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The Forbidden City Book Store which in the grounds of the Forbidden City Complex Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books Public welfare reading activities! ” Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books  “故宫出版社 紫禁城100 Forbidden City 100 Excellent “The Forbidden City 100” is a work carefully created by Mr. Zhao Guangchao, his design, cultural team and the Forbidden City cultural research and development team for many years. This book can firstly understand the six hundred years of history of the Forbidden City. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a total of 24 emperors lived, lived and exercised the highest state power here. In 1911, the Qing emperor abdicated. In 1913, the Antiquities Exhibition Center was established in the outer court of the Forbidden City. In 1924, Puyi left the palace. In 1925, the Palace Museum was established ….

The Forbidden City 100 Excellent Books  is one  is “The Forbidden City 100″ is a work carefully created by Mr. Zhao Guangchao, his design, cultural team and the cultural research and development team of the Forbidden City for many years. This book can firstly understand the six hundred years more of history of the Forbidden City. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a total of 24 emperors lived, lived and exercised the highest state power here. In 1911, the Qing emperor abdicated. In 1913, the Antiquities Exhibition was built in the Forbidden City. In 1924, Puyi left the palace. In 1925, the Palace Museum was established.

One Hundred Excellent Books in the Forbidden City The Ming Empire initially chose Fengyang as the capital, and then settled in Nanjing (1368). When Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had just ascended the throne (1406 in the fourth year of Shui Le), he dispatched the imperial court to China. The officers collected building materials from all over the country, distributed 100,000 craftsmen, more than one million people, and built the Forbidden City in Beijing on a larger scale on the former site of the palace in the Yuan Dynasty, based on the Nanjing Palace City. In the eighteenth year of Yongle’s reign (1420), the palace city was completed, and Zhu Di immediately moved the capital from Nanjing to his own land of Longxing, and Peiping became the largest city in the country (and the world at that time) from the beginning.

The newly built Miyagi moved about 1,000 meters eastward from the ruins of the Forbidden City in the Yuan Dynasty, and moving away from today’s Beihai Park means to some extent from the Yuan people’s customs of “living by water and grass”, back to the stable farming in the Han culture. on the pattern. The new palace pushes the fate of the Yuan people’s annihilation to the position of the white tiger killed by the main Tibetan in the five elements in the west, and then uses the building materials left over from the construction of the palace, together with the soil for excavating the moat, to build a hill behind the palace (Jingshan Mountain). ), creating a barrier against the cold north wind for the originally flat Miyagi, becoming the commanding height of the Forbidden City and even the city of Beijing at that time, and also the backing of Wanshi Foundation.

“Forbidden City 100” entered the Forbidden City. Jingren Palace is one of the six east palaces that everyone is familiar with, and it retains a relatively complete appearance of the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was called Chang’an Palace and was renamed Jingren Palace in Jiajing. The Qing Dynasty followed the old name of the Ming Dynasty. The most special feature of Jingren Palace is that there is a stone screen in the front yard that was passed down from the Yuan Dynasty (the symmetrical Yongshou Palace also has the same stone screen). Although the center of the screen is only about 2 cm thick, the patterns on both sides are different. In addition, the shape of the seated beast on Shiping is very rare in the palace, and it is exquisite and vivid. “Animal style” has existed in China since ancient times. The beauty of masonry in the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the concise style of the Qing Dynasty are placed in the same space. All of a sudden, this palace seems to have become a history of modern Chinese sculpture, and it even evokes the legendary antecedents of the masters who once lived here. Here, it was originally the birthplace of Emperor Kangxi in the early Qing Dynasty, and the palace of the legendary concubine Zhen in the late Qing Dynasty… The

owner of the Ming Dynasty: Empress Hu (Hu Shanxiang) of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Xuande favored concubine Sun Gui and Cricket, and ordered Empress Hu to resign on the grounds of “no children and many illnesses”, and placed them in Chang’an Palace (Jingren Palace) to practice Taoism, and was given the title “Jingci Immortal Master”. The owner of the Qing Dynasty: In the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), the 15-year-old Shunzhi Concubine Tong gave birth to the future Kangxi here. Concubine Xi (Qianlong’s biological mother, Niuhulu), who ascended the throne under Yongzheng, moved from Lama Temple to Jingren Palace. Concubine Zhen of Guangxu entered the palace with her elder sister Concubine Jin at the age of 14, and lived in the east and west side halls of Jingren Palace, and was finally drowned by order of the Empress Dowager Cixi…

