2. Questions:
1.What is the purpose of the
Forbidden City?
2.What dynasties ruled from
it?
3.How many rooms are in the
forbidden City?
4.How long did it take to
build?
5.How The Forbidden City Got
It’s Name?
6.The Forbidden City Today?
7.Facts about Forbidden city?
4. .
•It is located in the exact center of
theBeijing
•It served as the Emperor’s palace during
the Ming and Qin dynasties.
•Now it is a palace museum.
•It is the world’s largest palace complex
and covers over 2.3 million square feet
5. .
•Forbidden Palace Surrounded by a six
meter deep moat
•About 25 ft high wall
•There are over 800 buildings and 9999
rooms.
6. • In the early 1400s, the third Ming
Emperor, YongLe, moved the capital
of China to Beijing.
• In 1406, he began construction of a
new 'Forbidden City' that would
include the imperial palace complex.
7. What is it.....???
• It was the home and center of power for 24
emperors during the mid to latter Ming and Qing
dynasties.
• It was used for over 491 years (between 1420 and
1911) and rectangular in shape
• World's largest palace complex
• 960 meters from north to south and 750 meters from
east to west, it covers 720,000 square meters.
8. It serves as a symbol of
sovereignty and the
image of its entrance
gate appears on the
seal of the People's
Republic of China.
9. Five elemental colors
– white marble terraces
– black paving of the
courtyards
– red columns
– purple walled city
– golden yellow rooftops
10. Today.....
• Today, the Forbidden City is a
Public museum, drawing the
attention of millions of travellers
and tourists from around the world
• Now officially renamed as the
'Palace Museum' (Gu Gong)
• People can view the traditional
architecture and the treasures of the
imperial family and its court.
11. How The Forbidden City Got It’s Name
• No one really knows
how the Forbidden City
got it’s name, but
people think it was
because of stories or
astronomers.
• Ancient astronomers
made groups of
constellations around
Ziwei Yuan, also known
as the North Star.
12. • The constellation containing Ziwei Yuan is
called The Constellation of Heavenly Gods,
and Ziwei Yuan is called the Purple Palace.
• The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhudi,
was supposedly the son of the Heavenly Gods,
and he had the word purple as the name of his
palace. That is why another name for the
Forbidden City is the Purple Forbidden City.
13. Residents Of The Forbidden City
• The Forbidden City was the imperial Palace
for the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Ming
Dynasties Emperor moved from different
places.
• He moved from the Hall of Martial Valor to
the Hall of Literary Glory, two rooms in the
Forbidden City.
14. • There are 9,999 rooms in the Forbidden City.
• Some of those are the Hall of Supreme Harmony, The
Hall of Literary Glory, The Hall of Martial Valor, and
The Gate of Supreme Harmony.
• There are a few entrances into the Forbidden City.
• A couple of them are the Meridian Gate (the southern
entrance) and The Gate of Heavenly Purity (which is the
main entrance and splits the Forbidden City into two
halves).
15. Why It Was Called The Forbidden City
• Because of the last Qing Dynasty Emperor, P’u Yi.
• He became Emperor in 1908, when he was almost
three years old. But then, in 1912, his rule as
Emperor ended, because of a change in
government.
• This made him the last Qing Dynasty Emperor;
however, he was still allowed to live in the Palaces
with his family and staff.
17. FORBIDDEN CITY
Gates, walls
and moat
Gate of Supreme Harmony. The square links the two gates.
Meridian Gate (The main gate built in 1420)
Watchtower
18. Halls of Harmony
FORBIDDEN CITY
The Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian)
The Hall of Preserving Harmony
(Baohedian),
The Hall of Middle Harmony
(Zhonghedian),
19. Halls of Peace
FORBIDDEN CITY
Hall of Heavenly Peace
Hall of Earthly Peace
Hall of Union and Peace
