What is the length and width of the Forbidden City?

To be precise, it is 96 1 meter long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west. The answer is also correct.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world.

It is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 m from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city. The architecture of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe, which are collectively called the three halls, and are the places where the country holds ceremonies. The center of the Forbidden City is Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where emperors and empresses live.

The Forbidden City in Beijing was founded by the Ming Emperor Judy, and its designer was Kuai Xiang (1397— 148 1, Suzhou native). It covers an area of 720,000 square meters (96 1 m long and 753 m wide), with a building area of about10.5 million square meters and an area of 720,000 square meters. With 1 10,000 migrant workers, * * completed in 2004 1 10,000 rooms, with 9,999 rooms.

According to experts' field investigation in 1973, there are more than 90 courtyards and 980 houses in the Forbidden City, with a total of 8707 rooms (but this "room" is not the concept of rooms nowadays, and the "room" here refers to the space formed by four pillars).

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The Forbidden City in Beijing is called the first of the five largest palaces in the world (Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, White House in America and Kremlin in Russia). It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 196 1. 1987 is listed as a world cultural heritage.

The Forbidden City was built in strict accordance with the principle of "the former dynasty was in the city, and the left ancestor was in the right society" in Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji. The whole Forbidden City, in terms of architectural layout, is combined into a whole through the changes and ups and downs of its shape. Functionally, it conforms to the hierarchical system of feudal society. At the same time, it achieves the artistic effect of balance and body change.

The roof forms of buildings in China are rich and colorful. In the Forbidden City, there are 10 different kinds of roofs. Take the three pavilions as an example. The roof is different. The roofs of buildings in the Forbidden City are covered with glazed tiles of various colors. The main temple is mainly yellow. The buildings in the prince's residential area use green. Other colorful stained glass, such as blue, purple, black, emerald, malachite green, sapphire blue, etc., are mostly used in gardens or glass walls.

There are glazed kissing animals at both ends of the main ridge on the roof of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and the swallowing ridge is steady and powerful. Kissing animals have beautiful shapes, which are both components and decorations. Some ceramic tiles create three-dimensional animal images such as dragons and phoenixes, lions and seahorses, symbolizing auspiciousness and majesty. These components play a decorative role in the building.

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