Introduction to the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of Beijing. The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, has housed 24 emperors and was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911 AD), and is now known as the Forbidden City Museum.　Since the Ming Emperor Zhu Di decided to move the capital to Beijing after seizing the throne, he began to build the Forbidden City Palace, which was completed in the 18th year of the Yongle reign (1420). According to ancient Chinese astrology is located in the middle of the sky, is the residence of the emperor, heaven and man corresponds to the emperor's residence is also known as the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters, construction area of about 150,000 square meters, *** there are 8707 halls, are brick and wood structure, yellow glazed tile roof, blue and white stone base decorated with brilliant paintings, is the world's largest existing, the most complete complex of ancient royal buildings.　The Forbidden City surrounded by 10-meter-high walls on all sides, the wall is 961 meters long in the north and south, 753 meters wide in the east and west, outside the city there is a 52-meter-wide, 3,800-meter-long moat around, constituting a complete defense system. The overall layout of the Forbidden City for the central axis of symmetry, the layout is rigorous, orderly, inch brick

[1] piece of tile are following the feudal hierarchical etiquette, reflecting the supreme authority of the emperor.　　The Forbidden City is known as one of the world's five major palaces (the Forbidden City in Beijing, Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the White House in the United States, the Kremlin in Russia), and was listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a "World Cultural Heritage". Committee Evaluation: The Forbidden City was the highest center of power in China for more than five centuries, and with its landscaped gardens and vast complex of 9,000 rooms housing furniture and artifacts, it has become a priceless historical testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties.　The culture of the Forbidden City is an imperial Mandarin, royal culture, or court culture centered on the emperor, the palace, and imperial power, and there is nothing more representative of imperial power than a treasure seal. Twenty-four national treasures of the Ming Dynasty, twenty-five national treasures of the Qing Dynasty.

Liang Haiyan installation art Qing dynasty treasure seal (11 pictures) Qing dynasty, the 25 sides of the treasure seal were "Qing dynasty by order of the treasure", "the emperor Fengtian of the treasure", "Qing dynasty heir Tianzi treasure ", Manchu" emperor's treasure ", sandalwood" emperor's treasure "," the son of heaven's treasure "," emperor's respect for relatives Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure", "Emperor's Treasure ", "Emperor's Letter Treasure", "Treasure of Honoring Heaven and Diligence to the People", "Treasure of Letters Patent", "Treasure of Royal Decree ", "Treasure of the Scholarship", "Treasure of the Order", "Treasure of the Order", "Treasure of the Virtue", "Seal of Inscription", "Treasure of the Table, Chapter, History and Scripture ", "The Treasure of Hunting the World", "The Treasure of Pleading Offenses and Settling the People", "The Treasure of Controlling Six Divisions", "The Treasure of Edicting Ten Thousand Nations of the treasure", "imperial edict is the treasure of the people", "the treasure of the Guangyun".　The culture of the Forbidden City, in a sense, is a classic culture, classic with authority, immortality, tradition. The culture of the Forbidden City is characterized by uniqueness, richness, wholeness and symbolism. At the same time, it is connected with today's cultural construction. For any nation, a country to

Liang Haiyan Installation Art Qing Dynasty Seals (14) that the classic culture will always be the basis of its life, the spirit of support and the source of innovation, are the sinews and veins of its survival and continuity.　The Forbidden City (the Forbidden City) in Beijing is the essence of Han Chinese architecture. Beijing Forbidden City (the Forbidden City) for the Ming Dynasty construction, the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, some gains. The Forbidden City (the Forbidden City) was built during the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, with some additions. The Forbidden City complex embodies the following features of Han-style palace architecture: (1) The Forbidden City building takes the direction of north to south, and the table was set up before the construction to determine the location. Table is an upright pole, take two tables of equal length, observe the morning and evening of the sun's shadow length is equal to the two points, which will be connected to a line, that is, due east and west direction. General construction of wood for the table, the craftsmen that according to the direction of the ditch to lay the foundation. Tiananmen Square before, standing carved stone pillar for the Chinese table, indicating the direction of the entire Forbidden City building, and with the main building style coordination, become a kind of decoration.　(2) The layout of the main hall (Hall of Supreme Harmony), take the left and right symmetry of the French arrangement of the halls, pavilions, terraces and pavilions, corridors, pavilions, doors and queues and other buildings.　(3) The temple building is supported by wooden frames, with stone column bases underneath the columns, and the brick walls are maintained on the north, west and east sides, facing south from the north, and covered with a golden yellow glazed tile roof.　(4) There are large ceramic animal heads on the ridge kisses and ridge kisses at both ends of the main ridge of the roof, and a number of ceramic squatting animals on the bumpy ridges, and there is a treasure roof on the hiatus-type roof (Zhonghe Hall).　(5) arch gable trusses square surface carved with different designs and patterns, animal patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, lions and tigers, birds, animals, insects and fish, plant patterns such as vines, sunflowers, lotus, grass and leaves, natural patterns such as landscape, sun, moon, stars and clouds, geometric patterns such as square rhombus back to the thunder pattern, text patterns such as blessing, longevity, happiness and good fortune, utensils, such as money, Yuanbao pattern, and so on, to collect the beauty of the dual function and anticorrosion. Other decorative patterns such as hanging fish, window panes, railings, murals, astronomical boards, algal wells, partitions and other decorative patterns are many and varied.　(6) Palace decorative colors, the roof with golden yellow, columns, doors, windows, walls and other places with crimson decorations, the eaves Fang more Shi blue turquoise and other colors, lined with stone balustrades and stone steps of alabaster color, forming a sharp contrast of colors.