Daming Palace is the main hall of the Tang Dynasty and one of the three palaces in the Tang Dynasty (Daming Palace, Taiji Palace and Xingqing Palace). Among them, Daming Palace is the largest, and its area is five times that of Bauhinia City in Beijing. It was the most luxurious and largest imperial capital in the world at that time, which influenced the architectural forms of many countries in the world at that time.
There are three key reasons why the palaces in the late Song and Ming Dynasties, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, are different from those in the Han and Tang Dynasties, not to mention something too academic. Simply put:
1. The architectural ideas, geomantic theory and functions of palaces in the Han and Tang Dynasties have been very different from those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so the scale is close to that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and very different from that in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
2. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were many wooden structures and few masonry applications. Brick-making technology has developed greatly since the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, masonry structures were widely used in buildings, and many halls without beams appeared, but they also developed a larger space.
3. The architectural skills in Ming and Qing Dynasties were more advanced and advanced than those in Han and Tang Dynasties, and the layout was more reasonable. Although the area has been reduced, the usable area is very large. Compared with the palaces with the same building area in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the use area is far more than that in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the basic defense capability of the capital was the palace wall, and even contained a large number of internal security forces. However, Chang 'an of Tang Dynasty was breached nine times, and the palace was in the corner of the capital, so the farmland next to it was easy to expand!
After the Song Dynasty, the layout of the imperial capital changed, and Miyagi was in the middle, and the defensive nature of the walls of Miyagi weakened ... The tall walls of the capital were built and even the citizens were protected together, but Miyagi could not expand like this! But the emperors found another way. The imperial palaces in Ming and Qing Dynasties stripped off many functions and found other places to build them: North Zhongnanhai, Family Temple, Heaven and Earth Altar, Summer Palace and Yuanmingyuan. ...