Chapter 272: It's Just a Joke
Seeing the camera of Xueluo and Liu Jingshu, I will consciously put on a small Indian fresh meat that caters to without greeting. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this sister's display is so exaggerated. This group of Indian brothers who visited the castle rushed up to ask for a group photo as soon as they saw Xueluo and Liu Jingshu's sisters. The caretaker who was lying at the window looked down with a melancholy face, and he had to stick to his post and missed the opportunity to take a photo with the girl of the Dragon Kingdom.
The staff in the palace invited Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to come in for a visit. The walls in the room were beautifully decorated and all the space was utilized. Beautiful atrium with decorative paintings all over the walls. Delicate stained windows. The window offers a view of the city of Jaipur. Looking through the opposite window, the stained glass window inside is faintly visible, like the eyes of an elf in the dark night?
After looking at the room, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu went up the steps to the roof of the building, and suddenly opened up. From the rooftop, you can look down on the architectural structure and layout of the entire palace. The numerous echoes form a square patio that provides precious light to the rooms inside. Follow the trail on the rooftop of the palace.
You can go around the entire perimeter of the building. The arch is decorated with lotus-like shapes and strings of high and low treasures. An Indian couple. The boy has a dark turban and a big beard, and he smiles when he sees people, and he is kind, like a Sikh. The girl is a big bird, with a happy face.
The mobile phone party seems to be very popular among young people here. A group of young people gathered on the rooftop to take pictures, looking like college students. The team's wonderful time: Madou is in battle. The windows on the yellow tiger skin pattern wall are a good way to take portraits. A rare group photo. I didn't bring a tripod, and it was hard to find one that would make a DSLR camera.
It's not easy to take a group photo. After seeing Tiger Fort, the tuk tuk waiting at the gate took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to the next attraction - Amber Fort. The distance is about 8 kilometers, and the road turns around and goes all the way down. The trail is lined with bushes with monkeys jumping around in the trees and peacocks roaming in the bushes. Looking out at the scenery outside the car.
Soon come to the Amber Fort, located in the valley. Located on a hillside between two hills on the northern outskirts of Jaipur, about 10 km from the centre of the old city, Ammer Fort was built in 1592 by the then Native Domain King Mansingh and served as the royal palace of the Kachiwaha family, the local Rajput Native Domain, and is now a tourist attraction in Jaipur1.
In a sense, it can be said that not coming to Amber Fort is equivalent to not coming to Jaipur. There are two theories about the origin of the name of the Amber Fort: one is because of the color of the castle, which is made of cream white, light yellow, rose red and pure white stone, which looks like amber from a distance, and the other is because of the mountain, which was built on a hill called Amber.
I don't know which statement is more accurate. The Amber Fort building itself is large and imposing, and it is built on a hillside surrounded by undulating and winding walls, so it looks very atmospheric and magnificent from a distance. At the bottom of the castle is a small lake, Maota Lake, and when the weather is nice, stand by the lake and watch the Amber Fort reflected in the sparkling waters.
It looks very beautiful. Although the Amber Fort was only a local royal palace of the Rajput Princes, its architecture is no less ornate than the previously seen Red Fort and Agra Fort of Delhi, which served as the capital of the Mughal dynasty. The viewing is even more than the last two seats. Transportation: Bus.
From the junction in front of the Palace of Winds, take bus 29 for 20 minutes and cost INR 10. Tuk-tuk: From Jaipur Old Town to Amber Fort, it takes about 150 each way. Opening hours: 08:00 17:30 daily Tickets: 200 and can also be accessed with the Jaipur Scenic Pass.
From this point of view, Ammel Castle is divided into two parts, the left side is the main body of the palace, which has four floors, and the lower one on the right is a very large courtyard, and the door hole in the middle is faintly visible, which is the entrance to the Amber Castle.
Underneath the doorway is a hillside with a 30-degree angle. The Corner Road is designed to defend against enemy attacks. The main part of Ammel Castle's Amber Fort - the palace district. It consists of four floors, each with its own courtyard and gate. On the first floor is the Puerta del Sol, the main entrance to the Amber Castle, which is a large courtyard.
