"Head, this Xiangjiang man is wild enough!"

"The president of CCB, the real God of Wealth!"

The little policeman looked at the direction where the two of them were going and said with some envy.

"It's hard to be friends with the God of Wealth, if you don't want to get rich!"

"Xiao Li, you are wrong about this matter, the only person who can be friends with the God of Wealth can only be the God of Wealth!"

"Do you know what happened to the young man who left just now?"

"What's the matter, it's not the son of a big guy, right? It's not right, he's from Xiangjiang, not from Beijing! There's no one with the surname Wang among the big guys? Could it be the big guy in the army?"

"I guessed blindly, he is not from Beijing, nor is he the son of a big man in Beijing, but he is a real God of Wealth, the chairman of Xiangjiang HSBC!"

"Oh my God!"

"I'll go!"

Several people looked at the direction Wang Zhong left in a daze, they couldn't have imagined that the young man who looked modest just now and looked like Si Swenwen was actually the owner of a large bank!

This is the real big money owner!

It's no wonder that the president of CCB has such a close relationship with him!

With this identity, it makes sense!

It's really like things gather, beasts are grouped, and the God of Wealth can only be friends!

"So, we almost tortured the God of Wealth just now?"

"Don't worry, we're just doing our business normally, he'll understand!"

The police looked at the team members a little frightened, and hurriedly comforted.

Just when several policemen were discussing behind their backs, Liu Sicheng also opened the conversation box and gave Wang Zhong a detailed introduction to the history of the capital!

Introducing the humanities and history of the capital to the guests is the interest of every old capital!

Every time I see the stunned looks of outsiders. They all have a lot of pride!

Although it is not the first time for Wang Zhong to come to the capital, there is still a refreshing feeling when he is introduced to him by an authentic Beijing person like Liu Sicheng!

Wang Zhong listened quietly, and he could feel that this was a completely different culture from Xiangjiang!

Many people refer to this culture as "Imperial City Culture"!

It's a culture that's completely immersed in the marrow!

This is the pride of the men of the Forty-Nine Cities!

"The Four Nine Cities refer to the general name of the four gates of the imperial city and the nine gates of the inner city. The four gates of the imperial city are Fengtian Gate, Di'an Gate, Dong'an Gate and Xi'an Gate, while the nine gates of the inner city are Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate, Xuanwu Gate, Chaoyang Gate, Fucheng Gate, Dongzhi Gate, Xizhi Gate, Anding Gate and Desheng Gate.

Sijiu City now does not only refer to Chaoyang, Xuanwu, Chongwen and other urban areas. It has been extended to Beijing. Sijiu City is full of people's nostalgia for Beijing's culture, feelings and quiet and harmonious atmosphere. ”

Liu Sicheng introduced Wang Zhong with a smile on the road.

After eating some food at a time-honored restaurant in Beijing, Liu Sicheng took Wang Zhong and drove towards the Forbidden City!

The Forbidden City is the pride of the people of Beijing, once inhabited by the most noble emperor of China, and now the Forbidden City has become a tourist attraction that people from all over the world can visit!

If you don't go to the Forbidden City, you won't be to the capital!

It just so happened that Wang Zhong was also very interested in the feng shui layout of the Forbidden City. The two hit it off and set the first stop in the capital in the Forbidden City!

The car slowly drove through the Nine Gates and into the inner city, ahead of which was their final stop this time!

"The Forbidden City is the imperial palace of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, moved his capital to Beijing and began to build the Forbidden City Palace. It was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420). According to ancient Chinese astrology, Ziweiyuan is located in Zhongtian, which is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, and the corresponding heaven and man are also known as the Forbidden City as the residence of the emperor. ”

In order to make Wang Zhong more able to experience the culture of the imperial city, Liu Sicheng hired a professional tour guide to introduce and explain to Wang Zhong.

"The Forbidden City is 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 720,000 square meters. There are 890 houses. A total of 8,707 rooms. It is surrounded by a 10-meter-high castle wall and a 52-meter-wide moat. There is a city gate on each side of the city wall, among which the noon gate in the south and the Shenwu gate in the north are now exclusively for visitors to visit and enter. The layout of the palace buildings in the city unfolds along the central axis to the east and west. Red walls and yellow tiles, painted carved beams. Resplendent. The palace tower, high and low, spectacular and majestic. In the morning and sunset, it is like a fairyland on earth. The southern half of the city is centered on the three major halls of Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Palace, and the two sides are supplemented by two halls of Wenhua Hall and Wuying Palace, which is the place where the emperor holds a court meeting. It is called "Mae Chao". The northern half is centered on the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, the Kunning Palace, the East and West Six Palaces and the Imperial Garden, and there are Fengxian, Huangji and other halls on the east side of it. On the west side, there are the Palace of Nourishing Heart, Yuhua Pavilion, Cining Palace, etc.!"

