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The Forbidden City was designed to be the centre of the ancient, walled city of Beijing. It is enclosed in a larger, walled area called the Imperial City. The Imperial City is, in turn, enclosed by the Inner City; to its south lies the Outer City. The Forbidden City remains important in the civic scheme of Beijing.
The Palace Museum was then established in the Forbidden City on Double Ten Day (October 10), 1925. [13] The collections of the Palace Museum are based on the Qing imperial collection. According to the results of a 1925 audit, some 1.17 million pieces of art were stored in the Forbidden City. [14]
The National Palace Museum was originally established as the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City on 10 October 1925, shortly after the expulsion of Puyi, [9] [10] the last emperor of China, from the Forbidden City by warlord Feng Yuxiang. The articles in the museum consisted of the valuables of the former imperial family.
View of the Forbidden City from Jingshan Park. The Forbidden City was first built in the early-15th century as the palace of the Ming emperors of China. It is located in the centre of Beijing, China, and was the Chinese imperial palace from the early-Ming dynasty in 1420 to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, continuing to be home of the last emperor, Puyi, until 1924, since then it has been ...
Forbidden City (紫禁城), now known in China as the Beijing Gugong (北京故宫), in Beijing (北京): imperial palace of the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty from 1420 until 1924. Area: 720,000 m 2 (178 acres). The Forbidden City is the world's largest palace currently in existence. [2] [3] [4]
The Mukden Palace was built to resemble the Forbidden City in Beijing. However, the palace also exhibits hints of Manchu and Tibetan architectural styles. After the Qing dynasty replaced the Ming dynasty in 1644 in Beijing, the Mukden Palace lost its status as the official residence of the Qing Emperor. Instead, the Mukden Palace became a ...
In 2023, the China National Children's Theatre and the Palace Museum co-produced a stage drama called The Cat God in the Forbidden City, telling the history of the Forbidden City through the eyes of a cat. [19] This was toured in other Chinese cities in 2024. [20] The cats have also featured in other documentaries filmed in the museum. [21]
The most significant building in the Forbidden City, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, has 10 statuettes. [6] A caisson is set into the roof, featuring a coiled dragon. Above the throne hangs a tablet with a right-to-left script reading zhèng dà guāng míng ( 正大光明 ), penned by the Shunzhi Emperor .