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Forbidden City Address: Jingshan Front Street, Dongcheng District, No. 4,

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Getting Forbidden City: 1,2,4,5,10,20,52,57,22,54,120,802, special one way or the Tiananmen Square, Zhongshan Park Station, subway, 9,17,44,48,53 , 59,66,110,307,803,808,819,922, special 4, special 7, Tuanjiehu line and get off the front door, or 101,103,103 fast 109,812,814 Palace Road, get off.

The opening hours of the Forbidden City

Forbidden City, open all year round

April 16 to October 15, the National Palace Museum opening hours 8:30 – 17: 00, only the votes in time 16:00 (including watches Museum, Treasures Museum)

October 16 to April 15, opening hours 8:30 – 16: 30, only the votes in time to 15:30 (including watches Museum, Treasures Museum)

The Forbidden City best tour season

The Imperial Palace is located in the center of Beijing, is one of many tourists yearning for land. In late April early months -6 travel better, because then it is within the Forbidden City when the flowers bloom bright.

The best tourist season is in late -6 In early April, late August at the end of -11. Into the Forbidden City, you can watch the beautiful flowers, green trees loaded Su-wrapped. Is the scene of thriving vitality!

Forbidden City Tour Recommended Tour Routes

Road, that is, along the “South Forbidden City Road” forward, in order to view Meridian Gate, Gate of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, Hall of Preserving Harmony, dry-ching gate, Palace of Heavenly Purity, delivery Thai Temple, Kunning Gong, Imperial Garden , Shenwu Men.

Within the West and within the East, primarily to visit the East Liugong, West Liugong, nine-dragon screen and so on.

Outside the East, in order to appreciate the treasure museum of treasures, as its main content.

Forbidden City Tour Ticket Price

Low season (from November 1 – the following year, March 31) Admission: 40 yuan (students 20 yuan)

High season (from April 1 – 10 of 31) Admission: 60 yuan (students 20 yuan)

(Treasure Hall 10 yuan Clock Museum 10 yuan in conjunction with half-price ticket free)

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Forbidden City, also known as the National Palace Museum, which is located in center of Beijing, Tiananmen Square North, 1 km, Jingshan south gate opposite east-west width 750 meters, 960 meters north to south, covering an area of 72 million square meters, the palace houses a total of more than 9,000 rooms, is the world’s the largest palace complex. Outside the National Palace Museum is a 52 meters wide, 6 meters deep moat; which is a circumference of 3 km of the wall, the wall almost 10 meters high, Bottom width 8.62 meters; the walls has opened a 4-door, south Meridian Gate, north Shenwu Men , Donghuamen east, west, West China Gate; wall still stands four square turret, modeling unique, exquisitely carved.

Forbidden City in general can be divided into two parts, Southern working areas, ie outside North Korea, the North for the living area, or inner court. North Korea all the buildings outside the inner court arranged in axial line, things symmetrical and orderly.

Dealing with political affairs outside North Korea is a place where the emperor, there are three main halls: Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, Hall of Preserving Harmony. Hall of Supreme Harmony is most of them tall, brilliant, its wide and 60.1 meters, depth 33.33 meters, 35.05 meters high. The emperor ascended the throne wedding, canonization, life would be, set off such a grand ceremony to be held here, at which time thousands of Shan Hu, “Long live the” hundreds of ritual three hundred sing, his best royal style. Tai and in the rear of the hall is the emperor to attend the ceremony before the rest and accept the major places of worship, the most northern of the Hall of Preserving Harmony is the place where the emperor Ci Yan and the successful candidates.

Netting, including dry-ching, AC Thai, Kun Ning Gong and three east and west sides of the East and West Liu Gong Liu Gong, which is the emperor and his concubines place of residence, commonly known as “Sannomiya six homes.” In the residential area north of the imperial garden and a small, chic, is the Royal family to enjoy myself.

Regulation of the magnificent Forbidden City, layout rigorous, beautiful architecture, the Furama expensive, and has collected many rare cultural relics of China’s ancient architecture, culture, art is all about.

