How Did The Forbidden City Build Itself

The Forbidden City is it is not only famous for it building itself. It is famous for it’s architecture !It was build symmetrically along a central north-south axis, which is also the axis of the old Beijing City.

The Forbidden City was built during the early Ming dynasty,by the third emperor Zhu-Di. The emperor wanted to build the palace right in the middle of China,Beijing.

*The most important halls that were in there were made out of whole logs of a precious type of wood called
Phoebe zhennan (楠木)Unfortunately the pillars that were seen today are made out of pine wood.The floors of the major halls were made out of blocks of gold,and came from seven counties,each batch took months to bake!

This palace has more than 9000 rooms ,the whole

area covers 72 thousand square meters. In total there are 4 gates that face four different directions.All of the major buildings have wooden roofs with yellow glazed tiles.The wooden beams and columns(cylinder) are the most important elements ,so that the hall stays together.Surprisingly,there are still small little structures in the halls, like a tiny temple for praying.
Everything inside the hall were well detailed and even on the smallest items there are carved prints on it.