According to the theory of the five elements, soil depends on fire, and fire can produce soil, and the soil is full of fire, and fire is red, so the doors, windows and walls of the palace are mostly red, which means breeding and encouragement to show prosperity.
According to the five elements, the south belongs to fire. The south gate of the Forbidden City is called "Wumen Gate", which stands for the south and is also called "Fengmen Gate". It is the habitat of Suzaku. The color of fire is red, so the meridian gate attracts people's attention with red high walls to show the vigorous development of fire. Five stone bridges at the meridian gate are carved with sentry posts in the shape of flames, which also means that the south belongs to fire.
2. Traditional culture: In traditional culture, red has always been regarded as the positive color of celebration, which means solemnity, happiness and auspiciousness. Archaeologists have found that cavemen began to decorate caves with red about 30 thousand years ago.
China people advocate red, starting from the worship of Emperor Yan and the sun. According to documents, red has been widely used in palaces since the Zhou Dynasty. The Forbidden City inherited the color aesthetics of the previous palaces, so it also used a lot of red, not only the palace walls, but also the doors, columns and windows.
Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River Basin, the endless Loess Plateau and the endless winding Yellow River, all of which made yellow deeply imprinted into the essence of China people. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, established "the virtue of living in the Han Dynasty". At this point, yellow became a symbol of imperial power in the Han Dynasty, which was the case in all previous dynasties, and yellow was the most expensive.
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The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis, which is the essence of ancient court architecture in China. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world.
The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420). It is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 m from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city.
The architecture of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe, which are collectively called the three halls, and are the places where the country holds ceremonies. The center of the Forbidden City is Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where emperors and empresses live.
The Forbidden City in Beijing is called the first of the five largest palaces in the world (Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, White House in America and Kremlin in Russia). It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 196 1. 1987 is listed as a world cultural heritage.
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