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Travel in the Palace Museum Beijing of China

Travel in the Palace Museum Beijing of China

Write: Lauchlan [2011-05-23]

Travel in the Palace Museum  Beijing of China

Open hour

From April 1 to October 31 8:30 17:00, from November 1 to March 31 8:30 16:30 next year;
Stop entering the time of hall: From April 1 to October 31 16:10, from November 1 to March 31 15:40 next year.

Ticket

Ticket busy season ( From April 1 to October 31) 60 yuan for each person, slack period (from November 1 to March 31 of next year) 40 yuan for each person, student s evidence is 20 yuan for each person. Treasures Hall and Clock and Watch Hall ticket are 10 yuan for each person respectively.

Traffic

Times 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 22, 52, 54, 57, 120, 802, under Special Line 1 Zhongshan Park or Tian An-men station;
Take the east of Tian An-men of Subway Line No. 1 or west station of Tian An-men to get off;
Times 9, 17, 44, 48, 53, 59, 66, 110, 307, 803, 808, 819, 922, special 4, Special Line 7 Qianmen station get off;
Take 101, 103, 103 fast, get off in 109, 812, the Palace Museum station of No. 814.

Introduce

The Palace Museum fits the Forbidden City too, lies in Beijing city center, it is emperor Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty, regard Nanjing palace as the original version, requisition the skillful craftsman and use a million s battle from the north and south of the great river, go through 14 (1407 of the Christian era- 1420) Time build up.

The level takes the form of the rectangle, 961 meters long from south to north, 753 meters wide from east to west, cover an area of more than 720,000 square meters. The city wall is surrounded, girth is 3428 meters, the city wall is 7 high. 9 meters, the bottom is 8 wide. 62 meters, the top is 6 wide.

66, upper outside build the intersection of pheasant and official document or note, inside build the space wall. Four corners of the city wall have a watchtower with exquisite structure respectively. A moat 52 meters wide, 3800 meters long is surrounded outside the city, forms the intact defence system.

There are four doors in Miyagi, there is Meridian Gate in the south, it is the Palace Museum main entrance, there is The Gate of Military Prowess (profound military door) in the north ,Donghuamen in the east, the west is Xihuamen. During will it be 491 year A.D. 1420- 1911, become the intersection of grandfather and kerria to rich appearance, the Last Emperor of Qing, Zhu from tomorrow, 24 emperors (had 14 in the Ming Dynasty, there were 10 in Qing Dynasty) in all Successively lived in this palace, implemented the ruling of feudalism to China.

Have 9000 over of hall all kinds of in the palace, timber structure and glazed tiles Huang carry and bluish white stone base decorated with the splendid decorative painting, the building whole area is up to 150,000 square meters. The Palace Museum is made up towards two parts with the inner court by outside.

With the Hall of Supreme Harmony (emperor s audience hall) outside , the Hall of Middle Harmony, the Hall of Protecting Harmony three hall centre, the intersection of things and the intersection of Israel and gentle the intersection of China and hall, military the intersection of Great Britain and for the both wings hall, it is the place where the emperor deals with the government affairs, holds the great celebration.

The inner court is with Hall of Heavenly Purity (emperor s bedroom) The intersection of Qiaotai Palace and hall, the intersection of The Palace of Earthly Tranquility and hall (emperor marry bridal chamber) It is the centre, the things both wings have six palaces in the east, six palaces in the west ( emperor s discipline room) ,It complement in order to nourishing heart by halling, the Hall of Abstinence hall, be present, Yu last palace, would rather longevity palace, it is kind would rather palace and Imperial Garden,etc.

, it is the emperor that deals with government affairs, emperor, queen, empress dowager, concubines, heir, princess to occupy the note in the place of religious, studying and sight-seeing on ordinary days. The total arrangement, in order to hit the axial symmetry, the first three halls, the last three palaces are located in the central axis of the whole city, spectacular, luxurious and grand, it is the extant largest, most intact ancient buildings of China, also peculiar in the world, brilliant and magnificent, and have the largest imperial palace in the buildings and the world of China s classical style and eastern style.

The 1911 Revolution of 1911, overthrew and ruled fully and clearly, finished the dynasties of more than 2000 years, but still live in the latter half of the Palace Museum in emperor s rich appearance disabled. Would face and lay out into outside in 1912 The display place of the ancient object .

The intersection of jade and auspicious the intersection of inferior officer and the intersection of deer and clock Lin Feng expel rich appearance from the palace will it be November 5 1924. The Palace Museum was established on October 10, 1925. The Palace Museum incorporated into was displayed the ancient object in 1948.

After 1949, the government repaired this ancient architecture and historical relic on a large scale, and put in order and exhibit large quantities of historical relics, make it become a well known ancient culture and arts museum. And establish the first archives in Xihuamen and specialize in putting government and palace file in order.

In 1961, the State Council of China of the People s Republic of China issued the Palace Museum as the Chinese Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection. In 1987, the Palace Museum was listed in legacy register of the world as the cultural heritage by UNESCO formally. The artistic treasures of each dynasty of China are displayed in the courtyard, it is China s most abundant culture and treasure-house of the art.

The whole building of the Palace Museum is splendid, solemn and beautiful, praised as one of five major palaces (Beijing s Imperial Palace, Versailles Palace, the Buckingham Palace, White House, Kremlin the world. Have set up comprehensive historical odeum in some palaces of the Palace Museum, painting hall, ceramic hall classified, bronze ware hall, Gallery of Craft of Ming and Qing dynasty, imprint hall, toy hall, writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper hall, toy hall, Treasures Hall, Clock and Watch Hall and institution historical relic exhibition of the palace of Qing Dynasty,etc.

, collect a large number of ancient artistic treasures, aggregate 1052653 according to statistics, accounts for 1/6 of the total number of Chinese historical relics, collect the most abundant museum of the historical relic for China, it is the world-famous ancient culture and arts museum too, among them a lot of historical relics do not have the only priceless national treasure definitely.

Open hour: October 15 -March 31, the open time 8:30 16:30,Stop time 15:30 of ticket; April 1 -October 14, the open time 8:30 17:00,Stop time 16:00 of ticket. Visit time: Nearly need quite a while, visiting the Palace Museum had better take middle way as the core, if time permits, can go to West Road to take a walk and have a look.

People to like calligraphy miss, nourish heart the intersection of hall and west three of warm room wish hall, have collected three copybooks known far and wide here.