How old is the Forbidden City?

The Forbidden City in Beijing has a history of 598 years. It was built in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420). By 20 18, the total * * * is 598 years.

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After the Revolution of 1911 in the third year of Xuantong (19 1 1), all the palaces in the Forbidden City should be nationalized. However, according to the preferential conditions for cleaning the room drawn up at that time, Aisin Giorro Puyi, the grandson of the Emperor, was allowed to "stay in the palace", that is, the "post-bedroom" part. Guards and others remain as usual; The prince and Spyker are still old "and other terms. Therefore, according to some provisions of the Preferential Conditions of the Qing Palace, and Yuan Shikai's feelings and positive support for the old master, after Puyi abdicated, although the imperial system was abolished, the emperor Puyi and the former imperial minister still lived in the palace unharmed.

During his life in the Forbidden City, Puyi still issued "imperial edicts", still used Xuantong's year number and year number, and the old and young people still bowed down as gifts. There are also offices in the palace, such as the Interior Office, Zongren Office and Criminal Division. So, I'll give you a gift, don't change my clothes. Those who violate the king's laws will be dealt with by the punishment department. Therefore, the Forbidden City at that time became a "country within a country".

On the eve of the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in 1933, in order to protect its cultural relics from being destroyed by war or plundered by Japanese imperialism, the Palace Museum decided to adopt the policy of moving cultural relics southward, set up a cultural relics warehouse in Nanjing and set up a branch of the Palace Museum in Nanjing. From February to May, 1933, 13427 boxes and 64 packages of cultural relics, books and archives were sent to Shanghai in five batches, and then to Nanjing.

1949 After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Palace Museum carried out a large-scale renovation and sorted out a large number of cultural relics. 196 1 year, the State Council announced the Forbidden City as a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Palace Museum has 6,543,800 pieces (sets) of cultural relics. 1987 The Forbidden City was listed as a "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO and turned into a "Palace Museum".