We want to travel to the forbidden city with my friends.Because it is symbol of China. We want to visit the forbidden city during the summer vacation ，it took us about seven days.
This is the palace museum; also know as the Purple Forbidden City.It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today.Under Ming Emperor Yongle,construction began in 1406.It took 14years to build the Forbidden City.The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi.For five centuries thereafter,it continued to be the residence of23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne.In 1987,the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City was a world cultural legacy.
It is believed that the Palace Museum,or Zi Jin Cheng (Purple Forbidden City),got its name from astronomy folklore,The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Yuan (North Star) .The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace.Because the emperor was supposedly the son of the heavenly gods,his central and dominant position would be further highlighted the use of the word purple in the name of his residence.In folklore,the term “an eastern purple cloud is drifting” became a metaphor for auspicious events after a purple cloud was seen drifting eastward immediately before the arrival of an ancient philosopher,LaoZi,to the Hanghu Pass.Here,purple is associated with auspicious developments.The word jin (forbidden) is selfexplanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people.
The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic.Red represents happiness,good fortune and wealth.Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau,the original home of the Chinese people.Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty,when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.
The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape.It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meter wide from east west.It has 9,900 rooms under a total roof area 150,000 square meters.A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9.9-meter—high wall which encloses the complex.Octagon —shaped turrets rest on the four corners of the wall.There are four entrances into the city:the Meridian Gate to the south,the Shenwu Gate (Gate of Military Prowess) to the north,and the Xihua Gate (Gate of military Prowess) to the north,and the Xihua Gate (Western Flowery Gate ) to the west,the Donghua (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east【 这是故宫博物院，也被称为紫禁城，是中国今天最大、最有保留的皇宫，明朝永乐时期，始建于1406年，始建紫禁城花了14年时间，第一个真正住在这里的统治者是明朝朱帝，此后的五个世纪里，它一直是23位历代皇帝的住所，直到1911清朝溥仪皇帝被迫退位。1987，联合国教育、科学及文化组织承认紫禁城是世界文化遗产。据信故宫博物院，或紫金城(紫禁城)，它的名字来源于天文学民俗，古代天文学家把星座分成几个组，围绕着子威园(北极星)，包含北极星的星座被称为天神星座，恒星本身被称为紫色宫殿，因为皇帝被认为是天神之子，他的中心和支配地位将成为天神。在民间传说中，“东方紫色云飘移”一词在古代哲学家老子到达汉湖通道前，就被看到紫色云向东飘向东方，成为吉祥事件的隐喻。在这里，紫色与吉祥的发展联系在一起。金(禁止)这个词是自明的，因为故宫是严格戒备森严的，就像帝王的解释一样。皇宫戒备森严，对普通百姓来说是禁区.。宫殿墙壁和屋顶上的红色和黄色也是象征，红色代表幸福、好运和财富，黄色是中国人民的原始家园黄土高原上的大地颜色，在唐代，只有皇室成员才能戴上黄色并在建筑中使用。紫禁城呈长方形，南北长960米，东西向宽750米，屋檐下有9，900间房间，总面积150，000平方米，一条52米宽的护城河环绕着一堵9.9米高的围墙，环绕着这座建筑群。八角形的塔楼坐落在城墙的四个角落。这里有四个进城入口：南靠子午门，通往神武门(军事力量之门)。北面是西华门，北边是西华门，西边是西华门，东门是东华门。 】
The Imperial Palace was so wonderful that we would never forget it.And it was the most famous buildings in the world,there were many visitors came to here to visit it every year.
I can't wait to seeit
