What are the halls that make up the palace of the Qing Dynasty?

Beijing's Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, Forbidden City from and overview

The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing, the reason why the Forbidden City is called the Forbidden City is because it used to be the Ming and Qing dynasties of emperors' palaces, and is now the seat of the National Palace Museum it's walls are 10 meters high, the corners have corner towers, the city has four doors. Buildings in the city are covered with yellow glazed tiles, and the city is surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat.

The Qing Dynasty carried out repairs and reconstruction of the Ming Palace, and changed the name of part of the palace. It still maintains its original scale, **** with 980 buildings, more than 8,700 rooms, covering an area of 720,000 square meters.

The Forbidden City building to the noon gate, Taihe Gate, the three main halls, the Qianqing Gate, after the three palaces, the Kuning Gate, Chin An Hall, Shenwu Gate for the central axis. This line extends to the south and north, it was the north-south axis of Beijing at that time. Inside the city is the Qianqing Gate as the boundary, the south for the outer court, is the emperor held a grand ceremony place; North for the inner court, is the emperor, the consort daily life of the place. Palace in the main hall are sitting north to south, south for the front, east for the left. Inside the Forbidden City, both sides of the central axis of the architectural layout of distinct levels, the main body prominent, symmetrical and balanced, static and static combination, complete and unified; concentrated in China's ancient architectural art of the excellent tradition and unique style, reflecting the high degree of wisdom and creative talent of the working people.

The highest building in the Forbidden City

Noon Gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City, there are five gates, commonly known as the five phoenixes, two wings of the city building such as the wings of a goose, also known as the wild goose-wing building. Pier plane into a "concave" shape, open and solemn, majestic. In the middle of the gate tower face 9, 5 deep, symbolizing the ancient emperor in the nine or five, is the highest building in the Forbidden City. The gate tower on the left and right there are bells and drums Pavilion. Li Zicheng attacked Beijing is from here into the Forbidden City.

Within the Noon Gate is a well-organized square, five carved railings of the Inner Jinshui Bridge across the Inner Jinshui River. Standing on the bridge looking east over the fence is the tall Concord Gate, the door north and south **** 22 hipped corridor (the main hall on both sides of the house), that is the former Cabinet Office. Cabinet is set up in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the palace to assist the emperor for the national political institutions. The main responsibility is to draft and convey the emperor's edicts, review and submit the official's zhangzhang paperwork, once had a lot of power.

On the west side opposite to the Concord Gate is the Xiho Gate, whose north hipped corridor was the original Tumblestudy (responsible for the translation of Manchu and Chinese); the south hipped corridor was the Rijuzhu Pavilion (recording the emperor's words and deeds). The gate directly north of the Noon Gate is the largest and most ornate gate in the Forbidden City. Taihe Gate is the Ming Dynasty "Royal Gate to listen to politics," where the emperor personally accepts the courtesy of the courtiers, and issued an imperial decree to deal with political affairs. The two gates of Zhaode Gate and Zhendu Gate on the east and west sides of Taihe Gate were the resting places for the guards on duty.

The tall hall in the east hiatus inside the Taihe Gate was the Tiren Pavilion, a companion building to the Three Great Halls, and later the Inner Satin Treasury. The Qing Dynasty used to conduct imperial examinations and entertain the literati here. The west hiatus inside the Taihe Gate is where the inner coffers are located, of which Hongyi Pavilion is opposite to Tiren Pavilion. Opposite the left wing gate is the right wing gate. These buildings and their north and south of the room is the Forbidden City in the library of the silver library, leather library, clothing library and tea library.

The Forbidden City outside the three halls

Taihe Palace The majestic palace directly north of the Taihe Gate is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, commonly known as the Palace of the Golden Emperor, there were the Temple of Fengtian, the Palace of the Royal Pole, etc., more than 35 meters high, is a heavy-eaved hipped building, with a floor area of 2,377 square meters, 72 columns, including six coiled dragon gold columns, four sides are "gold casement and gold locks window "It is a palace with the most openings, the greatest depth and the highest roof in China's ancient architecture. The heavy-eaved hipped roof is the most honorable roof form in China's wooden structure buildings, and the roof with nine beasts is also the most in the country. All of these designs, fully demonstrated the emperor's "supreme" majesty.

Taihe Temple in front of the Dan-ah, east of the sundial, is China's ancient timepieces; West for the amount of Jia, commonly known as the "official bucket", is the Qianlong period of imitation of the new dynasty Wang Mang when the form of manufacturing, above the Qianlong period of the inscriptions. There are also tripod furnace, copper tortoise, copper crane, is held during the ceremony to place and ignite the pine and cypress branches and sandalwood incense utensils, symbolizing the eternal solidity of the river and the mountain. Dan ah also has two copper tank, can be filled with water fire, cylinder under the stone for the mat, in case of low temperatures in winter when the fire heating, to prevent the water from freezing ice.

Taihe Temple east of the left door, the early Qing dynasty ministers to the court, in this door outside the meeting. West of the Hall of Supreme Harmony is the center-right door.

Taihe Palace behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony is in the Hall, once known as the Hall of Huagai and in the Hall of the pole, the palace specifications smaller, had been fire, square eaves dome, the inner top of the carvings and paintings are extremely beautiful. Whenever the emperor personally before the ceremony in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, sitting in this hall, flipping through the table of zhangzhang, accept the Cabinet, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Rites and guards and other officials kneeling and saluting. Qing Dynasty every 10 years to compile a jade ultimatum (that is, the royal family tree) repaired and submitted to the emperor to review, also held a more solemn ceremony here.

Baoho Hall Behind the Zhonghe Hall is the Baoho Hall, which was once known as the Hall of Honor and the Hall of Construction. The Ming Dynasty, when the empress, the emperor's son, the imperial edict, the hundred officials said congratulations on the table, the emperor is here to put on the dress, and then to the Hall of Fengtian ascension. Every year in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor feasted here on New Year's Eve for the minority princes and ministers. In the late Qianlong period, this place became the place of the Imperial Examination. Baohe Temple on the east side of the rear left door, which is the ministers on duty, known as the duty room; with its corresponding, Baohe Temple West is the rear right door.

Taihe Temple, the Hall of Peace, the Hall of Baohe Temple, known as the "three great halls", is the center of the outer court building, they are located in the "earth" shape connected to the foundation of the platform. Ancient "five elements" that the earth in the center, the foundation designed for the "earth" shape, implying that the three halls is the center of the world.

Taihe Hall of East and West two hips was the Forbidden City's inner library, tea library, leather library, copper library. After the Hall of East and West two hips once stored in the Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty Emperor read the zhangzhang, piles of mountains.

Today, north of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, south of the Hall of Bohol, the east and west of the two hips in the Palace Museum's efforts, open to the audience as a pavilion. Among them, the west hiatus of the Hall of Supreme Harmony is a painting pavilion.