The Palace Museum is on the spatial order, from the outside to the inside, along the central axis of the Palace Museum, from south to north, with the middle belt on both sides indicating that it is orderly.
The collection system of cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Beijing is complete, with a total collection of 6.5438+0.8 million pieces (sets) and a total collection of 25 categories, including more than 8,000 pieces (sets) of first-class collections. According to the difference of texture and shape, it can be divided into 25 categories, such as painting, calligraphy, rubbings, bronzes, gold and silver utensils, among which precious cultural relics account for 90% of the total collection.
The Palace Museum holds permanent exhibitions of treasures, clocks, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other art collections through the royal palace buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and also holds temporary special exhibitions regularly every year.
The Palace Museum in Beijing is located in the center of Beijing, with a width of 753 meters from east to west and a length of 96 1 meter from north to south, covering an area of 723,600 square meters, surrounded by a 10-meter-high wall and a 52-meter-wide moat (Tongzi River). There are gates on all sides of the city wall: the meridian gate in the south, the Shenwu gate in the north, the Donghua gate and the Xihua gate in the left and right, of which the meridian gate is the entrance and the Shenwu gate is the exit.
The total area of ancient buildings in the city is about 6.5438+0.6 million square meters (6.5438+0.6 million square meters). The layout of the whole group of palaces is rigorous and orderly, and the layout and shape are designed and built in strict accordance with feudal etiquette and the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, which embodies the supreme authority of the emperor.
There is a graceful turret at the four corners of the city wall, and there is a folk saying that there are nine beams, eighteen columns and seventy-two ridges to describe its complex structure. The architecture of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe, which are collectively called the three halls, and are the places where the country holds ceremonies.
The left and right wings of the three main halls are supplemented by two groups of buildings: Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall. The center of the Forbidden City is Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where emperors and empresses live. Followed by the imperial garden. On both sides of the last three palaces, there are six palaces in the east and west, which are places where empresses live and rest. On the east side of the East Sixth Palace are Buddhist buildings such as the Heavenly Palace, and on the west side of the West Sixth Palace are Buddhist buildings such as the Zhongzheng Hall. In addition to the outer court and the inner court, there are two buildings: Waidong Road and Waixi Road.