1999 Is the ticket to the Forbidden City 40 yuan?

1990 ticket to the Forbidden City 5 yuan.

People are most impressed by the tickets to the Forbidden City in the 1990s. Ticket prices rose from 5 yuan in the beginning to 60 yuan in the peak season and 40 yuan in the off-season. What remains unchanged is its design style: the main pattern is mostly the foreground and side of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and the background color is rarely transitional, usually seven colors or black, brown and pink, with the words "Tickets for the Palace Museum" and the fare printed below.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Forbidden City was a very closed forbidden area, and it was almost an idiotic dream for ordinary people to visit it. After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City gradually disappeared as a royal palace and eventually became a museum open to the public.

Basic information

The Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City. In ancient China, the planning concept of "harmony between man and nature" was emphasized, and the stars in the sky were used to correspond to the capital planning, so as to highlight the legitimacy of political power and the supremacy of imperial power. The Emperor of Heaven lives in Wei Zi Palace, and the emperor on earth claims that he is the "son of heaven" ordered by God. His residence should be a symbol of Wei Zi Palace, so as to conform to the Heaven Emperor. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that "there is a Wei Zi Palace in the sky, which is the residence of God".

The king built a palace and liked it. "Wei Zi, Ziyuan, Zigong and so on have become synonymous with the Forbidden City. Because the feudal palace was forbidden in ancient times, ordinary people could not enter it, so it was called "Purple Forbidden". In the early Ming Dynasty, it was called "Imperial City" together with the outer forbidden wall, but it was different from the outer forbidden wall in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, that is, Miyagi was called "Forbidden City" and the outer forbidden wall was called "Imperial City".