World Cultural Heritage Beijing Forbidden City A Brief Introduction to the World Cultural Heritage Beijing Forbidden City

1. The Forbidden City in Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of Beijing's central axis. It was the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the largest existing palace-style building in the world, the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and the national first-class museum. 1987 was selected into the World Cultural Heritage List, and was praised as "the first of the five largest palaces in the world".

2. The Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 6,543.8+0.5 million square meters. It was built in the 4th year of Yongle (1406) and completed in the 18th year of Yongle (1420). Now it is the Palace Museum, and its collection is mainly from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The buildings of the Forbidden City face south. Before construction, Chinese tables should be erected to determine the orientation. The table is an upright post. Take two tables with the same length, and observe two points with the same length of the sun shadow in the morning and evening, and connect them into a line, that is, due east and due west. Generally, the building stands on the table, and the craftsman lays the foundation in the direction indicated. In front of Tiananmen Square, the carved stone pillars are huabiao, indicating the architectural direction of the whole Forbidden City, which is in harmony with the main architectural style and becomes a decoration.