Geomantic layout of Qing palace

Many friends from the Forbidden City have been there. As the largest palace in the world, the Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters and has more than 9,000 houses. But strangely, the bedrooms are very small, generally not more than 10 square meter. Not only are the rooms small, but the beds are also very small, which is not much different from the beds of ordinary people. The emperor is rich all over the world. Of course, he has no money to live in a big house and buy a big bed. Then why did he build the bedroom so small?

There is a saying in Feng Shui: "A house is a haunted house if there are few adults. If there are few adults at home, don't live there. " Why do you say that? Because the ancients thought that if there were too many adults and too few houses, people's yang would be easily absorbed by the houses, and once the yang was less, people's health would get sick, so a big house not only cost a lot of money, but also was harmful to the health.

Besides paying attention to geomantic omen, the size of the bedroom in the palace also has a certain relationship with the weather in the north. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the climate in Beijing was cold, and the temperature in winter was generally lower than-10 degrees Celsius, which was far more miserable than today. Although the Forbidden City has various warm-keeping measures, such as fire prevention, firewall, ground stove and so on. It still can't resist the cold climate in winter. The bedroom is too big to keep warm in summer, so the northern residents go to the emperor.

In addition to the above two considerations, the bedroom is too spacious in space layout, which is easy to give people insecurity and affect rest. Therefore, many dignitaries in ancient times built smaller bedrooms or arranged many door curtains even if their mansions were large, forming a pattern similar to a small room. The reason is also to reduce emptiness and make it easier to fall asleep. Friends who love to travel may find that both the gardens in Suzhou and the former residence in Guangdong have relatively small bedrooms, which is the result of comprehensive consideration of the above reasons.

In modern society, many rich upstarts like to make their bedrooms bigger. More importantly, they want to live in a gymnasium with a swimming pool. These practices seem heroic, but in fact they are ignorant and fearless. The wisdom of the ancients is a summary of thousands of years of experience. Before the existing science can't be completely falsified, it is worth learning from.