Brief introduction of Beijing Forbidden City
On the 14th National Day of the Republic of China (1925 10/0/010), the Palace Museum was formally established and opened. The length of the Forbidden City in Beijing is 96 1 meter from north to south and 753 meters from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city. There are four gates in the Forbidden City, the meridian gate in the south, the Shenwu gate in the north, the Donghua gate in the east and the Xihua gate in the west. There is a graceful turret at the four corners of the city wall, and there is a folk saying that there are nine beams, eighteen columns and seventy-two ridges to describe its complex structure.
The Forbidden City in Beijing is known as the first of the five largest palaces in the world (the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, the White House in the United States and the Russian Kremlin). It is a national AAAAA tourist attraction. 19 1 was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and 1987 was listed as a world cultural heritage.
Classic series
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The Palace Museum has nearly 420 paintings from the Yuan Dynasty and before, of which 17 were selected in National Cultural Heritage Administration's Catalogue of the Second Batch of Cultural Relics Prohibited from Going Abroad (Calligraphy and Painting). The Forbidden City has a collection of many unique works in the history of China painting. For example, Luo Shen Fu by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, You Chuntu by Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty and Bujitu by Yan in the Tang Dynasty.
calligraphy
The Palace Museum collected 3 10 pieces of calligraphy before and after the Yuan Dynasty, of which 1 1 piece was selected in National Cultural Heritage Administration's Catalogue of the Second Batch of Cultural Relics Prohibited from Going Abroad (Calligraphy and Painting). The Forbidden City has a collection of many unique works in the history of calligraphy in China. For example, the Mid-Autumn Festival Post of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Post of the Eastern Jin Dynasty King.
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There are 350,000 pieces of ceramics in the Forbidden City in Beijing, including more than one first-class product 1 100 and about 56,000 second-class products. More than 36,000 pieces of ceramic specimens were collected from more than 200 kilns in China. The collection features are especially reflected in the ceramics from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang and Five Dynasties, Yuan porcelain, official kilns in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, palace furnishings porcelain, purple porcelain, multi-glazed large-scale porcelain, production materials of official kilns in the Qing Dynasty, folk kiln porcelain in past dynasties and archaeological excavation materials.
Forbidden city gate 4
meridian gate
This is the main entrance of the Forbidden City. Commonly known as Wufenglou. The east, west and north sides are connected by a platform 12 meters high, surrounded by a square. There is a 1 building. There is a heavy building in the middle, which is 9 wide halls with double eaves and double eaves, and the top of the hall. On the wall extending from left to right, there are four pavilions with eaves and ridges connected by cloisters. The meridian gate is the place where the emperor issued letters and ordered expeditions. Its main entrance is usually accessible only to the emperor; When the emperor got married, the queen went in once; Three people who won the first prize, the second place and the flower exploration in the court exam can walk out of this door once. The ministers of civil and military affairs went in and out of the east gate, and the royal princes went in and out of the west gate.
Shenwumen
The Ming Dynasty was the "Xuanwu Gate", and Xuanwu was one of the four ancient beasts. From the azimuth, Zuo Qinglong, You Baihu, Qian Suzuo, Hou Xuanwu and Xuanwu are the four palace gates in the north, so the North Palace Gate of the Forbidden City is named "Xuanwu". During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed "Shenwumen" because of taboo. Shenwumen is also a city gate building, with the highest-grade double-eaved roof. Shenwumen is the entrance guard for daily access to the palace.
East and west gate
Donghuamen corresponds to Xihuamen, and there is a dismount monument outside. Inside the gate, North Henan Golden Water Flow, Shiqiao 1, North Bridge Sanmen. Donghuamen and Xihuamen have the same shape, with a rectangular plane, a red podium and a white jade base, among which there are three coupon doors with excircle coupon holes.