Beijing is the capital of China, it has many tourist attractions, attracting many tourists at home and abroad every year. If the scenic spot in Beijing is the most famous, I think the Great Wall and the Forbidden City will definitely be ranked among the top two. Especially the Forbidden City, as the most famous royal palace in China, is very famous around the world. It is known as the first of the five major palaces in the world. The other four are , the French Versailles Palace , , the UK Buckingham Palace , the US White House, and , the Russian Kremlin .
Forbidden City, which is now the Palace Museum, is located in the center of the central axis of Beijing. It is the essence of ancient palace architecture in my country. Its building scale is high-end and grand, with red walls and yellow tiles, and magnificent. It was once a place where 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties ruled and lived in daily life. The Forbidden City has 980 buildings, more than 8,700 houses, covering an area of 720,000 square meters. It is one of the largest and most complete wooden structure ancient buildings in the world. We all know that the Forbidden City has always been called , Forbidden City, , so why is there such a title? It is said that there are three reasons.
Purple Qi comes from the east
According to legend, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, when the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, was about to leave Hangu Pass , a purple Qi came from the east and was seen by the people guarding the pass. Not long after, I came back on a green cow. The people guarding the pass knew that this was a saint, and the person guarding the pass asked me to write the famous " Tao Te Ching ". Because of this, purple qi is considered to have auspicious meanings, representing the emergence of sages, emperors and treasures. Since then, ancient people have called auspicious aura Ziyun. The legendary place where immortals live is called Zihai, the gods are called "Purple Emperor", and the paths outside the capital are called Zimo.
Therefore, purple qi is considered to have auspicious meanings, and also indicates the emergence of sages and treasures. Du Fu Once wrote a poem: Looking west at the Yaochi Lake, the Queen Mother descended from the east, and the purple air full of Hanguan. From then on, the ancients called auspicious aura Ziyun, the place where the immortals lived was called Zihai, and the immortals were called Ziquan. It can be seen from this that the "purple" in the Forbidden City has a great background. Because the emperor's residence was strictly guarded and difficult to get to the public, the Forbidden City was also called the Forbidden City.
Astrological Theory
In ancient times, the star Huan in the sky was divided into three Huans, twenty-eight constellations and other constellations by the prime minister. The Three Huans refer to Taiwei Huan, Tianshi Huan and Ziwei Huan. Ziweihuan is the emperor who is known as the emperor and is in the center of the Three Huans. In ancient times, there was a saying that "Ziwei is the middle". Since the emperor is Ziwei, the place where the emperor lives is Zigong. Emperors of all dynasties hope that they could live in the Purple Palace, and could govern with virtue, naturalize from all directions, and come from all directions to achieve the goal of eternal stability of the country and maintain long-term rule.
Since ancient times compared the emperor to the Ziwei Star Wall, the Ziwei Star Wall became the place of the emperor. Therefore, the ancients called the imperial palace Ziji, Ziyuan, Forbidden . The Forbidden verdict had been in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei wrote in a poem: "A thousand officials are here under the lotus palace, and the Song cherry blossoms in the Forbidden City come out of the orchid." The Forbidden City covers an area of more than a thousand acres, more than 700 meters wide from east to west, more than 900 meters long from north to south, and about 3,500 meters in circumference. The entire palace and house are more than 9,000 rooms, and the surrounding city walls are more than ten meters high. Therefore, this imperial city is called the Forbidden City not only deserves its name, but also contains the meaning of the Emperor's City. The Forbidden City was built by Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty. It is magnificent, with many sentinels and high guards. Ordinary people can only look at each other from a distance and cannot stand at the door to watch. In addition, the imperial power is as strong as a mountain, and ordinary officials can only enter when they are summoned. This is the center of imperial power, the forbidden area for ordinary people, so it is called the Forbidden City.
The emperor superstitiously
Those who are emperors hope that they can be in peace and stability for a long time, claim to be the true emperor, and want to compare with the Jade Emperor in the sky. The Heavenly Palace is where the Jade Emperor lives, and naturally the place where the Emperor lives. "Guangya Shitian" says: "The Heavenly Palace is called the Purple Palace." Therefore, the palace where the emperor lives is called the Purple Palace. Emperors of all dynasties have described themselves as "son of heaven", that is, "son of the emperor", that is, the son of the Jade Emperor.Since I live in the "Purple Palace" in heaven, then my son's residence on earth should also be called the "Purple Palace". In addition, the palace where the emperor lives was closely guarded and there were strict palace bans. It was not something that ordinary people could enter and exit at will, otherwise it would be a "breach of the ban". Therefore, "Purple Palace" has become a "forbidden city", and together it is called "Forbidden City".
Although it is not called the Forbidden City now, the Forbidden City is even more famous. With the rapid development of tourism, more and more people are coming to visit. Do you like to call it the Forbidden City or the Forbidden City?
