Forbidden City Turret Roofs

The two turrets on the northeast and northwest corners offer the best photo opportunities.

Forbidden city turret roofs.

Amazingly the total of these numbers add up to 99. The roof of the forbidden city is full of glazed tiles. Photo gallery of forbidden city pictures. The cultural richness of china is truly reflected at this 72 hectare historical palace.

Here again each terrace is perfectly hierarchical. Forbidden city chinese pinyin zijincheng or wade giles romanization tzu chin ch eng imperial palace complex at the heart of beijing peking china commissioned in 1406 by the yongle emperor of the ming dynasty it was first officially occupied by the court in 1420 it was so named because access to the area was barred to most of the subjects of the realm. Forbidden city 紫禁城 officially called gugong 故宫 was the imperial palace for 24 emperors of ming a d. The library at the pavilion of literary profundity 文 渊 阁 had black tiles because black was associated with water and thus fire prevention.

In the forbidden city building there are more than 10 different types of roofs. All of which are divisible by 9. Watch how this structure built in the forbidden city style of architecture holds up to a simulated earthquake. One of the most beautiful parts of the forbidden city s architecture is its roofs and their eaves.

Each of these towers has 3 floors that consists of 9 roof beams 18 pillars and 72 ridgepoles. Each turret tower has nine girders eighteen columns and 72 ridges. Double eave hip roofs were the classiest roofs in the empire reserved for the top imperial buildings. First their heights are one of the characteristics of the power of the person living in the pavilion as is the case for roofs.

There are only two exceptions. The turrets are inaccessible to visitors. 1368 1644 and qing a d. 1644 1911 dynasties.

The roof shape of the forbidden city s most important buildings also had significance. Yellow was the emperor s color. Interestingly enough the turrets were constructed like the cages made for crickets. The roof form of chinese architecture is rich and colorful.

Yellow is the color of the emperor. Watch the full documentary on all 4. The terraces of the forbidden city serve as support for the floor of each pavilion. Thus almost all roofs in the forbidden city bear yellow glazed tiles.

Take the three halls as an example the roofs are different. Once forbidden and now permitted. Turret of the palace museum can be missed most of the tourists miss the turrets during their visit to the forbidden city every corner of the forbidden city has a turret tower. The watch tower of the forbidden city lights up at night.