After watching the auction, I suddenly had the urge to visit the Forbidden City, drive to the Forbidden City, buy tickets, and find a senior docent, Zhou Hui, two hundred per hour. ☆☆ The new 'thinking' road 'Chinese 'text' net' starts with a hand-hit ☆☆

"I don't know if you have any attractions that interest you the most?" Zhou Hui said tentatively: "After all, the Forbidden City is very large, and it is more affordable to visit it if you have a focus." ”

Johnson nodded, quite thoughtful advice, and said casually: "I'm interested in furniture and food." ”

Zhou Hui smiled after hearing this: "No problem, then today I will focus on furniture and palace food, I hope you can return with a full load." ”

Everyone began to visit, entered from the noon gate, crossed the Taihe Gate through the Jinshui Bridge, and came to the square in front of the Taihe Palace, which is the area where the outer court is located. The three major halls of Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall on the nine-meter-high platform are the most important buildings in the Forbidden City, and the places where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties handled government affairs and held court meetings.

"The Taihe Hall was called the Fengtian Hall in the early Ming Dynasty, Jiajing was renamed the Huangji Palace, and it was changed to the Taihe Hall in the early Qing Dynasty, the most important hall in the Forbidden City, and the building with the highest specification system level in the ancient wooden structure building......"

"The interior and exterior decoration is extremely luxurious, the outer beam lintel is pasted with gold double dragon and the seal color painting, above the throne is the golden lacquer dragon caisson, close to the throne of the six leaching powder dragon golden pillars, straight to the top of the palace, up and down left and right are connected into a piece, the golden light is brilliant......"

Knowing that customers like furniture, Zhou Hui explained the key points very clearly, entered the main hall, pointed to the bricks on the ground and said: "One or two gold in the early Ming Dynasty was the price of 1,500 catties of polished rice, and the salary of three county orders in the early Qing Dynasty was only the cost of a floor tile in the Forbidden City." ”

"The soil in the south of the Yangtze River is sticky but not scattered, and the powder is not sandy. After seven processes of digging, transporting, drying, pushing, scooping, grinding and screening, it is placed in the open air for a whole year to remove the soil. ”

"The water immersed in Gusu is clarified in a three-level pool, and it is refined into dense mud ...... after six processes: precipitation, filtration, drying, trampling, and beating."

"Make a mold out of a wooden plank, put the mud in, and the craftsman steps on it barefoot until it is solid. Remove the excess mud and smooth it with a stick, as well as the other side of the brick. ”

"Put it in a cool place, dry it in the shade for eight months, and then burn it with bran for one month to remove the water, and burn it for one month, burn it for one month, burn it for one month, and burn it for forty days for pine branches......

"The craftsman climbs to the top of the kiln, pours water into the hot kiln to cool down, cools it for four or five days, and then comes out of the kiln. In the long process, a little carelessness, the whole kiln bricks were wasted. ”

"Out of the kiln is only a semi-finished product, and then after cutting and grinding, soaking tung oil, each person can only cut and grind three pieces a day. Burn the bricks with the age, specifications, origin, superintendent, and craftsman names, and go north from the canal to Tongzhou. ”

"In the end, after strict inspection by the government one by one, each brick must have more than three alternatives, and all those that are not selected will be destroyed!"

After hearing this, Johnson had a feeling of stepping on gold under his feet, and Zhou Hui smiled: "Of course, this kind of style is only qualified to be displayed in palaces frequented by the emperor, and most places in the Forbidden City cannot be seen." ”

"The unnamed craftsman has worked for a long and complicated time to make the earth, which was originally nameless, worth gold. It takes four years to build a magnificent palace city, or it can take two years to polish just one brick. ”

"That's the real understated luxury!"

Walking to the center of the main hall, in front of you is the most important chair in five hundred years, whoever can sit on it, can sit on the world.

The carved dragon and gold chair, the throne of the Ninety-Five, the only master in the world, the 2,377 square meters of the Taihe Palace, and even more than 30,000 square meters of the square, there is no second chair.

All the focus is gathered on the throne, held high by seven steps, surrounded by incense sticks, incense burners, and rui beasts. The crane blessed the emperor with a long and healthy life. The treasure elephant symbolizes the stability and stability of the country.

Elephants, carrying treasure vases, bring a good harvest and auspiciousness, meaning: there are elephants in peace.

Lu Duan brings a wide range of knowledge, showing that the emperor is on the throne and knows the world.

The screen, which was specially placed behind the throne when the Zhou Dynasty was born, was set up to show the authority of the Son of Heaven.

