden City for six hundred years. The Palace Museum Publishing House provides a large number of exquisite treasure pictures, literary and artistic style layout arrangement, the gilded cover of the main picture with the Forbidden City building tangle knot belt and the three-cross six-lined diamond flower elements, the lock line through the back barrier-free flat binding, the specially customized inner paper that can present the best color printing effect, with the brilliant finished book, taking into account reading and enjoyment.
Author Hanbu
"Entering the Palace" for 30 years Loves autumn in the Forbidden City
The author Han Bu (real name Jia Lixin) works at the Palace Museum and has been engaged in explanatory guidance for more than 20 years. He is currently the deputy research librarian of the Palace Museum and has published many works on the Forbidden City.
Immersed in the Forbidden City for thirty years. 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. In the preface to 2021, "In a Jade Pot with a Heart of Ice", Han Bu revealed that her office is located in a corner of the "Jade Pot Ice" upstairs in the Forbidden City. "It is now late autumn, looking out from the east window of the jade pot ice, the autumn leaves are still flourishing, from dark green to red and yellow, and some unknown birds and finches are chirping between the leaves, and time is quiet as if frozen. I suddenly realized that this was my thirtieth autumn in this palace. ”
Under Hanbu's description, we know that the "Jade Kettle Ice" is a corner tower in the garden of Jianfu Palace in the Forbidden City, which was once the ashram of the Qianlong Emperor. The building of the jade pot ice is half hidden between the winding rockeries, and the east and north sides facing the rockery are made into partition windows, so the view is very open. The vegetation in front of the mountain is abundant, with ancient trees such as catalpa trees, cypress trees, locust trees, and newly planted pomegranates, red maples, ginkgo biloba, Privet flowers and gold and silver trees. In the spring and summer, the flowers and trees are lush; in autumn, the fallen leaves are paved with stone paths; the winter solstice, the branches are sloping, and it is not a desolate emptiness. The Qianlong Emperor of that day spent many years of quiet time in the jade pot ice in his spare time. He once wrote in "Endowed with Jade Pot Ice": "Ten wats rong wen seat, a window contains a rockery." Hope is like increasing the tea, accumulating more beauty. The inside and outside are clear and clear, fresh and relaxed. Ice light greets the ruler house, and you can say what you want. The original pair hanging in the jade pot ice room, "Strange stones contain thousands of ancient shows, good flowers occupy the spring of four hours", which is also his royal pen.
"The ice heart of the jade pot is exactly what the Qianlong Emperor expected, although this body has gone through the red dust of the world, I only hope that this heart will always be pure and clear, and will always remain in the jade pot." ...... Of course, the four seasons of the Forbidden City have their own style, but I still prefer its autumn, which is calm and peaceful. Hanbu wrote.
Hanbu wrote many poems about autumn on Yuju Ice, and this "Autumn" is her favorite: "The four seasons rotate / It's the best autumn again / The foliage is still blooming / Or delicate or red / The fruit is still full / Or sour or sweet / Everything is perfect / There is no regret / The sky is high, the clouds are light / The wind is light, the water is soft / As we were at the beginning / We looked at each other / Not close / No worries"
(All pictures courtesy of Writers Press)