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The Forbidden City is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Known as the Forbidden City in ancient times, it is located in the center of Beijing's central axis. The Forbidden City in Beijing is mainly centered on three halls, covering an area of about 720,000 square meters and a construction area of about 6,543,800 square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. The Forbidden City in Beijing was built in the fourth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, and its scale system was mainly modeled after the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and it was not officially completed until the eighteenth year of Yongle. At present, the Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden structures in the world, and it is also a national 5a-level tourist attraction. As early as 196 1, it was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and 1987 was listed as a world cultural heritage.
Yikun Palace in the Forbidden City belongs to one of the six palaces in the Imperial Palace. It was the residence prepared by the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties for concubines at that time. Built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, it was originally named "Wan 'an Palace". In the 14th year of Jiajing, Wan 'an Palace was officially renamed as Yikun Palace. During the Qing Dynasty, the Yikun Palace was renovated many times, and the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty changed it into a main hall according to imperial edicts. Five rooms are wide, with front and rear doors, back eaves out of the corridor, and yellow glazed tile hard roof. There is also an east-west hall with Jingting 1 in the southeast. According to historical records, the word "Yi" is interpreted as assistance, and the queen's bedroom is called Kunning Palace, which means that Yi Kun assists the queen in managing the six palaces.
There is a huge plaque at the entrance of Yikun Palace with the words "Bright and Prosperous" written on it. The brushwork is delicate and vigorous, which is quite popular among people. However, after careful observation of the plaque, it is found that there are actually two "typos" on the huge plaque, namely "Ming" and "Sheng". The mistake of the word "Ming" is that the word "day" has an extra "horizontal", while the mistake of the word "Sheng" is that the prefix of the word "Sheng" has no "dot". Is the calligrapher who wrote the plaque illiterate? The answer is definitely not. On the contrary, the author is more likely to do it on purpose.
There are several versions of Yi Kun Gong's explanation of typos, but the truly convincing version is only the last one. Let's talk about it in detail:
The first version of the rumor about typos in Yikun Palace is that Yong Zhengdi is the protagonist in writing the plaque. Yong Zhengdi deliberately misspelled the word "bright and prosperous times", in fact, he was interpreting a perfect state of life, that is, there are no perfect people and no perfect things in the world. Although defects affect the beauty of perfection, they show the beauty of defects on another level, and secretly agree with the simple idea that imperfection is the greatest perfection.
The second version of the rumor about typos in Yikun Palace is that the emperor shunzhi himself deliberately tampered with the inscription. As we all know, the mountains and rivers of the Qing Dynasty were "picked up". If Wu Sangui hadn't opened the gate of Shanhaiguan, I'm afraid the Qing army would never be able to break through Shanhaiguan. It is precisely because of this that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were very sensitive to the former regime and even suppressed anti-Qing organizations. After the emperor shunzhi moved into the Forbidden City, he naturally became the new owner of the city, so he tried to bring forth the new and erase the shadow of the previous dynasty. The emperor shunzhi thought that the appearance of the word "Ming Sheng" would inevitably lead to the association of "Ming Sheng", so he ordered his ministers to write a "horizontal" for the word "Ming Sheng" to represent the loss of the full moon, and then remove a "dot" for the word "Sheng", which meant that the Ming Dynasty was almost prosperous again.
Interestingly, there is another plausible explanation. Some experts believe that the reason why the rulers of the Qing Dynasty did this was actually to change their eyes from "heaven" to "eyes", so that people could keep a close eye on the former ministers of the Ming Dynasty and prevent them from producing heresy. What's more, they can't lack the courage to pursue a "point" when they seek hegemony, otherwise it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the country.
Which of the above three statements is right and which is wrong? We don't know, but we believe the third statement is correct. Regardless of ancient and modern times, the so-called "water can carry a boat and also overturn it." This truth must be understood.
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Old Beijing is published by Zhang Baozhu Beijing Publishing House.
Wen Xiu, editor-in-chief of Wen Lan Hairun Studio, wrote: Special historical writer: Changshan Zhao Zichong.