Because she couldn't visit it up close, Zhou Hui took out the photos in her mobile phone and showed the details: "Although the throne is exquisite, in fact, because there is no backrest, it is not comfortable to sit on, and there are no armrests." Carved thirteen dragons, as if to alert the emperor at all times, under the ass is not a chair, but the world. ”

Then came to the side, in the center of the Taihe Palace, six coiling dragon golden pillars, surrounding a golden and shining sacred space. The golden pillar is 12.7 meters high and 1.06 meters in diameter, and it takes three or four people to hug it.

"For such a thick pillar, at least two layers of hemp should be applied to the outside of the wood, plastered six times, and then the pattern should be decorated with the technique of leaching and gilding. There is only one gold leaf factory in Jinling in the country, and this process is still preserved. ”

"The purity of 99.99 gold, after many processes, is made into small pieces of gold leaf, sandwiched in black gold paper smoked with kerosene, and then beaten 20,000 times. It takes six to eight hours to hammer 1 gram of gold into about 0.5 square meters of gold leaf, which is only 1.5 millimeters thick. ”

"The pillar was pasted with gold leaf, and the six dragons soared through the clouds and mist on the cliff pattern of the water river. The dragon heads of the three golden pillars in the east look up to the west, and the ones in the west look up to the east, echoing the golden dragon in the caisson. The dragon caisson, screen, and throne constitute the space of the dragon and highlight the dignity of the true dragon emperor. ”

is worthy of being a senior commentator, and after listening to it, all kinds of tall and high, invisible pretending to be the most deadly.

"Not only the bricks on the ground are expensive, but even the tiles above our heads are also treasures!" Zhou Hui smiled: "You should have heard of the glazed factory, right? That place burned the glazed tiles of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Qianlong probably felt that it was too close to the palace, and the pollution was hazy, so he later ordered to move and moved to Mentougou in the western suburbs, and now that place is still called: Liuliqu." ”

"The molded tiles are glazed, put into the kiln again, and burned to a bright color, like glass. Different colors, because the glaze contains different metal oxides. The red iron oxide glaze will be fired into a yellow glazed tile. ”

"The glaze of copper oxide, fired to an emerald green color. Cobalt oxide is fired blue, and the principle is the same as that of enamel. ”

"In any Forbidden City where there must be rules, the colors are also particular about the five elements, each representing a direction. Yellow is earthy, and the soil is in the center. The emperor lives in the world, and most of the roofs of the Forbidden City are yellow. ”

"The three southern institutes are located in the east, which belongs to the wood, the main green, and the main birth. Where the young princes and grandchildren learned and grew up, the roof was green tiles. The north belongs to the water, and the main is black. The east and west houses in the Shenwu Gate have black roofs. ”

"Various sizes, biting each other, layered on top of each other, all the way down to the tiles at the end of the eaves. There is a round hole left on the back and nailed into the tile to prevent it from slipping. The glazed tiles of the entire roof are connected into an impermeable umbrella to shield the palace from the wind and rain. ”

Going out and walking along the central axis, Zhou Hui said that all the stones in the Forbidden City came from the big stone nest in Fangshan in the southwest suburbs, which was 90 kilometers away, and the road for transportation was long and difficult.

In ancient times, there were many people who dug wells, and the wells were dug very densely, one mile of land, one well, and the behavior of the people along the way was quite incomprehensible at that time, which was actually the key to solving the transportation problem.

When winter came, the vanguard drew water from the wells and sprinkled it on the road, freezing the road. Workers and mules and horses can then drag rocks and glide on the ice.

The largest piece, even in this way, still requires more than 20,000 migrant workers, 2,000 mules and horses, and can only move slowly three kilometers a day, after 28 days of arduous journeys to reach the construction site.

It was placed at the north end of the three major halls of the previous dynasty, and after the careful carving of skilled craftsmen, the largest stone sculpture in the Forbidden City finally surfaced.

The turbulent waves, rippling fairy grass, flowing floating clouds, and nine dragons churning in the meantime, implying that the emperor lives in a high heavenly palace. The stone carving weighs 200 tons and is placed behind the Baohe Palace, the cloud dragon stepping stone.

Zhou Hui said as she walked: "Most of these huge stones that have been transported with great effort have been placed on the central axis of the Forbidden City. A hundred years ago, no one dared to walk this road under our feet, because only the emperor could pass through it, and it was called the imperial road. ”

Good guys, SC Johnson finally understands: what is called the devil in the details!