Gan Qing Palace is the place where the emperor handles daily affairs, reviews various memorials and later receives foreign envoys. Before Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, it followed the Ming system. During the period of Shunzhi and Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Gan Qing Palace was closely related to government affairs. The emperor studied here, reviewed the memorial, summoned officials, met foreign envoys, held imperial ceremonies and family banquets.
After Yong Zhengdi moved to hall of mental cultivation, it became an important place for the emperor to summon courtiers, read the throne, handle daily affairs, meet ministers accompanying foreign vassal countries, accept congratulations when he was old, and hold banquets.
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First of all, the architectural style of the Hall of Supreme Harmony
The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the largest and highest-ranking building in the Forbidden City. Eleven rooms are wide and five rooms are deep, with a length of 64 meters and a width of 37 meters, with a building area of 2377.00㎡ and a height of 26.92 meters. Together with the platform, it is 35.05 meters high, which is the largest, highest-ranking and largest building in the Forbidden City. There is a broad platform in front of the temple, called single pen, commonly known as platform.
The platform is equipped with a sundial and a fine scale, a pair of bronze turtles and cranes, and a bronze tripod with a seat of 18. Turtles and cranes are symbols of longevity. A sundial is an ancient timer and a beam is an ancient standard ruler, both of which are symbols of imperial power. His Royal Highness is a three-story marble pedestal, with a height of 8. 13m and railings around it. There is a stone faucet for drainage under the railing, which can show the wonders of thousands of dragons spitting water during the rainy season.
Second, the architectural style of Gan Qing Palace.
Gan Qing Palace is a yellow glazed tile double-eaved couch roof, which is located on a single-layer white marble platform. The corridor is 9 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep, with a building area of 1400㎡. From the desktop to the main ridge, it is more than 20 meters high, and there are 9 ridged beasts at the eaves. Under the eaves, the upper layer is monoclinic, double-warped and seventh-order, and the lower layer is monoclinic, single-warped and fifth-order.
The studio in the hall is connected with the east and west, and the front eaves of the studio are lowered with gold pillars. The beam frame structure adopts the form of shrinking columns to expand the indoor space. There is a screen between the two gold pillars on the back eaves, a throne in front of the screen, a warm pavilion at the east and west ends, a fairy building at the back eaves, and halls at both ends, which can communicate with the Thai Hall and the Kunning Palace. This temple is paved with gold bricks.
On the spacious platform in front of the temple, there are bronze turtles, bronze cranes, sundials and beams on the left and right. There are four gold-plated incense burners in front of the temple, which are connected to Gan Qing Gate by Gaoyou Road.
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