Half an hour ago, the music of Kunning Palace broke the silence that enveloped the Forbidden City. In the music, the song rang again, and the song was faintly mixed with the cry of pigs.

The festival in Kunming Palace starts at 4 o'clock every morning. This ceremony is shamanism, offering sacrifices to Liu Ye, the protector of Manchu, and Sakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Guan of Guanzhong Han nationality. The chef prepared two live pigs with music and songs of God. The queen is the chief priest, and the emperor can visit North Korea in person. In the Ming Dynasty, the Palace of Kunning was the residence of the empress. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the system of offering sacrifices to the gods in Qingning Palace of Shengjing Temple in Shenyang was moved to Kunning Palace.

Pigs who used to worship God must be black and fat. The pig's hoof and mouth were tied with hemp rope, and the shaman knelt down and hugged the pig and poured water into its ears. If the pig's ears tremble, it is a good sign that God will accept the sacrifice. If they don't move, they will continue to irrigate. If they don't move, they will become pigs. The two pigs have been lucky, so they were slaughtered and bled in the main hall of Kunning Palace, burned into pieces and cooked in two cauldrons. It is said that cook the meat's soup was scooped out of the pot at Qingning Palace in Shengjing.

Boil the pig until it is 70-80% mature, take it out and cut into pieces. Put the leftover meat and pig's trotters in a basin and serve. God is very happy. "Ms Shaman" is singing and dancing. After attending sacrifices in North Korea, courtiers will share the half-baked meat without salt. "Cooking Meat" takes less than an hour and a half from killing pigs to cooking, and the meat is not easy to swallow, but it is to commemorate the hunting picnic of Manchu ancestors.

Day after day, worship God twice. The main hall of Ninggong is like a northeast-style kitchen.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, there was movement in hall of mental cultivation's back bedroom, and Emperor Qianlong was about to get up. When the room is brightly lit, the eunuchs and maids on duty must cheer up and prepare to serve.

The name of "Xiushentang" comes from a sentence of Mencius: "It is difficult to fill the valley."

Before Yong Zhengdi, the Gan Qing Palace on the central axis of the Forbidden City was the emperor's bedroom, and it has been so since the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty used Nuange as his bedroom after the Qing Dynasty. There are 27 beds in nine rooms. For safety reasons, one bed is randomly selected every night. But then I met the "Jiajing Palace Rebellion": two concubines and a dozen maids plotted to assassinate the emperor of Gan Qing Palace.

No one knows why Yongzheng moved his bedroom to hall of mental cultivation, but since then, eight emperors have lived and ruled here.

The maid folded the quilt for the emperor, filled the silver basin with hot water and combed his hair. The eunuch came in to meet him, wearing Huang Yunlong satin on his head. The emperor combs his hair, braids his hair and shaves every day.

The people in the imperial dining hall on the south side of the mourning hall have already called it a day, just waiting for dinner. Where the emperor is, the imperial meal is there. Longlong sometimes leaves Xihuamen early in the morning and goes to Tongyuxuan in Xiyuan for dinner. Xiyuan is today's Zhongnanhai, and Tongyuxuan is next to Bao Yue Building, which is today's xinhua gate.

The emperor got dressed and went out of his bedroom to warm the pavilion in the east. More than a hundred years later, the Empress Dowager Tongzhi and Guangxu lived here for 27 years. The emperor's clothes are managed by four warehouses of the Ministry of the Interior: crowns, robes, belts and shoes. What the emperor wears every day is recorded in the court dress file. This file, together with many other court files, became the evidence that scholars of Qing history resumed court life many years later.

The Royal Restaurant is a large office in the palace with 370 kitchen attendants. There are 100 stoves in the room, all numbered. Each stove is equipped with a chef, a side dish and a handyman. In this way, almost every link of every dish in the imperial cuisine can clearly define the responsibility to the people, and the rewards and punishments are clear.

