155. Feel the Forbidden City

Early the next morning, Shandan got up and sorted out all kinds of things such as food and clothes needed to go out for a day, and then asked Gu Haiping and Xiaoyu to get up and go to breakfast, because they were going to visit the Forbidden City, the day before Gu Haiping Baidu the information of the Forbidden City, printed it out for research, and formulated a travel route map.

They take the subway from Wukesong to the west of the station, the most ideal route to visit is to enter the Forbidden City from the noon gate, along the central axis to visit the inner Jinshui Bridge, Taihe Gate, Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Palace, Baohe Palace, Qianqing Gate, Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, Imperial Garden.

After visiting the Imperial Garden, you can enter the West Sixth Palace through the gate on the left side of the Guò Imperial Garden, and visit Chuxiu Palace, Yikun Palace, Yongshou Palace, Xianfu Palace, Changchun Palace, and Taiji Palace (also called Qixiang Palace) in turn, and then go out of the inner right gate to return to Qianqingmen Square, go east and enter the inner left gate, and you can visit the East Sixth Palace Yanxi Palace, Yonghe Palace, Jingyang Palace, Chengqian Palace, and Zhongcui Palace in turn.

After visiting the East Sixth Palace, you can go back to Qianqingmen Square along East Chang'an Street, go east through Jingyun Gate to enter Xiqing Gate, and then enter Huangji Gate, you can visit Huangji Palace, Ningshou Palace, Costume Theater Building, Changyin Pavilion, Yangxing Palace, Qianlong Garden, Zhenfei Well.

Because of the tragic encounter of Concubine Zhen and various legends, the Zhenfei Well has become a place for the public to scramble to see, but in fact, it is just a decaying and ancient lifeless well, and many plots and stories have been born through everyone's different imaginations.

Finally, go west out of Shunzhen Gate, go out of Shenwu Gate, and leave the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City is located on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing's Dongcheng District, which is the center of Beijing. People today call her the Forbidden City, which means the imperial palace of the past.

The Forbidden City is a building complex built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and is the imperial palace from the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1420~1912 AD), which is an unparalleled masterpiece of ancient architecture, and is the world's largest and most complete ancient building complex with wooden structure. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor had 10,000 palaces, and it is said that the emperor built 9,999 and a half palaces in the Forbidden City in order not to surpass the gods, and according to actual statistics, there are actually 8,704 in total.

Since Ming Chengzu Zhu Di seized the throne, decided to move the capital to Beijing, so in 1406 (Yongle four years), Ming Chengzu ordered to imitate the Nanjing Imperial Palace to build the Beijing Palace, using 230,000 craftsmen and millions of people, comparable to the momentum of Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall. In the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), it took a full fourteen years to complete.

The Forbidden City is also known as the Forbidden City, according to the ancient Chinese astrological theory, purple is the purple micro wall, located in the highest place in the center of the sky, a total of fifteen stars, is considered to be the palace of "the center of the fortune, the temporary system of the Quartet", is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, the correspondence between heaven and man, so it is so named.

Like Hohhot, which used to be called Naturalization City, it also has its origin.

The Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, with a total of 8,704 halls of various colors, all of which are brick and wood structures, yellow glazed tile roofs, and blue and white stone bases decorated with brilliant paintings.

The Forbidden City is surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall, 960 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, with an area of 720,000 square meters, which is the largest in the world; the whole building of the Forbidden City is surrounded by two solid defense lines in the middle, and the periphery is surrounded by a moat that is 52 meters wide, 6 meters deep and 3,800 meters long; then there is a city wall with a circumference of 3 kilometers, the wall is almost 10 meters high, and the bottom is more than 8 meters wide. There are 4 gates on the city wall, there is the noon gate in the south, there is the Shenwu gate in the north, there is the Donghua gate in the east, there is the Xihua gate in the west, the four corners of the city wall, there are also 4 corner towers, the corner tower has 3 layers of eaves, 72 ridges, exquisitely clear, the shape is unique, it is an outstanding work in the ancient Chinese architecture.

According to its layout and function, the architecture of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the "outer court" and the "inner court". The "outer court" and the "inner court" are bounded by the Qianqing Gate, the south of the Qianqing Gate is the outer court, and the north is the inner court.

The architectural atmosphere of the outer court and the inner court of the Forbidden City is very different. The outer dynasty is centered on the three major halls of the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace, and is located in the central axis of the entire palace. It is the place where the emperor exercised his power and held grand ceremonies. In addition, there are Wenhua Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion, Shangxi Courtyard and South Three Houses in the east of the two wings, and there are buildings such as Wuying Hall and Internal Affairs House in the west.

The inner court is centered on the three palaces of Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, and the two wings are the Yangxin Palace, the East Sixth Palace, the West Sixth Palace, the Zhai Palace, the Yuqing Palace, and there is the Imperial Garden behind. It is the place where the feudal emperor and his concubine lived and played. The Ningshou Palace in the eastern part of the inner court was built for retirement after the abdication of Emperor Qianlong. In the west of the inner court, there are Cining Palace, Shou'an Palace, etc. In addition, there are Chonghua Palace, North Five and other buildings.

