1, building

The Palace Museum in Beijing covers an area of 654.38+00,000 square meters and preserves about 9,000 ancient buildings. It is the largest and best-preserved ancient palace complex in China. The Forbidden City, formerly known as the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), where 24 emperors lived in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 19 12 After Puyi abdicated, the history of the Forbidden City as a palace ended.

2. Collectibles

The collection system of cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Beijing is complete, with a total collection of 6.5438+0.8 million pieces (sets) and a total collection of 25 categories, including more than 8,000 pieces (sets) of first-class collections. According to the difference of texture and shape, it can be divided into 25 categories, such as painting, calligraphy, rubbings, bronzes, gold and silver utensils, among which precious cultural relics account for 90% of the total collection. Through the buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Palace Museum displays the historical relics of the palace in its original state, and permanently exhibits treasures, clocks, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other art collections.

Brief introduction of architectural features of Palace Museum

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 architecture of the Forbidden City is 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 Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe, which are collectively called the three halls, and are the places where the country holds ceremonies.

The left and right wings of the three main halls are supplemented by two groups of buildings: Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall. The center of the Forbidden City is Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where emperors and empresses live. Followed by the imperial garden. On both sides of the last three palaces, there are six palaces in the east and west, which are places where empresses live and rest. On the east side of the East Sixth Palace are Buddhist buildings such as the Heavenly Palace, and on the west side of the West Sixth Palace are Buddhist buildings such as the Zhongzheng Hall. In addition to the outer court and the inner court, there are two buildings: Waidong Road and Waixi Road.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Palace Museum