The Forbidden City in Beijing was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis, and is the essence of ancient Chinese court architecture. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on the three major halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, more than 70 large and small palaces, and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved wooden structures in the world.
When you come to the Forbidden City, you can not only see the magnificent buildings of the old times, but also see the dynasties of the past, the prosperity and decline of the past, the glory and disgrace, and the history of those who have been from the beautiful buildings
imperial palace
However, the Forbidden City is so large, there is one place that is not open to the public, that is, the Cold Palace.
In ancient times, if the concubines made a mistake, they would be beaten into the cold palace, and the person who gave this order was generally the empress, because the emperor was busy with the affairs of the previous dynasty and did not have time to care about the rights and wrongs of these harems, and the empress, as the lord of the harem, had the right to decide on the honor and disgrace of these concubines. So you can understand why the concubines on TV always look sincerely scared in front of the queen. After all, small lives were in the hands of the Queen.
And in general, there is no specific cold palace, the emperor and empress said where is the cold palace, where is the cold palace, nothing more than the original treatment is reduced, of course, the concubines into the mistake really made mistakes, generally speaking, will be grounded, that is, not allowed to go out of the palace where they live, but the "Qing Palace Complaint" also once recorded: after the Guangxu years of the zhen concubine was imprisoned in the small courtyard behind the Jingqi Pavilion, that is, the northernmost side of the Ningshou Palace.
Cold Palace
Now, the cold palace is not open, there should be three reasons.
First, it is said that it is a cold palace, which must be indispensable to some concubines' grievances and sorrows, although after a long time, but the place where such resentment is left behind is not a very good place. Even if you don't talk about the concubine's grudge, those old and corrosive decorations are not very good for the human body. And tourists come to watch, naturally to watch in a happy mood, cold palace such a yin place, is not suitable for viewing places.
Second, as a punishment for concubines, the decorations inside the cold palace will not be very good, just like the prison of concubines, there are naturally no good antiquities in it, and there is no ornamental value. So for administrators, there is no need to open up.
Third, the Cold Palace has not received much good maintenance. Due to insufficient funds, the Cold Palace has not been repaired, and most of the ancient Chinese buildings are wooden structures, after hundreds of years of corrosion, these houses are basically dangerous houses, so it is indeed very unsafe after opening.
Therefore, combined with the above reasons, the Cold Palace was closed and only left in the long river of history