Episode 199 Daming Gate - Zhonghua Gate

The procession of various departments entering the city entered the city from Anding Gate as planned, and the empress and the Praetorian Guards drove to the main gate of the Forbidden City, stopped, and prepared to enter the Forbidden City, which the Zhu family had lost for nearly three hundred years.

After the fighting subsided, diplomatic envoys from various countries returned to Beijing one after another, as well as reporters from Chinese and foreign countries, people from all walks of life, and citizens from all walks of life, all of them were waiting to see these major events that were rare in their lifetimes and enough to be written into the "World History" of various countries.

The current south gate of the imperial city is not Tianan-Anmen, but the Daqing Gate. And the Daqing Gate was originally called the Daming Gate. After Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he established the name of the country "Dashun" and renamed it "Dashunmen". Later, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty established the capital of Beijing, it was renamed "Daqing Gate". Daming door is 40 meters wide, the door is 21 meters high, the middle of the three coupon doors, the front of the door is the chessboard street, surrounded by a stone fence. The left and right sides are respectively set up a stone lion dismounted horse monument, there are thousands of steps corridor on the east and west sides of the door to the north to form the central axis of the royal road, leading to the Tianan-gate.

Now, in the middle of the Daqing Gate, the 21-meter-high giant door leaf slowly opened, revealing a deep doorway. The spotlights on the square between Daqing Gate and Zhengyang Gate flickered non-stop, and reporters were capturing this rare shot. This is the largest palace complex in the world, and it is also the most mysterious and noble place of the great empire of the East. During the previous Qing Dynasty, it was forbidden to take pictures here.

The band played solemn music, and the red carpet embroidered with gold edges was rolled out all the way to the door of Zhu Yourong's car. The guard stepped forward to open the car door for Zhu Yourong.

Zhu Yourong got out of the car, faced the flickering magnesium lights, walked along the red carpet, and walked to the pulpit built in front of the Daqing Gate.

"My people," she said into the microphone, her voice echoing through the square between the Daqing Gate and the Zhengyang Gate, "citizens of the Ming Empire, friends from all over the world, ladies and gentlemen...... Up to today, up to now, except for Erdun Mutu, commander of the 51st Army of the Northwest Corps of the puppet Qing Dynasty, who is entrenched in Ili in northern Xinjiang, who still refuses to issue a statement of submission to the Ming Dynasty, the rest of the Qing troops in the north have surrendered to our Ming army or have issued a statement of submission to the Ming government.

"Therefore, I declare that the War of Unification is officially over today. The puppet Qing regime, which had occupied China's northern China for 293 years, officially came to an end today. The land of China, which had been divided for 293 years, was officially unified today. Now, allow me to ......"

As she spoke, she turned back, faced the Great Qing Gate, and pressed a button.

Immediately, the huge plaque with the words "Daqing Gate" written on the city tower began to move, and you can see two small motors hidden on the city tower rolling ropes, hanging the huge plaque and slowly falling. When the giant plaque was hoisted into the city gate hole, the two small motors on it moved, pulling the steel cable to slowly turn the giant plaque over.

A magical scene appeared: the huge plaque of "Daqing Gate" was reversed, and the words "Daming Gate" were written on the reverse side.

朱优榕 says:

"Back then, the slave chief Fulin renamed my Daming 'Chengtianmen' to 'Tian-An-Men', and renamed my 'Daming Gate' to 'Daqing Gate'. With the renaming of these two gates, the Ming Palace has since become the Qing Palace, the land of China has become a place where Hulu is raging, and hundreds of millions of people have become slaves. At that time, the slave chief Fulin did not replace the plaque of my 'Daming Gate', but only re-wrote the words 'Daqing Gate' on the back, and the original plaque was used. Today, I still keep this plaque, but I just turn it back. As the two sides of a plaque, behind the Ming Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, and behind the victory is defeat. I hope that this will alert and encourage generations of Chinese people:

"——Yu Tang sins himself, his prosperity is also perverse, and he is a sinner, and his death is also sudden. If a country and a nation can always keep a clear head, always recognize their own shortcomings and shortcomings, always have the courage to face up to their own problems and make corrections with an open mind, and always recognize and learn from the advantages of other nations, they will not be inferior in adversity and narcissistic in good times...... Then, even if the country and the nation are temporarily lagging behind, they will be able to catch up quickly. If the country and the nation are in the lead, then they can successfully maintain this lead. ”

Zhu Yourong's voice echoed in Damingmen Square. The audience listened quietly, only the flashing lights flashed from time to time, and clouds of white smoke rose.

Most people can understand the meaning of this passage. Especially the officers and soldiers present. They understood better that most of Her Majesty's words were addressed to them.

Since the beginning of the war a few months ago, the Ming army has been devastated, and the fear of the Manchus has been swept away in the hearts of the Chinese people for many years. With the strength of more than 100 divisions, the Ming army completely defeated the Qing Dynasty's "Thousand Divisions Army" in a few months, and smashed Huanglong, which can be described as "driving a long car to break through the lack of Helan Mountain". There was an unprecedented sense of self-confidence, even conceit, throughout the army. The Daming cream soldiers, who used to cower, have almost become proud soldiers in a few months. It means "who else in the world is better than me".

However, if you understand it, you will understand it, but "you understand" and "you will understand" are two different things. Among the "proud soldiers" of the Ming army present, those who really listened to it were a few people, including Xiang Xiaoqiang.