The name of the food used by the emperor every day was recorded in detail by the royal kitchen and designated by the Minister of the Interior. It's called "rice bottom" However, the tastes and preferences of the emperor and queen are taboo in the palace, and you must never ask, let alone write. Royal dishes are served dozens or hundreds of dishes at a time, more for safety, which makes it difficult to analyze the dietary preferences of emperors and queens even from the accumulated data.

When serving, the emperor sat down, and the eunuch waiting for serving looked into the emperor's eyes. As soon as the emperor saw a plate, he quickly moved it to the emperor and scooped it into the cloth plate in front of him. The emperor agreed to scoop another spoonful, and then immediately took the food back. Never dig a third time. This is the family law of the Qing dynasty, requiring the emperor to pay attention not to overeat and avoid poisoning.

Dragons eat quickly. About a quarter of an hour later, he pushed aside the tableware and stood up.

Hours: "I know" and "I am a decent official" [S2/]

After breakfast in the palace every day, Gan Long must read the records and hadith of the last emperor. Read a record every day, walk back and forth, and dare to forget the respect for knowledge in the traces of entrepreneurship. He used the most energetic moment of the day to read the historical records of his ancestors, because for every generation of emperors, the laws and instructions of their ancestors were the ideological resources and spiritual guides of their rule.

Read the Hadith, or in the NuanGe of Gan Qing Palace, or in the practice hall of NuanGe and Hongde Hall. During the Qianlong period, Gan Qing Palace was the showroom of the former residence of the Qing royal family, especially Emperor Kangxi. Including "Taizu Nurhachi", that is, "Shengjing Old Book", which records the wars that Nurhachi launched again and again.

Today's memorial is already waiting for the emperor to read it. The memorial is a secret musical instrument, which can be directly played by the original player to the emperor without bureaucratic obstacles.

Commemorative system began with Emperor Kangxi. In order to grasp the first-hand political situation at the grass-roots level, he asked some trusted officials to attach the greetings, compromises and secret performances of Emperor Zhi to the events discovered in the province in addition to the daily official documents. After Yongzheng acceded to the throne, he knew that secret folding could transmit information quickly and efficiently, which expanded the application scope of secret folding.

According to the book "The Duty of Literature and Art" written by Zhen Jun, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, every night, six officials salute the residents and punish them for their work, and each department has one person outside Donghuamen. They followed the waiter outside the game room into the Forbidden City, went to the Jingyunmen duty room on the east side of Ganqingmen Square, and handed over the boxes containing the memorial and the seals of their respective government agencies to the game officials for registration. According to the priority of the folded contents, the officials sent them to the internal affairs office of the Qing Dynasty, and then the imperial envoys or eunuchs of the internal affairs office gave them to the emperor. The pick-up and drop-off time for office work shall not exceed 2 am.

Except through the yamen in Beijing, the memorials of other provinces are equivalent to being sent to the palace by the Beijing Office today, and some of them are sent to Beijing through the postal system, sent to the good news office of the Ministry of War, and then sent to Ganqingmen by the clerk of the Ministry of War. If the express delivery of the memorial hall is marked "Now by air", according to the regulations, it will take 300 miles a day. If you are in a hurry, you can drive 400, 500 or even 600 miles a day.

Outside the door, the staff will not leave after delivering the memorials, because the memorials sent to commemorate the emperor will be delivered one by one at 3 am. If the white gauze lamp on the stone fence is moved up the steps, Zhu Pi's memorial service will come out soon, and the clerks of all departments will take back their units. Zhu Pi Memorial Hall is personally instructed by the emperor and has legal and administrative effect. Yongzheng stipulated that the memorial approved by the emperor must be returned to the palace for safekeeping. After the establishment of the military department, Zhu Pi's memorial must be copied by the military department, which is called "deputy memorial". Manuscripts returned to the Forbidden City by memorial halls and military departments have become important files in the history of Qing Dynasty today. For example, the memorial archives of Ganlong Palace are now in the National Museum.

