Chapter 548: Privy Council
Anyone who has been to Delhi should visit this famous palace fort, which started construction in 1639 and took 10 years to build, the whole building is octagonal, there are 5 city gates, and the wall on the river side is as high as 30 meters, majestic and magnificent.
The inner hall in the city is made of marble and red sandstone, the stone pillars and walls are carved with reliefs of floral figures, the window lattices are hollowed out with marble, inlaid with various gemstones, brilliant and dazzling, magnificent, for hundreds of years, the Red Fort has survived several wars and catastrophes, and the surviving one is the Audience Palace, which is a temple that is open on three sides, only the east wall, the wall was originally inlaid with precious stones, and it was put together into a colorful pattern.
Another white marble palace, called the Privy Palace, is the most luxurious building of the Red Fort, has the reputation of "earthly paradise", there are also royal baths, king's private rooms, pearl temples and pavilions and other buildings in the fort, which are relatively well preserved.
Built in the 13th century, the style is unique, the shape is beautiful, the diameter of the tower base is about 14 meters, the tower body is divided into 5 layers, the first 3 layers are all built with red sandstone, each layer has a raised vertical decorative fold on the surface, the folds of the first layer are angular and semi-circular, the second layer is all semi-circular, the third layer is angular shape, the tower body of the highest two floors is all built with white marble.
Towering in the southeast of Delhi, the Great Iron Pillar is a marvel of ancient metallurgy, with a height of 7.1 meters and a weight of 60 tons.
The iron pillar is exposed in the wilderness, it has a history of 1500 years, let the wind and rain blow, never rust, it has been proved by chemistry that its composition in addition to iron, there are carbon, silicon, phosphorus, etc., which shows that the ancient Indian people mastered the advanced smelting and casting technology before 1500 years. This can be counted as an achievement in the history of metallurgy.
In the vicinity of the Royal Palace of Delhi, there is one of the largest Jami temples in India, which is also a famous monument in Delhi, with three curved white domes and two towering minarets in the distance, and its image is majestic and majestic, which is awe-inspiring.
Among the many cultural relics and monuments are the mausoleum of Humayun, the second Mughal emperor in the southeast of New Delhi, and the remains of the 12th and 13th century Kuwat-your temples on the southern outskirts of the city.
Unlike Old Delhi, which has a strong sense of history, New Delhi is full of modernity, and New Delhi is a new city built between 1911 and 1931 according to the blueprints, with a history of more than 80 years.
The center of New Delhi is built on a hill and was built in 1929 as the Victoria Palace, which was converted into the Presidential Palace after India's independence. The presidential palace is a palace-like building, sitting west to east, built of red sandstone, with a hemispherical dome reflecting the legacy of the Mughal dynasty.
There is a "Mughal Garden" built according to the style of the Mughal Dynasty, and the garden is divided into square gardens, long gardens and round gardens of different forms, with thousands of famous flowers and plants. Directly opposite the main entrance of the Presidential Palace is a wide and straight "National Highway" that leads to the India Gate.
The Porta de India is a bit like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with a height of 48.7 meters and an arch of 42 meters high and 21.3 meters wide. It was built to commemorate the 70,000 British and Indian soldiers who died in World War I.
The avenue is flanked by large meadows, dotted with nine pools of considerable size. Every year on January 26, a huge National Day parade is held here, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of Indians.
On the left is the Parliament Building, which is in the shape of a disc, surrounded by white marble columns, typical of Central Asian architecture, with the exterior carved in pure Indian art, and the interior walls are covered with murals of Indian history.
Most of the buildings in this area are built with red sand and stone, the tacit understanding between the buildings, integrated into one, and then extend outward is some neat and orderly white, light yellow, light green buildings, about 1 km away is the foreign embassy area, a building rich in the characteristics of various countries is located in the middle, the Chinese Embassy in India located on Heping Avenue is one of the beautiful three-story buildings.
Connaught Price is the most prosperous commercial center of New Delhi, with a park in the center, and there are three rings around the perimeter of the park, forming a huge disk, which the Chinese in Delhi call the "Great Disk", from which there are eight avenues scattered in eight directions.
Underneath the park is a sizable underground mall, made up of a variety of specialty stores, also arranged in rings that will make you seem to never end. Connaught Price is home to the highest concentration of shopping for Indians and foreign tourists.
New Delhi isn't all modern, it's also full of antiquity, with temples of various styles and even ruins dating back hundreds of years, and on the streets of New Delhi, one can also see the sacred cow roaming with its head held high, and the elephant rider leisurely looking around, this is New Delhi, a modern capital without losing its tradition.
Pork is also cheaper, because high-caste Hindus don't eat pork, low-caste Hindus and Christians only eat pork, mutton is the most expensive, Jains are even more strict vegetarian, even eggs don't eat, but you can drink milk, eat cheese and butter, India's vegetarians account for about half of the population, India's milk is cheap, the quality is also very good, men, women and children, all drink milk, dairy products such as ice cream, cheese, yogurt, cakes, etc., the quality is also excellent, a kilogram of ice cream only a few dozen rupees.
Breakfast has been westernized, usually a glass of milk, a few slices of bread, jam, butter, but lunch and dinner are authentic Indian flavors, every meal has bean soup, there are many kinds of beans in India, there are red beans as big as broad beans, as well as soybeans, peas, etc., these beans are added with spices and salt, used to make soup.
Probably the most famous dish in India is the "Chicken Stew", which is known as Peking duck, which is made by dipping chicken thighs and chicken pieces in spices and grilling them in a charcoal fire in a stove.
Most Indians do not use knives, forks or spoons when eating, but roll vegetables in the cake with their right hand, or mix rice and vegetables with their hands, grab them and put them in their mouths, while intellectuals or middle-class families who stay abroad use knives, forks and spoons.
India's sweets can be described as "worthy of the name", sweet and greasy, there are many types of sweets, fried, fried, baked, baked, everything, but every sweet dish is without exception extremely sweet.
Most Indians are addicted to sweets, Indians are prone to obesity, probably related to the craving for too many sweets, Indians' dinners are also late to the name, the earliest is around 8 o'clock in the evening, the late is around 10 o'clock, and it is strange that they go to bed soon after eating, and they do not gain weight.
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