A 600-word essay on visiting the Forbidden City has a good beginning

The Forbidden City is the largest existing ancient royal palace complex in the world. The Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City. "Purple" is the color of the palace where the king of heaven lives, so of course the emperor on earth must be associated with the word purple. "Forbidden City" "It means that the place was heavily guarded at that time. Not to mention ordinary people, even high-ranking officials could not enter the city privately without the emperor's summons, otherwise they would be killed. It was a "forbidden" place for the royal family, so it was also called the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was built in 1420 AD and is located on the north side of Tiananmen Square.

The Forbidden City is rectangular in plan, 960 meters long from north to south, and 750 meters wide from east to west, with a total area of ??720,000 square meters. The entire Forbidden City is 52 meters wide. Surrounded by a moat, the city wall is 10 meters high, which can be said to be "the city is high and the pool is wide".

There is an exquisite turret called nine beams, eighteen columns and seventy-two ridges around the tower of the Forbidden City. .The Forbidden City has four gates, facing south from the north. The south gate is the Meridian Gate, which is the main gate, the north gate is the Shenwu Gate, the east is the Donghua Gate, and the west is the Xihua Gate.

The entire courtyard is divided into two main gates. Parts are the "front dynasty" and the "back bedroom". The "front dynasty" is the place where the emperor held grand ceremonies, mainly including the Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Hall, Baohe Hall and the Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall on the east and west sides. The "back bedroom" is where the emperor, his concubines, and underage heirs lived, mainly including the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, and the Sixth East and West Palaces. In addition, there are many other palaces in the Forbidden City. Various large and small palaces with different purposes.