Later, after many wars and the Yellow River bursting its banks, the magnificent palace was gone.
In the past, only the Dragon Pavilion was left on the ruins of the imperial palace, and this Dragon Pavilion was built in the Qing Dynasty.
The Dragon Pavilion faces south and sits high on the platform. There are 72 steps from the ground to the main hall.
In the middle of the steps are stone steps carved with cloud and dragon patterns. Climb up to the platform, surrounded by stone railings.
The main hall is a wooden structure with double eaves and a mountain-style building, which is very spectacular.
From the avenue in front of Longting, past Pan and Yang Lakes, and further south, it is still a straight avenue with shops on both sides. This avenue was historically a wide imperial road.
Now this avenue has been remodeled into the "Song Dynasty Imperial Street" based on the model of the Song Dynasty. It is about 400 meters long. The shops on both sides are all imitation Song Dynasty buildings, mainly selling local products, arts and crafts, calligraphy and paintings.
The famous Fan Tower in the Song Dynasty was also restored according to the pattern of "three floors high, five floors facing each other, flying bridge railings, light and dark". It mainly dealt in high-end food and royal dishes of the Northern Song Dynasty.
This street is connected with Longting Park and has become a tourist spot with Song Dynasty characteristics.
When Han Kongque first came here, he had inspected this area, mainly because there were very dense ruins buried underground here.
For example, buried deep beneath the Longting Hall and Panyang Erhu are the Xuanwu Military Office of the Tang Dynasty, the Jianchang Palace of the Later Liang Dynasties of the Five Dynasties, the Daning Palace of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Imperial Palace of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Golden Palace, and the Ming and Zhou Dynasties.
Palace ruins from several dynasties including the Royal Palace.
A three-dimensional picture of "palaces upon palaces" stacked one on top of another forms a unique "palace at the bottom of the lake" in the world. It is the essence of the open and closed cities and is a model of the wonders of the world.
Decades of excavations have made the mystery of the Longting Palace and the Ping Palace gradually clear in people's minds. Under the Longting Lake, with the Wanshou Palace of the Qing Dynasty as the main body, is the Forbidden City of the Zhou Dynasty palace in the Ming Dynasty. This is almost a certainty
, Han Peacock couldn't figure out why this would be overturned.
This has actually been proven for a long time. Under the Forbidden City, the palace of the Zhou Dynasty princes in the Ming Dynasty was stacked with the Golden Palace. Below the Golden Palace was the Song Palace. Under the Song Palace were the Daning Palace and Jianchang Palace of the Five Dynasties. The bottom layer was the Xuanwu Palace of the Tang Dynasty.
Military office.
In the square in front of the south gate of Longting Scenic Area, there is a pair of finely carved and eye-catching stone lions.
According to legend, this pair of stone lions were relics of the Forbidden City in the Song Dynasty and were the gate lions of the Zhou Dynasty’s palace in the Ming Dynasty.
The male lion in the east and the female in the west, the saying "The sleeping lion suddenly wakes up and hurts my seed" under the male lion's neck is Feng Yuxiang's second time in Henan.
Under the female lion's neck are the words "The lion was a property of the Forbidden City of the Song Dynasty. Its feet were injured when it was moved during the reign of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty. It was inscribed in September of the 17th year of the Republic of China." The thirty-three words confirm the age and significance of the pair of lions.
All these can prove that there must be the palace of the Zhou Dynasty prince in the Ming Dynasty at the bottom of Longting Lake.
Zhu Ji was the first generation king of Zhou, the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the younger brother of the same mother as Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yu was one of the first vassal kings to be enfeoffed in 1370 AD. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him the title of King of Wu, which was later changed to King of Zhou.
The strange thing is that Zhu Yu, like several other vassal kings, did not go to their respective fiefdoms to join the vassal. Instead, he stayed in Feng Yang and went to Nanjing to live for a period of time from time to time. In 1381 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu
Ji and others must submit to the feudal clan.
What's even more strange is that in the winter of 1389 AD, Zhu Zhu left without even saying hello, and his fiefdom went to Feng Yang.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he learned about it and moved him to Yunnan. However, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his mind and let him return to his fiefdom the next year.
These actions of Zhu Tie puzzled historians, and later they could only speculate that Zhu Tie was not an honest and honest prince.
When it comes to treason and usurping the throne, it is easy for everyone to slap the stick on the ass of King Yan Zhu Di first, but Emperor Jianwen's uncles King Qi, King Jin, and King Min are not good people. Zhu Ji also has a disobedient heart.
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As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang was a wild emperor, but the prince Zhu Biaowen was weak and honest. Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied with him. This gave other vassal kings the opportunity to covet. They were not willing to go back to their fiefdoms to join the vassal, but wanted to do everything they could to show off.
One or two, so as to confirm Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to change the throne.
Zhu Xi's abnormal behavior was probably related to the later Han Dynasty king Zhu Gaoxu's reluctance to surrender to the vassal state.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, like Zhu Di later, was dissatisfied with the prince, but he did not establish another prince. Zhu Ru had no choice but to return to Kaili honestly, seal Kaifu and become the vassal king.
