The Forbidden City Tour Today is a good day, because today I can see the blue sky, Beijing's sky is gray every day, can not see through, so that today is a good day. I had a bowl of fried liver, a Beijing specialty, for breakfast and started a new journey.
Today's main attraction is the Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, in other words we are going to go around the Imperial Palace. Before entering the Forbidden City, you have to enter from the Tiananmen Square, so be sure to climb the Tiananmen Square tower, when you climb the tower, in front of you is a bird's-eye view of Tiananmen Square, this angle is exactly where Chairman Mao stood in the Founding Ceremony when he delivered his speech, and I also purposely stood there to feel the grandeur of the scene.
Down the Tiananmen Square, through the end of the gate, then came to the main gate of the Forbidden City - the Noon Gate. Noon Gate is a lot of attention, it is surrounded by three walls into a square square, three holes in the front door, each side of a hole in the door. One of the door in the middle of only the emperor can walk on weekdays, the queen in the wedding day can also walk once, and then there is the temple examination exams in the first prize, the first prize, the flower of the three can walk once. Left and right two doors are the civil and military ministers and royal princes in and out of the door. And other civil and military officials can only go two side door. From the front of the Noon Gate is three doors, from the back is five doors, so there is a "bright three dark five" said.
I rented an electronic tour guide machine at the entrance of the noon gate, which can help you tour the Forbidden City, walking and talking. Into the Noon Gate will really enter the Forbidden City, the first to cross the inner Jinshui River, in front of an open square, in the middle of a palace-style gate. The Forbidden City, all the doors is actually a palace-style building, this door is called the door, door squatting on both sides of a pair of large bronze lions, a pair of lions known as China's first lion, the mighty.
Through the Taihe Gate, and see a larger square, in front of a larger palace, the Palace of the highest status of the Palace - the Hall of Supreme Harmony, commonly known as the "Hall of the Golden Palace", is the Emperor rose to the place. Hall of Supreme Harmony is really grand, the largest number in the Forbidden City is nine, and the eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony is equipped with ten beasts, which shows the status of the Hall of Supreme Harmony has been used nine of this number can not represent. The Hall of Supreme Harmony was built on three layers of alabaster steps, which was the highest building in Beijing at that time. In the base of the Hall of alabaster stone steps carved with 1142 dragons, the mouth of the dragon through the ground, every time it rains, the water will be through the 1,142 dragons to the ground, so there is a "thousand dragons spitting water" this spectacle.
Behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony is the Hall of Central Harmony and the Hall of Baohe, the three halls that make up the Palace's front palace. Further back is the Palace, it is worth mentioning here: the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City, each hall of the sign has two kinds of Chinese and Manchu characters, and now from the Noon Gate to the Hall of Baohe all the signs but only Chinese, why? Because at that time, Yuan Shikai was the emperor for 83 days, ordered the former palace all the Manchu text gouge out, which is also Yuan Shikai theft of the country's ironclad evidence.
Along the Baohe Temple this axis has been toward the inside, passing through the Qianqing Gate, to the Qianqing Palace. This palace was the bedchamber of the two emperors Shunzhi and Kangxi, to the time of Emperor Yongzheng, who was in mourning for Emperor Kangxi for 27 months, moved his bedchamber to the Palace of Yangxin. Since then, successive emperors have officially lived in the Palace of Yangxin. Through the Hall of Crossing will come to the Kun Ning Palace, here in the Ming Dynasty is the Empress's bedchamber, the Qing Dynasty is the Emperor's bridal chamber. Now Kun Ning Palace furnishings are according to the emperor Guangxu wedding restoration of the original.
Inside the Forbidden City there is also a nine-dragon wall, this piece of nine-dragon wall is imitation of the North Sea nine-dragon wall built, so there is no North Sea nine-dragon wall exquisite. But there is a touching story: when the nine-dragon wall in the Forbidden City need to burn 270 pieces of glazed bricks, each piece of glazed bricks are not the same, the combination is a complete nine-dragon wall, so less than a piece of all forfeit. When the workers burned brick accidentally broke a piece, this is to commit the crime of killing. At this time, the master carpenter stepped forward, risking his life, carved a piece of wood imitation, paint, hidden from the inspection of the officials, the craftsmen were spared a disaster. Through this incident, it reflected the corruption of the court at that time, but also showed the spirit of solidarity and love of the working people. But this piece of woodwork, after all, could not withstand the baptism of the years and is now rotten.
The palace that his wife wanted to see the most was the Shufangzhai where Xiao Yanzi lived, but Shufangzhai is not open to the public and is in the process of repair.
In front of the Cuxiu Palace, we saw the beds that the showgirls slept in at the time, and among these showgirls was the later Empress Dowager Cixi.
In the Treasure Hall, we saw the Forbidden City from more treasures, including the Emperor's jade seal, dragon robe, dragon crown. All kinds of rare and exotic treasures are too numerous to count.
Let us have the honor to see is the XuanTong and the Empress WanRong's photo and Cixi's later years of the photo, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the palace already have a camera, so left the last emperor of China's photo. Emperor Xuantong was very dark and thin, while Wanrong, true to her name, was very beautiful, and at that time could be said to be the world's most beautiful woman!
The Forbidden City has too many sights to be completed in one day. We left the Forbidden City at 3:00 p.m., but I wanted to see the Forbidden City again, the royal palace that housed more than 20 Chinese emperors.
When I left the Forbidden City, I suddenly became very interested in Qing history, and I will definitely have time to study and scrutinize the Forbidden City in the future.
Dinner at Erjie's house, her sister in the family personally cooked for us to make a favorite spicy crayfish. In fact, at home when my wife and I pondered on Beijing must eat spicy crayfish, today is just right, but also coincidentally, it seems that we are quite blessed. Back to the hotel to rest while reminiscing about the Forbidden City, while reminiscing about the spicy crawfish, this life is simply too beautiful
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