The Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters (96 1 m long and 753 m wide), with a building area of about10.5 million square meters and an area of 720,000 square meters. 654.38+00000 migrant workers, * * * built 14 years, 9999 rooms and a half. According to actual data, it is 1.973.
The Palace Museum is surrounded by a palace wall with a height of 12 meters and a length of 3,400 meters. It is a rectangular city surrounded by a moat with a width of 52 meters, forming a fortified castle. There are four doors in the Forbidden City. The main entrance is called Wumen, the east entrance is called Donghuamen, the west entrance is called Xihuamen, and the north entrance is called Shenwumen. Facing the Shenwumen in the north gate, there is a Jingshan made of earth and stone. In the overall layout, Jingshan can be said to be the barrier of the Forbidden City complex.
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Beijing was originally the fief of Judy, the prince of Yan. After the war of Jingnan, in the first year of Yongle (1403), Li Zhigang, an official of the Ministry of Rites, said that Yanjing Beiping was the emperor's "land of dragon's prosperity" and should follow Ming Taizu's example and take Fengyang as its capital. Therefore, Ming Taizu Chengzu vigorously promoted the position of Beiping House in Yanjing, taking Beiping as Beijing and changing Beiping House into Shuntianfu, which is called "in the line". At the same time, it began to resettle the population and enrich Beijing; The people who were forced to move to Beijing were refugees from all over the country, rich children in Jiangnan and businessmen in Shanxi.
In the fourth year of Yongle (1406), Ming Taizu wrote a book to build the Forbidden City and the city wall in Beijing on the basis of the Nanjing Forbidden City. Emperor Chu first sent personnel to all parts of the country to mine precious wood and stones, and then transported them to Beijing. The preparatory work alone lasted 1 1 year. Most precious nanmu grows in the mountains, and people venture into the mountains to collect wood, and many people die for it. Later generations left "going into the mountains for 1000 and going out for 500" to describe the living cost of firewood collection.
It is also very difficult to mine the stones for building the palace. At present, the largest single stone behind Baohe Hall is mined in Fangshan, southwest of Beijing. History records the scene of transporting it: thousands of laborers dig a well every mile or so on both sides of the road. In the cold winter, when the temperature is low enough, they pump water from the well and pour it into an ice road. It took 28 days to get it to the palace. In addition, we will also fire square bricks for Suzhou Royal Building, and Linqing, Shandong Province will also deliver tribute bricks to Beijing. ?
In the seventh year of Yongle (1409), Ming Chengzu took Beijing as the northern expedition base, and at the same time began to build Changling in Changping near Beijing. Building the mausoleum in Beijing instead of Nanjing proves that Ming Chengzu has made up his mind to move the capital.
In the 14th year of Yongle (14 16), Ming Chengzu called his ministers to formally discuss the move to Beijing. For the ministers who raised objections, Ming Chengzu dismissed or severely punished them one by one, and no one dared to oppose moving the capital again. The following year, the Forbidden City in Beijing, modeled after the Forbidden City in Nanjing, was officially started. In the 18th year of Yongle (1420), Beijing Palace and Beijing City were built.
Beijing Palace, based on Nanjing Palace, is slightly larger. The newly-built Beijing City, with a circumference of 45 miles, is a regular square, which conforms to the ideal capital shape of Zhou Li and Gong Ji. Ming Chengzu officially moved the capital by imperial decree, and changed Yingtianfu in Jinling to Nanjing and Shuntianfu in Beijing to be the capital. However, there are still six central institutions in Nanjing, which are called Nanjing Ministry and Nanjing is the capital.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Forbidden City