What is the difference between the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Forbidden City in Taiwan?

We are all familiar with the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is the essence of ancient palace architecture in China, the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden structure in the world, and the imperial palace in China in Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City in Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, ranking first among the five palaces.

the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City witnessed the rise and fall of China's dynasties and experienced historical vicissitudes. It is a "world cultural heritage".

The National Palace Museum in Taipei, also known as the "Palace Museum and Sun Yat-sen Museum", is located in Shuangxi, outside Shilin District on the north bank of Keelung River in Taipei. It is also the largest museum in Taiwan Province Province at present. The construction of the National Palace Museum in Taipei began at 1962 and was completed at 1965. In terms of time, the National Palace Museum in Taipei is much "new" than the National Palace Museum in Beijing, and its architectural style is also built according to the National Palace Museum in Beijing. However, if you look closely, there are still some differences. In terms of architectural culture, the National Palace Museum in Taipei is obviously not as attractive as the National Palace Museum in Beijing.

Taibei Palace

The National Palace Museum in Taipei covers an area of 16 hectare, and is built by mountains and rivers. Its scenery is also magnificent, quite spectacular. It is a palace-style building in China, with national characteristics.

From the appearance, the architectural style of the Forbidden City in Beijing is red walls and yellow tiles, which means that red represents wealth and yellow symbolizes auspiciousness. The National Palace Museum in Taipei has blue tiles and yellow walls, and its style is more elegant and exquisite.

Taibei Palace

Regarding collections, the National Palace Museum in Taipei has 700,000 collections, including 400,000 historical archives, 200,000 ancient books, and the rest100,000 pieces are in kind. In contrast, the collection of the Forbidden City in Beijing is much richer. When the archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were still in the Forbidden City, there were more than 8 million. Later, the archives were built in the Forbidden City, and the First Historical Archives of China was established. But the Forbidden City kept 400,000 pieces. At present, the total collection of the Forbidden City in Beijing is 6.5438+0.86 million pieces, and there are about 6.5438+0.2 million pieces of utensils, paintings and calligraphy.