The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis, which 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. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world.
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). In the Ming Dynasty, 14 emperors lived in the Forbidden City, and in the Qing Dynasty, 10 emperors lived in the Forbidden City.
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The emperor's bedroom in the Forbidden City:
Gan Qing Palace 1
Gan Qing Palace is one of the last three palaces in the imperial palace. It was built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420). Because it was burned down several times, it was rebuilt in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The existing building was built in the third year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1798).
Gan Qing Palace is the roof of a yellow glazed tile double-eaved palace, which is located on a single marble platform. The corridor is 9 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep, with a building area of 1.400 square meters, the height from the table top to the roof ridge is more than 20 meters, and the eaves are 9 ridges.
On the spacious platform in front of the temple, there are bronze turtles, bronze cranes, sundials and fine scales on the left and right. There are four gold-plated incense burners in front of the temple, which are connected to Gan Qing Gate by Gaoyou Road.
The building scale of Gan Qing Palace is the first in the palace, and there were 14 emperors living here in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, Gan Qing Palace was also used as a place to mourn the emperor. Qing Shunzhi and Kangxi also lived here.
2. Yangxintang
Hall of mental cultivation was founded in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, located on the west side of Gan Qing Palace in the Imperial Palace. Eight emperors lived in hall of mental cultivation in the Qing Dynasty. Hall of mental cultivation is 63m long from north to south and 80m wide from east to west, covering an area of 5,000m2.
As the main residence and daily administrative place of the emperor, it became the actual bedroom of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. "Nourishing the heart" means cultivating the heart.
Hall of mental cultivation is conveniently located in the palace, with rich spatial layout and concentrated functions. There are various halls, study rooms, bedrooms and small rooms for commemoration, private conversation, rest and worship of Buddha. It is more suitable for the emperor to eat and drink than the main hall, and more suitable for the daily activities of the emperor under the highly centralized political system of the Qing Dynasty.
The most famous hall of mental cultivation is Yong Zhengdi's "Qin Qin Xian" room, the Sanxitang of Emperor Qianlong, and the Auditorium of Dongnuange in the late Qing Dynasty.
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