How many rooms are there in the Forbidden City in Beijing?
Legend has it that the Forbidden City has 9999 semi-palaces. Thirty-six King Kong, the god of heaven, is a thirty-six-mouth golden urn placed at the palace gate. The seventy-two underground palace is the seventy-two trench of the Forbidden City. In this way, there is a legend that there are 9999 and a half rooms in the Forbidden City. As for the "half room", it is said that it is the stairwell on the west side of Wenyuan Pavilion behind Wenhua Hall today. ?
Later, after analysis, the Forbidden City was the imperial palace of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which changed greatly from the beginning of Yongle to the end of Qing Dynasty. In the meantime, after the continuous expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the destruction of the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the restoration, supplement and reconstruction of the Qing Dynasty. The Wen Yuan Pavilion we see now was built during the Qianlong period to store the Sikuquanshu, which did not exist before. ?
Judging from the architectural structure, the "half-room" theory is difficult to establish. There are two criteria for determining "space". One is "two rooms", that is, the space between two parallel roof trusses is one room. Another standard is the common standard "four columns and one room", that is, the area between four columns is called one room. By any standards, the "half room" of Wen Yuan Pavilion is not a half room, but a room. ?
According to the literature, the Wen Yuan Pavilion has six rooms, not five and a half rooms. Its shape is imitated from Tianyi Pavilion in Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province. Tianyi Pavilion, built in Ming Dynasty, was the private collection of Fan Qin, assistant minister of the Ministry of War during Jiajing period.
At the beginning of the pavilion, a pool was dug in the courtyard, and the word "Tianyi" was hidden in the pool. Because of the meaning of "heaven raises water", the pavilion is built into six rooms, which means "60% of the land". Wen Yuan Pavilion, modeled after Tianyi Pavilion, locates six buildings, with two stairs at both ends, only one step wide, but it is also a room, not a half room. From this perspective, the number of rooms in the Wen Yuan Pavilion has nothing to do with the number of rooms in the Forbidden City. ?
1972, according to the investigation of archaeologists and the calculation of four columns, there were 8707 rooms in the Forbidden City.
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1. Please don't smoke when visiting the Forbidden City, and remind others not to smoke:
The Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest existing wooden palace complex in the world, and there have been many fires in history. Every lit cigarette butt may be a threat to this precious historical and cultural heritage.
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