The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle, the Ming emperor, and was based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle. It is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 m 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.
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 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.
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Introduction to the Palace Museum:
1, turret
There is a watchtower at each corner of the Forbidden City wall. They were built in the Ming Dynasty. They are the most complex buildings in the Forbidden City. Perfect angle is standing outside the moat. Seen from a distance, the turret and the reflection form a landscape.
2. Jinshui Bridge
Walking into the meridian gate, you can see five white marble Hongqiao. In addition to beautifully carved railings and columns, the mystery of Jinshui Bridge is still in the process of coming in.
From the outside of Zhaodemen and Zhendumen to the outside of Jinshui Bridge, and then to the middle gate of Wumen, the included angle between the two straight lines is 60, and from the inside of Zhaodemen and Zhendumen to the middle bridge is also 60, which is the best vision for human beings.
3. Wumen
The Wumen Gate is the main entrance of the Forbidden City, where the Ming and Qing Dynasties often held post-war prisoner offering ceremonies. As for the place where the prisoners were executed in the autumn trial, it was in the Maoqin Hall in the west, where the emperor marked out the power of life and death with a brush.
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