Legends and stories of the Forbidden City

Story 1: Reproduction of Maids in Qing Dynasty

1983 One night, a person was walking by the wall near Jubao Hall. Suddenly, he found a group of people carrying palace lanterns in the distance, so he wanted to go forward and have a look, but he couldn't catch up with the group of people. But from a distance, it was indeed a maid-in-waiting wearing a green cheongsam carrying a flat gauze palace lantern.

Story 2: The Woman in the Wall

In the 1990s, there was a legend about the Forbidden City in Beijing. Shortly after the Forbidden City was closed, an elderly man was patrolling to clean up the area. He found a middle-aged woman with a bun and a cheongsam in an alley ahead. The woman smiled at him, turned and walked into the wall behind her, and noticed that it was inside the wall, not inside the door.

Story 3: Strange things in Palace of Gathered Elegance.

One summer in 1980s, several firefighters slept in Palace of Gathered Elegance after completing a fire drill in Palace of Gathered Elegance. Because of the hot weather, they slept in a temple.

At two o'clock in the morning, a team member was awakened by a cool breeze. When I opened my eyes in a daze, I found myself sleeping in the corridor outside the temple gate. He thought it was a prank carried him out by his comrades, so he took the mat and went back to sleep in the temple. I woke up in the morning and found myself being carried to the porch again, asking others if they didn't know. Probably because his yang is too weak, he dare not sleep there anymore.

Extended data:

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient court architecture in China.

The name "Forbidden City" is related to China's ancient philosophy and astronomy. China people believe in "harmony between man and nature" and "harmony between man and nature". Therefore, the structure of the Forbidden City is modeled after the legendary "Tiangong".

In ancient astronomy, the stars were divided into three walls, surrounded by 28 nights, of which Ziwei Garden (Polaris) was located in the center of the sky, which was the center of all the stars. The purple in the Forbidden City is the purple in the purple, which means that the palace is also the "middle" of the world. "Forbidden" refers to the residence of the royal family, which has incomparable dignity and is strictly forbidden to intrude.

Twenty-four emperors lived in the Forbidden City. The first one was the Yongle Emperor Judy of the Ming Dynasty, and the last one was the Xuan Tong Emperor Puyi of the Qing Dynasty.

There are more than 0/0 pieces of collection in the Forbidden City, including the Art Museum, Arts and Crafts Museum, Painting Museum, Qing Palace Toy Museum, Bronze Museum, ceramics museum, Watch Museum, Treasure Museum, Woodblock Museum, Ming and Qing Furniture Museum, etc. There are about 1 10,000 precious collections, some of which are orphans, but only exist in the Forbidden City.