Yuanmingyuan, also known as Yuanming Sanyuan, is a large royal palace in the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the northwest suburb of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. It is composed of Yuanmingyuan Garden, Changchun Garden and Wanchun Garden, so it is also called Yuanming Sanyuan. In addition, there are many small gardens in the east, west and south, surrounded by stars.
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.
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The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing. The layout is based on the principle of "Left Group, Right House, Facing the Future" contained in Zhou Li's examination book. It is built on the central axis of Beijing, eight kilometers long from north to south, and the north and south are symmetrical. Today, the working people's cultural palace in front of the Forbidden City is the ancestral temple of the Ming and Qing emperors. On the right front, Zhongshan Park is the social altar where the emperor worships the land gods and the valley gods. There is a courtier's office in front; There is a market for people to trade in the back.
The North of the Forbidden City in Beijing is the Long Live Mountain and the South is the Jinshui River, which is just in line with the ancients' principle of "negative yin holding yang, rushing to be harmonious". Long live the Mountain is a man-made mountain specially built to create the geomantic omen of the imperial city. Built in the early Ming Dynasty, it is located in the former site of Yanchunge, the bedroom of the Yuan Dynasty, and is made up of silt from the moat and Nanhu Lake.
Yuanmingyuan is located in the north of Guajiatun, about one mile away from Changchun Garden, that is, in the north of today's Peking University and west of Tsinghua University. The Yuanmingyuan in the Kangxi period has a front lake and a back lake, and there are "Peony Pavilion" and "natural picture scroll" in it. At that time, Yuanmingyuan was still a vassal garden, and its scale could not exceed that of the emperor's Changchun Garden, so there were not many scenic spots and its reputation was not great.
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