We all know that the Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are many legends about its site selection, design and supervision. Among them, the most popular is "Liu Bowen Built Beijing in One Night". Of course, this must be a legend. Liu Bowen is Zhu Yuanzhang's strategist. After his death (1May 37516th), the construction of Beijing City began (65438).
It is wishful thinking for tourists to believe that the Forbidden City was built in Liu Bowen overnight. I think they don't want to accept the fact of the Forbidden City in Jian Yao because they don't like this monk who wants to help the rebellion and don't want him to have such high wisdom and ability. I hope that the honor of building the Forbidden City (the first of the five palaces in the world) belongs to Liu Bowen;
The construction of Beijing is inseparable from site selection, design and supervision. How to appoint personnel, select skilled craftsmen and ensure quality and craftsmanship must be outstanding. If you want to solve the mystery of building the Forbidden City in Beijing, you must first understand several scenic spots in Beijing: Suzhou Street, Dingdu Peak and Liulichang.
The stories about Dingdu Peak, Dingdu Pavilion and Tanzhe Temple are believed to be familiar to most friends. They are all very magical legends. For example, when he and Yao saw the sunrise in the east, there was sunshine everywhere, and the birthplace of Daming's inheritance, they were deeply touched. , as well as the design of Beijing's central axis and the story of Nezha with eight arms. But these are not the main factors to ensure the architectural quality of the Forbidden City and become architectural miracles;
Liulichang: In the eyes of most tourists, this is a cultural street, where people gathered for imperial examinations and sold "Four Treasures of the Study" in Qing Dynasty. In fact, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, this is the official kiln dedicated to firing glazed tiles. Yao needs a lot of glazed tiles to build the inner city of Beijing, and the scale is expanded again. The glazed tiles in the three halls of the Forbidden City should have been fired here during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
As the person in charge of the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Yao is just a designer and supervisor. How to realize his design concept depends on skilled craftsmen. It is said that this project employs 65,438+skilled craftsmen, and the real miracle is created by them. Many tourists don't know who these craftsmen are. In fact, Beijing has left their traces, and this is our protagonist-Suzhou Hutong.
China is a country of etiquette and a human society. No matter who has the power and resources, it will naturally happen that "rich people have distant relatives in the mountains". Faced with such a huge construction project of the Forbidden City, there should be many craftsmen who want to get involved. Yao should face the same problem. How did he make a choice, whether to be crony or not?
Most project leaders in China can be divided into two categories: one is cronyism: I feel that it is convenient for my own people to use it, and I insist on the principle that fertilizer and water will not flow out of the field. When a project comes down, people around you can get some "oil and water", which is a kind of project leader who pursues practical interests. Once something goes wrong, they will "get more than one bargained for";
The second category is to avoid suspicion. They generally don't use people around them or people they are usually close to, for fear that others will "gossip". This kind of behavior is actually a manifestation of "self-esteem" and it is not easy to retain the population. Even if there are quality problems, they rarely affect themselves.
Of course, Yao, our prime minister in black, does not belong to one of these two categories. He is a model of "cultivating talents without avoiding relatives". The person in charge of the project recommended by him is Suzhou Kuaifu and Kuaixiang, who have a "hometown" relationship with him. Yao is from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He not only invited a large number of skilled craftsmen from Suzhou, but also put his hometown (tomb: now).
In order to ensure the construction period of the Forbidden City, these skilled craftsmen from Suzhou all live near Beijing (east of Dongdan Park, close to Beijing Railway Station), and they all say "Wu Nong Ruan Yu", which is our current "Suzhou Hutong";
Anyone who has been to Beijing and Suzhou will find some similarities between them, such as:
The Summer Palace is not only very similar to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, but also has rockeries, pavilions, pavilions and other elements, as well as Suzhou Street, which shows that the two are closely related.
The Forbidden City can be glorious for more than 600 years, without chief designer Yao, builder Kuai Xiang and hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen, mainly Suzhou craftsmen. It can be said that in this big project, he achieved the two points of "recommending others without avoiding relatives" and "appointing people on merit", and Suzhou Hutong is the imprint they left in those years. As a witness, it is related to capital peak and capital peak.
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It won't take long to walk from Suzhou Hutong to the Forbidden City, which is equivalent to crossing Chang 'an Avenue and then walking from Dongdan to Tiananmen Square. Interested friends can experience the route of Suzhou craftsmen to work in those days.