Not Everyone Knows About The Forbidden City

During the Ming-Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City was always a symbol of power, which hides China's cultural “treasures”.
Not everyone knows about the Forbidden City
For more than 500 years, the Forbidden City has been a mystery to civilians because not everyone is allowed in and out. Today, the Palace attracts around 20,000 visitors per day.
Forbidden City - the largest wooden palace complex in the world. Photo: Abe Yoffe / 500px

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The marble slab weighs hundreds of tons
How the Chinese from ancient times were able to build this huge colony remains a long-term mystery to humanity. The unique architecture of the palace complex is also located in the elaborate dragon phoenix carvings on giant marble slabs. The largest plate is 16 8 m long and 3 m wide in front of Thai Hoa electrical area.




The marble slabs are exquisitely carved in front of Thai Hoa Palace. Photo: Top China Travel.
Recently, scientists concluded that this hundreds of tons of stone can be transported on the runway. Engineers have dug hundreds of small wells along the way, when winter comes, floods the road, low temperatures make the water become a layer of ice on the ground. In this way, only a number of about 50 workers would have been able to transport this giant stone.
The meaning of red, yellow
Color plays an important role in the Forbidden City. Yellow is the symbol of ultimate power, reserved for monarchs In fact, everything the king touches or wears on his body is yellow: from clothes, beds, floor tiles to daily dining dishes.



Even the tiled roofs in the Forbidden City are also glazed tiles coated with a yellow enamel layer to clearly show the emperor's majesty.
The royal tile roof and red wall are characteristic features of the imperial architecture of the Forbidden City. Photo: IFLY
Red in Chinese culture means fertility and is the color of luck, so all palaces and walls are red. However, this color also represents fire. That was the reason that the roof of the study room was the only place for the Forbidden City to be black instead of gold. The black color represents water and extinguishes the fire in case of a fire.
Feng shui arts
One of the important factors to determine the location of the Forbidden City is feng shui. It is an influential doctrine in Chinese culture specializing in the study of the impact of nature on human destiny and good fortune.



Another important element of feng shui is symmetry. Therefore, the layout of the Forbidden City is mostly symmetrical. The most important palaces are located on the North-South axis in the center and the other palaces are arranged symmetrically on either side.
The dragon decoration on the roof of the palace is associated with the Chinese legend "Long life product". Photo: IFLY
It is not difficult to see the existence of the number 9 in the Forbidden City, which is also an important number in the Chinese conception of arithmetic. The number 9 represents the anode and emperor. To be able to reach the king, you must go through 9 gates.
The Forbidden City also has 9,999 rooms, one less than 10,000 rooms on the Heaven Palace - where the Jade Emperor ruled in legend.



On the roof of the Royal Palace is decorated with 9 dragon-like summoned beasts, on the Great Gate (the main door) often attached 81 9 vertical, 9 horizontal nail knobs.
The last secret
Although the Forbidden City has been open to visitors for a long time, there is a place that is still a complete mystery to many. When the last Qing Ai emperor Tan Giac La Pho Nghi was expelled from the Forbidden City in 1924, the most mysterious "treasure" of this place - the Qianlong garden - was sealed. But in the next few years, this secret garden will be released to the public.
The garden was built for the king's rest. Qianlong issued only that no one was allowed to change the current state of the garden even when he died. Therefore, the bamboo furniture, silk paintings, jade embellishments and glassware dating back to the 18th century are preserved in their original state. Restoration begins in 2008 and the garden will reopen in 2020.




In 1402, Ming Cheng To Chu De was crowned emperor and decided to move the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. Here, Minh Thanh To directly directed the construction of the Forbidden City. Millions of workers worked over the course of 14 years to complete this complicated and costly work.
In 1421, the emperor moved into the palace complex and Beijing became the new capital. From here, the Forbidden City was ruled by 24 kings in turn (between the Ming Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty). In 1912, the last Chinese emperor abdicated.
According to Trang Anh / Vnexpress
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