Come to the side hall next to it, here is the Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture exhibition hall, the year before last was officially developed to the outside world, more than 6,000 pieces of fine products in one hundred heavy weapons.

SC Johnson's eyes were wide open, from the 3.9-metre-tall rosewood carved dragon-topped cabinet to the A4-sized fish tank insert, each with a royal story behind it and the possibility of leaving imperial fingerprints on it.

All the furniture is either huanghuali or red sandalwood, and even the wooden fish tank landscaping does not use sand or stones, and it is sprinkled with genuine pearls, which is full of style.

Three layers of shelves are lined up, separated by a huge glass curtain wall, tables, chairs, bars, desks, stools, and piers...... Chinese furniture is available.

Come to a red sandalwood carved cloud dragon picture screen, eight-character three-screen type. The center of the screen is carved with red sandalwood, carved dragon play bead pattern, double hook 10,000-character checkered brocade edge, each dragon combs the popular big back head in the Qianlong period.

The red sandalwood inlaid jade chair has a moire ground on the front of the back, inlaid with a blue and white jade dragon, surrounded by fire beads and five bats......

On both sides of the throne are two rosewood carved incense tables, each worshipping a red lion. The pillar hangs on the red hanging pair, the book is rain-run, the green mountains outside the Xianglian Garden, and the red medicine is incense in front of the wind cloak brocade Mo steps......

Zhou Hui took Johnson to a display case and introduced: "This is a deer antler chair and two gold lacquer carved dragon pattern chairs, and the three chairs are displayed side by side, which are the three generations of Qianlong, Yongzheng and Kangxi. ”

"The antler chair is extremely high, the back of the chair is made of whole antlers, which is engraved with Qianlong's imperial poems, and there are currently only four in the Forbidden City, two of which are made of Kangxi's own hunting deer. ”

"None of them are practical tools, they were mainly made by Qianlong to commemorate his grandfather. Even he himself said: Don't dare to sit and admire. At the same time, it reminds future generations not to forget that they are a people on horseback and not to neglect the art of salvo shooting. ”

Another dragon chair is Kangxi's favorite, and every time he goes to Chengde Summer Resort, this huge chair must be carried. Whenever I met with the Mongolian princes and ministers, this chair was never absent. ”

"Because the chair evolved from the Hu bed, and the Hu bed changed people's habits of sitting on the ground. In a hierarchical feudal society, not everyone can sit on the chair, so let's say: sit on the first chair. ”

Johnson approached him and looked closely, and the thick and smooth pulp on the armrest, and even some slight scratches, showed that the emperor had personally coiled it.

Any one of them is tens of millions of heavy weapons, looking dizzy, and leaving quickly. Walking to the east, I heard that there is a special exhibition hall for imperial tableware.

Good guys, hot pots, fire bowls, pots, plates, bowls, water hoards, saucers, wine glasses, knives, forks, chopsticks, tea boats, food boxes......

Gold, silver, jade, crystal, porcelain, enamel, jadeite and agate, etc., the production area is also divided into offices, private silver buildings, and local manufacturing in other provinces......

Depending on the function of the tableware, the identity of the user, and the occasion of use, the tableware used is also different. The emperor used all kinds of plates and bowls in his daily meals. In winter, hot pots and bowls are added, and jade plates and bowls are mostly used in the royal banquet during the big feast......

The longevity banquet uses a special copper tire gold-plated cloisonné enamel longevity boundless plate and bowl, and the queen, concubine, concubine, etc. have plates and bowls to match their status.

For example, the queen and the queen mother use yellow glazed plates and bowls, the concubines use yellow ground green dragon plates and bowls, the concubines use blue ground yellow dragon plates and bowls, the nobles use green purple dragon plates and bowls, and often use colorful red dragon plates and bowls......

For example, there is a whole set of cutlery in front of you, called a wild guy, and to put it bluntly, it is a hot pot set. What hot pot, plate, plate, fruit box, fire bowl, box, square plate, and ......

All pure gold, yellow and bright color, shining, delicate engraving, clear ornamentation, exquisite craftsmanship. I heard that it was Pu Yi's collateral in the Salt Industry Bank that year, and he returned to the Forbidden City in 1951.

SC Johnson couldn't help but approach the study, round saucers, open mouths, circled feet. The inner concave is to bear a single-ear cup, engraved with a dragon pattern, surrounded by eight treasure patterns, small floral patterns and diamond-shaped patterns.

