When was the Forbidden City built?

The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420). It is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 m from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city.

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 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.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient court architecture in China. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters.

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The functional value of the Forbidden City:

1, natural history

The establishment of the Palace Museum has two meanings: one is another victory of the democratic revolution and a fatal blow to the restoration forces; Second, the great achievements in China's cultural and artistic history. In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), the Palace Museum held an opening ceremony on June 10. Museums are institutions that collect, study, display and preserve physical objects for cultural and educational purposes.

2. Heritage value

1987, the Forbidden City in Beijing was listed as a world cultural heritage. The World Heritage Organization's evaluation of the Forbidden City is: "The Forbidden City is the highest power center in China for more than five centuries. It has become a valuable historical witness of China civilization in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with its garden landscape and a huge complex of 9,000 rooms containing furniture and handicrafts. "

3. Academic value

The study of ancient palaces was put forward by the Palace Museum in 2003. It is a science that takes the Forbidden City in Beijing and its rich collections as the research object. The study of ancient palace studies mainly includes six aspects: the palace complex, cultural relics collection, palace historical relics, archives of Ming and Qing Dynasties, classics of Qing Dynasty and the history of the Palace Museum, which has rich and profound disciplinary connotations. The Forbidden City culture is a royal culture with the emperor, imperial power and imperial palace as its core.

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