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When it comes to Beijing's most popular tourist destination today, it is undoubtedly the Forbidden City, which was a royal forbidden place for ordinary people more than 100 years ago.
From the relocation of the capital from Nanjing to Beijing by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, to the expulsion of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, from the Forbidden City, this complex that has written hundreds of years of Chinese history seems to hide many amazing secrets that no one knows!
And in 2006, archaeological experts really discovered a shocking "big secret" in the underground of the Forbidden City!
Since its construction in the early Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City has been in use for hundreds of years and has suffered many fires, so it needs constant maintenance and repair.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Forbidden City has undergone several rounds of renovation, and in 2006, the Forbidden City was temporarily closed and carried out a two-year overall renovation!
It was this renovation that led to the accidental exposure of the "secret" of the Forbidden City for 600 years!
Speaking of this incident, it is really a coincidence, at that time, a staff member was repairing the Taihe Square in front of the Taihe Palace, and he suddenly found that there was a crack in a floor tile.
So the worker lifted the floor tiles, and he wanted to clean up the garbage underneath and then repair the cracked tiles.
But when he uncovered the tiles and cleaned the dirt underneath, he found that there was a tile underneath the dirt.
The staff didn't care at first, and he joked with the person next to him: "It seems that Ming Chengzu Zhu Di is really wealthy, and the wetland bricks have to be paved with two layers"!
But in the process of cleaning, he found that something was getting more and more wrong, because there seemed to be another layer of floor tiles underneath this second layer of floor tiles.
Then the staff quickly reported this strange phenomenon to the superiors, and the superiors also attached great importance to it after learning about it!
Immediately, archaeologists and experts were organized to conduct a careful overall survey, and finally it was discovered that the number of layers of these floor tiles was as high as fifteen!
Although the Forbidden City is the place where the emperor lived in the old days, there is no need to be so luxurious, just the floor tiles have to be paved with fifteen floors, is it really necessary to do this!
With such a question, the archaeologist then consulted a large number of historical materials, and based on these historical materials, the archaeological expert proposed a possibility.
This should have been ordered by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the purpose of building so many layers of floor tiles was: "For the sake of your own safety"!
Because Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, drove his nephew Zhu Yunwen off the throne through the "Battle of Jingyan" and became the emperor.
Therefore, the court at that time did not particularly support this improper new emperor Zhu Di.
After Zhu Di seized the throne, he moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, and then in order to ensure his absolute safety, he laid many layers of bricks underground.
This was also mainly to prevent Assassins from entering the palace by "digging tunnels", as that would seriously threaten the Emperor's life!
In order to ensure the quality of the floor tile layer, the entire project of laying floor tiles costs people and money, and the total number of floor tiles used is as high as more than 80 million!
At that time, in order to prevent this matter from being exposed to the public, Zhu Di also ordered the execution of all those who knew about it, including the craftsmen who burned the bricks and the workers who laid the bricks.
The fifteen-story floor tiles under the Forbidden City shocked all archaeologists, but at the same time, archaeological experts had new doubts!
Will there be any new unexpected discoveries underneath these fifteen floors?
Of course, it is impossible for archaeologists to dig up these fifteen layers of floor tiles and give up excavating further.
So, after they uncovered all the fifteen layers of floor tiles, some broken porcelain tiles began to appear under the floor tiles!
The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of blue and white porcelain, why were so many broken porcelain tiles found under the floor tiles of the imperial palace?
After piecing together and reconstructing, archaeologists found that these porcelain pieces were some "defective products" that were transported to the palace at that time.
It stands to reason that the emperor should have used the finest porcelain at that time, so these defective products cannot be saged!
But since it was customized by the royal family, and it couldn't be lost to the people, the people in the palace chose to break it.
The broken porcelain tiles will be temporarily hidden, and when the Forbidden City needs to be repaired, they will be buried under the floor tiles.
Under the broken porcelain tiles, archaeologists found that the soil under the porcelain tiles is very different, and it can be said that these soils belong to three different ages.
And this discovery immediately made archaeologists have a strong premonition, and they immediately highly doubted: Will there be a soil quality below that belongs to the Yuan Dynasty?
As we all know, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City was the place where the emperor lived and worked, but in fact, the first dynasty to enter the capital of Beijing was the Yuan Dynasty.
At that time, people in Beijing called it "Yuan Dadu", but in the past few hundred years, the location of Yuan Dadu has been considered a mystery!
