On July 11, 2044, I came out of my sister's house at six o'clock in the morning, and the five of them had breakfast at the small restaurant at the entrance of the community, and walked two intersections to Yanjiao Light Rail Station. Yanjiao Light Rail Station is connected to Binhai City of Jixian County in the east, Tongzhou District of Beiping in the west, and the terminal station is the old railway station in Beiping. From Yanjiao to the old railway station in Beiping, the light rail fare is 10 yuan, which is more expensive than the bus and the subway. Because you can see the streetscape of Beiping, it is especially suitable for guests who come to Beiping for sightseeing.

At 7:50, I entered the Yanjiao light rail platform, and at 7:55, I took the light rail train from the west to Beiping. My sister, brother-in-law, and Mei Hezi sat in the front row of me and Tian Xiaorui, and Tian Xiaorui and I sat in the second row. Today's weather is very good and the sun is also very bright, which is rare in Beiping. After the alarm bell sounded, the light rail train started quickly, speeding up to more than 200 kilometers within one minute, passing through four stations, and the fifth station arrived at the old railway station of Beiping, from Yanjiao station to the Beiping light rail station out of the station shared half an hour. Tian Xiaorui told me: "It seems that the idea of advocating the development of public transportation in the past few years is correct, which has reduced the pressure on urban road traffic. The convenient and comfortable inter-city light rail connects Pingjintang and the surrounding areas, making it convenient for people to travel, and no one is willing to drive a private car. My sister said: "In fact, driving in the city, parking spaces are difficult to find, road congestion, and regional restrictions have inhibited people's desire to drive. If you are not shopping or sightseeing, it is more cost-effective and hassle-free to take the light rail or subway. ”

After leaving the Beiping Light Rail Station, walk west for 10 minutes, and you will see the Tiananmen City Wall with red walls and blue tiles. A few ancient trees in the southeast corner of the city wall are still flourishing, and a few flower magpies are jumping around in the branches, chirping, as if eulogizing for today's good weather.

Walk from the underpass to the north side of Chang'an Avenue. That is, at the foot of Tiananmen Square. Brother-in-law Mena Shi said: "Today's protagonist is the Forbidden City, that is, the Forbidden City, in other words, we are going to the palace to go around. I said, "When I was a child, every time I watched the news on TV, I wanted to go around Tiananmen Square, climb Tiananmen Square in person, and see the place where the great man once announced that he would stand up." Tian Xiaorui said: "To say that Tiananmen Square is only the southern gate of the Forbidden City, the real scenery should be the scenery inside the Forbidden City, as well as the treasures in the Palace Museum." My sister looked at Xiaorui appreciatively, which means that this sister really has a unique opinion. Before entering the Forbidden City, you have to enter through Tiananmen Square. So be sure to climb the Tiananmen Tower, when you climb the tower, you will have a bird's-eye view of Tiananmen Square in front of you, this angle is exactly where Chairman Mao stood in his speech at the founding ceremony, and the five of us also deliberately stood there to feel the magnificent scene at that time. My sister used her camera to take a picture of each of us on the top of Tiananmen Square as a souvenir. Standing on the Tiananmen Tower, the central axis of Beiping City, looking north and south, looking south is the front gate, and north is the main gate of the Forbidden City-noon gate. I pointed to the tower at the front gate and said, "Xiaorui, have you seen it?" The front gate, the city gate to the south in front of it is Yongding Gate. Tian Xiaorui said: "I saw it, it was really spectacular." Mei Hezi shouted: "Uncle, auntie, let's go." Xiaorui and I walked down the Tiananmen Tower hand in hand. Got off Tiananmen Square. After passing through the end gate, you came to the main gate of the Forbidden City - the noon gate. There is a lot of attention to the noon gate, it is a square square surrounded by three walls, and there are three doors in the front. There is a door on each side. Among them, the door in the middle can only be walked by the emperor on weekdays, and the queen can also walk once on the wedding day, and then there are the three people who are the champion, the top eye, and the flower in the palace examination can go once. The two gates on the left and right are the gates for the ministers of civil and military affairs and the princes of the clan to enter and exit. The other civil and military officials can only go through two side doors. From the front of the noon gate, there are three gates. From the back, there are five doors, so there is a saying of "three bright and five dark".

