In fact, generally speaking, the emperor needs a dragon bed to sleep, plus some furnishings and the like, which is just a small bedroom.
Why is the emperor, the king of a country, sitting on a million square kilometers, but his bedroom is less than 20 square meters?
This is still related to some traditional ideas of China people. The ancients said, "Don't live in a small house."
In other words, don't live in a place with few people and a big house. The ancients attached great importance to yin and yang and paid attention to the harmony of yin and yang.
In fact, you will also find that the same two houses, the one full of people and the one with ordinary rooms, and the one without people, will feel chilly as soon as they enter, and will feel chilly when they stay inside for a while, and feel that the yin inside is too heavy.
This truth, the ancients also know that the house is too big and there are too few people, which will lead to heavy yin.
Take the imperial palace in Ming and Qing Dynasties as an example. Gan Qing Palace is the residence of fourteen emperors of Shunzhi in Ming Dynasty and Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 1400 square meters.
Hall of mental cultivation is the place where most emperors lived after Yongzheng, covering an area of 5,000 square meters (including courtyards).
Although the bread here includes the place where the government affairs are handled and the palace maids and eunuchs live, living in such a big palace, the emperor will still appear sparsely populated, unpopular and lacking in yang. The ancients attached importance to geomantic omen and thought that houses needed people to support them, which would attract people's popularity. How big the house is and how much energy it needs. If the bedroom is too big, sleeping in it all day will absorb a lot of popularity and energy over time, so people will become depressed.
Experts from the Forbidden City said that Beijing has a warm temperate and semi-humid continental monsoon climate, with little snow in winter and heavy sandstorms in spring. Therefore, residential design pays attention to heat preservation, cold prevention, wind prevention and sand prevention, and brick walls are built around it. The whole yard is surrounded by houses and walls, hard gable roofs, thick walls and roofs. The bedroom is small in size and has no other use. The real reason is to keep warm.