Forbidden City Name

The common English name “Forbidden City”, a translation of the Chinese name Zijin Cheng (Chinese pinyin： Zǐjinchéng literally “Purple Forbidden City”). Another name in English of the same origin is “Forbidden City”.

The name “Zijin Cheng” is a name with significance on many levels. Zi, or “Purple”, refers to the North Star, which had been mentioned in ancient China Ziwei Star, and traditional Chinese astrology, the house of the Heavenly Emperor. The surrounding celestial region, housing Ziwei (Chinese: pinyin： Zǐwēiyuán) has been the realm of the Celestial Emperor and his family. The Forbidden City, when it became the residence of Emperor Land, its terrestrial counterpart. Jin, or “forbidden,” said that person enter or leave the palace was without the authorization of the Emperor. Cheng, a walled city.

Today the site is commonly known in Chinese as Gugong, which means “the former Palace. The museum, founded in these buildings, known as the “Palace Museum” (Chinese: pinyin Gugong Bówùyùan).

About the Forbidden City

In downtown Beijing, Chinese people are called the Palace Museum or Gugong. For nearly five centuries, has long served as the seat of the emperor and his family and the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government.In 1406 to 1420 built complex of 980 surviving buildings with 8707 rooms and covers 720,000 m2 (7,800,000 sq. feet). The palace is an example of traditional Chinese beautifully, and the cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere affected. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage site in 1987 and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of canned ancient wooden structures in the world.

Since 1925, the Forbidden City is under the care of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of art and artifacts have been on the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing. Part of the collection of the old museum is now at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Virtual Forbidden City

Forbidden City History

Forbidden City Travel Tips

Forbidden City Attractions:

1. Meridian Gate
2. Hall of Literary Glory and Hall of Martial Valor
3. Gate of Supreme Harmony
4. Hall of Supreme Harmony
5. Hall of Central Harmony
6. Hall of Preserved Harmony
7. Gate of Heavenly Purity
8. Palace of Heavenly Purity
9. Hall of Celestial & Terrestrial Union
10. Palace of Earthly Tranquility
11. Hall of Mental Cultivation
12. Six Western Palaces
13. Hall for Ancestry Worship
14. Six Eastern Palaces
15. Palace of Tranquil Longevity
16. Treasure Gallery
17. Qianlong Garden
18. Imperial Garden
19. Forbidden City Gates
20. Forbidden City Moat and Corner Towers

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Forbidden City History

The history of the Forbidden City covers six centuries. In the heart of Beijing, China, the Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Built 1406 to 1420, the  Forbidden City is experienced many changes. Having as the imperial palace for nearly five hundred years, the Forbidden City is now a palace museum – the Palace Museum – in 1925. In 1987 he was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The site is located at the Forbidden City was the imperial city during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. During the creation of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor moved the capital Beijing in the north to Nanjing in the south, and ordered that the palace be burnt yuan. When his son was Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, he moved the capital to Beijing, and construction began in 1406, what would the Forbidden City.

The construction lasted 15 years, and requires more than one million workers. Materials used are made of precious wood logs, while Zhennan Phoebe (Chinese Pinyin nanmu) found in the jungles of southwestern China, and large blocks of marble from quarries near Beijing. The main room floors were paved with “gold bricks” (Chinese: Pinyin jīnzhuān), specially baked paving stones from Suzhou.

From 1420 to 1644, was the Forbidden City, the seat of the Ming Dynasty. In April 1644 he became the rebel Li Zicheng, who describes himself as Emperor Shun Dynasty.He quickly fled before the combined armies of former Ming general Wu Sangui and Manchu forces, setting resulted recognized before the fire, parts of the Forbidden City the process. In October, the Manchus had achieved domination in northern China, and a ceremony was held in the Forbidden City in order to emphasize the young Emperor Shunzhi as ruler of all China under the Qing Qing rulers Dynasty.The announce last names of the main building to “harmony” rather than “Supremacy”, made the plates bilingual (Chinese and Manchu), and contains elements of shamanism in the palace.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French forces took control of the Forbidden City and occupied it until the end of 1900 war.In Empress Dowager Cixi fled from the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion, so that by the force of the Treaty powers are until next year occupied.

