A city, precipitating 600 years of memory. Old photos are memories, recording the changes of years. Standing in the Forbidden City, the old and new photos seem to fold the river of time. History coincides with the present. I can't help sighing: 600 years old, in full bloom.
The Forbidden City was built by the Ming Emperor Zhu Di and designed by Kuai Xiang.
The Forbidden City covers an area of 720000 square meters (961 meters long and 753 meters wide), with a construction area of about 150000 square meters and an area of 720000 square meters. It has been built for 14 years with 1 million migrant workers. There are 9999 and a half houses. According to the field measurement of experts in 1973, the Forbidden City has more than 90 large and small courtyards and 980 houses, A total of 8707 rooms (and this' room 'is not the concept of today's room. Here' room 'refers to the space formed by four room columns).
The Forbidden City is surrounded by a 12 meter high and 3400 meter long palace wall in the form of a rectangular City, surrounded by a 52 meter wide moat outside the wall, forming a heavily fortified castle. The Forbidden City has four gates. The main gate is called Meridian Gate, the east gate is called Donghua gate, the west gate is called Xihua gate, and the north gate is called Shenwu gate. Facing the north gate Shenwu gate, there is a Jingshan mountain made of earth and stone. In terms of overall layout, Jingshan can be said to be the barrier of the Forbidden City complex.