Chapter 343: There are people outside the people, and there is a palace outside the palace

"Sanssouci Palace......" Ye Chao felt that the German emperor really knew how to play, one built a swan castle, and the other built a Sanssouci Palace by himself, which he really enjoyed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sanssouci Palace, now it has become a cultural relic, and it is not interesting to live in it, besides, Ye Chao does not plan to stay for a few nights, how good it is to stay in a hotel, and it is not that there is no presidential suite, right?

Rich people can be willful, and now the hotel is like this all over the world, and the presidential suite is said to be for the president, but in fact, it is a specification. Anyone with money can go and live, as long as they have money......

The reason why it is set like this is to set a standard, otherwise it would be embarrassing to charge so much money, right?

After looking at Sanssouci Palace, Ye Chao remembered the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

A good palace, why is it called the Forbidden City, people obviously have a very nice name, called the Forbidden City.

To be honest, it's more powerful to call it the Forbidden City.

China's Forbidden City is much more than Germany's Sanssouci Palace...... It is known as the first of the five palaces in the world!

It's the first ...... The eldest of the five palaces.

Sanssouci Palace, Swan Castle or something, in terms of scale, it can be thrown a few streets away.

The Forbidden City, the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient Chinese court architecture.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on the three major halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved wooden structures in the world.

The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle (1406) of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, and was built on the basis of the Nanjing Forbidden City, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420).

It is a rectangular castle with a length of 961 meters from north to south and a width of 753 meters from east to west, surrounded by a wall 10 meters high on all sides, and a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court.

The center of the outer dynasty is the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace, collectively referred to as the three major halls, which are the places where the state holds great ceremonies.

The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, and the Kunning Palace, collectively known as the Hou Three Palaces, which are the main palaces where the emperor and empress live.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is known as the first of the five major palaces in the world - the five palaces are: the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the White House in the United States, and the Kremlin in Russia.

It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, which was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961 and a world cultural heritage in 1987.

The Forbidden City strictly follows the "Zhou Li? In the examination of the work, the construction principle of the imperial capital of "the former dynasty and the rear city, the left ancestor and the right society" was built.

The entire Forbidden City, in terms of architectural arrangement, uses the technique of shape change and ups and downs to form a whole. functionally in line with the hierarchy of feudal society. At the same time, it achieves the artistic effect of left and right balance and shape change.

The roof forms of Chinese architecture are rich and colorful, and there are more than 10 different forms of roofs in the Forbidden City architecture.

Take the three major halls as an example, and the roofs are different. The roof of the Forbidden City building is covered with various colored glazed tiles. The main temple is predominantly yellow.

Green is used for the buildings of the prince's residential area. Other blue, purple, black, emerald, peacock green, sapphire blue and other colorful glaze are mostly used in gardens or glazed walls.

There are glass-kissed beasts at both ends of the main ridge in the roof of the Taihe Palace, swallowing the big ridge steadily and powerfully. The beaker beast has a beautiful shape, which is both a component and an ornament. Some of the tiles create three-dimensional animal images such as dragons and phoenixes, lions, and seahorses, symbolizing auspiciousness and majesty, and these components play a decorative role in the architecture.

Beijing was originally the fief of Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

After the Battle of Jingyan, in the first year of Yongle (1403), Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said that Yanjing Beiping was the emperor's "land of dragon rejuvenation", and that Ming Taizu's practice of Fengyang should be followed and established as the accompanying capital.

Ming Chengzu then vigorously promoted the status of Yanjing Beiping Mansion, took Beiping as Beijing, and changed Beiping Mansion to Shuntian Mansion, which was called "Xing In". At the same time, the relocation of the people began to enrich Beijing; Those who were forcibly moved into Beijing included displaced people from all over the country, wealthy households in Jiangnan, and merchants from Shanxi.

In the fourth year of Yongle (1406), Ming Chengzu issued an edict to build the Beijing Imperial Palace and city walls based on the Nanjing Imperial Palace (Nanjing Imperial Palace).

Zhu Di first sent personnel to all parts of the country to mine precious timber and stone, and then transported them to Beijing. The preparation alone lasted 11 years.

Precious nanmu grows in the mountains and mountains, the people venture into the mountains to collect wood, many people lose their lives for this, and later generations left "a thousand into the mountain, five hundred out of the mountain" to describe the price of life paid for wood picking.