Among the six east palaces, the history of Yanxi Palace can be described as troubled. When it was completed in the early Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Yanqi Palace after its initial name Changshou Palace, and was renamed Yanxi Palace in Qing Dynasty. Since its completion, the Yanxi Palace has suffered repeated fires: it was rebuilt in the 25th year of Kangxi (1686) and the 7th year of Jiaqing (1802). In the twelfth year of Daoguang (1832), a fire broke out, which burned down the entire Yanxi Palace and rebuilt it again. In the 25th year of Daoguang (1845), a fire broke out in the Yanxi Palace, leaving only the palace gate. Xianfeng five years (1855) fire, rebuilt again. In the first year of Xuantong’s reign (1909), Empress Dowager Longyu spent 4 million to build a Western-style building “Water Palace” Lingzhao Xuan (commonly known as Crystal Palace). Lay the glass, and when you’re done it’ll be a walk-in super aquarium. This move has the meaning of suppressing the anger and revival of the Qing Dynasty, but until Xuantong abdicated, the project was not completed. When Zhang Xun was restored in 1917, the northern part of Yanxi Palace was unfortunately destroyed by plane bombs. In the entire palace, only the wellhead is in line with the original location of the well pavilion, leaving the only remaining remains. In 1931, the Palace Museum built a new cultural relic warehouse, which eventually became the first reinforced concrete building in the palace. In recent years, the story of the palace has been exaggerated by the media, and the little-known Yanxi Palace has once again aroused everyone’s curiosity. In fact, the concubines living in this secluded palace are living in hardship and poverty, and it is said that they do not even have enough food, even clothes, shoes and socks. The owner of Yanxi Palace in the Ming Dynasty is unknown, and the owners of the Qing Dynasty include Kangxi Chang in Xu and two people whose emblems are unknown and promised to live here.

The biggest difference between the West Six Palaces and the East Six Palaces in “100 Forbidden City” is that Taiji Palace and Changchun Palace, Yikun Guan and Chuxiu Palace are all connected into one. It makes the whole palace area have a strong color of life, and also makes the remaining Yongshou Palace and Xianfu Palace appear dull. Today, we look at Yikun Palace and Chuxiu Palace through “Forbidden City 100”. The Yikun Palace was originally called Wan’an Palace, and was renamed Yikun Palace in the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty .

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The Forbidden City Book Store which in the grounds of the Forbidden City Complex Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books Public welfare reading activities! “The Way of the Forbidden City Architecture” is the work of Wang Zilin, an expert from the Palace Museum, to study the construction of the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City has a rich architectural language that emphasizes the principles of order, proportion and symmetry. The central axis is the backbone of the building and the pivot that supports the entire palace. The Forbidden City is upright, symmetrical and orderly, and is a “model student” of ancient Chinese official architecture. The architectural complex of the Forbidden City has a unique shape and cultural connotation rich in traditional charm.

For example, the frame structure of the Forbidden City—five gates and three dynasties, the front court and the back bed, the east and west six palaces, comes from the “Zhou Li”. The Qiankun hexagram in “Book of Changes” makes the combination of buildings have a metaphysical height and a solid foundation. For example, the plane structure of the east and west six palaces presents the three-painted hexagram, which symbolizes the Kun hexagram, while the Qianqing Palace, The names of Kunning Palace and Jiaotai Hall are directly derived from Qian Gua, Kun Gua and Tai Gua, which make the Forbidden City have the logical law of the positioning of heaven and earth and the intersection of heaven and earth. The red walls and yellow tiles constitute the color tone of the Forbidden City architecture. In traditional cognition, yellow symbolizes earth, red symbolizes fire, and earth is located in the center. Therefore, the three halls are built on earth-shaped platforms. The color is yellow, so the central emperor is called the Yellow Emperor.” According to the principle of the five elements, fire can generate soil, so the red wall symbolizes fire, and the yellow tile symbolizes soil. The building roofs in the Forbidden City include almost all the forms of ancient Chinese building roofs, such as hard hills, hanging hills, Xieshan, Hudian, Zanjian, cross ridges, double eaves, rolling tents, scorpion tops, etc. They have strict grades. The difference reflects the etiquette characteristics of that era.


In addition to deciphering the architectural language from the architecture itself, when the landscape and architecture are integrated and are no longer isolated natural landscapes, they also become part of the architectural language and shoulder the heavy responsibility of interpreting architectural ideals. The Jinshui River and Wansui Mountain in the Forbidden City are no longer natural mountains and waters in a pure sense, but have an inseparable relationship with architecture. Wansui Mountain is the backing of the Forbidden City. Without this mountain, the Forbidden City will lose its strongest barrier and become an isolated city. The Jinshui River also has this function. It not only provides water for the entire Miyagi city and ensures the water and drainage of the palace city, but also plays the role of connecting the northwest trunk with the southeast Sunda, making the Jinshui River an image of a trunk. The river of gold enables the communication between heaven and earth and the connection between mountains and lakes….

