The building of Jiulongbi is not an ordinary project, which needs a lot of attention and is very difficult. You must find those skilled people. The minister of the Ministry of Industry chose to go and finally chose a craftsman named Ma Dechun. Ma Dechun has been firing glazed tiles for more than ten years, and its technology is superb. He selected dozens of craftsmen and began to work on the third day. Before starting work, he told the craftsmen the requirements for firing colored glazed tiles.
He said: "The firing of colored glazed tiles is very particular about the proportion of materials and the temperature. If the proportion is not well mastered, burning a finished glazed tile will cost more than a dozen pieces of waste. Everyone should pay more attention and don't make mistakes. " Then he takes everyone to work. They spent a lot of effort, burned for 7749 days, and finally caught fire.
On the day of installation, people came and went in front of the palace, and craftsmen were busy in an orderly way. Suddenly a clear and crisp noise came, which startled Ma Dechun. When he came to the scene of the accident, he saw a small craftsman standing there staring at a broken glazed tile.
Ma Dechun carefully pieced together the broken glazed tiles, looked at them carefully and whispered to the craftsmen around him, "You can't tell anyone about this. Anyone who confides a word will be killed! "
On the way home, Ma Dechun was on tenterhooks. It's too late for him to re-fire glazed tiles, and he can't afford to delay the construction period, but he has to risk cheating the monarch to find a way to remedy it! Seeing that the construction period is coming in a few days, he put his heart on the line and waited for death.
When he got home, he didn't think about tea and rice, and no matter who came, he went to the small barn alone, blocked the doors and windows, and quietly made a "glazed tile."
The news of the completion of the Nine Dragon Wall reached the emperor in time. The next day, Qianlong took several ministers to see it. As soon as he entered Xiqingmen, he suddenly saw the majestic Kowloon Wall. Take a closer look, these nine dragons are lifelike, just like real ones.
Emperor Qianlong felt brilliant and could not help admiring. He walked to the front of the wall and carefully appreciated the dragons on each glazed tile, one by one from east to west. Mad, who followed the crowd, almost choked, sweating on his head and his legs were weak.
After reading it back and forth for three times, Gan Long really liked it from the bottom of his heart. He repeatedly praised Ma Dechun's superb craftsmanship and gave him five hundred and twenty pieces of silver. Off the emperor Qianlong, Ma Dechun that hanging heart also put down. If you want to ask Ma Dechun why he is worried, it is because he skillfully replaced the Nine Dragon Wall with flowers.
It turns out that Ma Dechun took great pains to make up for the glazed tiles broken by small craftsmen. It took him two days and two nights to carve a dragon out of a good piece of nanmu. On the first day of watching it with his ministers, Qianlong hastily installed it. If the emperor knew this, it would be a crime of deceiving the monarch!
Now, if you have a chance to visit and come to the Nine Dragon Wall, there is a glazed tile on the third white dragon from the east, which was carved by Ma Dechun from nanmu. You might as well take a closer look.
Story of the Old Palace 2: The Story of the Wall and the Old Palace
There must be two things in the capital, the city wall and the palace. The earliest wall that Beijing can see belongs to the Yuan Dynasty more than 800 years ago. Outside the North Third Ring Road, it's quite long, but not as high as the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, it was 16 meters high, but now it is about 6 meters high, because the walls of the Yuan Dynasty were made of earth, and they were deformed after a long time. At that time, the city wall was 24 meters wide at the bottom and 8 meters wide at the top, which could run a carriage.
After a long time, many things will change. There is a small lake in Houhai, Beijing, surrounded by a bar area, which is very lively. There is also a small lake connected with Houhai, which is too small to be called a lake, so it has to be called a pool.
This pool is the northernmost part of the Grand Canal in Yuan Dynasty, and the water in this pool leads south to Hangzhou. If any fish is energetic, you can swim to this pool from Hangzhou.
Whether the fish comes or not, the boat will come. This small pool was called Xihai in Yuan Dynasty. Although the West Sea is small now, it was not small then. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was a big pier, and all the ships that sent food to Beijing stopped at the West Sea. They are all big ships, lined up one by one, with great momentum.
