Modern Express News (reporter Zheng Wenjing Zhang Wenying) covers an area of 720,000 square meters, known as "9,999 and a half rooms" of the Forbidden City, how to visit? Recently, the Writers Publishing House and the Palace Publishing House jointly launched a full-color illustrated guide book "Leisurely and Slowly Walking the Forbidden City", so that the Forbidden City people who have worked here for thirty years will take you to read the Forbidden City affairs in the past 600 years!
The author of "Idle and Slowly Walking in the Forbidden City", Han Bu, whose real name is Jia Lixin, has been engaged in the work of explaining and guiding for more than 20 years, and is currently the deputy research librarian of the Palace Museum, publishing and publishing a number of works on the Forbidden City. The new book took two years to carefully build, and was also personally recommended by Shan Jixiang, the sixth director of the Palace Museum: "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. ”
It is reported that "Idle and Slow travel to the Forbidden City" is divided into two volumes. The first volume, "Rui Que Dan Chen", is an overview of the Forbidden City and the central axis route; the second volume, "Heavy Jade Masonry", is the route on both sides of the central axis, focusing on the six palaces of the East and West. In the book, the entire Forbidden City is divided into several blocks, and five forbidden city tours are carefully designed, along with large-scale colored maps.
As a professional guide to the Forbidden City, "Leisure and Leisure" is not a single tourist manual, but focuses on vivid details of the history and culture of the Forbidden City. There are not only the beauty of the ancient buildings of the palace platform, the head of the beast, and the lattice window of the moai, but also 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.
A large number of exquisite and precious pictures, literary and artistic typography, covers full of elements of the Forbidden City... Every link in the book has been carefully examined and considered, and the historical atmosphere comes to the surface as the pages are turned.
(Photo courtesy of publisher Zhou Dongmei)