3 thoughts on “What are the stories in the patterns of the Forbidden City?”

  1. 1. Floral window pattern
    The may be out of Geely, but the number of rooms in the Forbidden City is indeed amazing. Almost every room in the Forbidden City has windows. We can judge the status of the owner of the room according to the level and pattern characteristics of the window pattern on the window. This judgment method is also applicable to other palaces.
    ros of Xieshan
    This of the top of Xieshan has nine roof ridges, namely one positive ridge, four vertical ridges and four ridges, so it is also called the top of the nine spine. Because the ends of its positive ridge were broken once in the middle of the eaves, it was divided into vertical ridges and ridges.
    This of the top of Xieshan is divided into single eaves and severe eaves. The so -called heavy eaves are below the top of the basics, plus a layer of eaves, which are roughly the same as the second eaves on the top of the palace. The appearance of the top of Xieshan was late than the top of the Temple. Its style can be seen in the stone carvings of the Han Dynasty. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the top of Xieshan was very popular. In the Ming Dynasty, the heavy eaves Xieshan was used in the temple building widely, surpassing the single eaves, and became the highest -level architectural style second only to the heavy eaves. In the Forbidden City, Tiananmen, Baohe Hall, and Kunning Palace all adopt the top of the mountain. Zhaodemen, Zhendumen, and East -West Six Palace use the top eaves of Xieshan. The use of Xieshan's top highlights the Royal School and the Strict Grade.
    . Golden Dragons and Seal
    Jinlong and Xi are the ancient Han palace architectural drama beads. The tablet is based on the blue color, and the dragon is painted on the top; the eaves are raised, and the blue bottom of the eaves is painted, and the flowing clouds or "Gongwang Yun"; The patterns are mainly dragons of various attitudes. In the heart, the two dragons are generally drawn in the heart, and the dragon is painted. The dragon is surrounded by cloud patterns and flame patterns to carry the history of the Han architectural art.

  2. A total of 24 emperors lived in the Forbidden City. The first was the Emperor of the Ming Yongle Zhu Xi, and the last emperor was the Emperor Xuan Tong Puyi.
    The three halls of Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Temple, and Pao Hall are all built on a huge platform of 8 meters wide, with a total area of ​​about 85,000 square meters. Among them, Taihe Hall is the highest and brilliant. It is 60.1 meters wide, 33.33 meters deep, and 35.05 meters high. The emperor's ascending, big wedding, register, and fate will be held here to hold a grand ceremony. At that time, thousands of people calling "Long live", hundreds of rituals, bells and drums, and they are extremely full of spiritual factions. The Zhonghe Hall behind Taihe Hall is a place where the emperor rests and accepts worship before attending the major ceremony. The northernmost Payon Palace is a place for the emperor to give a banquet and the temple test.
    The inner court includes Qianqing, Jiaotai, Kunning Third Palace, and East Sixth Palace and West Sixth Palace on both sides of the east and west. This is where the emperor and his concubine live. There is also a compact and chic garden north of the residential area, where the royal staff played. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty lived in the Qianqing Palace, the queen lived in the Kunning Palace, and Jiaotai Temple was the queen's activity place. In the middle and late stages, the emperor and the queen moved to the Xixiu Palace and other places. The most famous is the Yangxin Temple. From the Emperor Yongzheng, it became a place for the emperor's government and bedtime. For more than 40 years.

  3. In 1406, the Emperor Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty began to build the Forbidden City. The "History of the Ming Dynasty" said that the construction of this rare giant palace in the world made the 100,000 best artisans and 1 million Putong workers, which took 15 years to complete. Since then, the Ming and Qing emperors have been rebuilt and expanded many times, but the overall appearance has not changed much.
    It the Forbidden City had a total of 24 emperors. The first was the Emperor of the Ming Yongle Zhu Xi, and the last emperor was the Emperor Xuan Tong Puyi.
    The houses in the Forbidden City have 9999 houses, and the copper door nails on each door are also 9 horizontal vertical. This peculiar number is related to the understanding of numbers in ancient Chinese. The ancients believed that the word "9" was the largest in numbers, and the emperor was the largest on the world, so the corresponding "9" had to be used. The homophony of "9" is "long", which means "permanent", so it means that the rivers and mountains are long and never change color.

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