Introduction to the Royal Gardens of the Palace Museum

The imperial garden of the Palace Museum is the garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Details are as follows:

The Imperial Garden, located in the Forbidden City in Beijing, No.4 Jingshan Front Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420) and renamed as the "Imperial Garden" in the Qing Dynasty. It is a place for imperial concubines in the Ming and Qing Dynasties to rest and enjoy.

The Royal Garden is135m wide from east to west and 89m deep from north to south, covering an area of12015m2. On the south is Kunning Gate, and on the left and right are Qiongyuan Right Gate and Qiongyuan Left Gate respectively. North across the archway gate and Shunzhen gate surrounded by Jifu Gate, Yanhe Gate and Chengguang Gate. The buildings in the park are centered on the courtyard of Qin 'an Hall, and the central axis is symmetrically arranged. The buildings of the East-West Road are basically symmetrical, which is a model of classical palace gardens.

196 1 On March 4th, the Forbidden City, including the Royal Garden, was announced by the people of China and the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Three Characteristics of Royal Gardens

1, the architectural layout is symmetrical but not rigid, stretching but not scattered. With Qin 'an Hall as the center, nearly 20 buildings of various types are arranged on both sides in a balanced way. Whether it is built against the wall or the pavilion is independent, it is exquisite and unique, and the density is suitable. Among them, Fu Bi Pavilion and Cheng Rui Pavilion, Wanchun Pavilion and Qianqiu Pavilion are the most distinctive. Two pairs of pavilions are symmetrically arranged in the east and west, and the Floating Garden and Cheng Rui are square pavilions that extend southward across the pool. Wanchun Pavilion and Qianqiu Pavilion are polygonal pavilions, which form a cross-shaped plane under the upper circle and are surrounded by buildings, reflecting the traditional concept of "the sky is round and the place is round".

2. The vines in the garden are 100 years old. There are more than 160 ancient trees with bonsai of various rocks, such as a wood fossil bonsai placed in front of Jiang Xuexuan. It looks like rotten wood that has been exposed for a long time, but it is actually stone.

3. Colored stone pavement. The Yong Road in the park is paved with pebbles of different colors, forming more than 900 different patterns, including figures, flowers, landscapes, plays and allusions.

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