At that time, it was a crime for ordinary people to even approach the walls of the Forbidden City. Because the imperial court in Ming and Qing Dynasties was the highest ruling center with a highly complete feudal system, extraordinary events often occurred around the inheritance and safety of imperial power.
For example, the restoration of the orthodox emperor in Ming Dynasty, the change of Renyin Palace where Jiajing emperor was assassinated by maids, the beating of Taichang's uterus in forty-three years of Wanli, the red pill case in which Taichang died because of taking Dan pills, and the "moving palace" storm surrounding the new emperor Deng Ji after Taichang's death. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Wang fought for Sanguan Temple to establish imperial power. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi seized power in a coup.
2. 19 1 1 After the Revolution of 1911, all the palaces in the Forbidden City should be nationalized. However, according to the preferential conditions for cleaning rooms drawn up at that time, Aisin Giorro Puyi, the son of Emperor Xun, was allowed to "stay in the Forbidden City", that is, the "post-bedroom" part. 1924, Feng Yuxiang launched a "Beijing coup" to expel Puyi from the Forbidden City, and at the same time set up a "liquidation committee" to take over the Forbidden City.
In June 1925, 10, 10, the Palace Museum was formally established and opened to the public. The Forbidden City was called "Forbidden City" after 1925. With the decline of the Qing Dynasty, especially in the 38 years before 1949, the buildings of the Forbidden City were destroyed day by day, many palaces collapsed and garbage became mountains.
3. 1949 After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the State Council announced the Forbidden City as the first batch of "national key cultural relics protection units" in 196 1. Large-scale transformation began in the fifties and sixties. 1988 The Forbidden City is listed as a "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO. Now it's the Palace Museum.
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Heritage value
1987, the Forbidden City in Beijing was listed as a world cultural heritage. The World Heritage Organization's evaluation of the Forbidden City is: "The Forbidden City is the highest power center in China for more than five centuries. It has become a valuable historical witness of China civilization in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with its garden landscape and a huge complex of 9,000 rooms containing furniture and handicrafts. "
The Forbidden City has become a world cultural heritage, which has deepened people's understanding of the value of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City represents the culture that has become history. It has the shell of the court language E799Be5Bae59B9EE7AD 9431333431353934. At the same time, it represented the mainstream culture at that time. After a long period of historical screening and accumulation, of course, it can not be simply summarized as "feudal backwardness."
The Forbidden City and the museum are not unrelated and antagonistic, but organically unified and complementary. Taken together, it can be seen that the Palace Museum is one of the few museums and cultural heritage in the world with the characteristics of art museum, architecture museum, history museum and palace culture museum, which conforms to the internationally recognized basic principles of "original site protection" and "original appearance display".
The basic spirit of world cultural heritage is cultural diversity. From the perspective of world cultural heritage, people strive to explore and understand the outstanding and universal value of the Forbidden City.