What's the difference between "Qing Dynasty Edition" and "Ming Dynasty Edition" of the Forbidden City?

Speaking of the Forbidden City, it is the symbol of China and the heart of Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was called the Forbidden City, a place where ordinary people were forbidden to set foot, the center of world rule, the first of the five existing palaces in the world, and the largest wooden structure complex in the world.

Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty began to build the Forbidden City from 1406 to 1420, which lasted 14 years. Twenty-four emperors lived here in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The overall pattern of the Forbidden City in Ming and Qing Dynasties has not changed much, but the details are still very different. The Ming Dynasty advocated simplicity, so the roofs and archways of various palaces in the Ming Dynasty were not as gorgeous and colorful as the top of the Forbidden City Palace in the Qing Dynasty. The color of the palace wall in the Ming Dynasty is pale pink, unlike the big red outside the palace gate in the Qing Dynasty.

Fengtian Hall, the main hall of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty, was very large, but after it was destroyed, the repair of Taihe Hall became smaller and smaller, and it became narrower in the Qing Dynasty. There were six stone sculptures in front of the main entrance of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty, but by the Qing Dynasty, these six elephant sculptures had been destroyed and could not be seen. The imperial city and Miyagi in the Ming Dynasty are integrated and belong to the Miyagi system, and the number of palaces far exceeds that in the Qing Dynasty. The imperial city and Miyagi in the Qing Dynasty did not belong to the same system, and there was a strict distinction between them. The imperial palace in the Qing Dynasty was greatly reduced.

In the Ming dynasty, the imperial road along the north-south axis of Wumen was all white marble. White marble is no longer visible, but it was replaced by bluestone in the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the queen's palace, Kunning Palace, was transformed into a place where shamans offered sacrifices. There were pots and chimneys in it, which was really deformed. In the Qing dynasty, the changes in the West Sixth Palace were also very great. All the original independent six palaces were opened and connected together, which changed the symmetrical pattern of the six palaces in the east and west. In addition, it is well known that the Qing dynasty changed the names of all the doors of the palace. For example, the Hall of Supreme Harmony was called Fengtian Hall in the Ming Dynasty.