China has experienced thousands of years of feudal society, and the Forbidden City has witnessed the changes of various dynasties and generations. In ancient times, only the emperor was qualified to sit on the dragon chair, and ordinary people did not even have the opportunity to get close to the dragon chair, let alone sit on it. Since the last emperor Pu Yi was driven out of the Forbidden City, the Forbidden City has been uninhabited, and gradually became a place to visit, and since then, I have heard folk rumors that after 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the Forbidden City, there will be strange events!
Strange events?
In the Forbidden City, from the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been as many as 24 emperors, concubines and palace maids and eunuchs are countless, now in the Forbidden City, gradually open to tourists more and more areas, but there are still nearly a quarter of the places that can not be opened "forbidden area", it is rumored that some places often have strange things after 5 o'clock.
According to the old man's rumor, there is an old well in the Forbidden City, when you look at it during the day, there is no water in the well, only stones and weeds, but when you look at it again at night, it is a different scene, when there is a moon at night, there will be a filled well water, and the strange thing is that the water surface does not reflect the faces of people!
In addition, in the Forbidden City, there is a place of special interest, that is, the dragon chair that the emperor once sat on! After Puyi, no one dared to sit on the dragon chair, which is the symbol of the ancient Huang Quan, placed on the steps of the court hall of the early dynasty, the handrail is engraved with a dragon, and the head of the handrail is still a dragon's head!
The chairs are also decorated with gold lacquer, which is used to signify majesty. It is rumored that there is a dragon hovering on the roof directly opposite the dragon chair, and the dragon's mouth contains a dragon ball, if it is not for the real dragon Tianzi to sit on it, the dragon ball in the dragon's mouth will fall and crush the person sitting on the dragon chair to death!
It is rumored that after Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution, he wanted to be the emperor, so he wanted to sit on the dragon chair to experience it, and when he was about to sit on it, he saw the hovering dragon moving, and there was a tendency to open his mouth to spit out "dragon balls", so he was so frightened that he sat directly on the ground! The dragon chair disappeared for a period of time after that, and Yuan Shikai made a Western-style dragon chair by himself, and the emperor who sat for 83 days died!
Until 1947, in order to restore the original appearance of the Forbidden City, the real dragon chair was finally found in the warehouse where the old furniture was stored, but it was incomplete, and finally restored by experts! Now the Forbidden City has become a place to visit, every day at 5 o'clock will be cleared on time, from half past five, many guards began to patrol work, and at the same time, infrared sensors and various equipment will be turned on! After 5 o'clock, the Forbidden City, as the sky darkens, coupled with the surrounding lights, it becomes a magic pen with a touch of weirdness!
What other "rumors" have you heard about the Forbidden City?