The Palace Museum in Beijing, a comprehensive museum, was established in 1925, 10. It is a large-scale comprehensive ancient art museum based on the royal palaces of Ming and Qing dynasties and their collections. It is also the largest museum of ancient culture and art in China.
The Palace Museum in Beijing covers an area of 654.38+00,000 square meters and preserves about 9,000 ancient buildings. It is the largest and most complete ancient palace complex in China. The Forbidden City, formerly known as the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), where 24 emperors lived in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 19 12 After Puyi abdicated, the history of the Forbidden City as a palace ended.
19 14, an antique exhibition hall was established in the outer courtyard area; 1925, the Palace Museum was established in the Forbidden City area; 1948, the Antiquities Exhibition Center was merged into the Palace Museum. The collection system of cultural relics in the Palace Museum is complete, with a total collection of more than 6.5438+0.86 million pieces (sets), which can be divided into 25 categories according to different textures and shapes, such as painting, calligraphy, rubbings, bronzes and gold and silver vessels.
Among them, precious cultural relics account for 90% of the total collection. The Palace Museum has shown the long and splendid Chinese civilization to the public through the permanent display and temporary special exhibition of the royal palace buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the original exhibition of court historical sites, treasures, clocks, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other art collections.
imperial capital
The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City. Twenty-four emperors lived here. This is the imperial palace of Ming and Qing dynasties (A.D.1368-1911), and now it is the Palace Museum. The whole building of the Forbidden City is magnificent, and it is called one of the five largest palaces in the world.
It is listed as "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO. It is the largest and most well-preserved ancient architectural complex in China, with a total area of over 720,000 square meters. It is called "the sea of palaces" and it is very spectacular.
There are four doors in the Forbidden City. The main entrance is called Wumen Gate, commonly known as Wufeng Tower. It was the place where the emperor sent a letter ordering the war. Only the emperor can enter and leave the meridian gate. At the emperor's wedding, the queen went in once. "Shenwumen" was called "Xuanwumen" in Ming Dynasty, and it was one of the four ancient beasts. Shenwumen is the gatekeeper of the palace.
Now Shenwumen is the main entrance of the Palace Museum. The east gate corresponds to the west gate, and there is a stone tablet for dismounting outside. The golden water in the door flows to the north of Henan, and there is a stone bridge on the shelf. There are three doors in the north of the bridge, and there is a huge courtyard at the noon gate. There is an arc-shaped Jinshui River extending from east to west, with Taihe Gate facing north.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Palace Museum