The world is big,
There are too many places to go.
If you say that in this life you must go to a place, the same scenery
As a Chinese, you must go to the Forbidden City once
The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, was originally the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is now the Palace Museum.
Founded in the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1406 AD), it covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses.
If we lived in one room a day, it would take more than twenty years to live in the Forbidden City. Of course, it is impossible for us to live in the Forbidden City, just to give you a data to let everyone know more specifically how big the Forbidden City is.
It is worthy of the largest and most complete ancient building complex on the mainland, and of course, it is also the largest royal palace in the world.
The Forbidden City has four city gates, the South Noon Gate, the North Shenwu Gate, the Donghua Gate and the Xihua Gate. There is a corner tower in each of the four corners of the city wall, and the structure is extremely complex.
turret
The Forbidden City building is divided into two parts: the Outer Dynasty and the Inner Court, of which the center of the Outer Dynasty is the three main halls (Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Hall, and Bohol Hall). It is the place where the state holds the main hall.
The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, the Kunning Palace, also known as the Later Three Palaces. Presumably, everyone knows from the TV series that this is where the emperor and the empress live.
Behind it is the Imperial Garden (in fact, the Imperial Garden is very small and small), and the two sides of the back three palaces are lined with the east and west six palaces. All next to each other.
Imperial
In Chinese architecture, the form of the roof is colorful. There are more than ten kinds of roofs in different forms in the Forbidden City, and the roofs are covered with various glazed tiles.
Mainly yellow, green is used for the building area where the prince lives, blue, purple, black, peacock green, sapphire blue and other multicolored glass is mostly used in gardens or glass walls.
Located in the center of the diagonal line of the Forbidden City, the Taihe Hall has ten beasts on each of the four corners, which the designers of the Forbidden City believe show the majesty of the emperor and shock the world.
The Forbidden City has endured hundreds of years of ups and downs, and a total of 24 emperors (14 in the Ming Dynasty and 10 in the Qing Dynasty) lived in the Forbidden City. For so many rulers, I personally admire the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
The Son of Heaven guards the gates of the kingdom, and the King dies
At that time, outside Shanhaiguan was an area of externalization, mainly inhabited by Manchu-dominated tribes, so Shanhaiguan became an important border town between the Central Plains and Guanguan.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping in 1421, because the capital of the Ming Dynasty was geographically close to the border pass town of Shanhaiguan, and because it was the place where Tianzi lived, so the people called it "Tianzi Shouguomen".
When Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the Emperor of Chongzhou did not retreat until his death, hanging on the coal hill behind the Forbidden City, and the people called this incident "the death of the king".
The Forbidden City has been inherited for hundreds of years,
There are too many stories
It's always tempting to get to know it
Even a brick on the ground is full of stories.
If you want to know more about the Forbidden City, take a moment, or meet three or five friends, or go alone, and experience the best of the world!
Floor tiles of the Forbidden City
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