Once the residence of 24 emperors, fourteen of the Ming dynasty and ten from the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City was stopped, the political center of China in 1912 with the abdication of Pu Yi, last emperor of China. Under a new agreement with the Government of the Republic of China, Pu Yi was on the farm, while the outer court was dedicated to public use until he was expelled following a coup in 1924. The Palace Museum was then established in the Forbidden City. In 1933 the Japanese invasion of China forced the evacuation of the national treasures in the Forbidden City.Part, the collection was back at the end of World War II, but the other part was evacuated to Taiwan in 1947 under the command of Chiang Kai – shek, whose Kuomintang lost the Chinese civil war. This collection of relatively small but high quality has been in storage until 1965, when he returned to the public, as the core of the National Palace Museum in Taipei held.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 caused some damage to the Forbidden City, while the country was drawn into revolutionary zeal.During the Cultural Revolution, but further destruction was prevented when the Prime Minister Zhou Enlai sent an army battalion, the city to protect.

The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987 as the Imperial Palace “of the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of its important role in the development of architecture and culture of China. It is currently used by the Palace Museum, which leads repair, a project of sixteen years of restoration and clean up all the buildings of the Forbidden City in their managed-1912 before the state.

In recent years, the presence of commercial enterprises in the Forbidden City has been controversial. A Starbucks that opened in 2000, objections, and finally ended the 13 July 2007. The Chinese media also took note of a few souvenir shops that refused to allow Chinese citizens to price gouge to foreign customers in 2006.

Forbidden City Travel Tips

Forbidden City is a must when traveling to Beijing. To make your journey much comfortable Forbidden City, we found a few helpful tips to follow for you.

Best Time to Visit the Forbidden City

Forbidden City is the best season from late March to early June and from late August to late November. During these periods, select one days and not weeks and holidays to avoid the crowds.

Recommended Forbidden City Tour lines

West Line: Meridian Gate (Wumen) – Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian) – Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian) – Hall of Harmony doses (Baohedian) – Gateway to the purity Celeste (Qianqingmen) — Six Western Palaces – Cining Palace – Hall of Mental cultivation (Yangxindian) – Zhai Shufang  TOP

Middle Line: Wumen (Meridian Gate) – Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian) – Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian) – Hall of Harmony doses (Baohedian) – Gateway to the purity Celeste (Qianqingmen) — Hall heavenly and earthly of the European Union (Jiaotaidian) – Künning Palace – Imperial Garden (Yuhuayuan) – Shenwu Gate

East Line: Wumen (Meridian Gate) – Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian) – Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian) – Hall of Harmony doses (Baohedian) – Gateway to the purity Celeste (Qianqingmen) — Six Eastern Palaces (Dongliugong) – Palace of Tranquil Longevity (Ningshougong) – Now Zhenfei

Forbidden City Exhibitions

Forbidden City Museum has called permanent exhibitions in various halls and palaces a few. The following is a list of some shows that may spark your interest. Visit them and you can learn more about the cultural context in the great Forbidden City.

Valuable cultural relics treasures exhibition Huangji Hall Leshou Hall and Yangxing Palace Yihe Xuan
Clocks Collections Exhibition Hall in Fengxian
Qing Palace Opera exhibition in the Palace Changyin
Cixi to Business Expo at Xianfu Palace
Puyi Life exhibition in Lijing Xuan
Qing concubines Life exhibition at the Palace Yongshou
Qing Weapon Equipment Exhibition in Hongyi Garret
Wanshou celebrations at Exhibition Palace Qianqing
Imperial Palace Grand Wedding Expo in Qianqing

Forbidden City Attractions:

