The Forbidden City as an example to talk about China's ancient architecture in the choice of ideas?

Traditional Chinese thought, that anything is impartial, the so-called middle way. Expressed in the building, is the idea of the center, as the so-called in the noble.

The Forbidden City is to have a central axis, the front and back of the bed, the left ancestral right social, in front of the office place, the building is tall and majestic, behind the place of residence and life, the building is beautiful, left in front of the temple, the place of ancestral worship, the right in front of the altar of the Jikji, on behalf of the Jiangshan.

The entire Forbidden City was built in the middle of the city, because legend has it that the palace where the Emperor of Heaven lives is Ziweiqiao, the middle of the sky, and the Emperor called himself the Son of Heaven, the son of Heaven, so the palace where he lives should be located in the middle of the earth.

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Architectural shape:

The Forbidden City in front of the Palace, the architectural shape of the requirements of the time grand and magnificent, bright and open courtyards, symbolizing feudal authority Supreme, the Hall of Supreme Harmony is located in the center of the Forbidden City diagonal, the four corners of each of the ten auspicious beasts.

The designers of the Forbidden City believed that this to show the majesty of the emperor, shocking the world. After the inner court but the requirements of the deep, compact, so the east and west of the six palaces are self-contained, each with its own palace doors and walls, relatively arranged, in good order. After the inner court is the Palace Court.

Forbidden City Palace is arranged along a north-south axis, the three great halls, after the three palaces, the Imperial Garden are located on this axis. And spread to the sides, north and south to take straight, left and right symmetry. This central axis not only runs through the Forbidden City, but also as far south as the Yongding Gate, north to the Drum Tower, Bell Tower, through the entire city.