The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the largest and highest-ranking building in the Forbidden City. Eleven rooms are wide and five rooms are deep, with a building area of 2377.00㎡ and a height of 26.92m m. Together with the base height of 35.05m, it is the largest and largest in the Forbidden City. There is a broad platform in front of the temple, called single pen, commonly known as platform. The platform is equipped with a sundial and a fine scale, a pair of bronze turtles and cranes, and a bronze tripod with a seat of 18. Turtles and cranes are symbols of longevity. A sundial is an ancient timer and a beam is an ancient standard ruler, both of which are symbols of imperial power. His Royal Highness is a three-story marble pedestal, with a height of 8. 13m and railings around it. There is a stone faucet for drainage under the railing, which can show the wonders of thousands of dragons spitting water during the rainy season.
Its high building standards and exquisite decoration technology rank first among the ancient buildings in China. Above the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there is a double-eaved roof with the highest architectural form. There are big kisses at both ends of the roof, which is 3.40m high and weighs about 4300k π. On the bifurcated ridge of the ancient buildings in China, there are some small animals to decorate. The arrangement of these small animals is strictly regulated, and the number varies according to the level of the building. The most is the decoration on the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City (* * * has 65438. Shows the supreme importance. The first ornament is a man riding a phoenix fairy. According to legend, he was the King of Qi Ming in the Southern Dynasties, and later became an immortal. After the immortal, there are ten kinds of small animals: dragon, phoenix, lion, Tianma, hippocampus, lynx, Lin Yu, Lin Yu, bullfighting and Shi Hang. Generally, other ancient buildings use up to nine kinds of animals. There are strict grade boundaries here, and only Jinxitang (Hall of Supreme Harmony) can complete ten kinds. There are seven Zhonghe halls and nine Baohe halls. Small animals in other temples are declining step by step. There are only nine small animals in Tiananmen Square.
Introduction to Hall of Supreme Harmony:
The Hall of Supreme Harmony, commonly known as the Golden Throne Hall, is the essence of Han Palace architecture and one of the three major halls in the East. The largest existing wooden hall in China. Located in a prominent position on the north-south main axis of the Forbidden City in Beijing, it was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420) and named Fengtian Hall. In the forty-first year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1562), it was renamed as Neiting, and in the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1645), it was renamed as today. After it was built, it was burned and rebuilt many times. This temple was rebuilt in the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1695).