The architectural features of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the traditional culture of China reflected by it are briefly described.

The Forbidden City has become a world cultural heritage, which has deepened people's understanding of the value of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City represents a culture that has become history, and it has the shell of palace culture. At the same time, it represented the mainstream culture at that time. After a long period of historical screening and accumulation, of course, it can not be simply summarized as "feudal backwardness."

The Forbidden City and the museum are not unrelated and antagonistic, but organically unified and complementary. Taken together, it can be seen that the Palace Museum is one of the few museums and cultural heritage in the world with the characteristics of art museum, architecture museum, history museum and palace culture museum, which conforms to the internationally recognized basic principles of "original site protection" and "original appearance display".

The basic spirit of world cultural heritage is cultural diversity. From the perspective of world cultural heritage, people strive to explore and understand the outstanding and universal value of the Forbidden City.

Academic value

Looking at the Forbidden City from the perspective of ancient palace science, we not only realize the important value of the ancient buildings and palace cultural relics of the Forbidden City, but also see the historical remains of the palace. More importantly, ancient buildings, cultural relics, historical sites and people and things that happened here are an inseparable cultural whole.

This understanding is an important basis for the emergence of ancient palace studies, and it is also conducive to further excavating the historical and cultural connotation of the Forbidden City. This integrity of the Forbidden City culture also makes the cultural relics and archives of the old Qing Palace scattered outside the courtyard, overseas and abroad have an academic home.

Based on this, the exchange and cooperation between the Palace Museum on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in academic research is inevitable, and the artificial barrier can only be temporary. In fact, this kind of communication is constantly developing.