What is the architectural layout of the Forbidden City in Beijing?

The Forbidden City in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing, for the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Imperial Palace, is the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Di, Nanjing Palace as a blueprint, from the north and south of the Yangtze River to recruit skilled craftsmen and make millions of manpower, after 14 years (1407 ~ 1420 AD) time to build. Plane is rectangular, 961 meters long north-south, 753 meters wide east-west, covering an area of more than 720,000 square meters. The city wall surrounded by a perimeter of 3428 meters, the height of the wall 7.9 meters, the width of the bottom 8.62 meters, the width of the upper part of 6.66 meters, the upper part of the outer side of the construction of the pheasant ultimatum, the inner side of the building Yu wall. The four corners of the city wall each has a well-structured corner tower. Outside the city has a 52-meter-wide, 3,800-meter-long moat around, constituting a complete defense system. Palace City opened four doors, the south side of the Noon Gate, the main gate of the Palace, north of the Shenwu Gate (Xuanwu Gate), east of Donghuamen, west for the Xihuamen.

In AD 1420 ~ 1911 this 491 years, from the Ming Emperor Zhu Di to the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty Bo Yi, **** there are 24 emperors (14 in the Ming Dynasty, 10 in the Qing Dynasty) have lived in this palace, the implementation of feudal rule over the country. Palace has all kinds of halls more than 9,000, are wooden structure, yellow glazed tile roof, blue and white stone base decorated with gold and blue color paintings, building a total area of 150,000 square meters. The Forbidden City by the outer court and the inner court of two parts. The outer court to the Hall of Supreme Harmony (the Hall of the Golden Emperor), in the Hall of Harmony, the Hall of Baohe as the center of the three halls, east and west to the Hall of Mandarin, the Hall of Wuying for the two wings, is the emperor to deal with political affairs, held a major celebration of the place. Court to Qianqing Palace (the emperor's bedroom), Jiaotai Hall, Kuning Hall (the emperor's new room for marriage) as the center, east and west wings of the East Six Palaces, West Six Palaces (Imperial Palace), supplemented by the Palace of Nourishment, Fengxian Hall, Jaigong, Yuking Palace, Ning Shou Palace, Ci Ning Palace, and the Royal Garden, etc., is the emperor dealing with weekday government and the emperor, the Empress, the Empress Dowager, concubines, Prince, Princess of the place of residence, rituals, reading and play. The overall layout for the central axis symmetry, before the three halls, after the three Palace is located in the city on the central axis, majestic, luxurious and spectacular, for China's largest existing, the most complete ancient architectural complex, but also the world's unique, brilliant and magnificent, and with the Chinese classical style and oriental style of the building and the world's largest palace. 1911 Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the Manchu rule, the end of the 2,000 years of the feudal dynasty, but the abolition of Emperor Boyi still lived in the palace, but the abolition of the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi, the Emperor Boyi and the Emperor Boyi. But the abolition of the emperor Boyi still live in the second half of the Palace. 1912 will be outside the dynasty for the "antiquities exhibition". 1924 November 5, Feng Yuxiang general Deer Zhonglin expelled Boyi out of the Palace. 1925 October 10 established the Palace Museum. 1948 will be the antiquities exhibition incorporated into the Palace Museum. 1949 later, the government of this ancient building and cultural relics of the Palace Museum. After 1949, the government carried out large-scale renovation of the ancient buildings and cultural relics, and organized and exhibited a large number of cultural relics, making it a world-famous museum of ancient culture and art. And in the Xihua Gate established the first archives, specializing in organizing government and palace archives.

In 1961, the State Council of the People's Republic of China promulgated the Forbidden City as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

In 1987, the Forbidden City was formally included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO as a cultural heritage.