What's the story of the old palace in Beijing?

Legends and stories about the Forbidden City: The Legend of the Forbidden City

The name "Forbidden City" is related to China's ancient philosophy and astronomy. China people believe in "harmony between man and nature" and "harmony between man and nature". Therefore, the structure of the Forbidden City is modeled after the legendary "Tiangong". In ancient astronomy, the stars were divided into three walls, surrounded by 28 constellations, among which Ziweiyuan (Polaris) was located in the center of the sky, which was the center of all the stars. The purple in the Forbidden City is the purple in the purple, which means that the palace is also the "middle" of the world. "Forbidden" refers to the residence of the royal family, which has incomparable dignity and is strictly forbidden to intrude.

1406, Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty began to build the Forbidden City. According to the records of Ming history, 65,438+10,000 best craftsmen and 1 10,000 ordinary workers built a huge palace which is rare in the world, and it took 15 years to finally complete it. Since then, the Ming and Qing emperors have rebuilt and expanded many times, but the overall appearance has not changed much.

Twenty-four emperors lived in the Forbidden City. The first one was the Yongle Emperor Judy of the Ming Dynasty, and the last one was the Xuan Tong Emperor Puyi of the Qing Dynasty.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe are all built on a huge platform 8 meters wide, with a total area of about 85,000 square meters. Among them, the Hall of Supreme Harmony is the highest and most splendid, with a width of 60. 1 m, a depth of 33.33 m and a height of 35.05 m.. The emperor's accession to the throne, wedding, conferring and going to war will all be held here. At that time, thousands of people shouted "Long live", and hundreds of ritual vessels were ringing with bells and drums, which was very human. The Zhonghe Hall behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony is the place where the emperor rests and sacrifices before attending major ceremonies, while the Baohe Hall in the northernmost part is the place where the emperor holds banquets and palace examinations.

The Forbidden City includes Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, as well as the East Sixth Palace and West Sixth Palace on the east and west sides. This is the place where the emperor and his concubines lived, which is generally called three palaces and six courtyards. "In the north of the residential area, there is also a small and chic imperial garden, which is a place for the royal family to play. Emperors in Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty lived in Gan Qing Palace, Empress lived in Kunning Palace, and Jiaotai Hall was the queen's activity place. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, emperors and empresses moved to the West Sixth Palace and other places, the most famous of which was hall of mental cultivation. Since Yong Zhengdi, it has become the residence of emperors of all dynasties, and Empress Dowager Cixi has been here for more than 40 years.

There are 9,999 houses in the Forbidden City, and there are 9 bronze doornails on each door. This strange number phenomenon is related to China's understanding of numbers in ancient times. The ancients thought that the word "9" was the largest in numbers and the emperor was the largest in the world, so the corresponding "9" must be used. The homonym of "9" is "long", which means "everlasting", so it also means that mountains and rivers will last forever and never change color.

The Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City has collected more than 500 years' archives of the central and local organs in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with 74 volumes,100000 pieces, which is the largest and most valuable historical materials in China. In Wen Yuan Pavilion, there is a complete Siku Quanshu, which contains the most important academic works in ancient China, with 3,503 kinds and 6,304 volumes.

There are more than 0/0 pieces of collection in the Forbidden City, including the Art Museum, Arts and Crafts Museum, Painting Museum, Qing Palace Toy Museum, Bronze Museum, ceramics museum, Watch Museum, Treasure Museum, Woodblock Museum, Ming and Qing Furniture Museum, etc. There are about 1 10,000 precious collections, some of which are orphans, but only exist in the Forbidden City.

Paranoia, the maid of honor, appeared in the Forbidden City in the thunderstorm weather of 1992. It did happen and was photographed by many tourists. After obtaining favorable evidence, the experts gave a scientific explanation. There is a scientific basis for seeing ladies in the Forbidden City, because the palace walls are red and contain ferroferric oxide, and lightning may conduct electricity. If a maid-in-waiting happens to pass by, then the palace wall is equivalent to the function of a video tape. If there is lightning again in the future,

Abroad, there are also cases of supernatural phenomena in ancient buildings. It is explained that on special nights, such as thunder and lightning, some materials will be preserved, and then the same environment will be displayed, and it will be a crime to realize the film. There are so many treasures in the Forbidden City, maybe the phenomenon for a period of time will be recorded unintentionally.

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A netizen: I remember junior high school, 1993, 1 1 or so. One day, I heard from other classes that the Forbidden City is often haunted at night, methodical and well-founded. I decided to watch it on weekend night. On weekends, I finished my homework and waited until 8 pm. I went to my uncle's house and my cousin said he was on duty in the Forbidden City.