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After the "flop ceremony", a pair of giant door couplets were slowly erected on both sides of the Daming Gate:

The upper link is: the sun and the moon and the light of the day

The next link is: the residence of the Emperor Zhuang of Mountains and Rivers

The horizontal batch above: Daming Gate

This pair of door alliances was mentioned by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. Today, this pair of door couplets, together with the three words "Daming Gate", reappear in the place three hundred years ago.

Xiang Xiaoqiang stood in the ranks of generals, looking at the magnificent and gorgeous Daming Gate, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart. He remembered the final fate of the Daming Gate in the future.

After the death of the Ming Dynasty, this Daming Gate, which symbolizes Chinese orthodoxy, survived the era of Qing captives for nearly 200 years, survived the era of warlord melee, and survived the era of Japanese occupation...... Didn't survive the fifties in the end.

A word from Soviet experts, Beijing began to expand Tiananmen Square, bulldozing monuments. Daming Gate, which has been renamed "Zhonghua Gate" by the Republic of China, was also razed to the ground. With Zhou's intervention, the only remaining Zhengyang Gate and Arrow Tower (Qianmen) were finally saved.

Later, in the 70s, a tall and brand-new Russian-style memorial hall was built on the location of the "Daming Gate (Zhonghua Gate)", which was far away from the red wall and blue tiles of the Forbidden City of China opposite.

And the Daming Gate, the "China Gate", like countless precious Chinese heritages, has disappeared quickly and forever on this land.

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At eleven o'clock in the morning, Zhu Yourong's relatives and civil and military ministers entered the Daming Gate. After passing through the "Thousand Steps Royal Road", I came to the Tianan-Gate.

Here, a small "card swap ceremony" was carried out. The name "Tian-An-Men", which was given by the Manchu ancestor Shunzhi, has now been changed back to the name of the Han Dynasty - Chengtianmen.

Then, the empress and the others entered the Chengtian Gate. Daming Gate is the outer main gate of the Imperial City, and Chengtian Gate is the inner main gate of the Imperial City of Beijing. Further inside is the noon gate. Within the Chengtian Gate is the Imperial City, and within the Noon Gate is the Imperial City. And Miyagi is the official part of the Forbidden City.

The section between the Chengtian Gate and the Noon Gate is divided into two halves by the central axis. On the left is the Sheji altar, and on the right is the temple. Zhu Yourong ordered the ministers to wait outside the Taimiao, and he led the children and grandchildren of the Zhu family to enter the Taimiao to pay tribute to the ancestors.

After the memorial, Zhu Yourong led the imperial relatives and civil and military officials through the noon gate and officially entered the Forbidden City in Beijing.

The Forbidden City was divided into the former court and the rear court, which were combined into a "court". The central hall of the previous dynasty, that is, the power center of the entire empire, the highest "Jinluan Palace", the Ming Dynasty called "Fengtian Palace", "Huangji Palace", and the Qing Dynasty called "Taihe Palace". Now, the Taihe Hall has also changed back to the name of the Northern Ming Dynasty: Fengtian Temple. Zhu Yourong ascended to the throne in the center of the Jinluan Hall and was satisfied to accept the congratulations of the civil and military officials.

After the hundred officials finished congratulating, the clock had already struck twelve o'clock.

At this time, the imperial dining room had already prepared lunch, and Zhu Yourong ordered to pass on the meal, and gave a banquet in the Fengtian Palace to entertain the ministers.

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In the afternoon, Zhu Yourong only took the uncles, aunts, younger brothers and sisters of the Zhu and Zheng families through the harem, walked out of the Forbidden City from the North Gate Shenwu Gate, and climbed Long Live Mountain. Long Live Mountain, also called Coal Mountain, is the last place where Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself.

Zhu Yourong stared at the tall and old ancient locust tree, and said softly:

“…… I bow to the holy will, hurt the virtues of heaven, and die without the face to see the ancestors...... Therefore, the face is crowned, and the face is covered with hair, and the thief is divided, and the people are not harmed......"

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Yourong were separated by more than ten generations, and the bloodline was changed even more in the middle, and in fact, the Zhu bloodline was changed to the Zheng bloodline. Although Zhu Youzhen can also be called the ancestor of Zhu Yourong, it is very far away in terms of age and blood. Zhu Yourong logically can't feel the kind of grief for his relatives.

But in this situation, silently reciting the last sad last words of the ancestor Chongzhen, Zhu Yourong couldn't help it for a while, and tears burst out of his eyes.

The younger brothers and sisters surnamed Zhu Zheng behind him also seemed to be infected by Zhu Yourong, and they seemed to be dominated by the same emotions, a large group of girls were crying "tick-tock", there were very few boys, just a few, and they all lowered their heads at the moment, their faces were heavy.

"Wow", Zhu Yourong's youngest sister, fourteen-year-old Zhu Younan, suddenly cried. But it was just that, and then I couldn't stop sobbing.

Zhu Yourong turned around with tears in her eyes, hugged her little sister, and cried together.

In the blink of an eye, several girls began to cry. Among them, Zheng Yuxuan cried the loudest, so much so that he successfully "cried" his cousin, hugged himself again, and the two girls cried together.

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At this time, in the city of Altay, 2,500 kilometers away in the northwest, in the headquarters of the 51st Army of the Northwest Corps of the Qing Army, there was a tense and anxious mood.

As the commander of the Mongol army, Erdun Mutu sat in a chair covered with tiger skins, staring at the blue-eyed, high-nosed Russian in front of him, and his mind struggled violently.