Museum in Beijing - the whole palace ensemble. It reflects a brilliant distillation of ancient architectural art. If you visit in Beijing that the palaces, parks, towers, temples, houses - museums of famous people, places passage of the historic event attracted your attention. Each year, hundreds of millions of Chinese tourists and 60 million overseas visit Pekin.Byvshaya residence of the Chinese emperor is undoubtedly the main attraction of Beijing. Full name of the imperial residence in Chinese sounds like "Tszytszinchen" - Purple Forbidden City, and the title Museum in Beijing, meaning "Palace of the former rulers, came later, but now at the Beijing it almost replaced the first. (Sometimes Gugun translate as "Old Palace", which is not entirely correct.) Forbidden City is often referred to as simply the Imperial Palace or the Imperial Winter Palace, as usual emperor lived here only in winter, moving in the summer in one of his suburban residences.
Construction began in the Forbidden City in 1406 and lasted almost 15 years. Twenty-four of Emperor two dynasties - Ming and Qing lived here. The last Chinese emperor Pu And otrekshiysya from the throne in February 1912, left the Forbidden City in 1925. In the Forbidden City, oddly enough, has the case of large fires, followed by many of the buildings had to rebuild again. Therefore, most buildings inside the Forbidden City refers to the end of XVII-XIX centuries.
On the Forbidden City is a rectangle of 760 meters to 960 meters, surrounded rvom, a width of 52 meters, and the wall, which reaches a height of 10 meters and a width of 8.5 meters over the grounds in the corners of walls are guard towers. Forbidden City - A whole array of different facilities. Present them with an area equivalent to 72 hectares. It is estimated that the total number of rooms in the Forbidden City is 9999. (However, if this premise may be simple platform surrounded by four columns.)
Forbidden City lies at the heart of Beijing to the north of Tiananmen Square. On the square to the main entrance to the Forbidden City through proydti can Tiananmen Gate.
The main entrance to the Forbidden City is the southern gate Umen (Wu Men), or Poludennye gate. These gates are sometimes referred to as well as the median. Over the gate Umen a large area with a channel Tszinshuyhe (Jinshui He), which is translated from Chinese means "Golden River water." Through the channel transferred five marble bridges leading to the gate Tayhemen (Taihe Men), which is a set of buildings intended for official ceremonies.
Here, one after another to face the most majestic buildings Forbidden City: Tayhedyan (Taihe Dian) - Pavilion Supreme Harmony, Chzhunhedyan (Zhonghe Dian) - pavilion complete harmony, and Baohedyan (Baohe Dian) - Pavilion saved harmony. All of these pavilions are on the marble platforms, height 8 pm most torzhestvennnye event took place in the palace of Supreme Harmony, where the main throne imperaiora - Dragon Throne. Pavilion Supreme Harmony is the biggest: his breadth of facade is 64 meters depth - 37 m and height (excluding platform) - 27 meters pavilion roof supported by 84 columns in diameter at 1 pm.
Next to the gates of Celestial purity (Tsyantsinmen) facilities are designed for the imperial family. Here on a common platform to face the marble palace Celestial purity - Tsyantsingun (Qianqing Gong), Hall Joins and prosperity - Tszyaotaydyan (Jiaotai Dian), and the Palace of Earth calm - Kunningun (Kunning Gong).
In the northernmost part of Forbidden City is the Imperial Garden - Yuyhuayuan (Yuhua Yuan). The garden is small - the size of the entire 130 m by 90 m, but very picturesque. There are many small pavilions and arbors, rock pools and whimsical stone.
In the Imperial Garden is the northern gate Shenumen (Shenwu Men). Translated from the Chinese Shenwumen means "Gate of military glory," although they were primarily for internal needs Forbidden City.