The second floor is the Lion Gate, which is where the Tuvin King meets his subjects, the third floor is the Elephant God Gate, which is the residence of the Tuvassal King, and the fourth floor is the harem of the queen and princess. Ammel Castle is a bit steep from the roadside to the entrance to Amber Fort, and it is a little tiring to walk up, you can ride such an elephant up, or you can ride an elephant back to the city.
After the Ammel Castle tuk tuk dropped Xueluo and Liu Jingshu on the side of the road, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu walked all the way up the ramp up the mountain, and under the blazing sun, they were a little tired. Ammel Castle ascends in a zigzag zigzag twist, and a short walk up the corner is the entrance, the Puerta del Sol. The Sun Gate is the main entrance to the Amber Fort, and there is also a Moon Gate opposite it.
Some tourists who drive or charter a car enter the Amber Fort from there. The tall gate in front of Ammel Castle is the main entrance to Amber Castle, the Sun Gate. A tall gate hole is available for elephants to enter. The wooden door has rows of sharp iron nails with pointed heads, which are used to defend against enemy elephant attacks. Entering the gate is a very large courtyard.
The forecourt of Amber Fort at Ammel Castle was once the main place to assemble the army and display the spoils of war on the triumphant return of the king's army. Whenever the king of the earth returned with his army, the queen and the harem concubines would anxiously gather in the high-rise corridors and learn the results of the expedition through the lookout holes in the carved stone windows.
After winning the battle, everyone rejoiced, wept with joy, and shared the results of the battle; after the defeat, sorrow came from the heart, and there were people who jumped off the building. The front courtyard of Amber Fort at Ammel Castle, which used to be a place to gather troops, is now a place to gather tourists. Schoolgirls sitting on the courtyard floor at Ammel Castle. They wore long, colourful scarves on either side of their shoulders.
with pants in one color. There is a long braid dragged on the back of the head, this hairstyle was also used by Longguo girls, and there were two drags, which are rare now. Ammel Castle has a high staircase in the southwest corner of the first courtyard and leads to the second courtyard of Amber Castle, with the entrance to the Lion's Gate. On the right side of the stairs is the ticket office.
On the right side of the stairs, without entering the Lion Gate, there is a temple where you turn the corner. From the 16th century until 1980, a goat was slaughtered here every day, and after 1980 it was banned by the government. The temple can be visited, but not photographed. Entrance to the courtyard on the second floor of Ammer Castle: Lion's Gate.
The Lion's Gate of Ammel Castle is a very tall doorway surrounded by beautiful and elegant paintings. I don't know if the design of such a tall doorway was to increase the sense of might or to facilitate the entry of the earth lord riding an elephant. The steps up in front are so high, can an elephant come up?The public audience hall of Ammel Castle enters the Lion's Gate and crosses the corridor to the left.
Outside is a very large open space, and on the east side of the open space sits a hall with many columns, which is the public audience hall, where the king of the earth domain handles government affairs and listens to the opinions of his subjects. There are more than 60 columns in the hall, which are said to be related to the number of battles won by the feudal lords. Interior view of the Public Audience Hall at Ammel Castle.
It was through the gate in front of him that the king of the land came out to meet his subjects. The marble and red sandstone pillars are exquisitely crafted, with a convex base like an elephant's foot and carved carvings, and the capitals above the columns are cleverly designed with the elephant's head and nose raised, and the two leaves are raised high.
This is the entrance to the third floor of the Amber Fort, which is called the Ganesh Gate, named after the Hindu elephant trunk god painted above the doorway. The whole building has a distinctly Islamic style and is very ornately decorated. As you can imagine, when guests step into this gorgeous building, they will feel the wealth of the Tuvassal King.
The Ganesh Gate and the Mirror Palace inside are the most essential parts of the entire Amber Fort. This is a painted painting above the arched doorway of the Ganesha Gate, and the central motif is a living elephant trunk god sitting on a stone table among flowers and wearing a crown. Hence the title of the Elephant God Gate. The elephant trunk god Ganesa is the son of Lord Shiva and the goddess of snow-capped mountains, Parvati.
Hinduism has three main gods: Brahma is the god of creation, Vishnu is the god of protection, and Shiva is the god of destruction and regeneration. Legend has it that Lord Shiva was pregnant when his wife Parvati was pregnant, but when he returned home, he saw a tall and handsome young man at the door and not let him in.