"Sir, do you know the origin of the name of the Forbidden City?"

The tour guide smiled and interacted with Wang Zhong.

"I really don't know this very well!"

Wang Zhong thought for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and said.

"Governor Liu, do you know the origin of the name of the Forbidden City?"

"This, although I grew up in the Imperial City, but I really don't know the origin of the name of the Forbidden City!

Liu Sicheng clicked his shell and said with some embarrassment.

"It's not just that you don't know, I'm afraid that except for those older relics of the previous dynasty, not many people in the current Sijiu City really know!"

Seeing Liu Sicheng's embarrassed look on his face, the tour guide smiled and cleared the siege.

"Ziweiyuan, one of the three walls, originated from the Chinese people's ancient nature worship of the stars, and is the product of the combination of ancient Chinese mythology and astronomy. Ziweiyuan is the place where the Emperor of Heaven lives, is the emperor's inner courtyard, in addition to the emperor, the queen, the prince, and the palace maid all live here. According to the "Butian Song", Ziweiyuan is the middle wall of the three walls, located in the center of the North Heaven, so it is called the Middle Palace, with the North Pole as the center. There are fifteen stars, divided into two columns of left wall and right wall, Song Dynasty history astronomical chronicles: Ziwei wall is in the north of the Beidou, the left and right ring columns, the image of Yiwei also.

The name of the Forbidden City is derived from the Ziwei Wall. Ancient Chinese astronomers once divided the stars in the sky into three walls, twenty-eight nakshatras, and other constellations. The three walls include Taiwei Wall, Ziwei Wall, and Tianshi Wall. Ziweiyuan is in the center of the three walls. According to ancient Chinese astronomy, based on long-term observations of space celestial bodies, Ziweiyuan is believed to be in the middle of the heavens, and its position is eternal and unchanging. It is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven. Therefore, the heavenly palace where the emperor lives is called the purple palace, and there is a saying that "Ziwei is in the middle". The "forbidden" is more understood, meaning that the palace is a royal place, and idle people are not allowed to come here.

Palace. It is likened to the Purple Palace in the sky. They hope that they are in the Purple Palace, and they can govern with virtue, naturalize in all directions, and come to the court from all sides, so as to achieve the eternal stability of the country and maintain the purpose of long-term rule.

Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In order to preserve their own authority and dignity, as well as to consider their own safety, the palace was both magnificent and fortified. This city is not only full of palaces. The pavilions are lined up one after another, and surrounded by a wall more than 10 meters high and a moat 52 meters wide, and there are many sentry posts, and the guard is tight. Ordinary people don't need to talk about watching the towers and palaces, even if they get closer, it is absolutely not allowed.

After the new China, the people turned over and became the masters, and the Forbidden City became a scenic spot. Open to the common people!"

"It turns out that the origin of the name of the Forbidden City has something to do with astrology, and this is Mr. Wang's domain!"

Liu Sicheng joked with a smile.

"Is this gentleman an astronomer?"

The accompanying tour guide asked with some curiosity.

"Nope. He's not an astronomer, he's a philosopher!"

Liu Sicheng said with a smile.

"A feng shui master?"

The tour guide said with some surprise.

"Aren't feng shui masters surveying geography, how can they have anything to do with celestial phenomena?"

"All the principles of Feng Shui are derived from the principles of celestial phenomena. What we pay attention to is that "there is an image in the sky, and there is a form in the earth". The stars in the sky are a harbinger or a basic principle or law of our feng shui creation. ”

Wang Zhong said with a smile

"It's funny, I remember it before. When watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", or listening to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" storytelling. Zhuge Kong watched the sky at night to see which meteor crossed again. He'll know which general has fallen. But many people think that this is a superstition! or a kind of theatrical effect!"

Liu Sicheng asked with some confusion.

"The ancients, whether they were scholars, doctors, or scholars, were very good at observing the heavens. ”

Wang Zhong said affirmatively.

"The content of celestial phenomena is very broad and rich, and it is not just a matter of meteors and meteorites. The main object of observation is the stars that we can see. So roughly, today it seems to be relatively far from us, that is, we say tens of thousands of light years, a few light years, in the past, we think that although we can't know its exact distance, but we can know the relationship between them, the interaction, the mutual angle, and our relationship. Ancient China, it can be said that in the field of astronomy, it is far ahead of the world. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Huainanzi's "Tianwen Xun" already appeared. Then came to Zhang Heng in the Han Dynasty, and their observation and calculation of celestial phenomena were already very accurate. Then when it comes to the later application of Feng Shui, it is completely based on the principle of celestial phenomena. ”

"Let's talk about the Forbidden City in front of us, the site selection and construction of the Forbidden City are inseparable from astrology!"