I am very happy, because I can stay in the Forbidden City for a while. I went into the Forbidden City, found my uncle and chatted with him. Is it true that the Forbidden City is haunted? He listened, paused, said, there are no ghosts, they are talking nonsense, and then stopped talking.

At half past nine, he urged me to go back, because my purpose was to see if there were any ghosts, so I stayed. At the end of 1 1, I said I had to go to the toilet and come out of his office. Strange to say, the weather is really good today. As soon as I came out, a strong wind blew.

At that time, it was dark in the Forbidden City and there were no street lamps. To be honest, I'm a little scared. I trotted all the way to the central hall. When I was about to enter the main entrance of the central hall, I suddenly saw a woman in Qing dynasty clothes disappear in an instant by the dim light on the door.

I was stunned for a minute, then paused for a moment. I remembered that the man looked like a maid-in-waiting. I hurried back to my uncle's office along the same road. When I entered the room, I said, I really saw a ghost. Just as I was approaching the hall, the ghost in the maid-in-waiting clothes disappeared for a while. After listening to my words, my uncle's mouth twitched twice and asked me, did you go to the main hall? When I said I wouldn't go, he breathed a sigh of relief and said that you can't just go in at night. I was scared at that time, but I really wanted to see it, so I asked my uncle to accompany me. He finally had no choice but to come with me reluctantly.

I was shocked when I walked to the door leading to the hall. I saw more than one maid-in-waiting They walked towards the hall. I finally understand why my uncle said that I can't just go in at night.

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Another netizen's colleague "Pang Fu" 1993 served in the Beijing Armed Police Corps. After the new training, he was assigned to the Forbidden City squadron (not the flag squadron) to be responsible for the defense of the Forbidden City.

1995 10 One night in October, the time was about 2 1. He and his comrades were watching TV in the duty room of the squadron. Suddenly, two security cadres from the security office of the Forbidden City broke into the duty room, looking pale and panting at him and his comrades in the duty room. Just now, when we were on night patrol, we found a man standing outside the gate of Jubao Hall. We thought it was your soldier at first, so we called out who it was. But this man didn't answer us, so the two of us went to him, about 30 meters away from this man. We saw this man wearing a black robe, but this man turned his back on us, only seeing his long hair, but not his face. So we asked, who are you? Just after asking, the man began to run to the north aisle. We both confirmed that this man was not from the Forbidden City, so we turned on the flashlight and chased him. We walked along the north aisle until we caught up with the small stage. We are always more than 30 meters away from this man, but we just can't catch up with him. In the yard of the small stage, because the other door of the yard was locked, we finally caught up with this man. The two of us hugged each other. But this person still turns his back on us, but we have seen clearly that this person must be a woman. It can be seen from the black robe she is wearing that she is petite and her long hair shawl hangs down to her back. We will say loudly that you turn around, and this woman will turn around slowly, but after turning around, we see that she has no face!

She has no face on her head! ! There's hair in front, too We're scared. We dropped the flashlight and ran to you without picking it up. I don't know if she chased us, because we dare not turn back. Hearing this, Fat Fu and his comrades-in-arms held guns, and a dozen people went out to check with two security cadres until they patrolled the yard of the small stage. They found that two flashlights of two security cadres were still on the ground, and the flashlights were not related, but no trace of female ghosts was found.

Speaking of which, do you think this matter is over? I'm telling you, it's not over About five days later, one of the security cadres who hit a ghost was killed by a Toyota SUV outside the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City when he got off work. Five days later, it was almost 1 1 month. Another security cadre who hit a ghost died at home because of a heart attack. It is said that the facial expression of the deceased is full of fear!

In the summer of 1996, there was a soldier in the "Pangfu" class, a native of Henan, who took up his post at night. Because he was sleepy, he took the quilt to take over. In the courtyard of the small stage of the Forbidden City, he spread the quilt on the steps under the stage and lay down to sleep. At five o'clock in the morning, he suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the steps, while the quilt was half-covered and half-covered.

Jushe: When my father was studying in Beijing, a classmate's father was familiar with some old eunuchs when he was studying ancient buildings in the old palace (the old eunuchs who were still alive in the fifties and sixties were generally administrators of the Forbidden City).

The old eunuchs told him that they were afraid to go to some places in the Forbidden City at night-especially the place where Zhenfei once lived.

It is said that a eunuch and his companions went to inspect the area where Zhenfei once lived at 6 o'clock in the afternoon after liberation (at that time, in order to prevent thieves and other reasons, they had to check in the palace every morning and afternoon). The eunuch suddenly heard the laughter of men and women outside a room, so he leaned against the window to see what was going on-as a result, he saw a woman who looked like Zhen Fei playing with a man with a braid in the photo, which scared him to collapse on the spot. Later, others came and entered the room, but there was nothing. But when they came back from their inspection, there was laughter in that room again, and no one dared to watch it this time.

