Speaking of Yikun Palace, everyone may sound quite familiar with it. Yikun Palace has appeared in many popular palace dramas. Then do you know why there are typos on the screen wall of Yikun Palace? Let me tell you about it below. Brief answer
There is a "Bright and Prosperous" screen wall in Yikun Palace. "Ming" and "Sheng" were deliberately written incorrectly. Because it was taboo to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, "Ming" and "Sheng" were written incorrectly. The wrong writing alludes to the meaning of "Ming will never come back again, and prosperity will never end." Details
Yikun Palace is one of the palace buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yikun Palace is one of the six west palaces of the Forbidden City. It was built in the 15th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty and was first named Wan'an Palace. In the 14th year of Jiajing, it was changed to Yikun Palace. This name is still used today. Yi means respect and assistance, while Kun means female. Yikun Palace has always been the place where concubines lived in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their status was relatively noble. It was renovated many times in the Qing Dynasty. During the Guangxu period, in order to celebrate Cixi's 50th birthday, the palace was connected with the Chuxiu Palace to form a four-yard layout. Now it is displayed in its original state of palace life.
The first owner of Yikun Palace was Concubine Zheng of Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun. Concubine Zheng was a concubine who was deeply loved by Zhu Yijun. The person who stayed in Yikun Palace the longest was Kangxi's favorite concubine Guo Luoluo, who lived here for half a century. Yikun Palace is a typical three-heyuan building. Walls are built directly on both sides of the gate without any inversion. There is a wooden screen door at the entrance of the palace, with four large gold characters arranged from right to left: Bright and Prosperous. These four characters are taken from "Yilin·Shizhijie" written by Han Dynasty philosopher Jiao Gan: "The sun and the moon are facing each other, the brightness is prosperous, the three saints are prosperous, and the benevolence and virtue are prosperous." The meaning is very auspicious. If the screen wall door is folded and opened, only the word Mingsheng can be seen from the inside to the outside. If you pay a little attention, you can find that the word "日" on the left side of "ming" has an extra horizontal line, which is written as the word "mu"; while the upper side of the word "sheng" is missing a little. Why do typos appear in the majestic Forbidden City?
In fact, there is a secret to this, and it is not a careless mistake. These four gilded characters were engraved during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing Dynasty ruled the world. How could the Ming Dynasty prosper? Therefore, in order to avoid the taboos of the Ming Dynasty, they used the technique of adding and missing strokes in calligraphy, deliberately making Ming characters one stroke longer and Sheng characters less than one stroke. On the other hand, these two misshapen characters mean that the mistakes of the previous dynasty will not be repeated, and that prosperity will never be completed. They warn the rulers of the Qing Dynasty to learn from the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty can maintain its prosperity forever. Of course, this can only be the wishful thinking of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and now the Qing Dynasty has become a historical term.