The Forbidden City in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing. It was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was built by Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, based on the Nanjing Palace. He recruited skilled craftsmen from the north and south of the Yangtze River and employed millions of servants. It took 14 years (1407-1420 AD) to build it. . It is rectangular in plan, 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of ??more than 720,000 square meters. It is surrounded by a city wall with a circumference of 3428 meters. The city wall is 7.9 meters high, 8.62 meters wide at the bottom, and 6.66 meters wide at the top. The upper part is built with a pheasant ultimatum on the outside and a wall on the inside. There is a turret with exquisite structure at each corner of the city wall. There is a moat 52 meters wide and 3800 meters long outside the city, forming a complete defense system. The palace city has four gates, the Meridian Gate in the south, which is the main entrance of the Forbidden City, the Shenwu Gate (Xuanwu Gate) in the north, the Donghua Gate in the east, and the Xihua Gate in the west.
In the 491 years from 1420 to 1911 AD, from Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, to Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, 24 emperors (14 in the Ming Dynasty and 10 in the Qing Dynasty) lived here successively. Within this palace, feudal rule was implemented over the entire country. There are more than 9,000 palaces of various types in the palace, all of which are wooden structures, with yellow glazed tile roofs, blue and white stone bases and decorated with magnificent paintings. The total building area reaches 150,000 square meters. The Forbidden City consists of two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The three main halls of the Outer Dynasty, namely Etaihe Hall (Jinluan Hall), Zhonghe Hall, and Baohe Hall, are the center, with Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall as the two wings in the east and west. They are the places where the emperor handles political affairs and holds major celebrations. The inner court is centered on Qianqing Palace (the emperor's bedroom), Jiaotai Palace, and Kunning Palace (the emperor's new wedding room). On the east and west wings are the East Sixth Palace and the West Sixth Palace (the Imperial Palace), supplemented by the Yangxin Hall, Fengxian Hall, Zhai Palace, Yuqing Palace, Ningshou Palace, Cining Palace and Imperial Garden are the places where the emperor handles government affairs on weekdays and where the emperor, empress, empress dowager, concubines, princes and princesses live, worship Buddha, study and play. The overall layout is symmetrical about the central axis. The three front palaces and the three back palaces are located on the central axis of the city. It is majestic and luxurious. It is the largest and most complete ancient building complex in my country. It is also unique, magnificent and magnificent in the world. Buildings with Chinese classical style and oriental style and the largest palace in the world. The 1911 Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Manchu rule and ended the feudal dynasty for more than 2,000 years. However, the deposed emperor Boyi still lived in the back half of the Forbidden City. In 1912, Waichao was opened as an "Antiquities Exhibition Hall". On November 5, 1924, Feng Yuxiang's general Lu Zhonglin expelled Boyi from the palace. The Palace Museum was established on October 10, 1925. In 1948, the Antiquities Exhibition Hall was merged into the Palace Museum. After 1949, the government carried out large-scale renovations on this ancient building and cultural relics, and organized and exhibited a large number of cultural relics, making it a world-famous museum of ancient culture and art. The First Archives Office was established in Xihua Gate, specializing in organizing government and palace archives.
In 1961, the State Council of the People's Republic of China promulgated the Forbidden City as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In 1987, the Forbidden City was officially included in the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage by UNESCO.