How to draw the Forbidden City

The drawing of the Forbidden City is as follows:

Materials to prepare: paper, colored pencils.

1, first of all, draw the beams on the roof of the building, down to the top layer of eaves rubble, the left and right sides of the eaves slightly curved upward and outward, and then draw the second layer of eaves, and draw the hanging rectangular plaque on it.

2. After drawing the rectangular wall downwards, add drawing the parapet, beams and gates of the wall.

3, paint both layers of gable roof rubble yellow, the second story of the wall of the pavilion blue, and the first layer of the light brown.

4, and finally the pillars as well as the walls of the wall painted in big red, the wall gate painted bright red, the plaque on the wall painted gray, a sketch of the Forbidden City of Beijing is complete.

The Forbidden City of Beijing:

The Forbidden City of 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. Centered on the Three Great Halls, the Forbidden City of Beijing covers an area of about 720,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 150,000 square meters, more than seventy palaces of various sizes and more than 9,000 houses.

Construction of the Forbidden City began in the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Chengzu Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), using the Nanjing Imperial Palace as a blueprint, and was completed in the 18th year of the reign of Emperor Yongle (1420), making it the palace of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The buildings in 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 Preservation of Harmony, collectively known as the Three Great Halls, where the state holds its 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, Kunning Palace, collectively known as the latter three palaces, is the emperor and empress live in the main palace. Behind it is 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. On the east side of the East Six Palaces are the Heavenly Vault Treasure Hall and other Buddhist buildings, and on the west side of the West Six Palaces are 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.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the world's largest and most well-preserved wooden structures of ancient architecture, is a national AAAAA level tourist attraction, was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961, and was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.