Mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, and there are nine gates in the city. If you don't see the emperor, you will know the son of heaven. As the imperial palace of Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City has been extremely majestic and mysterious for hundreds of years. It was not until it was turned into a museum that its true face was gradually known to the world.
People who have visited the Forbidden City admire its splendor. It seems that few people will care why the Forbidden City was built where it is today. In fact, the location of the Forbidden City determines the pattern of Beijing to a certain extent, which can be said to be very important. So, how did the Forbidden City choose its present location? This should start with a mysterious knowledge?
The ancients thought that Kunlun Mountain was the ancestral mountain on earth, and the mountains and rivers on earth took this as their source, and their status was respected, just like Olympus Mountain in the eyes of the Greeks.
Kunlun Mountain spread the spirit of Heaven to all directions through five Long Mai. Three of them cross China in the southeast, namely Beiganlong, Zhongganlong and Nanganlong.
Liao and others in the Ming Dynasty believed that Tianshou Mountain in Changping, Beijing was located at the end of Beiganlong, where the Long Mai breath of Kunlun Mountain finally gathered.
When the main peak of Long Mai is established, where should the Forbidden City in Long Mai be built?
As we all know, the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty was actually built on the site of the Imperial Palace in the Yuan Dynasty, and the center of the Imperial Palace in the Yuan Dynasty was the Daming Hall, which was located on the Longdong, and was carefully selected by the outstanding politician Liu and his disciples in the Yuan Dynasty. Today's famous scientist Guo Shoujing also participated in this work as Liu's favorite disciple.
However, the main peak built by Wei Liu Yuan Dynasty Palace is not Changping Mountain (later Tianshou Mountain), but Yuquan Mountain in the northwest of Beijing. Why did you choose Yuquan Mountain? The most important basis is the spring water in the mountains.
Part of Yuquan landscape gushes out in the low-lying area of the mountain, becoming an aboveground spring, and the other part flows underground. Liu, Guo Shoujing and others walked along the stream of Yuquan landscape, and finally determined the Longdong.
Although the imperial palace of the Yuan Dynasty has long since disappeared, this underground Long Mai has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. It came from the northwest of the Forbidden City, crossed between Zhonghai and Beihai, sneaked into the underground of the northwest corner of the Forbidden City, passed through Cining Palace, Zhonghe Hall, Wenhua Hall and Wenyuan Pavilion, arrived at Dong 'anmen Street outside Donghuamen, then arrived at Wangfujing, and then continued to diagonally southbound, flowing through today's Union Hospital and the ancient observatory, leaving the capital.
Liu suggested to Kublai Khan that the connection line between the main entrance of Beijing and an ancient tree south of the Third Bridge outside the door should be the north-south axis of the palace, and the intersection point between the axis and it should be? Dragon cave? . The main hall of the Forbidden City in Yuan Dynasty? Daming Hall stands here.
In A.D. 1406, when Yongle Emperor Judy began to build the Forbidden City on the site of the Imperial Palace of the Yuan Dynasty, the Dragon Cave of the new dynasty was still on the Long Mai, which was transformed from Yuquan landscape. Just because the central axis of the Forbidden City has been reset, slightly to the east of the Yuan Dynasty, the location of Longdong is slightly different.
The intersection of the central axis of the Forbidden City and Long Mai in the Ming Dynasty is about where the current Zhonghe Hall is located. The palaces, pavilions and pavilions of the Forbidden City are arranged around this intersection according to the plan. In the Ming dynasty, there were always three halls? Fengtian Hall, Gaihua Hall and Shenshen Temple are regarded as a whole. Three halls in Fengtian? It is said that the later Zhonghe Hall happened to live between the three main halls, so the Dragon Cave became a chapter here.
The Longdong is confirmed, and the next step is to find the landscape next to it. As the backing of the Forbidden City, Long Live Mountain (Jingshan Mountain) is used as a barrier of the Forbidden City to reinforce the back. On the other hand, it is built on the central axis, and because of its towering shape, it has become the center of the whole architectural layout of Beijing.
Long live the Mountain (Jingshan) was built on the former site of Yanchun Pavilion in Yuan Dynasty. Judy piled up a mountain and pressed it on the palace of the previous generation, so that it would never turn over, so as to ensure that the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty would last forever and be passed down from generation to generation.
Judy's thoughtfulness was later understood by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. They built five more pavilions on Jingshan Mountain, marking Jingshan Mountain with the imprint of the family of Essien Joro.