The story about the old palace
1, the threshold of the Forbidden City
At that time, after the abdication of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he still lived in the harem of the Forbidden City. Although all materials are the emperor's standards, they are also equivalent to imprisonment in disguise. The emperor likes riding bicycles, so he ordered that some thresholds in the harem be cut off to facilitate the passage of bicycles.
However, the old feudal thought thought that the threshold was equivalent to the face of the royal family, but the emperor's orders must be listened to. Therefore, the Jianfu at that time carefully transformed the sawn threshold, which could be removed during the day, and the palace door was put back as it was after the key was put away at night.
2. Houses in the Forbidden City
There are 9,999 houses in the Forbidden City, and there are 9 bronze doornails on each door. This strange number phenomenon is related to the understanding of numbers in ancient China. The ancients thought that "9" was the largest number in the number, and the emperor was also the largest in the world, so the corresponding 9 should be used. The homonym of "9" is "long", which means "everlasting", and it also means that mountains and rivers will last forever and never change color.
The architectural style and characteristics of the Forbidden City;
The architecture of the Forbidden City is characterized by its magnificent architectural style and bright and open courtyard, which symbolizes the supremacy of feudal regime. The Hall of Supreme Harmony is located in the diagonal center of the Forbidden City, and there are ten auspicious animals in every corner. The designers of the Forbidden City thought it would show the majesty of the emperor and shock the world. However, the palaces at the back are deep and dense, so the six palaces in the east and west are self-contained, each with its own door wall and relatively orderly arrangement.
Behind the Forbidden City is the Palace Garden. The palace is arranged along the north-south central axis, with three main halls, three rear palaces and an imperial garden. But for both sides, the north and the south are straight and symmetrical. This central axis runs through the Forbidden City, with Yongdingmen in the south and Drum Tower and Bell Tower in the north, running through the whole city.
There is Long Live Mountain in the north and Jinshui River in the Forbidden City in Beijing in the south, which conforms to the ancient truth that "negative yin and yang, impulse is harmony". Long live the Mountain, a man-made mountain specially built to create the geomantic omen of the imperial city, was completed in the early Ming Dynasty.
Located in the former site of Yanchunge, the bedroom of the Yuan Dynasty, it was made by digging a moat and accumulating silt in the South Lake. On the one hand, the piling of this mountain satisfies the principle of "negative yin" in the imperial city, on the other hand, it also suppresses the geomantic omen of the previous dynasty, so this mountain is also called "Long live the Town Mountain".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Forbidden City