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What are the five stories about the Forbidden City?

Five stories are as follows:

1, strange well

The Forbidden City has a well, weekdays during the daytime when looking down, the bottom of the well is some stones, weeds, but every night after 12 o'clock look down, as long as there is a moon in the sky, you will see that the bottom of the well appeared not stones, weeds, but the water, water reflection of the but not your face.

Some scientific personnel explained: the Forbidden City can see the palace maiden is a scientific basis, because the palace wall is red, containing iron tetraoxide, and the lightning may be conducted down the electrical energy, if by chance there is a palace maiden passes by, then the palace wall at this time is equivalent to the function of the videotape, and if there is a lightning coincidentally appeared in the future, it may be like a video projection, there is a shadow of the palace maiden who was recorded down.

2, the Forbidden City rats

Legend, just liberated, the Forbidden City Museum night inspection and defense personnel often see a strange animal, said like a rat but especially large, said like a pig and ran very fast. People say this is the royal family raised in the east and west of the Palace of the beast of the town. Later, some people tried to catch one or two, saw more and more people, but no one really caught one!

3, the Forbidden City gatekeeper

5 o'clock, the Forbidden City is closed to clear the customer's time. It is said that that clock is the heaviest moment of the Forbidden City Yin Qi. Many visitors feel, even in the sweltering summer, 5 o'clock in the Forbidden City will make people feel a kind of cold. That's because, after 5 o'clock, the guests of the yang are going to go, and the upcoming debut of those who used to be the Forbidden City and the night watchman. The children of the Forbidden City watchmen are not good health, the old man said that because that person suffered from the yin qi big, affecting the next generation! Therefore, the Forbidden City no longer have a watchman.

4, the Phantom of the Palace

In 1983, a late night, there is a man from the Forbidden City Treasure Museum near the wall, suddenly found a group of people in the distance with a palace lantern, he wanted to use a flashlight in this era, who still use a palace lantern, so he wanted to go up to see how to chase can not catch up to the team of people playing with a palace lantern, but far away from it, is indeed dressed in the Qing Dynasty's cheongsam! The court ladies of the Qing Dynasty are walking neatly with the palace lamps of flat yarn.

5, the Forbidden City yin and yang road

The Forbidden City inside the West Six Palaces, is the place where the emperor's concubines live, is located on the left side of the central axis, and the East Six Palaces correspond. West Sixth Palace mainly includes including the Palace, Yikun Palace, Yongshou Palace, Xianfu Palace, Changchun Palace and Taiji Palace. And sandwiched between the West Six Palaces, Fengxian Hall, North Five and Ning Shou Palace Palace Road, customarily known as the East Tube Sandwich Road, it is said that the palace eunuchs, courtesans can only be lifted out of the palace from this road after death, and thus many paranormal events are happening here, so this road is also called the yin and yang road.

So what is the Yin Yang Road? Simply put, it is the night when the bright moon is in the sky, in the high and strong towering, long, the ground of the sandwich road, will come out of a yin and a yang two interfaces (in fact, it is part of the moonlight, the other part of the moonlight is blocked by the wall, the formation of the wall's shadow). According to the rumor, the yang side is the palace people walking, and the yin side is the demons and ghosts walking.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is a royal palace in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis, and is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. Centered on the Three Great Halls, the Forbidden City of Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 150,000 square meters, more than seventy palaces of various sizes, and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

The Forbidden City of Beijing began construction in the fourth year of the Yongle reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty (1406), with the Forbidden City of Nanjing as the blueprint for the camp, to the eighteenth year of the Yongle reign (1420) was completed. It is a rectangular city, 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded on all sides by a 10-meter-high wall, with a 52-meter-wide moat outside the city. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court.

The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Baohe, collectively known as the Three Great Halls, where the country's great ceremonies are held. The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Hall, Kunning Palace, collectively known as the latter three palaces, is the emperor and empress live in the main palace.

The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City. Ancient China is concerned about the "unity of man and heaven" planning concept, with the stars in the sky and the capital city planning corresponds to highlight the legitimacy of the regime and the supremacy of imperial power.

The emperor of heaven resides in the Ziwei Palace, and the emperor of the earth boasts of being entrusted with the heavenly "son of heaven", its residence should symbolize the Ziwei Palace in order to correspond with the emperor of heaven, the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", "the sky has the Ziwei Palace, is the God's residence also. The king set up the palace, the image and for the".

Ziwei, Ziguan, Zigong, etc. has become the emperor's palace of the pronouns. Because the feudal palace in ancient times belonged to the forbidden land, ordinary people can not enter, it is called "Forbidden". But the early Ming Dynasty, known as the "Imperial City", directly referred to as the "Forbidden City" began around the middle and late Ming Dynasty.