The cold palace is usually located far away from the bustling area. The bustling area in the Forbidden City is near the middle section and the emperor's residence;
However, even if they are put in limbo, the concubines are still taken care of, instead of being thrown in to die. In other words, a palace or house, once the concubines are imprisoned here, will become a cold palace. Some places used to be a cold palace, but later a beloved concubine lived there, so this place is no longer a cold palace.
Why doesn't the Forbidden City open a cold palace?
Asking this question is obviously to regard the "cold palace" as the same palace as the "Yongshou Palace" and "Jiaotai Hall". This is very common, thanks to China's Qing TV series, such jokes often appear in movies and realistic imitations:
What is this situation similar to? Let me make an analogy. It's like when we come to the door of a university, instead of writing the detailed names of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Tsinghua University and Xiamen University, we write:
Do you find it funny?
In some Qing dynasty dramas, the inscription "Cold Palace" on the palace plaque also has this effect.
Every temple and palace in the Forbidden City has its own name. Many ladies-in-waiting can be regarded as cold forbidden concubines. No palace has the word "cold palace" written on it. Everyone who wrote it is nonsense. So why don't you ask why the Forbidden City doesn't open a cold palace? It's a joke, and don't tell any ghost stories like nothing.
There are three main places where the Forbidden City is closed:
First, the cultural relics warehouse, since it is a storage room, can't be opened. Such as China Gong Xi Kitchen, No.5 Office in East Jiangxi, Baoyun Building and Nanxun Hall.
The second is the workplace of cultural relics restoration, which is what we saw in "I Repaired Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City". Obviously, when repairing cultural relics, the staff do not need to chatter and grope around. Such as 13 rows in the north and south, 3 rows in the south, the Town God Temple and the Western Wall.
Third, there is no room for people in a very narrow space, which is prone to accidents.
Some of these unopened areas have been used as cold palaces before, and of course some have been used as "warm palaces", but most of them are used for other purposes. For example, Nansan used to be the place where the little prince (brother) lived, and the Regent also lived here. Nansan is not a harem at all, and is isolated from the harem. Men live here. North-South 13 Row used to be a place for foreign singers to change lines, not for people. The reason why these places are used as workplaces is that there is really nothing to see in this place. Of course, some palaces are closed when they are renovated, which is easy to understand. Of course, it is said that it is closed at night (actually for fire safety), and the cold palace is closed because it is haunted. This arrangement of official WeChat account is more marketable, and the masses will enjoy it.