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In this year’s 2020, the second decade from the turn of the century in Beijing the Capital of China also the People’s Republic of China, in which is also the year of the rat, marking its six hundred years anniversary of the Forbidden city that marks the transitional point of in between the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) transitionally from Nanjing to Beijing towards the Qing Dynasty (1636-1644-1911) …. The Imperial Palace seen so many countless seasonally transitional equinoxes but further its six hundred years is iconic, but it’s five hundred ninety nine years it marks it Autumn Equinox…. In which it only took twelve years to build the same of the Daming Palace of The Tang Dynasty Xian Imperial Capital only it was least twenty times larger……

Forbidden City Architecture emphasis on order, proportion and symmetry principles. The central axis is the backbone of the building and the Yuanshu that supports the entire palace; the five gates and three dynasties, the front and back sleeping quarters, and the east and west six palaces in the “Zhou Li” constitute the framework of the Forbidden City; the Qiankun hexagram in the “Book of Changes” The combination of has a metaphysical height, and has a solid foundation. For example, the plane structure of the six palaces in the east and the west presents three painted hexagrams, symbolizing the hexagrams of Kun hexagrams, and the names of the Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace and Jiaotai Palace are directly derived from The hexagrams Yu Qian, Kun and Tai gave the Forbidden City a logical law of positioning and intersecting heaven and earth. The red walls and yellow tiles constitute the colour tone of the Forbidden City.

In traditional cognition, yellow symbolizes soil and red symbolizes fire. The soil is located in the center. Therefore, the three halls are built on the foundation of the earth-shaped platform. The colour is yellow, so the central emperor called the Yellow Emperor”. According to the principle of the five elements, fire can produce soil, so the red wall symbolizes fire, the yellow tile symbolizes soil, and the fire produces soil. When the fire is prosperous, the soil is thick, which shows that the agricultural civilization cannot be separated from the soil. The building roofs in the Forbidden City include almost all the forms of ancient Chinese building roofs, such as hard mountains, hanging mountains, Xieshan, 庑殿, zuanjian, cross ridges, double eaves, roll sheds, and roofs. They have strict grades. The difference reflects the ritual characteristics of that era.

In addition to deciphering the architectural language from the building itself, when the landscape and the building are integrated and are no longer isolated natural landscapes, they also become part of the architectural language and are responsible for the interpretation of architectural ideals. The Jinshui River and Long Live Mountain in the Forbidden City are no longer natural mountains and water in the pure sense, but have an inseparable relationship with architecture. Long live mountain is the backer of the Forbidden City. Without this mountain, the Forbidden City would lose its strongest barrier and become an isolated city. The Jinshui River also has this function. It not only provides water for the entire Miyagi, and guarantees the water and drainage of the Miyagi, it also plays a role in connecting the north-western trunk with the southeast Sunda, making the Jinshui River a trunk in the image. The River of Gold allows the world to communicate and the mountains to connect……

紫禁城建筑强调秩序、比例和对称原则。中轴是建筑的脊梁，是支撑整个宫城的元枢 ；《周礼》中的五门三朝、前朝后寝、东西六宫，构成紫禁城的框架 ；《周易》中的乾坤卦象使建筑的组合有了形而上的高度，有了贞固不动的基础，如东西六宫的平面结构呈现三画卦，象征坤卦卦象，而乾清宫、坤宁宫和交泰殿的名称直接来源于乾卦、坤卦和泰卦，使紫禁城有了天地定位、天地相交的逻辑法则。红墙黄瓦构成紫禁城建筑的色彩基调，在传统的认知里，黄色象征土，红色象征火，土位于中央，故三大殿建在土字形的台基上，“中央戊己属土，其色黄，故中央帝曰黄帝”。按五行之理，火可以生土，故红墙象征火，黄瓦象征土，火生土，火旺则土厚，体现了农业文明的根本离不开土。紫禁城中的建筑屋顶几乎包括了中国古代建筑屋顶的所有形式，如硬山、悬山、 歇山、庑殿、攒尖、十字脊、重檐、卷棚、盝顶等，它们有着严格的等级区别，体现了那个时代的礼制特征。

除了从建筑本身去破解建筑语言外，当山水与建筑融为一体，不再是孤立的自然景观时，它们也成为建筑语言的一部分，担负着诠释建筑理想的重任。紫禁城的金水河和万岁山，二者已经不是纯粹意义上的自然的山与水，而是与建筑有着不可分割的关系。万岁山是紫禁城的靠山，没有这座山，紫禁城将失去最坚固的屏障，变成孤城。金水河也同样具有此作用，它不仅为整个宫城提供水源，保证宫城的用水与排水，同时它还起着将西北乾与东南巽相连接的作用，使金水河成为意象上的一条乾金之河，使天地得以沟通，山泽得以相连…

Imagines credit are of the Forbidden city –Imperial Palace –Beijing – China- People’s Republic of China