Zhu's content may be a serious political admonition, but more often it is just "knowing", "being happy" and "being happy". The National Palace Museum in Taipei produced a recording of "I Know" by Yongzheng Zhu, which became a favorite museum souvenir for tourists. In front of the emperor, the difference between Manchu and Han lies in the person who wrote the memorial himself: those who call themselves "slaves" must be flag-bearer ministers, while officials in China can only call themselves "ministers". There are also Han officials who are willing to befriend. The National Palace Museum in Taipei has a congratulatory letter from Yang Zongren, governor of Huguang during Yongzheng period, in which Yang claimed to be a slave. Yongzheng carefully crossed out the word "slave" and Zhu Bi, wrote the word "minister" beside it, and instructed: "Being a minister is decent."

New Year's Day Dynasty: Sambo Hall is finally useful.

After breakfast, Gan Long spent the whole morning dealing with the government affairs that the emperor faced every day. The management of the Qing emperor was mainly to read the throne in the palace and summon officials. If the emperor himself can't decide the matters in the memorial for a while, he will convene a meeting of officials of all parties in the form of "obeying the government" the next day. On the one hand, he will ask officials of relevant ministries and hospitals for more specific information; On the other hand, he will make a demonstration and deal with these problems with the court think tank.

He spent the whole morning approving documents in the logistics hall of the mourning hall, and Gan Long remembered that a group of middle-and lower-level officials were waiting for him to meet. According to the regulations of the Qing dynasty, the appointment, promotion, transfer and punishment of officials with less than four grades and more than seven grades, as well as officials with less than eight grades or even poor grades, must be met by the emperor himself and evaluated face to face. Official background resume, etc. By the relevant departments to investigate and sort out, and write an introduction document. When the emperor was introduced, he read these personnel materials, talked about them, formed a judgment and made a decision. When the officials were introduced, Gan Long occupied the front hall of hall of mental cultivation. After the officials saw it, it was nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was time to eat.

The emperor has two meals a day, breakfast and dinner. After dinner, Gan Long had a rest, then read some official documents or summoned relevant officials. At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the day's government affairs ended. Today, the Forbidden City, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe, the Hall of Baohe and other foreign halls have gathered the most tourists because of their huge volume and magnificent momentum. But as palaces of the Forbidden City, these places are only used for festivals and important celebrations, such as New Year's Day.

China doesn't use the western calendar, and "New Year's Day" is the New Year's Day of the old calendar. The emperor usually closes the museum on December 26th of the lunar calendar, and the New Year's greeting ceremony begins at 10 o'clock on the New Year's Day. After getting up, the emperor burned incense and saluted everywhere in the mourning hall, and then performed the "bottle opener" in Dongnuange. On the console table, he showed Keanu the Gu Yong Cup filled with Tu Su wine and a brush engraved with the words "Evergreen Tree". The emperor used Zhu's pen first, then changed to ink pen, wrote some auspicious words and prayed for New Year's blessings.

Later, the emperor went to the Manchu temple "Tangzi" dedicated to the imperial court to worship heaven. After the emperor and queen sacrificed their cousins, they went to the Palace of Kunning to sacrifice to God, and they sacrificed to God together with the ministers. After that, the emperor went to Fengxian Temple to worship his ancestors, and then led the ministers to visit Cining Palace. At dawn, the emperor rose to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Zhonghe Sauer, where he received officials from civil and military departments to welcome the New Year. This is the so-called "great dynasty". At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, the great dynasty ended and the emperor went to the palace to accept gifts from his family.

In fact, since Yongzheng, the emperor rarely lived in the Forbidden City, but in the Yuanmingyuan in the western suburbs of Beijing. Yong Zhengdi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng all lived in the Forbidden City and moved back to Yuanmingyuan before the 15th day of the first month. The empress dowager, empress, prince, princess and other family members also moved into the garden. Wait until winter, and then move back to the palace from Yuanmingyuan. Move twice a year, and then

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the off-duty Emperor Qianlong entered Sanxi Hall through the door on the west side of his office, which is a hall of diligence and virtue. This is a small room. On the west side of the main hall of the Zen Hall, Gan Long enjoyed his favorite calligraphy and painting alone. These are his three most precious legal works: Wang Xizhi's Examination of the Qing Palace Drama, Wang Xianzhi's Sanxi and Wang Xun's Snow-sealed Zen.

