Hall of Martial Valor – Forbidden City

Posted under Forbidden City on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 by Travel Beijing

Hall of Martial Valor Chinese call it Wuyingdian.

On the west side of the Gate of Harmony wealthy (Xihemen), western courtyard of the Forbidden City is the Hall of Martial Valor (Wuyingdian). The building is 工-shaped structure with a hall connecting the main hall and back room. The Hall of Martial Valor is in the main room on the south side. Five bays wide and three bays deep, is a unique structure eaved yellow glazed tiles. The back room is the Hall of respect and thinking (Jingsidian) in the architectural style of the Hall of Martial Valor. In the northeast of the complex is the last house of longevity (Hengshouzhai) and north-west of Bath. The Hall of Martial Valor and the Hall of Literary Glory Echoes from a distance, one for the military and the other for literature.

Hall of Martial Valor – Forbidden City

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor lived and worked in the Hall of Martial Valor, then the Hall of Literary Glory. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the peasant rebel leader who seized Beijing and set up his regime here. However, the army quickly shocked if they are not against the armies of the Qing struggle. It proved to be a hasty introduction into the Hall of Valor 29th marriage April and a retreat from Beijing the next day. In the early years of the military control of the Qing, was the first ruler Duoergun here and the Hall of Martial Valor because the job won. The first number of the Qing emperors held ceremonies to small religious rituals in this room. In 1669, the eighth year of the reign of Kangxi, Emperor, moved into the Hall of Martial Valor only live once because of the renovation of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

Opened during the reign (1661-1722) Kangxi, a library was in this room. In 1701, the fortieth year of the reign of Kangxi, a large number of pounds were produced. With dry out point method of printing and custom magazines, books are works of art, words and images exquisitely delicate. In the twentieth year of King Daoguang (1820-1850) some books were published and those who were released are not yet recorded, all were taken in the hotel and transfer of thinking. Received in 1814, the nineteenth year of the reign of Jiaqing (1796-1820), after an examination of the books, the healthier are delivered in the Hall of Martial Valor, and most were deformed sold. In 1869, the eighth year of Tongzhi (1861-1875), the Hall of Martial Valor was damaged by a fire, destroying all the books. That same year she was rebuilt.
Gallery

The Hall of Martial Valor is now the Art Gallery of the Palace Museum, the many ancient Chinese paintings, among which only a few books, and only the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasty paintings and masterpieces of the various groups of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The exhibitions are organized every year, but a copy at the beginning or the works as national treasures rarely show their faces. To the traditional view of time courts are available only when the temperature and humidity are likely to protect them, especially in all of September and October. Tourists are allowed to take any photos in Photopaint. However, there is a space of several film and video equipment for the tourists to photograph without flash, an.