1, meridian gate
The main entrance of the Forbidden City is called "Wumen Gate", commonly known as Wufeng Tower. East, west and north? With 12? Surrounded by urban platform connection? Answer? Shape? Field. There is a heavy building in the middle. Is it 9 rooms? Wide? Temple, double-eaves palace roof, on the left and right protruding walls, there are four pavilions connected by eaves and ridges, connected by open corridors. Each wing has a 13 hall protruding south with four corners. what's up Pavilion, the auxiliary wing of the main hall.
2. Hall of Supreme Harmony
The Hall of Supreme Harmony, commonly known as the Golden Throne Hall, is the first of the "three halls" in the Forbidden City. It is built on a five-meter-high white marble pedestal surrounded by carved dragon columns. This is the largest building in the palace group. The main hall is 36 meters high and 63 meters wide, covering an area of 2,380 square meters.
On the platform two meters high in the center of the main hall is the golden throne of Qi Diao Dragon. Behind the throne are elegant screens, dragon pillars painted with gold powder and exquisite dragon caissons, which are magnificent. The Ming and Qing emperors ascended the throne, celebrated birthdays, celebrated the Spring Festival and celebrated the winter solstice.
3. Zhonghetang
The Zhonghe Hall behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony is one of the "three halls" in the Forbidden City. This temple is a single-eave square temple with a pyramid roof. 2 1 m per side, three rooms each, 20 corridors, yellow glazed tiles with four corners, pyramid-shaped roof, and gold-plated roof in the middle. The emperor went to the Zhonghe Hall for business, where he took a nap and was worshipped by the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Guard. On the day before all kinds of gifts, the emperor also read the memorial and speech here.
4. Baohe Hall
Baohe Hall, located behind Zhonghe Hall, is one of the "three halls" of the Forbidden City. Every year on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor feted princes and ministers of civil and military affairs here. During the Qianlong period, the triennial court examination was moved from the Hall of Supreme Harmony to here. The bedrooms on the east and west sides of Baohe Hall are now converted into art galleries of past dynasties, displaying China's art treasures from primitive society to the Qing Dynasty for about 6,000 years.
5. Gan Qing Palace
Gan Qing Palace is the main hall of the palace, with a throne and a plaque on it. It was the living area of emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties, and also the place where they usually handled political affairs. After Yongzheng, they moved to hall of mental cultivation. Every year on New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, Wanshou and other festivals, family banquets are held here as usual, and the emperor also stops in this hall after his death.
6. Jiaotai Hall
Jiaotai Hall is the place where the queens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties celebrated their birthdays after the Qing Dynasty. 25 jade seals in the temple; The west side is decorated with chimes during the Qianlong period; On the east side is a copper pot dripping water, and the iron sign that Shunzhi, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, prohibited officials from interfering in political affairs also stood in this hall.
7. Kunning Palace
In the Ming Dynasty, Kunning Palace was the queen's bedroom, also known as the Middle Palace. During the Shunzhi period, the Qingning Palace in Shenyang was rebuilt, and at the same time, the West Warm Pavilion was changed into a place for offering sacrifices to the gods, and Korean sacrifices, evening sacrifices, spring and autumn sacrifices and so on were often held. Dongnuange is the bridal chamber where emperors Shunzhi, Kangxi, Tongzhi and Guangxu got married.
8. Palace of Gathered Elegance
Palace of Gathered Elegance was the place where the Empresses of Ming and Qing Dynasties lived. In the second year of Xianfeng (A.D. 1852), Cixi lived here when she first entered the palace, and was named as a noble of Lan. In March of the sixth year of Xianfeng, she was promoted to Empress Dowager Cixi and gave birth to Emperor Tongzhi. Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Changchun Palace in the 10th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1884). To celebrate her 50th birthday, she moved to this palace for reconstruction, which cost 632,000 silver.
9. Yangxintang
Hall of mental cultivation is an I-shaped temple with three forehalls, with a total width of 36m and three depths 12m. The yellow glazed tile rests on the top of the mountain, and the shed and the government are indirectly involved between the Ming and the West. Each front cornice column has two square columns, which look like 9 rooms.
Royal garden 10
The Imperial Garden, formerly known as the Palace Garden, is now commonly known as the Imperial Garden, covering an area of12,000 square meters, with more than 20 buildings. The landscape architecture takes Qin 'an Hall as the center, and adopts the pattern of complementary primary and secondary, symmetrical left and right, compact layout and rich classicism. The pile of Xiushan in the northeast of the temple is made of Taihu stone and has a royal pavilion built on it. Every year after the Double Ninth Festival, the emperor would climb here.