Wang Zhong said with a smile.

"The ancients had a special worship of the heavens, and the palace city was "the residence of the Son of Heaven" The planning of the palace city was simulated in the stars, so that the palace city was more in line with the ideal world of heaven, and imitating the heavens was also to further promote the idea that the ruler was carried by heaven!"

"To survey the national capital with feng shui is to place the city in an ideal natural environment and achieve the highest state of feng shui - the unity of heaven and man. In line with the principle that "there are five elements in the sky, five mountains in the earth, seven stars in the sky, seven tables on the earth, eight qi in the sky, eight winds on the earth, nine ways in the sky, nine states on the earth, four dimensions in the sky, four desecrations on the earth, nine divisions and eight epochs in the sky, and eight pillars in the earth" is the carrier of the capital city and the model of human ethics. Astronomy is the celestial phenomenon, is the ancients in the "looking up at the celestial phenomena" is, the heavenly entities that are the stars, the sun, the moon, clouds, rain, thunder and other operating changes of the understanding and mastery, the most important of which is the mastery of the stars, the combination and operation of the stars became the basis for the ancients to understand astronomy, countless stars in the sky were combined into different areas by the ancients. Since China is located in the northern hemisphere, only the stars of the North Celestial Pole can be seen, and the stars of the North Celestial Pole revolve around the North Star.

The North Star becomes the center of the sky. The sun and moon, stars, heavenly rivers, and nebulae in the sky constitute a magnificent picture, and the three groups of star walls are respectively surrounded by the stars of the east and west domains, such as the form of the wall, which are crape myrtle wall, Taiwei wall, and Tianshi wall. Ziweiyuan is the central area of the sky, and together with the three city walls guarded in all directions, the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird and the twenty-eight constellations of Xuanwu constitute the cosmic schema of the ancients.

Composed of fifteen stars, eight stars in the east and seven stars in the west, Ziweiyuan is located in the north of the Big Dipper, in the center of the heavens, where the emperor lives on the earth.

Judging from the layout of the Forbidden City, the palace city is divided into two major parts of the front and the back of the bed, and the former dynasty is divided into three major halls, which are the places where the emperor listens to the government and holds the court meeting, such as the south palace of heaven and earth is too Weiyuan, and the second palace of the back bed is the place where the emperor sleeps, such as the purple micro wall where the emperor lives for a long time. But as far as the entire Forbidden City as an imperial palace is concerned, it is taken from Ziweiyuan. Sketch out a celestial topographic map, the canopy star outside the Ziwei Yuan is the ancestral mountain, the bar star is a mountain, the Tianbing star is the front case, the Tianhe River passes through the Ziwei Yuan, there are seven stars of the West Domain in the west, and there are eight stars of the East Domain in the east to guard, forming a thousand mountains embracing, backwater hugging the city, and facing the situation of the Emperor and the Emperor's throne. ”

"That's true!"

Listening to Wang Zhong's narration, Liu Sicheng slowly sketched a picture in his heart!

The layout of the Forbidden City is indeed an ancient star map as Wang Zhong said!

"You're so knowledgeable!"

The tour guide looked at Wang Zhong with some admiration.

"We don't know what you're talking about!

"You're so polite, I've been researching this field, so I know more!"

Wang Zhong said modestly.

Wang Zhong followed the tour guide, visiting one palace after another, and he also heard some legends about the Forbidden City from the mouth of the tour guide and Liu Sicheng.

The Forbidden City was first built in the Yuan Dynasty, but the Forbidden City you see in front of you is a building in the Ming and Qing dynasties!

After visual observation and mental arithmetic, Wang Zhong also has a general understanding of the feng shui layout of the Forbidden City!

"A series of large-scale reconstructions were carried out on the basis of the Yuan capital, the most fundamental and crucial of which was to retract the northern wall of the capital city to the south into Wuhuali, and at the same time move the imperial city of Ouchi (known as the Forbidden City) to the south.

This change made the capital change in feng shui compared with the capital city of Yuan, and changed the immediate point of the city, that is, the central point.

The pole of the capital city of the Yuan Dynasty - the silver ingot bridge, is determined according to the natural trend of the waters of Shichahai, from the perspective of feng shui, this pole should be the most reasonable, but the Ming Jingcheng changed this most reasonable pole, the pole changed to the position of Jingshan. Jingshan, formerly known as "Long Live Mountain", was built by digging moats and mud from the South China Sea when the capital city of the Ming Dynasty was rebuilt. ”

Wang Zhong looked at the map of the imperial city of the past dynasties in the exhibition place, pointed to the two locations of the Silver Ingot Bridge and Jingshan, and explained to Liu Sicheng and the tour guide. (To be continued)