In the early years of Qianlong, the inner government collected more than 10 thousand paintings and calligraphy. Minister Gan Longming carefully appraised these paintings and calligraphy, and selected the best items for cataloging. This product is called Mid-Autumn Festival tie, 45 volumes. The name of Shi Xing comes from Yuan Bo Tie in Han Dynasty. Arranged according to the places where paintings and calligraphy works are collected and displayed, that is, the halls in the palace. According to Baodi's records, the places with the most calligraphy and painting are Gan Qing Palace, Tang Ling, Sanxi Hall, Zhonghua Palace, Imperial Study Room, Yuanmingyuan and Summer Resort. Dragons love painting and calligraphy. In addition to appreciating ancient paintings, he often goes to Touruyi Pavilion near the North Fifth Courtyard in the east of the Imperial Garden to see the paintings of court painters. The first source of antique calligraphy and painting collection in Qing Dynasty was tribute. The world is not an emperor's land, and officials from all countries will make contributions on holidays or live a long life. Second, confiscation of goods. If ministers or ordinary people break the law, the emperor has the right to confiscate their private property. The emperor paid the money.

Xitang is divided into two rooms inside and outside, each of which is only about four square meters. Outside the window is the real Sanxi Hall, and inside is the temporary lounge. After a busy day, I walked into Sanxitang, sat by the kang window and meditated on Gu Shuhua, trying to find the ancient brushwork and forget myself. The Forbidden City is very big, and the cubicle of Sanxi Hall is the widest hall of Emperor Qianlong. After 7 o'clock in the evening, dry the dragon, then eat it with wine, and then twist beads to chant Buddhist scripture. It's time to take a bath in bed.

Until today, the private life of the emperor is still a hot topic in the general market. However, due to the Confucian principle of "keeping his mouth shut", Gan Long's private life cannot be found in all the official files of the court. Real scholars of Qing history can only try to analyze and piece together their understanding of historical facts with fragmentary information such as indirect historical materials and folk proverbs. There are naturally different versions of this understanding.

Yuan Hongqi, a retired research librarian and court history expert in the Palace Museum, wrote in the Chronicle of Baodi in Shiqu: "The emperor can't spend the night in the Imperial Palace. If you want any empresses to serve, you can only call them to the emperor's bedroom. Who is lucky at night depends on the emperor's failure at dinner. Every queen has a green card. As early as when recruiting women, the selected women wrote their surnames and flags on bamboo sticks for the emperor to choose. Bamboo card is dyed on the head with green pigment, hence the name green head card. After being called lucky, I won't go back to my bedroom that night, but I won't stay with the emperor all night and sleep in another warm bed. Wu Weiguo, director of the Cultural Center of China Academy of Social Sciences, wrote in the book "Poetry Pavilion" that before Emperor Qianlong went to bed, eunuchs would send a "thank-you letter" in which the sick or physiological concubines were crossed out and the rest were chosen by the emperor. The dragon signed the register with his finger, and the eunuch went straight to the harem and carried the selected concubines to the imperial couch. The palace stipulates that junior concubines must leave within a certain period of time. At that time, the eunuch loudly reminded and urged outside the window, "This is undoubtedly very disappointing. "

Eight o'clock in the evening is the time for the emperor to sleep. Early to bed and early to rise is the family motto of "absorbing the yin and yang of heaven and earth". A new day will begin. In a dream, the emperor sent six clerks from the memorial to Donghuamen to wait for the door to open. Ning Gong's "Shaman Girl" entered the Shenwumen in a donkey cart.