Meridian Gate

The Meridian Gate (Chinese, pinyin Wǔmén is the southernmost (and largest) gate of the Forbidden City. It has five arches. The three central arches are matched, the two flanking arches are still the exception of the three central arches. The arc center was once reserved for the emperor, the exceptions were the Empress, it might be, once their wedding day to give, and the three best students of three reviews of public service, tests allowed by the central arch. All other officers and agents had to use the four lateral arches.   Details of the Meridian Gate

Hall of Literary Glory and Hall of Martial Valor

Entering the southern entrance to the Forbidden City – Meridian Gate, you will see the inside deck of the Golden River. In the east of the bridge is the gateway to the single resulting in Harmony Hall of Literary Glory. In the west of the bridge is the gateway to the prosperous harmony leading to the Hall of Martial Valor. Both halls are balanced by an east-west, now separated, are used as a gallery of ceramics and Forbidden City photo gallery.

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Gate of Supreme Harmony

Hall of Supreme Harmony

Hall of Central Harmony

Hall of Preserved Harmony

Gate of Heavenly Purity

Palace of Heavenly Purity

Hall of Celestial & Terrestrial Union

Palace of Earthly Tranquility

Hall of Mental Cultivation

Six Western Palaces

Hall for Ancestry Worship

Six Eastern Palaces

Palace of Tranquil Longevity

Treasure Gallery

Qianlong Garden & Pavilion of Pleasant Sounds

Imperial Garden

Forbidden City Gates
Forbidden City Moat and Corner Towers

Forbidden City Map

Now you start your journey into the Forbidden City Meridian Gate Wumen called in English. It is also known as the Five-Phoenix Tower, Wufenglou Chinese, because it looks like a phoenix, with five buildings banner above. This is the main gate and south gate of the Forbidden City. Inside the Meridian Gate, it seems Inner Golden Water Bridges. The water flows under the bridges of white marble. The Golden Water River in this section is beautifully decorated and well equipped. The riverbed and the bank were paved with white stones. Pillars of marble and decorative railings were built along the River. Standing on the bridge, you can see a massive structure as the gate of Supreme Harmony, the most impressive of the city with two bronze lions guard the front cover. In the square between Taihemen and Wumen, honor guards march past of imperial ceremonies.

The three main rooms in the courtyard, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Central Harmony and Harmony Hall in canned form a line inside the door. These rooms are located on all three levels of marble terraces with marble balustrades. A stone ramp carved with dragons and clouds rolled between the steps leading to each room. The ramp Baohedian (Hall of Harmony canned) is the largest of them.

The first room, and the largest is Taihedian (Hall) of Supreme Harmony, where emperors exercised their supremacy throughout the country. Here is the emperor ascended the throne, and held an audience granted to officials and other important events. The hall is flanked by Wenhuadian (Hall of Literary Glory) and Wuyingdian (Hall of Martial velvet). The first, held on the right side for a study of the Crown Prince, banquets and ceremonies were used. The latter, on the left side of the imperial press, where many books compiled and published and where Li Zicheng, head of the famous uprising of the peasants who came to the throne after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. On the northern Wenhuadian is Wenyuange (Pavilion of the literary source), the Imperial Library Library, which was made the largest encyclopedia in the world Sikuquanshu (Complete Four Treasures of knowledge). The architecture of the library has many Chinese cultural structure and decorations. Nanxundian (South Hall Fragrance) Wuyingdian is near, where the portraits will remain the emperor of dynasties.
A corner of the Forbidden City Gate finely decorated palace
Behind Taihedian is Zhonghedian (Hall of Central Harmony), a square building, much smaller than Taihedian. That was where the Emperor would have rested on his way to Taihedian and asked his ministers or officials from the Ministry of rituals and ceremonies for samples are also held here.

Baohedian (Hall of Harmony) in cans, the architecture of the palace is the second largest in the back of the court. Imperial banquets were often here at senior civil servant instead. Kaiser led the last leg of the national examinations for officials of the intellectuals across the country to choose in this space.

