Ku Xiang
After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols living in various parts of the interior gradually merged with the Han Chinese, and when the Ming Dynasty was established, the Mongols who retreated to the Mongolian steppe were divided into two main parts: Tatar and Vala. In order to prevent the Tatar and Valar attacks, the Ming Dynasty sent the most capable Zhu Di to garrison Beiping. After Zhu Di took the throne at the Battle of Jingnan, he first continued to use Nanjing as the imperial capital. At this time, the Tatars and The Wallachians successively submitted to the Ming Dynasty, but considering that the threat of the Mongols in the north still existed, Zhu Di decided to move the imperial capital to Beiping and change it to Beijing, and Zhu Di let Ku Xiang preside over the construction of the city of Beijing.
Forbidden city
Beijing is a famous historical city in China, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty divided the Yan, its ruling place is the current Beijing area. Later, from the Beginning of the Jin Dynasty to the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, Beijing was successively used as the capital. In order to build the city of Beijing, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di made full preparations, he let The famous "Ku LuBan" to preside over the specific construction affairs, spent 11 years of preparation, collecting precious stone and wood from all over the country. The most important precious wood Nan wood, mostly grown in the lofty mountains, in order to cut down and transport these precious timber, many ordinary people lost their lives, at that time it was said that "into the mountain a thousand, out of the mountain five hundred." It is truly "prosperous, the people suffer; death, the people suffer"! Ku Xiang built the city of Beijing, and laid it out in strict accordance with the requirements of the "Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji": the former dynasty and the back market, the left ancestor and the right society. The entire urban layout highlights the majesty of imperial power. The city of Beijing has threefold: the most central is Miyagi, also known as the Forbidden City, which is where the emperor lives and works; outside the palace is the imperial dynasty, and the imperial dynasty is the central institution and office; outside the imperial city is the capital city, which is the place where citizens live and trade. The layout of Beijing City also reflects the Chinese feng shui culture, the city is located under the Yanshan Mountain, back to the north and south, the main buildings from north to south are on a main axis. On the main axis, the northernmost gate is deshengmen, but deshengmen has no gate, it is a city tower, which is to welcome the victors who resist the Mongol invasion in the north and return triumphantly. If there is a door to the victory gate, it will be the back door of the capital, and not having a door means that Beijing does not take the back door. The most important thing in Beijing is the Forbidden City, behind which is Jingshan Mountain, and in front of the Forbidden City is the Jinshui River, which is now the ditch between Tiananmen Square and Tiananmen Square. After the completion of the Forbidden City in 1421 AD, there were 14 emperors in the Ming Dynasty and 10 emperors living there after the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs. At that time, Zhu Di planned to build 10,000 rooms, and the indeed figure is 8,707 rooms, and folklore has 9,999 rooms in the Forbidden City, because "9" is the largest number that Chinese considers. The construction of the Forbidden City reflects the ingenuity of Chinese craftsmen, no matter how much rain falls, a complete drainage system will not make the Forbidden City water. In some palaces such as the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, the ground is still warm in winter. After the Forbidden City was built, it experienced many fires, some of which were man-made, such as when Li Zicheng left Beijing that year, he set fire to many buildings in the Forbidden City. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City court itself was burned several times, but after the burning, it was restored and restored, and the Forbidden City is now called the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City is the largest surviving palace complex in the world, ranking first in the "five palaces" such as Buckingham Palace, Louvre, Kremlin and White House.