And called the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Hall of the three major halls of the Outer Dynasties, are the places where the emperor holds a grand ceremony, and it is the center of the entire Outer Palace building from the location, and it is also the center of the entire Beijing City. In order to highlight the majesty of this group of palaces, many methods have been adopted in the building, one of which is that no trees are planted in the courtyard, starting from the main gate of the imperial city, passing through the Duanmen, Wumen, and Taihe Gate, and there are no trees in a series of courtyards between them (the trees before and after the Duanmen are said to have been planted after the Xinhai Revolution).

At that time, people went to see the Son of Heaven, entered the **, after a long royal road, marched in the undulating and changing architectural space, they would feel an invisible, growing spiritual pressure, and finally entered the Taihe Gate, and saw the wide square and the towering hall on the triple pedestal, this mental pressure reached its peak, and all the courtiers trembled and bowed their heads.

The wide square and blue sky set off the three major halls more majestic and magnificent. And this is exactly what the Supreme Son of Heaven asks of his subjects. If trees were planted in these courtyards, with pleasant greenery and chirping birds, it would spoil the majesty of the imperial court. The second reason why there are no trees on the three halls of the Forbidden City is that the ancient Chinese emperors belonged to "earth" in the five elements, and "wood" and "earth", so there was no "wood". The pedestal of the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Hall is a "soil" word that sits in the north and faces south. The third reason is to prevent assassins from entering and hiding in the woods, injuring the emperor and ministers.

Needless to say, the grandeur of the palace is dazzling, and the countless buildings alone are dazzling, and there are so many memories. Following the crowd and the tour guide through the major palaces and concubines' bedrooms one by one, the buildings are still there, but the prosperity of the past has long been dissipated. The warmth and coldness and calculations during this period have become the dust of history. This is the course of life, no matter how brilliant or unfortunate you are, no matter how brilliant your yellow robe and your glorious ancestors or not a single one of the nine clans remains, you can't withstand the sharp blade of time. It's just a matter of time.

After visiting the Forbidden City, Shandan was not attracted by the magnificent buildings, gorgeous carved beams and columns, and beautiful brocade paintings, but gave birth to the idea that everything was empty.

Think about how many glorious life courses this rare palace once carried? What kind of glory did they have when they were alive? How did they fight and calculate for their own **, how did they kill each other? How can there still be a trace of them now?

Therefore, the four major Buddhas are empty at this time to Shandan is more experienced, this Zen is to let go of the ordinary heart, restrain all kinds of **, ordinary often go through life, but also people to self-denial people, this is not in vain. What kind of beautiful world would it be if everyone could see it openly? Unfortunately, the bad roots of human nature, the looseness of people's hearts, and greed are all demons that people cannot get rid of. So as long as human history lasts, there will be as long as human beings fight and kill each other, including the encroachment on other species.

Gu Haiping looked at Shandan with a thoughtful look, knowing that she must have felt something again, so he casually asked, "How is it?

"How short is life? These lifeless things may be eternal, and if you look at the people who once lived here, whether they were emperors or those who were slaves and maidservants, no matter how illustrious or humble their lives were, they have no news of them, leaving only the dead objects that I don't know how many people have worked hard for them, and even lost their lives in vain. I think the most important thing as a human being is not the wealth and prosperity of the family, but the most important thing is the affection between people, and it is the most beautiful thing to live in the sunshine of love every day, what do you say?"

"Hehe, I know what you've learned. Looking at your strict face, what kind of thing is like coming to travel? It is clear that you are here to understand life. Gu Haiping patted Shandan Yan's face, which seemed to be a little sad.

"No, it just came to me out of nowhere. Think about the fact that we have a gap with our family for a little money, really shouldn't we! You don't say that they are still parents, even others should be more understanding, right? But I always want to get their friendship, not money. Shandan said quietly.

"I know, I understand what you have always cared about, I think the same, the fate and affection between people is the most important, but people also have their own dignity, what you can't forgive is that they have not respected you - I understand, but if you want them to have the same understanding and realm as you, it will be difficult. After all, they have been living on the subsistence line, don't they say that 'Cang Liao knows etiquette in a real way'? Besides, where is there etiquette in the poor countryside? So I have always wanted to find an opportunity to sue you, it's not that they don't want to respect you, it's that they don't understand. Are they just knowing if their stomachs are full? So you don't have to worry about them, it's a matter of playing the piano to the cow. Gu Haiping finally had the opportunity to say these words that had been in his heart for a long time when Shandan was calm and had some understanding.

"Well, I can forgive them, but if they keep being like this, who can stand it? Think about it again, my mother is illiterate who can't read a few words, but she can be reasonable, why is there such a big gap between this person and people?" Shan Dan still felt a trace of unhappiness in his heart when he heard Gu Haiping's words.

"That's the gap! There is a gap between people, and it's not the root cause of illiteracy. Let's ignore this for now, we should go out and feed our stomachs first. Gu Haiping looked at Shandan with a slightly gloomy face and immediately ended this discussion, he hoped that she could slowly comprehend this, and if she saved it, it would be reasonable, wouldn't it?