The old gun barrel Leaving the Baohedian, visitors can the Gate of Heavenly Purity, who see the boundary of the outer court and in the courtyard. Inside the door is the residence of the royal family. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi heard many reports from senior officials and ordered under the door. The court is divided into three parts. The three rooms in the central axis are the main structures and they are smaller than the three rooms in the courtyard, although similar in nature. Six Six East Western Palace and Palace complex are also important because there lived the imperial concubines.

The first room inside the Qianqingmen is the Palace of Heavenly Purity, which was originally the bedroom of the emperor and her office. Kaiser also gave a banquet here. Behind it is a smaller space than the Hall of Celestial and Terrestrial Union, where the Empress received the greetings of the other concubines. It has been used to save the emperor and empress imperial seal. The third room on the central axis of the palace of earthly tranquility, which served as the Empress Room.

On the left side of the court, Hall of Mental Palace of Culture and Six West (Xiliugong) differ from north to south. Yangxindian (Hall of Mental culture) was important, in a hall of the palace of Emperor Yongzheng, since most of the emperors lived and worked in public affairs here. North of Yangxindian Xiliugong (Six Western Palace) is located, which is Yongshougong (Palace of Eternal Longevity) Yikungong) (Palace of the Queen, Chuxiugong (Palace Collection elegance) Taijidian (Hall of Supreme Pole), Changchungong (Palace of Eternal Spring) and Xianfugong (Palace of Universal Happiness). The first three are on the right hand side and the other three, who left along a track north-south.

Forbidden City Map

Bronze plant tank fire with water to potential FireOne the right side of the atrium, ie. East side, there Ancestry Hall, worship, Zhaigong) (Palace of abstinence, where the emperors practiced abstinence for a few days before she has to offer sacrifices in the Temple of Heaven or the Temple of Earth and Dongliugong (Six of the Eastern Palace), by Jingrengong exists (Palace of Great Benevolence), Chengqiangong (palace) of the heavenly grace, Yonghegong (palace) of the eternal harmony, Jingyanggong (Palace of Great Brilliance), Zhongcuigong (Palace of Purity) and Yanxigong (Palace of Lasting Happiness). Further east, a complex of small buildings that looks like the Forbidden City, the Emperor Qianlong built for his retirement. The facility is divided into three parts: part of the central hall of the imperial power are shared, the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, Treasure Gallery (the Hall of intellectual culture, Hall of Joyful Longevity, well Belvedere Harmony) and jing nourished Room, Western Qianlong Garden, including the Pavilion a good omen (Fuwangge) and the Well of Consort Zhen (Zhenfeijing) wait, and this is also part of the Pavilion of Pleasant Sounds (Changying), The Viewing Room Opera (Yueshilou) Palace landscapes and happiness (Jingfugong).

North of the court, the Imperial Garden. Though small, it is glorious, decorated with towers, pavilions, artificial hills, springs, rocks, trees, flowers and lawns – a replica of the gardens of southern China.

Just behind the garden is Shenwumen (Gate of Divine Prowess), the rear door of the Forbidden City. At the door there was a drum and a bell. The bell used to ring 108 times aware of a new day, while the drum rataplaned hours in the night.

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The construction of the Forbidden City:

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The construction of the Forbidden City

The Ming Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the Forbidden City

The site of the Forbidden City was the imperial palace is under the Mongol Yuan dynasty. After the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor moved the Ming capital of Beijing in the north to Nanjing in the south, and ordered in 1369 that destroyed the Yuan palace. His son, Zhu Di was created Prince of Yan, which has its headquarters in Beijing. In 1402, Zhu Di usurped the throne and became Emperor Yongle. Beijing, he made a second capital of the Ming empire, and construction began in 1406, which is the center of the Forbidden City: Forbidden City plan is designed by many architects and designers, and then has been in the ministry of the emperor’s chief architect work.The considered Cai Xin and eunuchs An Nguyen, a Vietnamese, and chief engineers were Kuai Xiang Xiang and Lu.

