The Forbidden City is also known as the "Forbidden City" ”, is the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the largest palace in the world. It covers an area of ??720,000 square meters (960 meters long and 750 meters wide) and has a construction area of ??150,000 square meters. It was first built in 1406 AD and completed in 1420. It was built by Zhu Di, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It was designed by Kuai Xiang (1397-1481, courtesy name Tingrui, a native of Suzhou). It covers an area of ??780,000 square meters and used 300,000 migrant workers. It took 14 years to build and has 9,999 houses. In the middle and half, the main buildings are Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall. Baohe Hall is also the place where the imperial examination is held. The first to third place in the imperial examination are called the number one scholar, second place and third flower respectively.
Zhu Yuanzhang’s son Zhu Di fought with Emperor Jianwen for three years and won the throne (Ming Chengzu). After becoming emperor, Zhu Di decided to move the capital to his original territory of Yan (Beijing). The construction of Beijing city began. Construction started in 1417 and was basically completed in 1420. In 1421, the capital was officially moved to Beijing. In the following five hundred years of history, a total of 24 emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties exercised their power to rule the country here. The Forbidden City is currently the largest palace in the world, and the city of Beijing was the most perfect capital in the East in the 15th century, becoming a treasure in the worlds architectural forest.
The Forbidden City was built strictly in accordance with the imperial capital construction principle of "the former dynasty and the later market, the ancestors on the left and the society on the right" in "Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji". The first half of the palace was the outer court, where the emperors government was conducted. The architecture is solemn and magnificent, especially the three main halls of Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall. They are built on 8-meter-high three-story white marble steps to show the supreme majesty of the feudal emperor. The Taihe Hall is located opposite the Forbidden City. In the center of the corner line, the designers of the Forbidden City believed that otherwise it would not be enough to show the emperors majesty or shock the world.
If you count from Tiananmen to the north gate of the Forbidden City, it is nearly 3 kilometers long from north to south. The scale is unimaginable. The design and construction of such a large palace are extraordinary. No wonder some foreign guests praised it after visiting it. "How can one person live in such a big house?"