Mining the stone for the construction of the palace was also very difficult. Now the largest Danbi stone behind the Baohe Palace is mined in Fangshan, southwest of Beijing.

The history books record the scene when it was transported: tens of thousands of laborers dug a well every mile or so on both sides of the road, and when the temperature was low enough in the cold winter, they drew water from the well and poured it into an ice road, and it took 28 days to send it to the palace. In addition, it was necessary to fire the bricks for the royal buildings in Suzhou, the gold bricks, and the Linqing Dynasty in Shandong Province also had to transport tribute bricks to Beijing.

In the seventh year of Yongle (1409), Ming Chengzu used Beijing as a base for his northern expedition, and at the same time began to build the Changling Tomb in Changping, near Beijing. The construction of his mausoleum in Beijing instead of Nanjing proves that Ming Chengzu has made up his mind to move the capital.

In the fourteenth year of Yongle (1416), Ming Chengzu convened his ministers to formally discuss the matter of moving the capital to Beijing. For the ministers who raised objections, Ming Chengzu dismissed them one by one or severely punished, and no one dared to oppose the relocation of the capital again.

The following year, the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing, based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, officially began. In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), the Beijing Imperial Palace and Beijing City were completed. The Beijing Imperial Palace is modeled after the Nanjing Imperial Palace and is slightly larger. The newly renovated Beijing city has a circumference of 45 miles and is a regular square, which is in line with the "Zhou Li? The ideal shape of the capital city in the Examination of the Work Record.

Ming Chengzu issued an edict to officially move the capital, changing Jinling Yingtianfu to Nanjing, and changing Beijing Shuntianfu to Beijing, but there are still six central institutions such as six ministries in Nanjing, called a certain ministry in Nanjing, and Nanjing as the capital.

After the completion of the Forbidden City, the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties for more than 500 years includes the activities of emperors and queens, hierarchies, power struggles, religious sacrifices, etc.

In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), the Beijing Palace was completed.

A fire broke out the following year, and the first three halls were burned down.

In the fifth year of orthodoxy (1440), the first three halls and the Qianqing Palace were rebuilt. In the third year of Tianshun (1459), the West Garden was built. Experienced four generations of Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and orthodoxy, for 20 years. [12]

Mingren painted "Beijing Palace City"

In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), the Forbidden City caught fire, and the first three halls, Fengtianmen, Wenwulou and Wumen were all burned down.

It was not until the 40th year of Jiajing (1561) that the reconstruction was completed.

During the Jiajing period, the names of the three major halls of the Forbidden City were changed to the Huangji Palace, the Middle Pole Palace, and the Jianji Palace.

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli (1597), the Forbidden City caught fire, burning down the first three palaces and the last three palaces. The restoration project was not completed until the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627).

In the Ming Dynasty, the Qianqing Palace was the main residence of the emperor and the main place of political activities. From Yongle Emperor Zhu Di to Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, a total of 14 emperors have lived here. Due to the height of the palace and the spaciousness of the palace, it was divided into several rooms when the emperor lived here.

According to records, there are 9 warm pavilions in the Qianqing Palace in the Ming Dynasty, which are divided into two floors, with a total of 27 beds, and the concubines can enter the palace. Due to the large number of rooms and beds, few people knew where the emperor slept every night, just in case. Although the emperor lived in a labyrinthine palace and was well guarded, he still could not sit back and relax.

According to records, after the "Renyin Palace Change" occurred during the Jiajing period, Sejong moved to Xiyuan and did not dare to return to the Qianqing Palace to live.

The "Red Pill Case" made by Emperor Wanli's Zheng Guifei in order to compete for the empress dowager, and the "Palace Removal Case" in which Concubine Taichang Li Xuan's servant moved to Renshou Hall in order to be the queen all occurred in the Qianqing Palace. The Qianqing Palace in the Ming Dynasty was also used as a funeral place for the emperor.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng's army captured Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty fell.

Li Zicheng burned the Forbidden City before retreating to Shaanxi, only the Wuying Palace, the Jianji Palace, the Yinghua Palace, the Nanxun Palace, the surrounding corner towers and the Huangji Gate were not burned, and the rest of the buildings were all destroyed. In the same year, Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty went to Beijing.

After that, it took 14 years to basically restore the middle road building.

In the twenty-second year of Kangxi (1683), the reconstruction of the remaining destroyed buildings of the Forbidden City began, and it was basically completed in the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, according to the old practice of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi and Emperor Kangxi used the Qianqing Palace as the main place to live and deal with court affairs.

After Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne, he began to move to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. Yangxin Palace is located in the inner court of the Forbidden City, the west side of the Qianqing Palace, was built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, it was not the emperor's bedchamber. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs set up many workshops here for the royal family to do palace work, called "Yangxin Palace Office". In the sixty-first year of Kangxi (1722), after the death of Emperor Kangxi, the enthroned Yongzheng Emperor did not move to his father's bedroom Qianqing Palace to live, but temporarily used the west side of Zunyi Gate as the emperor's dormitory.

Since then, the Yangxin Hall began to become the main place of residence of the emperor and the Qing Dynasty's government affairs, and the office of the Military Aircraft Department was also near the Yangxin Palace.

After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he carried out a large-scale expansion and reconstruction of the palace area of the Yangxin Palace, and gradually formed a certain regulation. After Emperor Yongzheng, eight emperors of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuantong all lived here. Until Emperor Xuantong was driven out of the Forbidden City.

During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, he also opened up the Changchun Palace and the Qixiang Palace (that is, the current Taiji Palace) in front of him, and connected them as a whole, after the death of Xianfeng, Cixi also lived here, and one person enjoyed two palaces alone.

By the time of the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi began to renovate some of the palaces. As a result, four of the six palaces in the west have left the footprints of Cixi.

After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, Ci'an and Cixi were in Changchun Palace when they were in charge of the government in the early days, and in the tenth year of Tongzhi (1871), Ci'an moved back to Zhongcui Palace from Changchun Palace to live, and Changchun Palace became the palace of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Taiji hall was originally only two courtyards, when Xianfeng renovated Changchun Palace, the apse of Taiji Hall was opened up as a hall through the hall, so that Taiji Hall and Changchun Palace were connected into four courtyards that interpenetrated each other.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Forbidden City building was renovated on a large scale, and a large number of cultural relics were sorted out. In 1961, the State Council promulgated the Forbidden City as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

There are 1.5 million pieces (sets) of cultural relics in the Palace Museum. [20] In 1987, the Forbidden City was listed as a "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO and was designated as the "Palace Museum".

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Palace Museum has received an average of 600-8 million Chinese and foreign visitors every year. With the development of tourism, the number of visitors has increased unabated, which shows that people's interest in the Forbidden City has been flourishing for a long time.

On August 15, 2013, Shoukang Palace was officially exhibited after being displayed in its original state. The sculpture gallery in Cining Palace opened on May 31, 2015. According to the scale of 2015, by 2020, the open area of the Forbidden City will reach 76%.

The Forbidden City is undergoing the renovation of cultural relics and monuments, environmental remediation, and the expansion of open areas for exhibitions.

On November 23, 2014, the mascot of the Forbidden City in Beijing was unveiled for the first time, which is derived from the traditional Chinese image of the auspicious dragon and phoenix, which are the dragon "Zhuangzhuang" and the phoenix "Meimei".

On October 11, 2015, the Palace Museum officially opened the Cining Palace area, the Wumen Yanyi Tower area, the Donghua Gate and other new areas to the audience, increasing the open area of the Palace Museum from the current 52% to 65%.

On the afternoon of February 25, 2016, the Palace Museum hosted the "Tai Pu Ruzhuo - Cui Ruzhuo Art Palace Museum Exhibition" in the Great Hall of the People.

On April 12, 2016, Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, introduced that the open area of the Palace Museum increased by 11% to 76%, and opened new exhibitions in various forms.

At the same time, the "Luoyang Peony and the Palace Museum Peony Theme Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" opened in the Forbidden City. There are 12,000 pots of peonies arriving in Beijing from Luoyang and are scattered in the garden of Cining Palace, Qianqingmen Square, Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace, Yongkang Left Gate - Right Gate, Longzong Gate and other areas, recreating the grand scene of peony blooming in the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, if you want to talk about palaces, you have to talk about China.

It's so cruel, so many people died in building a palace, and countless people died in building a Great Wall, these buildings are the pride of China, but they are also made of human flesh and bones.

Like the pyramids of Egypt, it is a history of blood and tears......

"I always feel that these palaces and castles are the products of the weak and the enemy, and sure enough, the richest and most resilient person is still the emperor......" Ye Chao felt that the emperor would not only live, but also play, and play with women to play a lot of tricks.

What are the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards, and countless palace maids are used casually......

The current rich and local tyrants are too far behind in their gameplay......