Palace Museum is located at the center of Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City. Are Ming and Qing Dynasty palace, unique masterpieces of ancient architecture, the world largest and most complete ancient building complex. Hailed as the world's top five of the first Temple (Beijing Palace Museum, France Chateau de Versailles, Buckingham Palace in England, the United States White House, the Russian Kremlin).
Palace Museum was founded in the year 1406,1420 basic completion of the year, are the Ming emperor Zhu Di built.故宮961 meters long from north to south from east to west 753 meters wide, covering an area of approximately 725,000 square meters. Building area of 155,000 square meters. It is said that a total of 9999.5 Palace Museum, the actual in 1973, according to experts at the scene measurement故宮has more than 90 large and small courtyards Block, housing 980 has a total of 8707 (and this "inter-" is not Nowadays the concept of room here, "between" refers to four Housing columns formed by space). Miyagi surrounded by 12 meter long wall of 3400 meters, in the form of a rectangular city, outside the wall there is 52 meters wide moat surrounded by a fortified castle barriers.故宮palace building are wooden structures, yellow glazed tile roof, green Whitehead base, decorated with magnificent paintings. Palace Museum has four doors, the main entrance of the Meridian Gate, East Gate of東華門(mén), Simon Xihua door of the north door of神武門(mén). Door face North神武門(mén), useful soil, stone built into the Jingshan, Manshan柏成林song. In the overall layout, Jingshan Palace Museum can be said to be building the barrier base.
Palace Museum's building in accordance with its layout and function is divided into "outside North Korea" and "imperial" two major parts. "Outside North Korea" and "imperial" to do for the community door-ching, ching do for the outside door south of North Korea, for the imperial north. North Korea outside the Palace Museum, imperial architecture of the very different atmosphere.
Ethernet and outside North Korea, China and Bulgaria and the three main hall as the center, are the emperor held court place, also known as "former." The exercise of power are the feudal emperor, the place held grand ceremony. In addition the two wings of the East has文華殿, Wenyuan Pavilion, on Xiaosi hospital, South 3; West has武英殿, such as building內(nèi)務(wù)府.
Qing imperial to do, Jiaotai Hall after three kuininggong Palace as the center, two wings for the Ancestors, East and West liugong, vegetarian Palace,毓慶宮, after the Imperial Garden has. Feudal emperors and imperial concubines are living for the community. Eastern imperial寧壽宮abdicated emperor Qianlong was built after the old-age pension. Has the western imperial慈寧宮, Shou-An Temple. In addition have Chonghua Palace, North building, etc. 5.
Situated in the western outskirts of Haidian District, the Summer Palace is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from central Beijing. Having the largest royal park and being well preserved, it was designated, in 1960 by the State Council, as a Key Cultural Relics Protection Site of China. Containing examples of the ancient arts, it also has graceful landscapes and magnificent constructions. The Summer Palace is the archetypal Chinese garden, and is ranked amongst the most noted and classical gardens of the world. In 1998, it was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.