The
Palace Museum chinese
The Imperial Palace, popularly
known as the Forbidden City, used to be
the permanent residence of
the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,
Built during the period of
Emperor Yongle of 1406-1420 AD, it has a
history of over 570 years,
Measuring some 753 metres from east to west,
and 961 metres from north to
south, it covers an areaof 720,000 square
metres with nearly 9,000 rooms,
Surrounded by walls of about
10 Metres high, and a city
moat of some 52 metres wide, it has a
gate on each side and a corner
tower of ingenious style and structure
at each of the four cormers.
The buildings of the Imperial Palace consist
of two parts. The front
part includes mainly the three grand halls;
Tai He Dian (Hall of Great
Harmony), Zhong He Dian (Hall of Middle
Harmony), and Bao He Dian (Hall
of Preserving Harmony) with the
Hall of Literary Glory in the
east and the Hall of Military Eminences in
the west. Called the
"Outer Court", it is the place where the emperor
used to hold important ceremonies:
the rear part of the "Inner
Palace" consists of Qian Qing
Gong (Palace of Heavenly Purity),
Jiao Tai dian (Hall of Union)
and Kun Ning Gong (Palace of Earthly
Tranquility) -- Yang Xin Dian
(Hall of Mental Cultivation) as well as the
six palaces in the east and
those six in the west, and Yu Hua Yuan
(Imperial Garden), where the
empress and concubines lived and
spent their leisure hours.
The Imperisl Palace is the most intact group of
ancient architecture, the largest
of its kind that China has well preserved
to this day. It epitomizes
the acme of traditional style and art of the nation
in architecrure of China's
ancient times.
Qing
dynasty emperor synopsis
The
Yuanming Yuan Garden
(* This photo is
I went to Beijing photograph,
Thx for Hariko
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The Forbidden City
1...chinese
only
throne Hall
of Great Harmony,
Palace
of Heavenly Purity
palace Hall
of Great Harmony/2,Hall
of Middle Harmony,
Hall
of Imperial,
room.
The Emperor's Mother
1,2
The Great Wall
1,2
emperor photo
Tienming
,TienT'sung
,ShunChih
,HongHsi
,YungCheng
,QianLong
KaCh'ing
,TaoKuang
,HsienFeng
,TungChih
,KuangHsu
,HsuanT'ung
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