The Forbidden City Gate of Heavenly Purity (Gate of Heavenly Purity or Qianqingmen) on the central axis of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts, the atrium and the court, if it serves the main entrance to the imperial house. On the east side of the door are Inner Light Tor (Neizuomen) and the Department of courtiers (Jiuqingfang) and West Gate are the law (Neiyoumen) and the Office of the Grand Council of State (Junjichu). In the south of the door Qianqing Men Square, 200 m long and 50m wide. On the east side of the square is the gateway to the vast fortune (Jingyunmen) and west is the door of the great ancestors (Longzongmen). In the eastern part in the end, it is cultivated for Hall Princes (Shangshufang) and the goal of Sun Shine (Rijingmen). In the western part of the barrier, there is in southern studies (Nanshufang) and the Gate of the Moon Radiance (Yuehuamen).
Gate of Heavenly Purity
The Gate of Heavenly Purity was founded in 1420 and built in 1655. Five bays wide and three bays deep and sixteen feet high, is the Gate of Heavenly Purity, a structure with a unique roof eaved, resting on the base 1.5-meter-high white marble building surrounded by stone balustrades Buddhist .
Opposite the door is a pair of bronze lions guard slipped them. As we know, the Forbidden City has numerous bronze lions, but those who are above the door of Heavenly Purity somewhat different. Sharp acknowledges that the eyes of two lions have ears Flipperty-flopperty, while others have made statues of the lion in the Forbidden City with their ears ears. The experts from the Palace Museum said, discouraged that in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) of the imperial family, courtiers came into the yard and vice versa (prohibition of women interfering in state affairs) . These two lions with ears alert Flipperty-flopperty courtyard concubines and maids of honor, they prefer us to take care of government business in the front yard as little as possible.
Before the door there are four major glossy gilded bronze vats. Although they are decorative, their main task was to maintain the combat excessive amount of water on the fire. Each barrel weighs four tons and is expected to contain more than 200 gallons of Water. Three hundred and eight barrels around the Forbidden City, of which 22 are in the same design as the sight of the objective distribution.
In 1644, the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi published (1644-1661), Bill of forgetting this. During the following period of the Qing Dynasty, some emperors held court at the door. Ministers and officials gathered here in the morning, waiting to get to the emperor. A temporary throne has been defined and the Emperor sat here for submissions to him to hear the knees in the order of the Minister in charge of the Commission of Revenue, Rites, War, Civil Works and Office. Decisions would be taken by the Emperor. As the most diligent of Emperor Kangxi Qing emperors ruled for 61 years from 1662 to 1722 and has made many important decisions at the Gate of Heavenly Purity. But after the reign of Xianfeng (1851-1861), no courts were held here.
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