The construction took 15 years and employed in the work of 100,000 skilled craftsmen, and up to one million laborers.The pillars of the main rooms of all logs of precious Phoebe Zhennan wood (they were Chinese, pinyin: nanmu), found in jungles of South-West China. Such a feat is not repeated in future years – the major pillars of our time have been reconstructed with several pieces of pine in the great Qing Dynasty.The terraces and stone sculptures were made of stone quarries near Beijing. The larger pieces are transported unconventional. Instead, wells were dug on the road, and the well water was poured on the way into the depths of winter, a layer of ice. The stones were dragged across the ice. TOP

The floors of the halls were Chinese with “gold bricks” (: Pinyin jīnzhuān paved), terracotta in seven counties of Suzhou and Songjiang prefectures. Each batch took months for cooking, resulting in smooth stones that cycle with a metallic sound. Many original interior plaster six years.

Soil during construction of the trench was dug, piled in the north of the palace to create an artificial hill, the Jingshan hill.
Has been completed even before the palace, went to Beijing, Zhu Di, under the guise of “tourism and hunting”: administrative center of the kingdom gradually shifted from Nanjing to Beijing. When the palace was completed in 1420, she moved Zhu Di and primary capital of Beijing officially empire.However still barely nine months after its construction, have been burned three large warehouses, including the throne room, and he would be 23 years before they established.

From 1420 to 1644, was the Forbidden City, the seat of the Ming dynasty. Conducted in April 1644, rebels captured and Li Zicheng Chongzhen Emperor, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, hanged himself at Jingshan Hill. Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor of the Shun Dynasty in the Hall of Military Eminence. Soon, however, fled before the combined armies of former Ming general Wu Sangui and Manchu troops set fire to parts of the Forbidden City in this process.

Qing Dynasty Forbidden City

In October, the Manchu rule in northern China has achieved, and the Prince Regent Dorgon proclaimed the Qing dynasty as the successor of the Ming. A ceremony was held at the Forbidden City to proclaim the Shunzhi young as ruler of China. The Qing Ming dynasty rulers largely retained control of the palace, except the names of the main building. The Ming Dynasty, the names of people disadvantaged ji, which means “rule” or “end”, while the Qing names and new names mean “peace” and “harmony” is preferred, as Huangji Dian, the Hall of Imperial Supremacy “was changed to Taihe Dian, the Hall of Supreme Harmony. ”

Furthermore, signs and nameplates of bilingual (Chinese and Manchu were), and the most important part of the Official Chamber of the Empress, the Temple of Peace in the world, was a shamanistic shrine.

The Forbidden City was the center of power of the Qing dynasty. In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French forces took control of the Forbidden City and occupied it until the end of 1900 war.In Empress Dowager Cixi fled from the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion and leaves it to be forces occupied the Treaty Powers to the following year. TOP

Once home twenty-four emperors, fourteen of the Ming dynasty and ten from the Qing Dynasty, ending the Forbidden City to the political center of China in 1912 with the abdication of Pu Yi, last emperor of China. However, under an agreement between the Qing imperial house and the new government of the People’s Republic of China, Pu Yi was signed has indeed necessary to live within the walls of the Forbidden City. Pu Yi and his family retained the use of the court, while the outer courtyard has been turned over to Republican. A museum has been created in the outer court in 1914.

Forbidden City after the Revolution

Resistance Puyi stay in the palace was built during the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China.

