1. Why does the Forbidden City have 9,999 and a half rooms? The Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest royal palace in the world. The Forbidden City covers an area of ??720,000 square meters and is formed into a square. The main gate facing south is the Meridian Gate, the north gate is the Shenwu Gate, and the east and west sides are called Donghua Gate and Xihua Gate respectively. How many rooms are there in this ancient building complex? There are 9,999 and a half rooms in the Forbidden City, which is a strange number. Why is it less than an integer of 10,000 rooms, but we have to build a "" and a half room"? It is said that the Jade Emperor's palace in heaven has 10,000 rooms, and the emperor on earth is the son of the Emperor of Heaven, so his specifications must be lower than those of the Jade Emperor. One point. The so-called ""half room"" refers to the small room downstairs of Wenyuan. In fact, the reason why this small room was made very small was for the sake of aesthetics. It should be one room. PS : The above is just a legend. According to actual measurements, there are 8,707 rooms in the Forbidden City. 2. Why is son-in-law also called "East Bed"? Dong Bed is another name for son-in-law. The term comes from the calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Xizhi was the prime minister. Wang Dao's nephew. One day, the Taifu sent people to the palace to choose one of the princes from the Wang family to be his son-in-law. All the young princes heard that the Taifu's daughter was young and beautiful, and everyone wanted to be chosen. , so they all changed their clothes to meet the guests, but Wang Xizhi didn't care and continued to lie on the bed to rest. The visitor went back to his house and reported to the Taifu: "The sons of the Wang family are all good." I heard that everyone was a little reserved when they came to choose a son-in-law. Only one young master was still lying on the bed in the east wing with his belly exposed, as if he didn't know about it. "Unexpectedly, the Taifu nodded and said: "This is exactly the son-in-law I want to choose." From then on, people called the son-in-law "the east bed". According to "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty", it is said that Duke Mu of Qin had a daughter named Nongyu. She became extremely intelligent since she was a child. She had a peerless appearance when she grew up. She was especially good at playing the sheng, and her voice was like the sound of a phoenix. When Nongyu was 15 years old. Duke Mu of Qin began to think about finding a good son-in-law for her. Nongyu said: "I must find someone who is good at playing the sheng and can sing with me. Otherwise, I will not marry her." Then one day, Nongyu had a dream, and there was an immortal in the dream. After playing and singing with her, the immortal claimed to be the Lord of Huashan. After Nongyu woke up from the dream, he immediately told Duke Mu of Qin. Duke Mu of Qin sent people to search for Huashan, and sure enough they found a strange man named Xiao Shi, with a feather crown and crane clothes. After the envoy brought Xiao Shi back, Duke Mu ordered him to play the flute, and all the birds sang together. Duke Mu was overjoyed, and betrothed Xiao Shi to him. On that day, the couple was playing the flute under the moon, and a dragon and a phoenix flew in the sky. Xiao Shi crossed the dragon, rode the phoenix on the jade, and flew away in the clouds. 3. The amount of money is capitalized. According to historical records, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were four major cases that caused a sensation, one of which was a major corruption case - the "Guo Huan Case". Guo Huan once served as the minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. During his tenure, he used his power to collude with local officials and embezzle wantonly *** Money, grain. The total amount of corruption amounted to 24 million shi of fine grain. This number was almost related to the total number of autumn grain seizures in the country at that time. The case implicated twelve senior officials, large and small officials in six ministries. Many local bureaucrats and landlords across the country were shocked by this. He ordered Guo Huan and other criminals to be beheaded, and at the same time formulated strict laws to punish economic crimes, and implemented some effective measures in national accounting management. The important one is to change the Chinese character "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, one hundred thousand" that records the number of money and food to ""one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, nine, ten, thousand". The implementation of this method is very important. This solved some loopholes in accounting management. After that, people gradually replaced ""Moqian" with the word ""百千" in the process of using ""capital" for accounting. Later, with the Numbers were introduced into our country, and combined with the uppercase numbers in Chinese characters, they formed a complete accounting number system, which has been used to this day. ps: Uppercase numbers were used from the Ming Dynasty and are still used today. 4. The honorific titles of father-in-law and mother-in-law. The origin of ancient emperors often visited the tops of famous mountains, set up altars to worship the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, and granted hundreds of officials the title of duke and lord in Jin Dynasty, which is known as powerful in history.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji, once "consecrated Zen" to Taishan. The book ordered Zhang to be the ""envoy of Zen"". He promoted his son-in-law Zheng Yi from the ninth rank to the fifth rank. When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty asked about Zheng Yi's promotion, , Zheng Yi hesitated, speechless, and Huang Banzhuo, who was standing next to him, sneered: "This is the power of Mount Tai." " Tang Xuanzong was very unhappy after hearing this and immediately demoted Zheng Yi back to his original position. Later, when people found out about this, they called his wife and father-in-law "Mount Tai". Because Mount Tai is the first of the five mountains, he changed his name to "father-in-law". "." The title "mother-in-law" came along with it. PS: When calling father-in-law and mother-in-law, you need to know where it comes from. 5. The origin of the engagement ring. He was the first in the world to use the ring as an engagement token. The man was Maximilian, King of Austria. In 1477, Maximilian met a princess named Mary in a public event. Her beautiful appearance and elegant manner attracted Maximilian. Although he knew that Mary was already engaged to the then French Crown Prince, in order to win her love, Maximilian decided to try his luck. He ordered someone to specially create a precious diamond ring and give it to Mary. The exquisitely carved and sparkling diamond ring and Maxmini's true love made them happily united. From then on, it became a tradition to use the diamond ring as a token of engagement.