The Forbidden City - China

The Unesco Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization has recognized the Forbidden City, also known as China's Imperial Palace, as a World Cultural Heritage in 1987.

The Forbidden City, also called Co Cung (today's new way of calling) is located in Beijing, China. Built in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City is a beautiful wonder despite the time.

The Forbidden City began construction in 1406 until 1420 under the Ming Dynasty after Zhou De - the fourth son of Chu Yuanzhong robbed the king from his grandson Doan Van.

This is a great architecture, the largest palace in the world with an area of ​​250,000 m2. In the Forbidden City there are a total of 800 works, 8,886 rooms and the number of human resources built about 1,000,000 people. Forbidden City built according to ancient Chinese architecture along the North-South axis, surrounded by a high-walled high wall to prevent outsiders from entering. The Forbidden City was built in a rectangular shape, based on the "round sky square" theory facing south overlooking Thien An Mon Gate , this is also the main gate to the Forbidden City. This work was designed by many architects in which the chief architect is Sai Tin, in addition to Tran Khue, Ngo Trung and Thai Chi Nguyen An. The master works are Khoai Tuong and Luc Tuong.

The Forbidden City is surrounded by Citadel, the walls cover 3,400 meters long, 11 meters high with deep trenches and four canyons placed in four corners of the city. All architecture in the Forbidden City is built according to the three main electrical designs: Thai Hoa Electricity, Dien Trung Hoa and Bao Hoa Electricity. The whole building is designed to be perfectly perfected to every detail from roofs, pillars, house floors to decorative patterns, carved on walls and on the door.

Some works inside the Forbidden City

In the three main electricity, Thai Hoa Electricity has the most magnificent architecture. On the south square of 30,000 m2, Thai Hoa electricity is built on the white steps of 8 m high, the height of electricity is nearly 40 m, this is also the highest architecture in the Palace. According to Chinese culture, dragons represent the power of the king and the king to be considered 'celestial dragon legs' so Thai Hoa Palace uses many dragon images, there are over 13,000 dragon images appearing here. In front of Thai Hoa Palace, there are 3 stone bridges leading up to the electricity, only the king can walk in the middle path, the other two bridges are for mandarins and martial officers. According to strict regulations in supply, only the mandarins or more are allowed to step through these bridges.

The Forbidden City is one of the most famous places in China, which annually attracts tens of thousands of tourists visiting both domestic and international.

Extremely unique architecture at Thai Hoa electricity must mention the large stone slabs carved dragon phoenix placed on the way to Thai Hoa main gate. According to historical records, the stone was transported from a location 80 km away from Beijing to design and carve. Architect Nguyen An has dug tens of thousands of well-spaced wells placed along two sides of the road, the snowy winter covered with ice piles of these wells forming a river of tens of kilometers long to drag heavy stones to hundreds That attack on the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City is divided into two areas, which are foreign and internal affairs. All rituals, ceremonies and ceremonies are held at the foreign court. Here, the emperor sits on the throne to hear the courtiers perform and judge the destiny of the people. The tide is also the place where the emperor's coronation ceremony, birthday or important ceremonies are held here. The royal court was the permanent residence of the emperor with the royal family.

In Tu Cam citadel, there are also 18 bronze incense censer , about 1m in diameter, over 2m high, each copper pot represents 18 provinces of China at that time, each time the king set the burning incense incense, incense smoke suspicious, incense smell spread throughout the palace, making the Forbidden City even more majesty in the center of heaven and earth.

With a large scale, typical architecture with Chinese characteristics, the Forbidden City is the great jewel of Chinese architecture . Today the Forbidden City also has the Palace Museum with more than millions of preserved artifacts and is the Cultural Heritage of the World. Every year millions of tourists come and visit the Forbidden City area and this is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Asia.