Tickets for the Forbidden City are reserved for morning tickets and afternoon tickets.

If you want to spend a day in the Forbidden City, you don't need to buy a morning ticket and an afternoon ticket at the same time, unless you want to come back after going out on the road.

The reason why the Forbidden City is divided into morning tickets and afternoon tickets is to limit the number of people who can enter every day, so everyone goes in the morning, because if there are too many tourists that day, tickets will not be sold in the afternoon, and there will be many tour groups in the afternoon, resulting in more people in the afternoon.

The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing. The layout is based on the principle of "Left Group, Right House, Facing the Future" contained in Zhou Li's examination book. It is built on the central axis of Beijing, eight kilometers long from north to south, and the north and south are symmetrical.

Today, the working people's cultural palace in front of the Forbidden City is the ancestral temple of the Ming and Qing emperors. On the right front, Zhongshan Park is the social altar where the emperor worships the land gods and the valley gods. There is a courtier's office in front; There is a market for people to trade in the back.

The North of the Forbidden City in Beijing is the Long Live Mountain and the South is the Jinshui River, which is just in line with the ancients' principle of "negative yin holding yang, rushing to be harmonious". Long live the Mountain is a man-made mountain specially built to create the geomantic omen of the imperial city. Built in the early Ming Dynasty, it is located in the former site of Yanchunge, the bedroom of the Yuan Dynasty, and is made up of silt from the moat and Nanhu Lake.

The piling of this mountain, on the one hand, satisfies the principle that the imperial city should be "negative", on the other hand, it suppresses the geomantic omen of the previous dynasty, so Long live the Mountain is also called "Zhenshan". The layout of Beijing 49 City is that Erlong comes out of the water to protect the Forbidden City. According to China's ancient astrology theory, the purple star (i.e. Polaris) is located in the center of the sky, where the emperor lived, corresponding to heaven and man. According to the emperor's residence, it is also called the Forbidden City.