My father told this story many times, and later, at the class reunion, that classmate also told it, but I personally can't confirm the authenticity.

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It is said that one night, a thief tried to steal pearls from the well of the Forbidden City. Because his grandfather's grandfather was a eunuch, he was promoted to grandpa, but he still entered the palace. Until the end of Qing Dynasty, a noble lady jumped into a well with pearls in her mouth. This matter has been transferred to the thief all his life, and he wants to make a fortune, so ...

On this day, he came to the well of the Forbidden City. There happened to be a storm. Suddenly, the opposite wall was radiant. A woman in white came out with a night pearl in her mouth, trying to walk towards him. The thief was scared to death on the spot. After that, the police didn't know how to kill him. A month later, it was another stormy night. The same event was released. Fortunately, there are many policemen, but they are weak and sick. No one can understand this matter. In this world! !

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It was a summer, and several firefighters slept in Palace of Gathered Elegance after completing a fire drill in Palace of Gathered Elegance. In summer, they spread a mat and slept in the temple without a quilt. At 2 o'clock in the morning, a team member was awakened by the cool breeze in the morning. When I opened my eyes in a daze, I saw, wow ~ ~ How can I sleep in the corridor outside the temple gate? I was sleeping in it, which scared him, but I was a soldier after all, and I spread the mat with trepidation. I'm exhausted from training, and I still have a mind to torture me. The other players said we didn't carry you out. When I woke up in the morning, I saw you sleeping outside. Are you sleepwalking, but sleeping in the team is not a problem, which is strange. They decided to find out that every time they patrol in Palace of Gathered Elegance, they rest there, but every time soldiers are always carried out in the middle of the night and sleep on the porch. Everyone is really scared, so they dare not sleep in Palace of Gathered Elegance again. But why aren't other soldiers carried out? I think it may be that the soldier who was carried out has a weak yang, which is the weakest time after his patrol training, and he is easily teased by that thing.

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My mother once worked in the Forbidden City for a period of time, and heard the personal experience of the security guards inside: two security guards worked at night together, and one went to the toilet. The toilet is some distance from where they sleep. As soon as the man closed the door, he heard someone knocking at the door. He asked, "Who is it?" ! ? "Then I heard a deep voice answer," open the door. "After he opened the door, he didn't see anyone and wanted to continue to go to the toilet. Unexpectedly, there was another knock at the door, and a low voice said, "Open the door." He was frightened at once and ran back to his sleeping place, wondering if another man was teasing him. When I went back, I found that the man was still sleeping, and his sleeping position did not change. Sure enough, I asked him the next day, and he didn't know anything. Never go out alone at night again,

As a tourist attraction, the Forbidden City receives tens of thousands of tourists from home and abroad every day, but not everyone knows that the Forbidden City contains another kind of content. ...

Once upon a time, there was a man guarding the door in the Forbidden City. According to the man, you can hear someone playing music every night, and sometimes you can see the ladies-in-waiting eunuchs waiting in line. All the children in that family are in poor health, and the old man said it was because that person had big yin, which affected the next generation!

Not only that, have you noticed that many courtyards of the Forbidden City have been sealed up! It's not open to tourists. In fact, there have been phenomena in every mansion that science cannot explain. Before liberation, when it was not closed, many people died in these places! They either disappear for no reason or die, but they are always so bizarre that they can't find the reason, but there is one thing in common: if you can still see the body after death, then the body has no face. More cautious is a well. Looking down during the day, there are some stones and weeds at the bottom of the well, but every night after 12, as long as there is a moon in the sky, you will see that there are no stones and weeds at the bottom of the well, only water, not your face reflected on the water. ...

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According to a friend, a long time ago, about 1980, a crew of Beijing Film Studio filmed an evening show in the Forbidden City, and it was not finished at 12. The actors were scared and wanted to leave, but the director wouldn't let them. There was no choice but to bite the bullet and shoot, but at this time, a row of figures dressed in women's clothes appeared on the wall, and women's cries came from time to time. The whole crew escaped and didn't go back to pack until the next morning.

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I was thinking of taking a picture of a beautiful woman in high spirits, but I didn't expect to get this thing!

After improving the brightness of the photo, I found ... a man wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty appeared in the upper left corner of the photo.

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I clearly remember the day in July of 1999. As the 50th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) is only over two months away, the Forbidden City has to undergo a small-scale renovation. So the Palace Museum began to control the number of people entering. It can be said that few people were able to enter the Palace Museum at that time. At 5 o'clock, there were few people in the magnificent palace of 720,000 square meters.

