Forbidden City 02: Ming Dynasty

The best preserved old palace many people know 24 emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties once lived here. But do you know who built this palace? in this palace Mysteries that still remain unsolvable what is it then It can be learned from history books Is Zhu Yuanzhang’s fourth son Zhu Di Change Peking to Beijing In 1406 AD, he ordered the construction of the Beijing Palace. That is the Forbidden City in Beijing today. But actually Zhu Di, who ordered the construction of the Forbidden City Zhu Yuanzhang did not get the throne after his death Why is this The first emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Yuanzhang When Zhu Yuanzhang was choosing the emperor's sworn ally, Among them, his eldest son comes to mind This is also logical His eldest son is called Zhu Biao But unfortunately What about the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu? Zhu Biao is dead There are two problems here A question It was during his time that Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons You can choose among these You can still choose Zhu Biao's eldest son's son Zhu Yuanzhang’s original intention He misses his prince That is King Yan Called Zhu Di But in the palace of Nanjing in the east corner Jiaomen held a court meeting He talked about his thoughts But it was opposed by the ministers Among them is a bachelor named Liu Shanwu He talked about He said it was Huang Sun That's Zhu Biao's son. Yeah, young and powerful Is the first eldest son Naturally, Li Ye And he went further If you choose the fourth main force Then King Yan is like this what about others King of Qin King of Jin The King of Qin is the one from Shanxi Uh, dick King Jin is the third child How to do it So he raised this question Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang thought it was reasonable So that's it for sure But Zhu Hongwu died in 31 years It's natural for him This grandson of the emperor also succeeded to the throne. Since Zhu Yuanzhang passed the throne to his grandson That is, Zhu Di’s nephew How could Zhu Di order the whole country? Building the Forbidden City in Beijing But there are two problems A grandson of the emperor Emperor Jianwen He wanted to call these his uncles These forces are too big Need to reduce vassalage Just returning to death Where are these redeemed fathers? I am also very dissatisfied with him Therefore, the struggle within the imperial power was adopted So King Yan is Zhu Di We started fighting for about three years, I guess. This is how we conquered Nanjing He took the throne So what happens after the throne? He just wants to build a palace in Beijing Now that it is clear that Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, built the palace But why do people still say It was the Forbidden City built by Zhu Yuanzhang Why do people still say It’s not just Beijing that has the Forbidden City Where is the Forbidden City in Beijing today? In fact, it has two blueprints It was in the early Ming Dynasty What about Zhu Yuanzhang? A palace city was once built in Nanjing Besides He also built a Zhongdu City in his hometown of Fengyang Well, Zhongdu City was built in Zhongdu City. It took six or seven years Well, when he was building the central capital, The requirement is that he wants to be gorgeous Be exquisite The one who sent a large number of Well, it's just manpower to participate in this project. Besides, I never paid that back. Just put um A large number of them are death row prisoners who are exempted from death penalty Send it to that center and do that benefit Um That one at that time was the one in the official website that transported food. Well, the military has 60,000 to 70,000 people. Well, but even so It took six or seven years Chinatown was not finally completed Well, Zhu Yuanzhang himself also said that this means civil engineering Uh, time and labor so what That's all, the construction project of Zhongdu City Well, what about after Zhongdu City? He is in Nanjing again That's what he did back then Prince Wu's Mansion during the reign of King Wu On this basis Built the city of Nanjing Well, so what about Beijing now and the Forbidden City? It is based on the Zhongdu of the Ming Dynasty Built with Nanjing After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor The thought of returning home in fine clothes came up I want to build the imperial capital in my hometown Lintao That is today’s Fengyang, Anhui This is the remains of the Meridian Gate of Fengyang Forbidden City Zhu Yuanzhang established Fengyang as his capital Opposed by ministers The palace was built for six or seven years and then stopped. Soon another palace was built in the east corner of Nanjing City Here are the remains of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City in Nanjing The entire palace was destroyed by fire and ice more than 100 years ago However, from the remaining pillars of the Meridian Gate Hall and beautifully carved bases. You can vaguely see the style of the former palace What about in terms of scale? The size of the Forbidden City in Beijing It's bigger than Nanjing and Zhongdu. Nanjing City Because it was built on the basis of Prince Wu's Mansion So it's not that big And it’s Zhu Yuanzhang It’s just that we learned this lesson from making Zhongdu City Because it's too luxurious He spent so many years but couldn't make it So the city of Nanjing is very simple. His carvings are very simple So the civil engineering department in Beijing What about this carving?