We want to travel to the forbidden city with my friends.Because it is symbol of China. We want to visit the forbidden city during the summer vacation ，it took us about seven days.
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This is the palace museum; also know as the Purple Forbidden City.It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today.Under Ming Emperor Yongle,construction began in 1406.It took 14years to build the Forbidden City.The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi.For five centuries thereafter,it continued to be the residence of23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne.In 1987,the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City was a world cultural legacy.
It is believed that the Palace Museum,or Zi Jin Cheng (Purple Forbidden City),got its name from astronomy folklore,The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Yuan (North Star) .The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace.Because the emperor was supposedly the son of the heavenly gods,his central and dominant position would be further highlighted the use of the word purple in the name of his residence.In folklore,the term “an eastern purple cloud is drifting” became a metaphor for auspicious events after a purple cloud was seen drifting eastward immediately before the arrival of an ancient philosopher,LaoZi,to the Hanghu Pass.Here,purple is associated with auspicious developments.The word jin (forbidden) is selfexplanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people.
The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic.Red represents happiness,good fortune and wealth.Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau,the original home of the Chinese people.Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty,when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.
The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape.It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meter wide from east west.It has 9,900 rooms under a total roof area 150,000 square meters.A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9.9-meter—high wall which encloses the complex.Octagon —shaped turrets rest on the four corners of the wall.There are four entrances into the city:the Meridian Gate to the south,the Shenwu Gate (Gate of Military Prowess) to the north,and the Xihua Gate (Gate of military Prowess) to the north,and the Xihua Gate (Western Flowery Gate ) to the west,the Donghua (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east【? 這是故宮博物院，也被稱為紫禁城，是中國今天最大、最有保留的皇宮，明朝永樂時期，始建于1406年，始建紫禁城花了14年時間，第一個真正住在這里的統治者是明朝朱帝，此后的五個世紀里，它一直是23位歷代皇帝的住所，直到1911清朝溥儀皇帝被迫退位。1987，聯合國教育、科學及文化組織承認紫禁城是世界文化遺產。據信故宮博物院，或紫金城(紫禁城)，它的名字來源于天文學民俗，古代天文學家把星座分成幾個組，圍繞著子威園(北極星)，包含北極星的星座被稱為天神星座，恒星本身被稱為紫色宮殿，因為皇帝被認為是天神之子，他的中心和支配地位將成為天神。在民間傳說中，“東方紫色云飄移”一詞在古代哲學家老子到達漢湖通道前，就被看到紫色云向東飄向東方，成為吉祥事件的隱喻。在這里，紫色與吉祥的發展聯系在一起。金(禁止)這個詞是自明的，因為故宮是嚴格戒備森嚴的，就像帝王的解釋一樣。皇宮戒備森嚴，對普通百姓來說是禁區.。宮殿墻壁和屋頂上的紅色和黃色也是象征，紅色代表幸福、好運和財富，黃色是中國人民的原始家園黃土高原上的大地顏色，在唐代，只有皇室成員才能戴上黃色并在建筑中使用。紫禁城呈長方形，南北長960米，東西向寬750米，屋檐下有9，900間房間，總面積150，000平方米，一條52米寬的護城河環繞著一堵9.9米高的圍墻，環繞著這座建筑群。八角形的塔樓坐落在城墻的四個角落。這里有四個進城入口：南靠子午門，通往神武門(軍事力量之門)。北面是西華門，北邊是西華門，西邊是西華門，東門是東華門。? 】
The Imperial Palace was so wonderful that we would never forget it.And it was the most famous buildings in the world,there were many visitors came to here to visit it every year.
I can't wait to seeit
