Unknown details: There is a missing word on the Forbidden City plaque, but why no one dares to add it?
The Forbidden City, formerly known as the "Forbidden City" and "Imperial City", was the place where the royal family lived and lived in the Ming and Qing dynasties in ancient China. Due to its high regulation, large scale and high historical value, it is also known as the world's five major palaces along with the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the UK, the Kremlin in Russia and the White House in the United States. As we all know, in ancient Chinese culture, Feng Shui and astrology are most obviously reflected in architecture, and the most accurate one is the emperor's apartment. In order to show the majesty of the emperor, the emperor naturally had to reflect it in his own royal garden. For example, the place where the emperor slept in the Forbidden City was the intersection of the diagonals of the Forbidden City, corresponding to the "Purple Micro Star" in the sky. The four gates of the Forbidden City correspond to "Green Dragon", "White Tiger", "Suzaku" and "Xuanwu". We know that each palace in the Forbidden City has its name, and there is a plaque hanging on the main entrance of each palace with its name written on it. Careful people will find that there is a missing word on many plaques in the Forbidden City, and that is the word "门".
The word "door" on the plaque in the Forbidden City does not have a hook. There are several different legends here. The first type is that the emperor who represents the "true dragon" lives in the majestic palace. Dragons are water-based, and hooks can pick up aquatic animals, so they must be avoided. The second theory is that it can cause fires. Ma Yu said in "Ma Shi's Rizhao": "Two households with door characters facing each other are hooked and kicked." There was a fire in the Song Dynasty. Some ministers said it was because of the hooks in the door characters, so they took off the plaques and burned them. , rewrote the door without hooks, and the fire went out.
The third theory comes from an incident of Zhu Yuanzhang. Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the plaque with his head over his head when he went out. He thought that the hook on the door was like a closed door, which affected the recruitment of talents in the dynasty, so he ordered his ministers to take off the plaque and rewrite it. This has been passed down.