The Forbidden City handbook simple and beautiful

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 the central axis of Beijing, is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture.

Article 1: The Forbidden City of Beijing

The Forbidden City of Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of the central axis of Beijing, is China's 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Royal Palace, is the essence of the history of the Han Dynasty Palace architecture, unparalleled architectural state of the art, the ground is the world's largest existing too, to keep in the most intact nature of the structure of one of the ancient buildings. It has too small rich hall more than seven earth, houses more than nine, too rent, in, and the three too protect and hall as the center. The Imperial Palace in Beijing by the Ming Dynasty Chengzu Zhu Di in Yongle four years began construction, to the Ming Dynasty Yongle eighteen years was completed, covers an area of about 720,000 square meters, the construction area of about 150,000 square meters, it is a rectangular city, east-west width of seven hundred and fifty-three meters, north-south length of nine hundred and sixty-one meters. Surrounded by a ten-meter-high wall, and a fifty-two-meter-wide moat around, constituting a "city within a city". The palace buildings are all wooden structures, yellow glazed tile roof, blue and white stone base.

Article 2: Cultural Heritage of the Forbidden City in Beijing

The Forbidden City in Beijing has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The World Heritage Organization said of the Forbidden City, "The Forbidden City was China's supreme center of power for more than five centuries, and with its landscaped gardens and a vast complex of 9,000 rooms housing furniture and artifacts, it stands as a priceless historical testament to China's civilization during the Ming and Qing eras."

The Forbidden City's status as a World Heritage Site has deepened the understanding of the value of its ancient architecture. The Forbidden City represents a culture that has become history and has the shell of palace culture, while it represents the then . Mainstream culture, after a long period of historical screening and accumulation, of course, can not simply use "feudal backward" to generalize. The Forbidden City and the museum is not irrelevant or antagonistic, but organic unity, complement each other. Combined, we can see that the Palace Museum is one of the very few museums and cultural heritage in the world that has the characteristics of an art museum, an architecture museum, a history museum, a palace culture museum, and so on, and is in line with the internationally recognized basic principles of "in situ preservation" and "in situ display". The basic spirit of the World Cultural Heritage is that it is a cultural heritage. The basic spirit of the world cultural heritage is cultural diversity, from the perspective of the world cultural heritage, people strive to explore and recognize the outstanding and universal value of the Forbidden City.

Article 3: Guide to the Forbidden City

Best time to visit: late April-early June, late August-end of November. The Forbidden City is very large, there are more than 9,000 palaces, if they are all strolling through the day is almost impossible, but the average person only visit the three great halls, after the three palaces, the Imperial Garden, basically from south to north most of the day can be strolling through. The three great halls include: the Hall of Supreme Harmony, in the Hall of Peace, the Hall of Baohe; after the three palaces include: the Palace of Qianqing, Jiaotai Hall, Kuning Palace. The three great halls is the emperor to the court, the place of enthronement; after the three palaces is the emperor after the rest of the place. Of course, there are exhibitions in the Forbidden City in the inner east road, inner west road, outer east road, outer west road in various palaces, are rare treasures.

The buildings inside the Forbidden City in Beijing 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, is the place where the country holds great ceremonies. The left and right wings of the Three Great Halls are supplemented by two groups of buildings, the Hall of Wenhua and the Hall of Wuying. The center of the inner court is the qianqing palace, jiaotai hall, kuning palace, collectively referred to as after the three palaces, is the emperor and the empress resides in the main palace. After the Imperial Garden. After the three palaces arranged on both sides of the East and West Six Palaces, is the place where the consorts live and rest. The east side of the East Six Palaces is the Heavenly Vault Treasure Hall and other Buddhist buildings, and the west side of the West Six Palaces is the Zhongzheng Hall and other Buddhist buildings. Outside the outer and inner court there are also two parts of the outer east road and outer west road buildings. [1]

The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the world's largest and most well-preserved wooden structures of ancient architecture