In 1923, Reginald Johnston, a professor of English Pu Yi, said the wealth of smuggling Puyi palace eunuchs and sell them in antique stores. Pu Yi has ordered an audit of the collections of the castle. Before launch, a fire destroyed the palace gardens of the institution in which well-being most of the collection of the Qianlong emperor was saved by works of art. In his memoirs, Puyi said the fire started by the eunuchs, to conceal his wrongdoing. The fire fed also sentiments of the public against the continued occupation of Puyi palace.The gardens were not established until 2005.
In 1924, Feng Yuxiang took control of Beijing in a coup. Termination of the prior authorization of the Imperial Qing Feng Puyi expelled from the palace. On October 10, 1925 (Double Ten Day), was created in the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City. The large amount of treasures and curiosities, it houses gradually cataloged and displayed in public. TOP

Soon, however, has threatened Japanese invasion of China, the safety of these national treasures, and they were moved from the Forbidden City. From 1933, major artifacts were packed and removed. They were delivered only in Nanjing and from there to Shanghai. But Japanese troops quickly threatened Shanghai. The Executive Yuan has decided to evacuate the surveys for the Far West. The subjects were divided into three lots. They took the road north to Shaanxi. One was transported along the Yangtze River in Sichuan. The last match was moved southwards towards Guangxi. The pace of growth in Japan forced the artifacts are gone too quickly to escape bombs and record, often with a period of several hours. Ultimately, all three collections from the relative safety of Sichuan Province reached, where they remained until the end of the war.

Meanwhile, the Japanese army conquered remove the Forbidden City in Beijing, but only in a position a couple of bronze, bath and some guns. Most of them were after the war, in Tianjin.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the artifacts were returned to Nanjing and Beijing. Remarkably, there was no lost or damaged.

In 1947, the Kuomintang lost the Chinese civil war, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the artifacts from the Forbidden City and the National Museum of Nanjing, will be moved to Taiwan. In cases where no artifacts were shipped from Beijing, but saved many of the best collections of Nanjing have been shipped to Taiwan and now form the nucleus of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Under the People’s Republic of China
Middle Glorious Gate under renovation as part of the process of restoration of 19.

Forbidden City Today

In 1949, the People’s Republic of China was established in Tiananmen Square, opposite the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987 as the Imperial Palace “of the Ming and Qing Dynasties” because of its strong position in the development of Chinese architecture and culture.

Currently, the Palace Museum for preservation and restoration of the Forbidden City is responsible. The height of buildings around the Forbidden City are limited. In 2005, a sixteen-year project has begun to rebuild, repair and restoration of all buildings in the Forbidden City in their pre-1912 state. It is the largest restoration of the Forbidden City, in two centuries and includes sections of gradual eviction of the Forbidden City in the evaluation, repair and restoration.Also in the project, parts of abandoned or destroyed are reconstructed. Destroyed the palace gardens of wealth creation, by fire in 1923, was rebuilt in 2005, but remains closed to the public. The interior was also decorated in a different style, and buildings are used by visiting dignitaries. TOP

Although efforts have been made to prevent the marketing of the castle, a variety of commercial enterprises, such as gift shops and photography is available. These corporations frequently controversial. Starbucks, which opened in 2000, has raised objections and ends July 13, 2007. The Chinese media also took note of a few souvenir shops that refused to Chinese citizens in 2006.According reports admit that the goal was to have an atmosphere in which foreigners may be victims of price gouging to preserve. The Palace Museum promised to investigate the matter. Some commentators, how influential television presenter Phoenix Luqiu Luwei, questioned the whole practice of renting rooms in the Forbidden City as an area of retail.

In 2005, IBM and Palace Museum Corporation announced a joint project to build a World Wide Web-based virtual model of the Forbidden City and associated sites Beijing.The online project of cultural heritage called the Forbidden City: In – Beyond space and time is presented in English and Chinese, and interactive three-dimensional representations of the Forbidden City, and cultural structures. The Virtual Forbidden City will consist of approximately 800 buildings, and sometimes begin in 2008.

Anyone who entered the Forbidden City to observe strict rules regarding the use of the Meridian Gate. The central arch was the emperor for the exclusive use. However, an empress was granted the privilege to use this entry only once, on their wedding day. For him to honor the three finalists, who had won the highest awards in national examinations, chaired by the emperor, he would be allowed to march through the arch after their meeting with the emperor. The lowest arc in the east was used by ministers, while in the West has been used by the royal family. The remaining arches were used by petty officials. Ordinary people were forbidden to enter the city.

