Secrets of China's Forbidden City

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Secrets of China's Forbidden City

• Visiting order
  • main entry:WuMen (Meridian gate)
    • five marble bridges
      • across the man-made golden river
      • three great halls
        • spectacular outer court
        • jingshan
          • not existed until the Forbidden City was built
          • Piled it up with the soil used to build the Forbidden City
• Achievements
  • Characteristic
    • The most stunning palace
    • The greatest wonder of the medieval world
    • The biggest wooden structure
    • The largest complex of buildings anywhere in the world
    • A wooden wonder
    • History's ultimate mega-structure
  • Its size
    • 178 acres 720000 square metres
      • 10 times the size of Versailles
• Background
  • Informations
    • Opened in 1420
    • created by Yongle
    • originally contain 9999 rooms
    • staggering 900 buildings
  • Its importance
    • Economically
    • Potically
    • Millitarily
• materials
  • food for the million workers and vast garrism
  • Golden floor tiles from 1000km south
  • smalt and Paris green from Europe
    • the cultural exchange betreen east and west was continuous
  • over 100000 nanmu logs from 1800km away to the southwest
    • one of the rarest trees in China
  • gold leafs from Nanjing
  • 80 million bricks, each weighing 24kg
• Risk factors
  • earthquakes
    • Why can it withstand strong earthquakes
      • flexible
      • the effect of the heavy roof
        • acts as counterweight,pushing down
      • the wooden parts work both as individual units and together
        • dougong
          • acts like a shock absorber in a car
        • Absorb energy through friction and rotation
  • fire
    • causes
      • lightning strikes
      • accidents
      • Palace of Heavenly Purity has been burnt seven times
    • result
      • Unavoidable
      • rebuilt again and again
        • all the palaces were made of wood
• the ways to transport materials
  • on ice
    • use woolen sled to pull stones
    • Use water as a lubricant
  • grand canal
    • 1700km: longer than Panama and Suez canal
    • over 300000 people worked 200 days
• process
  • 1. departure: Hangzhou
    • 2.barge travel up the canal to Nanwang
      • 3.enter a series of locks 5km long
        • 4.go into a special lake,ready fou the next vessals
          • 5.srrival: Beijing
• the outer court
  • vast harem
    • thousands of concubines
  • army of eunich guards
  • structures
    • temples
    • gardens
• the inner court
  • where the emperor lives
  • Permission to enter
    • the emperor and his sons
  • defense
    • surrounded by fortifications
    • a moat 50 metres wide
  • inclusion
    • hundreds of structures