In order to highlight the supreme authority of the emperor, the Forbidden City has a central axis running through the north and south of Miyagi. According to the ancient system of "vestibule after sleeping", there are three halls (Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Zhonghe and Hall of Baohe) where the emperor gives orders and symbolizes the center of political power, and the last three palaces where the emperor lives (Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace).
In the inner courtyard (north of Gan Qing Gate), there are two central axes centering on Ningshou Palace and Cining Palace. Ningshou Palace is the palace where Emperor Tai Huang lived, and Cining Palace is the palace where Empress Dowager Tai lived. These two secondary axes are centered on the outer courtyard and gate of Ethereum, echoing the Wenhua Hall on the left and Wuying Hall on the right. Between the two minor axes and the central axis, there are Zhai Palace and Yang Palace, followed by the Sixth Palace where concubines live. For the need of defense, these palaces are all built with palace walls as high as 10 meters, with turrets at the four corners and moats outside.
The most attractive buildings in the Forbidden City are three halls: Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Zhonghe and Hall of Baohe. They are all built on an 8-meter-high white marble platform, which looks like the Fairy Que in Gong Qiong from a distance. The first hall, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, is the most magnificent building, commonly known as the "Golden King Hall", where the emperor held a grand ceremony. The hall is 28 meters high, 63 meters from east to west and 35 meters from north to south. There are 72 large columns, with a diameter of 1 m, of which 6 are painted dragon columns in pink gold around the throne. The throne is located on a 2-meter-high platform in the temple, with exquisite cranes, stoves and tripods in front and finely carved screens behind. The whole hall is resplendent and magnificent. Zhonghe Hall is the place where the emperor rested and practiced etiquette before going to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for a ceremony. Baohe Hall is the place where the emperor fetes foreign princes and ministers every New Year's Eve.
Passing through the courtyard behind the three halls, there is a magnificent palace gate named Gan Qing Gate, which is the main entrance of the "Imperial Palace" and was built in the Ming Dynasty. There are a pair of golden lions and ten golden jars in front of the door. Sometimes, the Qing emperor would hold a hearing ceremony here. Inside the gate are the last three palaces, in front of which is Gan Qing Palace, which is the emperor's bedroom, and behind which is Kunning Palace, which is the queen's main palace. Between the two palaces, there is a pavilion-shaped square hall called Jiaotai Hall, which is a small auditorium of the palace. There is an end hall for storing the emperor's robes and shoes, a hall for storing books and calligraphy, an upper study room for the prince to read, and a south study room for the Hanlin to pass on the value. There are four gates on the east and west, and Rixin Gate, Longguang Gate, Jinghe Gate and Ji Hua Gate on the east. There are Yuehuamen, Fengcaimen, Longfumen and Duanzemen in the west, which lead to Dongliugong and Xiliugong respectively. The three palaces and six courtyards used to be called in history refer to this place.
Finally, we walked to the "Imperial Garden", where there were lush pines and cypresses and picturesque rockeries. Behind the magnificent hall, there is a beautiful and quiet atmosphere.
Located in the center of Beijing, the Palace Museum was founded in June 1925+ 10/0, which is the largest comprehensive museum in China.
Epang Palace
("Historical Records of Xiang Yu" says that "Qin Gong burns, but the fire will not go out in March". )
After Qin Shihuang (259 BC ~ 2 10 BC) destroyed the six countries and unified the whole country, a large number of palaces and temples were built in Xianyang, the capital, and the largest palace was Epang Palace. According to Records of the Historical Records of Qin Shihuang, in the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shihuang (2 12 BC), Qin Shihuang thought that there were too many people in Xianyang, the capital city, and the former king's palace was small, so he ordered to build a new dynasty palace in the royal garden south of Weihe River between Feng and Gao, the capital city of Zhou Dynasty. This Gong Chao is a famous palace, which was later called Epang Palace.
Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, recorded in Historical Records of Qin Shihuang that the front hall of Epang Palace is 500 steps from east to west and 50 feet from north to south, which can seat 10,000 people. In the Qin Dynasty, one step was six feet, three hundred steps were one mile, and the Qin foot was about 0.23 meters. In this way, the front hall of Epang Palace is 690 meters wide from east to west and 1 15 meters deep from north to south, covering an area of 80,000 square meters, which is more than enough to accommodate 1 10,000 people. Today, in the south of Sanqiao Town, the western suburb of Xi City, Shaanxi Province, from Jujiazhuang in the east to Gucheng Village in the west, the site of Epang Palace with an area of about 600,000 square meters is still preserved.
Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, recorded in The Biography of Hanshu Jiashan: "In the west, from Xianyang to Yong, it is three hundred miles away from the palace, with bells and drums. It is also Afang Temple, which is tens of meters high, five miles from east to west, thousands of steps from north to south, riding from Cheluo and four Ma Benteng, and the flag is not scraped, which is the beauty of the palace. "
"Historical Records of Xiang Yu" says that "Qin Gong burns, but the fire will not go out in March".
According to legend, Epang Palace is unprecedented in scale and magnificent in momentum. It is said that the scenery is spectacular. It is said that Epang Palace has more than 700 halls, large and small, and the climate of each hall is different every day. Qin Shihuang visited palaces and stayed in one place every day, but he didn't live in all the palaces until his death. This brilliant imagination of later generations basically comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Epang Palace Fu": "It covers more than 300 miles and is isolated from the sun. Mount Li is built in the north and folded in the west, leading directly to Xianyang. Erchuan dissolves and flows into the palace wall. Five steps to the first floor, ten steps to a pavilion; Corridor waist back, eaves high; Each holds the terrain and intrigues. " Epang Palace became a very magnificent building complex at that time. It is conceivable that there are many palaces in Epang Palace, with a wide construction area and a grand scale.