Above the Meridian Gate arches are a series of buildings. The center is the palace of nine bays wide, with double roofs. At each site, the 13-bay building, roofing, connects the two pavilions on top. The Emperor of China, reviewed his troops from this city during the Ming and Qing.

Its structure is also known as “Phoenix five laps, because it consists of five buildings.Imperial almanacs and proclamations were issued by the gatehouse. After the success of campaigns, Emperor received prisoner of war here soon followed by mass beheadings. The door has five goals.

A series of events will be held at the Meridian Gate. For the equivalent of October 1 issue of the emperor would be the solar calendar for the coming year. The timing would mean that the days when the various ceremonies will take place. At first, Mark Kaiser, Meals on ministers to give an important day in the solar year. After the war would, Kaiser prisoners here. Would be too close to the Imperial Way, which passes through the central arch on the left, those who have offended the emperor to receive the lash as punishment.

Although Beijing urban legend that senior officers were executed in imperial China, in reality, only the corporal punishment was actually carried out.

Behind the spectator Duanmen Gate, the main entrance of the Forbidden City.

In a proceeding north through the Meridian Gate, came the next goal is the gate of Supreme Harmony.

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East of the Gate Unified Harmony (Xiehemen), the court outside the Forbidden City is the Hall of Literary Glory. The building is 工-shaped structure with a passage between the front and back rooms. The entrance hall is the Hall of Literary Glory, facing south. Five bays wide and three bays deep, has a roof of a single eaved yellow tiles. The back room is the temple of the service and respect (Zhujingdian), a structure similar to the Hall of Literary Glory, but less deep. Moreover, there are outbuildings, the Palace of Benevolence (Benrendian) in the east and the Hall of Justice (Jiyidian) west.

In terms of architecture, the Hall of Literary Glory of the right wing of the three places on the farm, in view of the function is in addition to the three large rooms. Established under the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), he was initially the main hall of the Prince and covered with green glazed tiles, according to the theory of five elements of the ideology of Taoism. But when the prince was too young to manage state affairs, the room was like a palace of the emperor in the fifteenth year of the reign of the Jiajing Ming (1521-1567) and the ground had to be changed to yellow.

In the Ming Dynasty, he took a post in the Hall of Literary Glory as a “great scholar” whose job was to tutor the prince. In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), he’s Cabinet system of “three rooms, three offices and contributed was the” great scientist “to lead the emperor to the business of government officials and took in the control, advanced performance broadly.

The famous ceremony, read reports of the Emperor took place in the Hall of Literary Glory. The emperor had reports on their study of the “Four Books (The Great Learning to write the doctrine of the mean, the Analects of Confucius and Mencius) and Five Classics (Classic of Changes, Classic of Poetry, Book of Rites, classics of the documents and) Annals of spring and fall. “Emperor of the Qing Dynasty have their reports on two occasions, both Chinese and Manchu once represented, while the ministers listened to civil knees on the floor. Emperor Kangxi (1661-1722), as prime minister (1722-1735) and Qianlong (1735-1796) were all quite achieved. You can discuss with civilian judges if they felt the need. And then everyone is offered a cup of relaxing green tea. Finally, the emperor, the ministers would function in the Pavilion of Literary) profundity (Wenyuange who take behind the Hall of Fame in a literary work, read books as a special incentive for those who had the good fortune to attend the ceremony.
Ceramic Gallery

Forbidden City Pottery Gallery

Ceramics gallery in the Hall of Literary Glory

Currently, the Hall of Literary Glory as a ceramics gallery at the Palace Museum. The Ceramic Gallery covers an area of 1.770sqm, Apartment 429 pieces of pottery treasures, including almost all the major races of the pottery in their development. In addition, the lights cast on each piece of angle other ways to distinguish their unique understanding of the tourists.

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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.

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.

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