Information about Beijing and the Forbidden City (history)

Beijing is an ancient capital with a history of more than 3000 years. It has different titles in different dynasties, with roughly more than 20 nicknames. Yan Dou, according to historical records, was sealed to Yan in 1 122 BC after Zhou Wuwang destroyed the business. Yan Dou is named after being the capital of ancient Yan State. Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, there is Yan State, which is said to be named after its proximity to Yanshan Mountain, and its capital is called "Yan Dou".

Youzhou, one of the ancient Kyushu. The name of Youzhou was first seen in Shangshu Shundian: "Yan is called Youzhou." Youzhou was established in the Han, Wei, Jin and Tang Dynasties, and all of them ruled in today's Beijing area. Beijing, the capital, refers to the capital of the whole country. After Beijing became the capital, it was also called the capital.

The Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City. In ancient China, the planning concept of "harmony between man and nature" was emphasized, and the stars in the sky were used to correspond to the capital planning, so as to highlight the legitimacy of political power and the supremacy of imperial power. The Emperor of Heaven lives in Wei Zi Palace, and the emperor on earth claims to be the "son of heaven" ordered by God. His residence should be a symbol of Wei Zi Palace, so as to conform to the Heaven Emperor.

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records: "There is a Wei Zi Palace in the sky, where God lives. The king set up a palace, and he is happy. " Wei Zi, Ziyuan and Zigong have become synonymous with the Forbidden City. Because the feudal palace was forbidden in ancient times, ordinary people could not enter it, so it was called "Purple Forbidden". However, it was called the "Imperial City" in the early Ming Dynasty and directly called the "Forbidden City" in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

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Beijing was originally the fief of Judy, the prince of Yan. After the war in Jingnan, in the first year of Yongle, Li Zhigang, the minister of rites, said that Yanjing Beiping was the emperor's "land of Longxing" and should be made the capital city, following the example of Fengyang in Ming Taizu.

Therefore, Ming Taizu Chengzu vigorously promoted the position of Beiping House in Yanjing, taking Beiping as Beijing and changing Beiping House into Shuntianfu, which is called "in the line". At the same time, it began to resettle the population and enrich Beijing; The people who were forced to move to Beijing were refugees from all over the country, rich children in Jiangnan and businessmen in Shanxi.

Beijing is the first city in China where 56 ethnic groups gather. 20 10 the data of the sixth national census show that the population of Han nationality is1881kloc-0/000, and the population of ethnic minorities is 80 1000. The top five ethnic minorities are Manchu, Hui, Mongolian, Korean and Tujia, accounting for 90.2% of the ethnic minority population.

The Palace Museum is surrounded by a palace wall with a height of 12 meters and a length of 3,400 meters. It is a rectangular city surrounded by a moat with a width of 52 meters, forming a fortified castle.

There are four doors in the Forbidden City. The main entrance is called Wumen, the east entrance is called Donghuamen, the west entrance is called Xihuamen, and the north entrance is called Shenwumen. Facing the Shenwumen in the north gate, there is a Jingshan made of earth and stone. In the overall layout, Jingshan can be said to be the barrier of the Forbidden City complex.

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