Judy, the Yongle emperor, was originally a prince, and his fief was in Beijing. After the war in Jingnan, he seized the throne that belonged to his nephew Zhu Yunwen, and felt uneasy about it. In addition to his sphere of influence in Beijing, he chose to move the capital to Beijing and build another palace in Beijing.
After the completion of the Forbidden City, the court history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was more than 500 years, including the activities of queens, hierarchy, power struggles, religious sacrifices and so on. In the 18th year of Yongle (1420), Beijing Palace was completed. The following year, a fire broke out and the first three halls were burned down.
In the fifth year of orthodoxy (1440), the first three halls and Gan Qing Palace were rebuilt. In the third year of Tianshun (1459), Xiyuan was built. After four generations of Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande and Orthodox, it lasted for 20 years.
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1987, the Forbidden City in Beijing was listed as a world cultural heritage. The World Heritage Organization's evaluation of the Forbidden City is: "The Forbidden City is the highest power center in China for more than five centuries. It has become a valuable historical witness of China civilization in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with its garden landscape and a huge complex of 9,000 rooms containing furniture and handicrafts. "
The Forbidden City has become a world cultural heritage, which has deepened people's understanding of the value of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City represents a culture that has become history, and it has the shell of palace culture. At the same time, it represented the mainstream culture at that time. After a long period of historical screening and accumulation, of course, it can not be simply summarized as "feudal backwardness."
The Forbidden City and the museum are not unrelated and antagonistic, but organically unified and complementary. Taken together, it can be seen that the Palace Museum is one of the few museums and cultural heritage in the world with the characteristics of art museum, architecture museum, history museum and palace culture museum, which conforms to the internationally recognized basic principles of "original site protection" and "original appearance display".
The basic spirit of world cultural heritage is cultural diversity. From the perspective of world cultural heritage, people strive to explore and understand the outstanding and universal value of the Forbidden City.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Forbidden City