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Jiatong Han (Tonya)
Professor Klepper
English 113B
08 November  2013

The Forbidden City

       The Qing Palace Museum or Forbidden City, encrusted in the centre of  China’s capital Beijing which is one of the most wonderful architectural masterpieces in the world. Qing Palace is the China’s largest museum, according to the historical document, its construction lasted fifteen years and there are fourteen Ming emperors and ten Qing emperors lived there, it witnesses the vicissitudes of  royalty of China. Forbidden City is also the one of the greatest works ever undertaken, boasting a diverse collection of artworks and unique building structures and design. Just as Guo Changhong saying “It is an important bearer of Chinese culture and an epitome of Chinese history (83 by Guo).” In a word, Forbidden City’s history is not just relating only on the imperial family, it impact on Chinese culture as a whole.

      Today’s Palace has already shifted to a cultural heritage. It used to be inhabited by all the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is also the centre of the country’s political life and the imperial power. It is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat and a 10-meter-high wall are more than 8,700 rooms. There is a story saying that if the emperor changes the rooms every single day, he can not visit every rooms in Forbidden City until he die. Nobody know how many rooms in Forbidden City, These kind of fuzzy data also add the mysterious color to the Forbidden City. On the other hand, in October 1925, the Forbidden City was officially transformed into a museum. “During the 1950s, the museum was defined as an exhibition site for ancient works of art. From March 1961 onward, it became listed as one of the key cultural ‘units’ under state protection. By December 1987, it emerged as a formally recognized world-class heritage site”. It means that Forbidden City has already became the cultural heritage that express Chinese culture through Ming and Qing dynasty. The Forbidden city was the first national museum in Chinese history, today, according to the survey, “about 1500,000 of its listed items are housed athe the Place Museum of Beijing while 650,000were transferred between 1948 and 1949 to Taiwan by the Guomingdang, and later integrated within the collection of the Palace Museum of Taipei, formally established on 12 November 1965”. The numbers of listed items represent not only an expansion of the original inventory, but it shows the cultural valuable.

       Besides that, this rich and mysterious palace is displaying as the architectural masterpieces to the world. It includes big courtyards, different palaces, and most buildings decorated with golden roofs that convey a strong image of wealth and power of the imperial. Jim saying that “ The city of Beijing consisted of three concentric and rectangular walled areas. The outermost of Beijing’s concentric rectangles housed the lower ranking civil servants and was known as the Inner City, or Tartat City”. Jim Antoniou also said that “The Forbidden City, while expressing monumentality, retains its sense of human scale and is able to provide splendid buildings on multiple platforms, skillful perspectives through a succession of opening and closing spaces and colorful reflections in infinite pools, all experienced through a sequence of sensations (7 by Jim).” It means that in Forbidden City, every buildings have their unique design style, Such as Palace of Heavenly Purity, it is the place where Ming and Qing’s emperors to deal with daily affairs. Heavenly means clean, such as sky, not muddy such as cloud, that means emperor's actions as magnanimous as the clear sky, did not do any shameful thing.

       Throughout history, the Forbidden City is not only rich in works of art, but also to show the Chinese history and culture. As we have see, the museum's design are unique, highlighting the characteristics of the royal wealth, nobody can break this system. As China is now the largest and most authoritative National Palace Museum, it shows the traditional culture of Chinese and also carry forward the majority.

Works Cited

Guo, Changhong. The Qing Palace: From a Forbidden City to a Public Heritage.

ISSN 1350-0775. No. 237-238 (Vol. 60. No. 1-2. 2008). published by UNWSCO

Publishing and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Mon.28 Oct. 2013

Jim, Antoniou. The forbidden City In Beijing: China’s Hidden Heart. Issue Number (1250) And ISSN (0003861X) And Volume Number (209)

Mon. 28 Oct. 2013