How many palaces are there in the imperial palace?
9999 and a half palaces.
The imperial palace is the place where the emperor, his concubines, and children lived during their lifetime. According to legend, the Ziwei Palace, the residence of the Jade Emperor, has 10,000 palaces. In order not to surpass the gods, the emperor built 9,999 and a half palaces in the Forbidden City. The emperor has a very yang body, so the palace is a yang house in Feng Shui.
The Chinese Imperial Palace passed through Xianyang Palace and Afang Palace in Qin Dynasty; Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace in Western Han Dynasty; South Palace and North Palace in Eastern Han Dynasty; Daxing Palace and Ziweicheng Palace in Sui Dynasty; Daming Palace and Shangyang Palace in Tang Dynasty; among them Ziweicheng, the Luoyang Imperial Palace built in the Sui Dynasty, has been used successively by the Sui, Tang, Wu Zhou, Hou Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, and Northern Song dynasties. It is the imperial palace with the most uses in Chinese history.
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"Gu" means old. The Forbidden City is the imperial palace of old. The Palace Museum has a history of 90 years, but the Forbidden City has a history of nearly 600 years. The name "Forbidden City" appeared after the end of the history of China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty.
From the construction work in the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1406) to the basic completion in the eighteenth year of Yongle, the construction of the Forbidden City took 14 years and consumed countless human and financial resources. According to statistics, this world cultural heritage covering an area of more than 720,000 square meters has more than 9,000 houses alone.
From the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty to the last emperor Puyi of the Qing Dynasty, 24 owners lived in this magnificent palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. They live, work, worship and continue here. For hundreds of years, this has been the center of Chinese politics.
When people visit the Forbidden City today, they will still be shocked by the fortification of its red walls and green tiles. Its palace wall is 12 meters high, with a circumference of 3,400 meters, and is surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat.
This building located on the central axis of Beijing city not only inherits the structural principles of traditional Chinese architecture such as squareness and symmetry, but also "corresponds to the celestial phenomena" - according to ancient Chinese astrology theory, the residence of the Emperor of Heaven It is located in the Ziwei Yuan in the middle of the sky. It corresponds to heaven and man. The Forbidden City where the emperor lives is called the "Forbidden City".
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