The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing and is an incomparable masterpiece of ancient architecture. It is also the largest and most complete ancient complex in the world. It is home to the "Top Five Worlds of the World" (the five major palaces in the world are the Forbidden City in Beijing, Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, The White House, the Russian Kremlin). Beijing Forbidden City is the palace of Ming and Qing dynasties. The ancient palaces are "like Tian Li Gong" to show the sovereignty "ordered by the sky." Because Jun is the emperor, the emperor's palace is like the "Purple Palace" forbidden by God, therefore, also known as the Forbidden City.

Forbidden City
Forbidden City Meridian
The Forbidden City was built in 1406 AD, basically completed in 1420, was built by the emperor Zhu Di. The Imperial Palace is 961 meters long from north to south, east-west width of 753 meters, an area of ​​about 720,000 square meters. Construction area of ​​155,000 square meters. According to legend, the Forbidden City has a total of 9999 rooms, the actual data is measured in 1973 experts at the National Palace Museum has more than 90 large and small courtyards, houses 980, a total of 8707 (the "room" is not the concept of the present room, The space formed by four houses). Miyagi is surrounded by a 12-meter high, 3400-meter-long palace wall in the form of a rectangular city surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat that forms a heavily fortified castle. Forbidden City palace buildings are wood structure, yellow glazed tile roof, white stone base, decorated with magnificent paintings. The Forbidden City has 4 doors, the main gate of the name of the door, the East Gate name Donghua Gate, West Gate West Gate, the North Gate name Shenwumen. The face of the North Gate Shenwumen, useful soil, stone built into the Jingshan, pine and cypress forest. In the overall layout, Jingshan can be said that the Imperial Palace complex barrier.

According to ancient Chinese theory of astrology, Ziweiyuan (Polaris) is located in the middle of the sky, where the Emperor lives and corresponds to heaven and earth. Therefore, the Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City. After Emperor Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, seized the throne, he decided to relocate the capital to Beijing and began to build the palace until the eighteen years of Ming Yongle (1420) were completed. In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew China's last feudal monarchy - the Qing Dynasty. In 1924, Emperor Pu Yi was expelled from the palace ban. In the five hundred years before and after this period, a total of 24 emperors lived here and ruled over the whole country.

The Palace Museum receives an average of 6 to 8 million Chinese and foreign viewers every year. With the development of tourism, the number of viewers is on an increasing scale. It shows that people's interest in the Forbidden City is growing.

On December 31, 2017, President Shan Xiang Xiang announced at the last open clearance inspection in 2017 that the audience visiting the Palace Museum will reach 16,995,938 in 2017, setting a new historical record.