Later, with cars and trains, there was no need to transport food, and the West Sea was useless, and the style passed. Later, roads were built to build houses, and the West Sea was slowly squeezed into a small lake. Isn't it a pity?
There are even more pitiful ones. North of the West Sea is now the North Second Ring Road, which is a very wide road. It was not a road before, but a city wall, the ancient city wall of Beijing. Sixty years ago, a circle of ancient city walls in Beijing was still there. At that time, there was a lack of bricks to build a house, so the city walls were torn down to get bricks. Later, when roads were built, they were all demolished because the city walls were in the way. Unfortunately, they died. That is an important cultural relic. If this circle of city walls is preserved, Beijing will have a more ancient city flavor.
Not all the walls are gone, just a small piece. At that time, when the city wall was demolished, it was demolished to the southeast corner of the city wall, and it could not be demolished. This section of the city wall is not only a city wall, but also a wall of many people. Some people who can't afford a house live against the wall. When the wall is torn down, so is the shed where others live.
There are too many people living under this wall, so this wall has never been torn down. In fact, this section of the city wall was not the best at that time. If you really want to leave a plate, it won't rank at all. It's just this paragraph, which stayed for this very strange reason.
Now this section of the city wall is very valuable. Beijing specially built Amin City Wall Ruins Park to protect it. Go to this park just to see this section of the ancient city wall.
On the edge of this wall, there is a tower, which is called "tower" in Beijing dialect. At that time, Beijing was surrounded by a wall. Where there is a wall, there must be a door. There are many doors open on one wall.
Many places in Beijing are also called doors, such as Andingmen, Yongdingmen, Chaoyangmen and Xizhimen. These doors were really doors at that time, the doors of the city wall, and where there were doors, there were gatehouses. The gate buildings were built for war, and the army was sent here to guard them. When the enemy comes, close the door, shoot arrows from above and hold the gate.
On the edge of this truncated city wall, there is another door called Dongbianmen, and the gatehouse of Dongbianmen has been preserved together with the city wall. But not all of them, but a part of them, watchtower, used for archery in war, also known as arrow tower. Although it is only a turret, you will find that this turret has several floors and is tall and powerful.
This turret was attacked by Eight-Nation Alliance, and the walls of the turret were also engraved with soldiers from Eight-Nation Alliance. So-and-so, the date 1900 is here in English. These words are still there. The glass is sealed, so you can visit them.
As I said just now, the capital city must have two things, one is the city wall and the other is what? Yes, the palace. You can't talk about Beijing without talking about the Forbidden City. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, dozens of emperors lived in the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City is quite big. It was, and is, the largest palace in the world. How big is it? More than 900 buildings. How many rooms are there in these buildings? It used to be rumored that there was a room of 9999 and a half. In fact, experts later counted more than 8,700 rooms, but could not find half of them. It's these more than 8,700 rooms. If an emperor is born and lives in one room every day, he will have to live in all the rooms until he is 24 years old.
The most interesting thing about the Forbidden City is its central axis. Inside the Forbidden City, there are three halls for the emperor to work, the last three palaces for the emperor to sleep, and the imperial garden for the emperor to play, including the front and rear doors. The centers are all on the same line, and the straight north-south line extends symmetrically from east to west. With such lines, the Forbidden City looks neat and tidy.
This line is not only in the Forbidden City, but also extends from north to south, becoming the central axis of Beijing. Tiananmen Square is on this line, as are Andingmen in the north and Yongdingmen in the south. The Bird's Nest and the Water Cube are built on both sides of this line. Beijing's atmosphere and grandeur depend on this line.
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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. It is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and 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 known as the top five palaces in the world (the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, the White House in the United States and the Russian Kremlin). 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. [4] 1987 is listed as a world cultural heritage. ?
From October 20 12 10 to June 20 18, the total number of visitors to the Forbidden City reached 1 100 million. Starting from 20 19, the Forbidden City tried to sell tickets by time? [6]。 On September 3rd, 20 18, the hall of mental cultivation of the Forbidden City officially entered the implementation stage of research, protection and renovation of ancient buildings.