Introduction to the Royal Palace
The location of the royal palace in this book
The palace city of Luoyang is divided into the south palace and the north palace, and the two palaces are connected by a double road covered by a roof, and the north and south are seven miles long. Seeing this, it is possible that the babies are going to ask, what is the double path? Here the fat cat popularizes science, the compound road is three roads in parallel, the middle one is the imperial road that can only be walked by the emperor, and the roads on the left and right sides are taken by the ministers and attendants.
There are four gates of the same name in the north and south palaces of Luoyang. The four gates are the Suzaku Gate in the south, the Canglong Gate in the east, the Xuanwu Gate in the north, and the White Tiger Gate in the west.
Because the South Palace is the place where the emperor and the ministers discuss politics, the Xuanwu Gate in the South Palace is connected to the Suzaku Gate in the North Palace, and the emperor enters and exits the palace mostly from the Suzaku Gate out of the palace, so the status of the Suzaku Gate is the most noble.
The whole palace is located on the north-south axis, from north to south: Sima Gate, Duan Gate, but not the door, but not the hall, Zhanghua Palace, Zhanghua Gate, Chongde Palace, Zhongde Palace, Pingshuo Palace. This row in the east is Hongde Gate, Mingguang Palace, Xuanshu Palace, Chengfu Palace, Jiade Gate, Jiade Palace, Yutang Palace, Xuande Palace, Jiande Palace; The west row is the Yuntai Palace, the Xianqin Palace, the Hanzhang Palace, the Yang'an Palace, the Yuntai, the Lantai, the Pavilion, the Changqiu Palace, and the West Palace.
There are a large number of palace buildings on the east and west sides. The west side of the row is the Golden Horse Palace, the Bronze Horse Palace, the Respect for the Law Palace, the Zhangde Palace, the Lecheng Gate, the Lecheng Palace, the Wende Palace, the Fengxiang Hall and the East Palace; The east side of the row is the service of the middle of the house, the Qingliang Palace, the Phoenix Palace, the Yellow Dragon Palace, the Shou'an Palace, the Bamboo Palace, the Chengfeng Hall and the Dongguan Palace.
The North Palace is mainly the palace where the emperor and his concubines live, and its status is more important than that of the South Palace, and it is extremely luxurious.
The palace of the north palace is less than that of the south palace, and the architecture does not have the regularity and symmetry of the south palace.
The buildings of the North Palace located on the central axis are: Wen Yu Palace, Anfu Palace, Hehuan Palace, Deyang Gate, Deyang Palace, Xuanming Palace, Shuoping Department, Pinghong Palace.
There are only half rows of buildings in the west of the central axis, from south to north: Chongde Palace, Chongzheng Palace, Yongle Palace.
There are two gates in the south of Chongde Hall: the east is the Jinshang Gate, and the west is the Shenhu Gate. There are two views on the south side of the two gates: the east increases the joy view, and the west white tiger view.
There are two rows of buildings in the east of the central axis, from south to north respectively: the west is Tianlu Palace, Zhangtai Palace, Hande Palace, Shou'an Palace, Zhangde Hall and Chongde Palace. The east is Yongning Palace, Yingchun Palace, Yanxiu Palace, Anchang Palace, Gyeongbokgung Hall and Yong'an Palace.
It is worth mentioning that the Deyang Hall is the main hall of the North Palace, and there is the Deyang Gate in front of the palace. There are east pavilions and west pavilions between Deyang Hall and Deyang Gate. The emperor's major affairs are decided in the Deyang Palace.
In addition to the above-mentioned buildings, the palace group of the North Palace also has the Baiguan Dynasty Hall, the Chengguang Palace, the Wenming Palace, the Jiuzifang, the Hook and Shield Office, the Cabinet Ting Office, the Iron Pillar Gate, the Shengshu Gate, the Dongming Gate, the Wende Palace, the Zhangde Palace, the Xuanping Palace, the Xianyang Palace, and the Yunqi Palace.
Among them, the hall of the hundred official dynasties is the place where important ceremonies are held and national policies are formulated, and they live in foreign courts.
Seongkojeon Hall is the eastern palace of the crown prince.
There are many ancillary buildings around the huge palace city: there is Lingyuntai in the southwest corner of the South Palace, the northeast of Xuanzhu Gate, and there is an ice room in Taitung, which is specially used by the emperor to cool off in summer;
Between the east gate of Nangong and the Wangjing gate in the east of the city, there are Taiwei Mansion, Sikong Mansion and Situ Mansion in turn.
There were many gardens around the palace for the emperor to enjoy. In the north palace, there is a special Fanglin Garden, and there are Huaguang Hall and Sogo Hall in the garden. The Huaguang Hall is in the north of the Sogo Temple.
The imperial garden on the west side of the North Palace is called the West Garden, which is a place for the emperor to play on the side boat.