It turned out that Parvati wanted to take a bath, so he asked his son Ganesa to guard the door to prevent outsiders from prying eyes. Shiva was impulsive and irritable, and did not know that the young man was his son, and when he saw that there was an extra man in the house, he did not let himself in, and for a time he was furious, thinking that his wife Hongxing had come out of the wall, and swung his sword to cut off Ganesa's head.
Parvati heard the quarrel outside and rushed out to see her husband cut off his own son's head, so she wept bitterly, and Shiva knew that she had done something wrong and went to Vishnu, the god of protection. Vishnu told Lord Shiva that tomorrow the sun rises, and according to the route he has directed, cut off the head of the first creature he saw and place it on the neck of his son, so that Ganesa can be resurrected from the dead. Shiva did as he was told, and the first creature he encountered was an elephant.
So he took off the elephant's head and put it on his son's body, and Ganesha became an elephant-headed man, or the elephant trunk god. The elephant trunk god is one of the most popular and well-known deities in India, and is regarded as the god of wisdom, protection, and wealth, and is worshipped before important events such as marriage, pilgrimage, travel, apprenticeship, and opening shops.
Looking up, almost all the space on the wall is filled with elaborate stained windows and colorful paintings. With multicolored parquet arches, openwork stone windows, raised polygonal stone bay windows with central lookouts, and botanical paintings all over the walls, you can't help but marvel at the beauty of this building.
A building that perfectly combines atmosphere and sophistication, this one is one in front of you. The multicolored parquet arched alcove wall, with a semi-domed prismatic inlay at the top, and vases and flowers painted below, highlights the serene beauty of Islamic architecture. The painted vase on the wall and the floral patterns around it are very elegant.
The high marble carved window, located on the fourth floor of the palace, is exquisite in a variety of shapes, and in the middle is the Queen's exclusive window. Stained windows with terrace. The little sister occupies the place where the former queen is beautiful. What a beautiful openwork window.
。 The entrance to the third floor of Amber Castle and the residence of the Native Domain. From here, you will find the living quarters of the Tuvan King's residence, and the famous Kagamigu Palace is located inside. After entering the Ganogami Gate at Ammel Castle, there is a corridor that leads to the residence of the Tu Domain. If you go directly through the door, you will find the inner courtyard on the third floor of the Amber Palace.
Ammer Castle exits the Elephant Gate, and in front of you is a large square courtyard with a large fountain in the center. On both sides of the garden are the residences of the Tu Domain. The most beautiful palace in Amber Fort, the Palace of Mirrors, is on the east side of the left-hand position. The building in front of you is the famous Mirror Palace, also known as the "Victory Palace".
Built in 1675 as a place for the Tuvassal to meet his courtiers and personal guests, it is the most eye-catching building in the castle. From the outside, it is an inconspicuous hall-style building, with a plain façade and only a few white marble floral reliefs in the lower part, which is in great contrast to the colorful decoration of the Xiangshen Gate at the entrance of the courtyard.
When I looked closer, I realized that the bright spot was in the inner room, which was hidden in the dim light, but its appearance was shining. Looking through the arched doorway between the columns, a very strange-looking inner chamber building is revealed. I saw that its exterior walls were full of vase patterns, which at first glance looked like reliefs.
If you look closely, you will find that it is carved in relief on white marble, and then inlaid with pieces of silver mirror glass that are cut into shape, and the pattern is full of three-dimensionality, and can reflect the outdoor light to illuminate the inside. No wonder it looks shiny. I only found it when I walked into the hall surrounded by columns.
These motifs, decorated with silver mirrored glass, are not only found on the walls, but also extend to the ceiling. From top to bottom, the entire inner hall is shining with silver light, as if bringing Xueluo and Liu Jingshu into a dream world. It is said that when candles are lit here at night, countless stars are reflected in the hall.
If you look closely, the surface of the exterior wall of this inner chamber is a white marble floral relief at the base, with a number of alcoves in the middle with a vase pattern in the background, a rectangular vase in the center surrounded by a rectangle, and a vase with silver mirror glass inlays in the middle and upper parts.
Although mirrored glass is no longer a fashionable luxury now, hundreds of years ago, it was worth as much as gold and silver, and it is said that it was imported from Belgium by the feudal kings, which is very valuable. Looking along the wall, the mirrored glass parquet made of various geometric figures on the ceiling is even more colorful and dazzling.