In which palace is the Nine Dragon Wall of the Forbidden City?

Jiulong wall belongs to the shadow wall of traditional Chinese architecture and can be used to block the line of sight. There are three real Nine Dragon Walls, one in Xi and two in Beijing. Among them, the Nine Dragon Wall of the Palace Museum has always been the most famous. Built in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong, it is located opposite the Imperial Gate in Ningshou Palace District of the Forbidden City. It consists of 270 pieces of glass with 9 dragon-shaped reliefs of different shapes. It is exquisite in workmanship and magnificent. It is the condensation of China's ancient screen wall architecture art and a symbol of imperial power.

Friends who have never been to the Forbidden City may wonder what Ningshou Palace is for and where it is. It turns out that Ningshou Palace is the palace where Emperor Qianlong ordered the casting of the Kowloon wall of the Forbidden City to retire. Moreover, as a small quadrangle of Emperor Qianlong, it has high specifications, with a royal gate in front and Ningshou Gate, and a hall of mental cultivation was built inside, imitating hall of mental cultivation, which is a condensed version of the Forbidden City. Jiulongbi is the zhaobi of Ningshou Palace. From the perspective of geomantic omen, this zhaobi can ensure the smooth air in the palace, and the dragon in the middle is particularly prominent, which means the ninth five-year plan. The other eight dragons are divided into ascending dragons and descending dragons, meaning children of the Eight Banners. Nine dragons are distributed in five spaces, and 270 pieces of stained glass are also multiples of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, which further embodies the dignity of imperial power. From an aesthetic point of view, Kowloon is lifelike, powerful and domineering, colorful and unobtrusive, which adds a lot of color to the whole building.

There is also a short story hidden in the Nine Dragon Wall of the Forbidden City: the belly of the third white dragon counted from the east is made of colored glass instead of wood. It turned out that the casting time of Jiulong Wall was very short at that time, and craftsmen broke a piece of white glass in an instant. Some people are eager to replace it with wood carvings and then paint it with white paint. On the surface, there is no impact at all, which makes the project delivered on time. Over time, the white paint painted in those years faded and was easily seen by future generations. This small defect did not affect the artistic value of the Nine Dragon Wall of the Forbidden City, but became one of its characteristics.

If you have a chance to visit the Forbidden City, don't forget to take a look at the ninth five-year plan screen.

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