Revealing architectural scale into Emperor

After 3 excavations (2004-2005-2006), recently the Vietnam Institute of Archeology discovered many new details about the Forbidden City (the Emperor) under the Tay Son dynasty in Nhon Hau commune, An district. Nhon, Binh Dinh.

This is the place where the Tay Son insurgent headquarters was located in the first start-up; is the planning site, the starting point of the Tay Son insurgent in the South to the North smashed the Nguyen lord, destroyed the Trinh lord, unified the country. This relic was later destroyed by Nguyen (Nguyen Anh).

(Photo: Tuoi Tre, VNE) Dr. Le Dinh Phung, Vietnam Institute of Archeology said that the third excavation conducted from October to December 2006 has brought quite interesting results: Forbidden City built at the center of the emperor. Outside and around the Forbidden Purple City are low hillocks surrounded by Canh Tien tower mound, Mo Moi mound, Mo Tap, Ong Son mound and Thap Thap mound.

Inside the Forbidden City is a solidly built and solid inner citadel, creating a three-layer belt system to protect this center. The Forbidden City has a rectangular surface, north - south, size 312x126 m and the main door opens to the south.

In terms of structure, the outer wall is built on two sides of laterite, in the middle is a compacted soil layer. The center of the city has a main architectural axis built north-south axis including works: Nam Mon - Cung Cung Bong - Octagonal - Primitive and Harem . divided into two equal parts. The architectures located on the main axis have a very uniform distribution distance, the two sides have other auxiliary items (not recorded in the old material) such as two water-shaped moon-shaped lakes, distributed to both sides octagonal floor, or aqua-shaped lake.

Compared to the previous announcement, the excavation this time not only has an open door to the south, but has discovered at least 3 more doors in the east - south - west, in which the main door opens to the south.

In addition, archaeologists also discovered more sewer systems built quite elaborately and evenly distributed in the heart of a complete planning. Many artifacts made of pottery, porcelain, terracotta and earthenware that are valuable to bricks and tiles have also been discovered. The type of artifacts, materials and processing techniques show that they are similar in age and have the same age as the citadel.

Thus, according to the study results of the excavation of the Forbidden City this time, scientists of the Institute of Archeology and Binh Dinh Province have made more conclusions: The architecture in the Forbidden City was built with accurate calculations. , thoroughly, the space is closely distributed and the main subject is posted. The main architectures are located on a central axis of the citadel and the auxiliary architectures are posted on both sides.

The scale of the Forbidden City architecture is not large, the area and the construction site is narrow but still shows the strictness in planning and hiding in the face of the capital of a dynasty.