We rented a machine at the gate of the noon gate, and she led us all the way around the Forbidden City. When you enter the noon gate, you really enter the Forbidden City, first of all, you must cross the Neijinshui River, in front of which is an open square, and there is a palace-like gate in the middle. All the doors in the Forbidden City are actually a palace-like building, this gate is called Taihe Gate, there is a pair of big bronze lions squatting on both sides of the door, this pair of lions is known as the first lion in China, majestic and majestic. Passing through the Taihe Gate, you will see a larger square, in front of which is a larger palace, and it is also the highest status palace in the Forbidden City - Taihe Palace, commonly known as the "Jinluan Palace", which is the place where the emperor ascended to the dynasty. The Taihe Hall is really magnificent, the largest number in the Forbidden City is nine, and there are ten beasts on the eaves of the Taihe Palace, which shows that the status of the Taihe Hall has been represented by the number nine. The Taihe Hall was built on three white marble steps and was the tallest building in Beijing at that time. There are 1142 dragon heads carved on the white marble steps of the base of the temple, the mouth of the dragon head leads to the ground, and every time it rains, the water will flow to the ground through the 1142 dragon heads, so there is the wonder of "a thousand dragons spitting water". Behind the Taihe Hall are the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Palace, and these three halls constitute the front palace of the Forbidden City. After seeing the three major halls, I said: "This is really a monument in the history of Chinese architecture, the crystallization of the sweat and wisdom of the working people." Tian Xiaorui said: "Yes." Behind the seemingly scenery, there is the sweat and wisdom of the people. ”

"In the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City had Han and Manchurian characters on the signs of each hall, but now all the signs from the Wumen Gate to the Baohe Hall are only in Chinese, why?" The five of us said that we didn't know, and the beautiful woman said: "Because Yuan Shikai was the emperor for 83 days at that time, he ordered all the Manchu texts in the front palace to be cut out, which is also ironclad evidence that Yuan Shikai stole the country." ”

The beautiful woman led us along the central axis of the Baohe Palace, passed the Qianqing Gate, and came to the Qianqing Palace. The beauty machine qì people said: "This palace is the dormitory of the two emperors of Shunzhi and Kangxi, and when it came to Emperor Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng kept filial piety for Emperor Kangxi for 27 months, and moved the palace to the Palace of Yangxin." Since then, the emperors of the past dynasties have officially lived in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. ”

The beauty machine qì people guide us through the Jiaotai Hall to Kunning Palace, the beauty machine qì people said: "This is the queen's bedroom in the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor's wedding in the Qing Dynasty." Now the furnishings of Kunning Palace are restored according to the original state when Emperor Guangxu got married. "Shufangzhai hurried by, in front of the gate of Chuxiu Palace, we saw the bed where the show girls slept at that time, and among these show girls, there was the later Empress Dowager Cixi.

In the Treasure Hall, we saw many treasures in the Forbidden City, including the emperor's jade seal, dragon robe, and dragon crown. There are countless treasures of all kinds. One of the most impressive to me is a picture of "Hundred Butterflies" in the Treasure Hall, according to the explanation of the beautiful woman machine qì people, this painting was made by Yang Huahu, a painter of the Qing Dynasty, and the characteristics of this painting are that one hundred butterflies are not the same. We are fortunate to see the photos of Xuantong and Empress Wanrong and Cixi's later years, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were already cameras in the palace, so the photos of the last emperor of China were left. Emperor Xuantong is very dark and thin, and Wanrong is worthy of being the queen, very beautiful.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, a group of five of us walked out of Tiananmen Square, and I said, "Xiaorui, do you know who Yang Huahu is who painted "Hundred Butterflies"? Tian Xiaorui said: "I don't know." I said, "The painter who painted "Hundred Butterflies" is my ancestor of the last thirteen generations, and his real name is Yang Zhaoji. It is recorded in the "Yongping Mansion Chronicles" and "Qian'an County Chronicles" that he once painted portraits of the queens of the two palaces. He only painted two tiger paintings in his life, one of which was originally collected in the Palace Museum, and was later said to have been given to Americans by Song Meiling as a national gift. Another was originally preserved in our home, when Yang Bisong's mother passed away, it was borrowed by Yang Bisong's family as a coffin town, and it has not been returned, and later during the Cultural Revolution, Yang Bisong's house was copied, and the tiger painting was copied to the brigade headquarters, and then disappeared. It was rumored that it had been stolen and re-sold, and the public security department had investigated many times without results, and finally it was closed. ”

The eldest sister said: "Tiger painting is not tiger painting aside, let's quickly find a place to have lunch, everyone must be hungry." After my sister's reminder, everyone felt hungry, and my brother-in-law said, "Let's go to the front door and have some food." I said, "Okay." ”

Two human-powered tricycles were hired in front of Tiananmen Square, which is also characteristic of Beiping. The two manpower vehicles were tricycles, the first car was pulling the three people of my sister's family, and the second car was pulling me and Tian Xiaorui, and the two cars ran towards the front door food street one after the other. (To be continued......)

PS: Treasure Hunt ...... in the Forbidden City