The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City.Was built in the Ming Dynasty Yongle 18 (1420), is the palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, an unparalleled masterpiece of ancient architecture, the world's largest remaining and most complete ancient architectural complex of wooden structures. All built by the "former" and "inner court" of the Forbidden City, surrounded by the walls around. Surrounded by cheese River surrounded. City four corners turret. Surrounded each one, just south of the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to the Forbidden City.

 

 

 

Lived here 24 emperors, the Imperial Palace of Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 ~ 1912), an unparalleled masterpiece of ancient architecture, the world's largest remaining and most complete ancient architectural complex of wooden structures. The Forbidden City 9999 palaces 10000 so repair 9999 palace palace in order not to go beyond God because of the Jade Emperor.

 

After usurping the throne by the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, the decision to move the capital Beijing, Yongle four years so in 1406, the Yongle Emperor ordered modeled on the Nanjing Imperial Palace Construction Beijing palace, the use of craftsmen 230 000, porters million to eighteen years of the Ming Yongle (1420)completed. Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, in accordance with the ancient Chinese theory of astrology, Zi Zi Wei Yuan, the central highest point in the day, a total of fifteen stars, is considered to be the palace of transport between the central Pro system Quartet, is a pillar of the home. Heaven corresponds named. Forbidden City covers an area of ​​720,000 square meters, construction area of ​​about 150,000 square meters, a total of temples 8707, are brick and wood, yellow glazed tile roof, green Whitehead base decorated with a magnificent painting, is the world's largest existing, most complete ancient royal buildings.

 

The Forbidden City is surrounded by a high 10 m walls, and the wall north and south is 961 metres long, thing 753 meters wide, just outside the city. There is a wide 52 m, 3800 m long surrounded by moat, to form a complete defense system. The palace overall layout for the axial symmetry, the layout is rigorous, orderly, inch of tile are following the brick feudal etiquette, reflecting a king of supreme authority.

 

The Palace Museum was known as one of the five big palaces (Beijing imperial palace, the French Versailles palace, the British Buckingham Palace, the White House, the Russian kremlin), and is the United Nations KeJiaoWen organization > listed as "world cultural heritage". The committee evaluation: the Forbidden City is China more than five centuries of supreme power center, which, in the landscape and hold the furniture and artwork 9000 rooms of large buildings, Ming and qing dynasties as the history of China's civilization priceless testimony.

 

The culture of the Forbidden City, is the emperor, the imperial palace, imperial power as the core of imperial culture, the Royal Cultural, or court culture, and on behalf of the imperial power than Yuxi. Ming Dynasty twenty-four the treasures of the Qing Dynasty twenty-five national treasure.Forbidden City culture in a certain sense of classical culture, classic authoritative, immortal, tradition.

 

The Forbidden City culture has a unique, rich, holistic and symbolic characteristics. Same time, she connected with today's cultural construction. For any one nation, one country, classical culture is always the backing of its life, the spirit of support and a source of innovation, are to be subsisting and Geng extension of the veins and blood vessels.

 

 

The palace tourist line:

 

The most ideal visit route from meridian gate into the Forbidden City, and then go along the axis of the visit the jinshui bridge, in turn in the gate of the house, the hall of supreme harmony, and, insurance and temple, and dry qing door, dry palace, hand over tai temple, and in better palace, the imperial garden. After visiting the imperial garden, by the imperial garden of the left of the door can in turn into the west ChuXiu visit galleries palace, the yi in house, and YongShou palace, salty, f palace, changchun palace, tai chi house (also called rev. Cheung palace), and then out of the inner door right back to dry the door square, in east into the left the door, can visit galleries in the jubilee palace, yonghe house extension, house by house, sunell group dry, ZhongCui palace. After visiting the east along the east chang galleries can back to dry the door square, eastward through JingYun door into a door to zion, and then into the emperor extremely door, can visit emperor extremely temple, and BanXi building, ning shougong, smooth sound cabinet, raises a gender house, qianlong garden, ZhenFei well, and finally the west door the cheer ShenWu out door leave the Palace Museum.