Because no matter how hard the archaeologists tried, they still couldn't find any traces and clues of Yuan Dadu.
However, "hard work pays off", and archaeological experts also excavated some broken porcelain pieces under the "Longzong Gate" of the Forbidden City.
At first, archaeologists thought that this was also a defective product recovered from the people, but what they did not expect was that these porcelain fragments belonged to the Yuan Dynasty and all had royal marks.
Since there is porcelain belonging to the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty here, it proves that the capital of the Yuan Dynasty must also be near here!
After continuous excavations, archaeologists finally found many remains of palace buildings under the Forbidden City.
Although the structures have been deeply buried, archaeologists can still detect their original shape and structure.
That's why the entire Forbidden City was renovated for two years, and it wasn't until July 2008 that it was reopened to tourists!
However, this does not mean that two years is enough for archaeologists to explore the entire site of Yuan Dadu.
However, after discovering the ruins of Yuan Dadu, archaeological experts realized that because the palace complex of the Forbidden City was above, it was impossible to comprehensively and systematically survey the entire Yuan Dadu ruins, otherwise the structure of the existing Forbidden City would be destroyed!
Therefore, after a brief study, archaeologists re-repaired and maintained the Forbidden City.
So the last question comes: why were the capitals of the Ming and Qing dynasties built on the ruins of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty?
In 1644, when the Qing Dynasty entered the city of Beijing, it immediately inherited the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, and after large-scale repairs, the Qing court became the imperial palace of the later Qing Dynasty.
So why didn't the emperor of the Ming Dynasty continue to use the palace of the Yuan Dynasty and have to spend a huge amount of money to rebuild a new palace?
In fact, the Yuan Dynasty was the first minority to enter the Central Plains, but during the short 98-year reign of the Yuan Dynasty, all the Han people had a hard time.
Because there was a very embarrassing system during the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the "fourth-class system"!
Undoubtedly, the "first-class people" were of course Mongols, the "second-class people" were mostly Westerners and Europeans, the "third-class people" were Han Chinese, and the "fourth-class people" were southerners.
In fact, there is no essential difference between the Han and the Nanren, and the Nanren only refers to the "Han people living in the south".
Since the Southern Song Dynasty moved south, the south has become the political center of the Song Dynasty!
The Han people in the south were not so easy to manage, so Mongolia used this unequal system to strengthen the Mongol rule over the Han Chinese!
The Mongols were very bad for the Han people, especially the Han people in the south, and the place where the Ming Dynasty made its fortune was in the south!
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was still in Nanjing, and later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di hated the Mongols very much!
After Zhu Di said that the emperor moved the capital to Beijing, the first thing he did was to completely bulldoze the capital of the Yuan Dynasty and turn it into ruins!
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Di ordered to rebuild a new classical palace complex on the site of the Yuan Dynasty, which is now the Forbidden City.
In fact, the current Jingshan is also a part of the ruins of the Yuan capital at that time, because a lot of soil was dug out during the construction of the Forbidden City and the moat at that time.
Zhu Di ordered all these soils to be piled up on a part of the ruins of the Yuan Dynasty, which later became "Jingshan".
And Zhu Di lives in this Forbidden City, which means that "the Ming Dynasty will always trample the Yuan Dynasty under its feet, so that this dynasty will never be able to turn over"!
In addition to the secrets under the ground of the Forbidden City, the Forbidden City itself is not as simple as it seems!
Nowadays, only a small part of the Forbidden City is open to the public, and a large part is closed to the public.
The Forbidden City staff said that some palaces were in disrepair because they were not the main palaces where the emperor lived, so the repairs were not so active, resulting in these palaces becoming dangerous buildings, and tourists may be in danger of their lives if they approach.
Even in these open parts of the palace, there are all kinds of mysterious historical rumors and strange things happening frequently!
After all, when the emperors of each dynasty ascended the throne, they were full of blood and fighting, and the women in the harem of the ancient emperors were even more fighting, and there were often bloody cases.
For example, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, the Empress Dowager Cixi threw Emperor Guangxu's favorite concubine into the well and killed her on the grounds that the royal concubines could not be defiled by foreigners.
Such a palace tragedy has become a mystery of the Forbidden City in people's rumors, and there are many, many such mysteries in the Forbidden City!
I believe that in the nearly 600-year history of the Forbidden City, in this complex of 720,000 square meters, every floor tile is sprinkled with the blood and tears of the ancients, and this is a living history!
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