1, Wumen San Xiao
According to legend, when an emperor of the Ming Dynasty was patrolling in front of the meridian gate, he saw a farmer looking after his farmland. The emperor admired the farmer's hard work and gave him some land and food, hoping that he could live a happy life. The farmer was very grateful. He smiled. This scene was recorded by a court painter and became a famous painting.
2. Kittens in the Qing Palace
Gan Qing Palace is the bedroom of an emperor in the Forbidden City, and its name comes from "the clean palace of Emperor Qianlong". According to legend, Emperor Qianlong was very fond of keeping cats. He keeps a very lovely kitten in Gan Qing Palace. This kitten is very clever and spends lonely time with the emperor every day. The emperor liked the kitten so much that he even named him "Gan Qing". This name also became the origin of Gan Qing Palace.
Architectural history of the Forbidden City;
The construction of the Forbidden City began in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), becoming the palace of the twenty-four emperors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the 14th National Day of the Republic of China (1925 10/October10), 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 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.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Forbidden City