What are the characteristics of the layout of the Ming Dynasty Beijing?

Features:

In the application of color, but also fully reflect the "five elements" idea. Palace walls, pillars with red, red is fire, is bright. Roof with yellow, yellow is earth, is the center, the emperor must be in the center. The eastern roof of the Palace with green, is the Oriental wood green, is spring, used for imperial residence. Tianyi Gate in the northern part of the Imperial City, the wall color with black, the north is water, for black.

All the single building, but also due to the nature of the different colors chosen, book collection of Wen Yuan Ge, with black tiles, black walls, black for water, can be a fire, conducive to the collection of books. The second floor of the Wen Yuan Pavilion interior, the upper floor for a large room, the lower floor is separated into six rooms, reflecting the "sky a water, six into the ground" of the "I Ching" idea. Tiananmen Gate to the end of the door without planting trees, meaning that the south is fire.

Building Feng Shui layout, but also in the name of the "I Ching" theory. The southern end of the Li Zhengmen, in line with the trigrams of the Gua "sun and moon Li Hu Tian". Shun Cheng door, Anzhen door in the north of the Harem, in the Kun Gua "to the Kun Yuan, all living things, is Shun Cheng day", "Anzhen place, should be the ground without boundaries.

The Emperor's Qianqing Palace, the Empress of the Kun Ning Palace, the meaning of Qian, Kun. It is not appropriate to add wood, wood begets fire, in this is not conducive to the forest structure of disaster prevention.

Expanded Information

Modern Reconstruction

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, the city of Beijing was reconstructed, in order to improve the transportation and construction of the circumferential railroad, has dismantled the zhengyangmen, chao yangmen, xuanwumen, dongzhimen, and aningmen of the urns, the imperial city wall and dong'anmen. in 1924 in the inner wall of the city. In 1924, a new Hepingmen Gate was opened on the inner city wall, and in 1937, the Qimingmen Gate (Jianguo Gate) and Chang'anmen Gate (Fuxingmen Gate) were opened (these two were actually openings).

After 1949, large-scale demolition work was carried out on the city of Beijing. During the Korean War, additional openings such as Dongsishitiao, Xiaojie and Xinjiekou were opened in the inner city walls to facilitate the evacuation of people. The outer city walls, gates and corner towers were demolished from 1951 to 1958. The China Gate, Chang'an Left Gate, Chang'an Right Gate and Di'an Gate of the Imperial City were demolished in the 1950s.

The gates and walls of the inner city were successively demolished from 1965 to 1969. The east, west and south sides of the moat of the inner city were also covered and converted into a culvert, which became part of the city's sewerage system.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Beijing City

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ming and Qing Dynasty Beijing City