A friend of mine is a designer of decoration engineering. At that time, I happened to travel to Beijing and live with him. That same day, he called me and said that he had left a drawing at home. He couldn't leave here and asked me to send it to him. They are all friends, and this little thing is certainly not a problem (mainly because I haven't been to the Forbidden City at that time and I am anxious to see it); I hurried to the Forbidden City with the drawings. I think friends in Beijing are deeply touched by the traffic in Beijing. I don't need to say more. It was already past 7 pm when we arrived at the Forbidden City, and the bus arrived at the gate of Donghuamen. I took the drawings and went into their temporary decoration department. The small rooms in the Forbidden City all seem the same, and I don't know their names. I just looked at the door and set up a temporary design sign.

After I entered the room, I gave the picture to my friend. He said that he was busy for a while and would leave at once. I haven't been here anyway, so I can look around by myself first. After that, let's walk to eat. Then he gave me his work permit, saying it was convenient for no one to ask me what to do with it. But don't go far. I was very happy, too, so I went out with the sign, thinking, great, I won't pay attention to it first, and nobody cares. I walked around according to my position in the Forbidden City. About 20 minutes later, I came to the square near Taihe Gate. This is really big. Just as I was watching the scenery at the gate of Taihe Gate, I suddenly saw a large group of people standing at the gate of Taihe Hall, probably more than 50 people. Because I am far away from the Hall of Supreme Harmony, I only see those people in black clothes, and I don't know what they are doing. At first I thought it was the construction team of the renovation project. I'm curious too. I wanted to see how they repaired it, so I went over. At the end of time, all those people suddenly flashed into the hall, which was faster than me. And it's a little dark, and those people are not bright (at that time, I thought to myself that the main hall of the Forbidden City must not be electrified, just to restore the true colors of the Forbidden City)

When I walked up the stone steps outside the temple, I didn't see anyone and there was no sound at all. Very quiet. When I entered the hall, it was dark and nobody was there. Moreover, the dark hall is so weird and even scary. In the gloomy hall, who can think of what it was like here a hundred years ago! I was wondering, where have all these people gone? I just said I can't leave so soon! I walked out of the hall again and went around to the back of the hall. I didn't see anyone except a square. I didn't think much at that time. When I first came to the Forbidden City, there might be some other roads I didn't know. Then I walked back, thinking that my friend was almost finished; When I walked down the stone steps for about 2 minutes, I turned around and I kao! What do these people do? Where did it come from? Still more than 50 people, long black clothes. At that time, my brain was a little dim, saying that it only took three or four minutes to get down from above. Did all these people fall from the sky? Just when I was wondering, I thought, after reading it for so long, I found that all these people turned their backs on me, didn't look back, and didn't speak! Then why didn't they come out when I was here just now? No one came out to ask me what I do.

At that time, I didn't believe in anything supernatural, but I always felt strange after reading it. When I went back to my friend, I told him what had happened. There was something wrong with the way he looked at me, too. Don't tell anyone about it, just know it yourself. Anyway, no one will believe it. Maybe it's fate. Some staff members have seen something similar before! I haven't felt anything since then, maybe it's really destiny takes a hand! I just can't understand these things myself. Am I seeing an illusion? But now that I think about it, it's really so real, right in front of my eyes. After all this time, I still feel a little creepy! ! !

Of course, some scientists have explained that there is a scientific basis for seeing maids in the Forbidden City, because the palace walls are red and contain ferroferric oxide, and lightning may conduct electricity. If a maid-in-waiting happens to pass by, then the palace wall is equivalent to the function of a video tape. If lightning strikes again in the future, the shadow of the recorded maid-in-waiting may appear like a video screening.

Anyway, think about the long and narrow aisles and overgrown walls in the Forbidden City. If you walk there alone at night and suddenly see a maid-in-waiting coming to you, even if there is any scientific basis, I will fall into the tourist trap ... 5 o'clock is the time when the Forbidden City closes. It is said that that moment was the most sinister moment in the Forbidden City. Many tourists think that even in the sultry summer, the Forbidden City at 5 o'clock will make people feel cold. ...

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People in Beijing have probably heard more rumors about the Forbidden City. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Forbidden City was opened to tourists. There was a man who wanted to steal the treasures in the Forbidden City. He hid in it when it was closed in the afternoon and wanted to steal it at night. But the next day, he was found dead on the steps. It is said that you should not stay in the Forbidden City after dark, because you can't get out.

There is a strange real phenomenon in the Forbidden City, that is, after the thunderstorm, there are maids in a palace, and the maids are dancing. Later, it was explained that this was because specific environmental factors induced the magnetic records of building materials to reappear one by one.