The single-ear cup is round, skimmed, and circled. The outer wall of the abdomen is engraved with eight treasure patterns, such as wheels, snails, umbrellas, covers, flowers, jars, fish, and intestines, and there are small floral patterns and diamond patterns along the edge of the mouth.

Even a small spoon is engraved with a dragon pattern on the front, the hair rises, the body is bent and coiled, the two front paws are held high on both sides of the head, the whole body is surrounded by auspicious clouds, and the surrounding is a flower pattern and a diamond-shaped pattern.

The emerald handle is carved with a lotus silver gilded two-toothed fork

Green jade handle golden spoon

Gold inlaid with turquoise put on the agate spoon

Green jade inlaid with red gold inlaid ebony chopsticks

Rosewood inlaid with gold and jade chopsticks

Gold inlaid with red sandalwood handle jade top fruit fork

Jin Chisel Flower Double Happiness Yuanshou Tea Bowl, a small bowl is engraved with the Diamond Sutra, each word is so small that you can't see it without a magnifying glass!

Zhou Hui saw Zhuang Chensheng's loveless expression, and said with a smile: "The emperor's usual dining place is not fixed, most of them are in the east and west rooms of the palace or in the office place. No one is allowed to leave on both sides of the meal, and all the people serving the food go through the middle south gate, because the emperor must sit east and face west to eat. ”

"The eunuch in the dining room is responsible for setting up the dining table, laying out the table list, and when the meal time comes, the guards will notify the imperial dining room to deliver the meal, which is called passing the meal. ”

The eunuchs lined up with red lacquer boxes in their hands, and quickly brought all kinds of dishes, meals, soups, etc. to the table, and placed them in accordance with the prescribed positions. ”

The emperor sat down surrounded by eunuchs, ready to eat, four eunuchs stood behind him with their hands down, and the elderly eunuch stood aside, responsible for serving the emperor's dishes. The dining table is generally made of three tables in the north-south direction, and the middle table is for the emperor to eat, mainly placing a few seasonal vegetables and fruits. ”

There are also a few cases next to it, for the emperor's reward, if you think which dish is particularly delicious, say reward, this dish will be put on several cases, and later put it in a food box with boiling water and warmed, and quickly send it to the rewarded official's palace or concubine's palace. ”

"The eunuch to be eaten first put a poison test tag on each dish to see if the color changes, so as to test whether the food is poisonous or spoiled. The drug test card is a small silver brand that is half an inch wide and three inches long. ”

After testing with the test card, the eunuch tasted each dish with his own mouth, which was called a tasting. After verifying that it was correct, the emperor signaled the eunuch to put his favorite dishes into a bowl and start to enjoy them. ”

"It's a pity that no matter how delicious the dish is, the emperor can't eat three bites in a row, this is a family rule handed down by the ancestors, and no more than three spoonfuls are allowed to eat vegetables. What the emperor likes to eat and what he doesn't like to eat, he must not let outsiders know!"

"First, I am afraid that someone will make up my mind about the meal and poison and murder the emperor, and second, I don't want the emperor's hobby to be pretended to be deceived and deceive. The four eunuchs behind him are dedicated to enforcing the rules of the family, and even the emperor has to follow the rules set by the ancestors. ”

Seeing which dish with his eyes, the eunuch quickly moved the dish closer to the emperor, and then scooped it into the cloth dish with a spoon. If the emperor eats it and says, "This dish is good," or nods approvingly, he will scoop it for the emperor again, and at the same time push the dish back and not again. ”

"If you scoop three times and eat three bites in a row, the chief eunuch immediately shouts: Withdraw. The rest of the eunuchs withdrew the dish, and they would definitely not see it again for ten days and a half months. The rule is that the meal is not advised, anyway, the emperor's meal must be unpredictable, and the law must not be easily mastered. ”

"Even the internal court information that specifically records the Qing Palace's "Meal Bottom File", what kind of dishes the emperor likes to eat can never be recorded, and even the emperor himself will never say what he likes to eat, or what he wants to eat today. ”

"Eunuchs and palace personnel are not allowed to talk casually, this is a big taboo in the palace, people who talk about or leak the emperor's meals at will, the light one is punished with a cane, and the one is beheaded. ”