Although this is the case, it has to be said that Zhu Yuanzhang treated his son very well. Not to mention Zhu Di, the king of Yan who was entrusted in Beijing, even the king of Zhou, Zhu Ji, never treated him badly.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, Kaifeng and Kaifeng had an extremely important status because they were the capitals of the Northern Song Dynasty.
As early as 1368 AD, after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing, he issued an edict to "take Jinling as the southern capital, Daliang (Kaifeng) as the northern capital, and I will patrol and hunt in the Spring and Autumn Period" - taking Kaifeng as the capital.
Accompany the capital.
In 1376 AD, the Ming government established the Henan Chief Envoy Department in Kaifeng. Although Zhu Yuanzhang no longer used it as a place for "hunting patrols in the Spring and Autumn Period", because it was an important town in the Central Plains, Zhu Yu was entrusted here.
, it can be seen that Ming Taizu loved him.
Before Zhu Zhu became a vassal, he had begun to build the Zhou Palace on a large scale. Referring to the construction period of other vassal princes' palaces, the construction of the Zhou Palace would probably not take more than two years. By 1381 AD, the Zhou Palace was basically completed, and Zhu Xi officially became the emperor.
Fankai, seal.
Looking at the silent Han Peacock, Li Da whispered: "As for the situation of Kai and Feng Zhou Prince's Palace, there are not many historical records. Historians generally know that it was built on the site of the Forbidden City of Song and Jin Dynasties. It was composed of both internal and external elements."
It consists of a city wall, the outer city is a Xiaoqiang (a low wall used as a barrier in ancient palaces), and the inner city is the Forbidden City."
"Has this been proven now?" Han Peacock asked.
Li Dadao: "It must have been proven that in the spring of 1981, some remains of the Song Palace and the Ming and Zhou Palaces were discovered in Kaifeng City, thus unveiling the mystery of the Zhou Palaces in the Ming Dynasty.
In the 1980s, when the Kaifeng Municipal Cultural Relics Team conducted archaeological exploration and test excavations at the Dongjing Imperial Palace ruins of the Northern Song Dynasty, they discovered part of the Ming Dynasty Kaifeng Zhou Palace ruins in and around today's Kaifeng Longting Park.
After on-site excavation of the ruins, the locations of its Xiaoqiang, the two walls of the Forbidden City and some gate sites were basically determined.
When the outline of the Zhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty was shown to the world, we could only sigh at the magnificence and splendor of this luxurious palace. The outermost part of the Zhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty was the Xiao Wall. After exploration, the plane of the Xiao Wall site was slightly rectangular, long from north to south and short from east to west.
, the perimeter of the four walls is about 5310 meters.”
Of course Han Kongque knew that. He also knew that there were four gates on the four sides of the Xiaoqiang of the Zhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty. The south gate was called the Meridian Gate, the east was called the Donghua Gate, the west was called the Xihua Gate, and the north was called the Houzai Gate. All the gates were "extremely grand."
It is wide, with green tiles and red doors, nine nails and nine belts." It is extremely majestic.
Such a landmark building, even if there is a big flood, will definitely not be completely destroyed, and now it has been excavated. Now Han Peacock wonders why those people are still struggling with this, and there must be a reason for this.
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"There is no profit in this world. Since they are asking you for help, they must have a purpose." Li Da said.
Han Peacock thought thoughtfully, what can he get from coming here?
This is the ruins of a royal palace. In such a place, the most abundant treasures are all kinds of treasures, and some frivolous wealth, such as porcelain, gold and silverware, etc., must have been unearthed.
Is there something else that hasn't been found?
Thinking of the hugeness of Prince Zhou's palace, Han Peacock felt a little sure.
You must know that the size of the ancient Kai and Feng cities (referring to the area within the old city wall) did not change much from the Tang and Five Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, it was still the largest city in the south of the river, with a city circumference of "twenty miles and one hundred and nineteen miles."
"Ten steps", after calculation, the Xiao Wall of the Zhou Palace accounts for about half of the Kaifeng City Wall, which shows the prominent position of the Zhou Palace in Kaifeng Palace in the Ming Dynasty.
In the autumn of 1981, the ruins of some of the main halls in the Forbidden City of the Ming and Zhou Dynasties were first excavated at the bottom of Pan Lake in front of Longting, and then the scope of the Forbidden City was explored.
Exploration shows that the area north of the south gate of Longting Park and south of the back wall of Longting Hall, including Pan Lake and Yang Lake, is the scope of the Forbidden City of the Ming and Zhou Dynasties.
According to actual measurements, the Forbidden City of the Zhou Dynasty is in the shape of a rectangle with a slightly longer north and south and a slightly shorter east and west, with a circumference of about 2520 meters.
After comparison, the ruins of the Forbidden City of the Zhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty are basically consistent with the scope of the ruins of the Dongjing Imperial City in the Northern Song Dynasty. The four walls of the Forbidden City of the Ming and Zhou Palaces are directly superimposed on the four walls of the Imperial City of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is very consistent with the statement recorded in historical materials that the Zhou Palace was built on top of the Song and Jin Palaces.
"Are those people looking for the warehouse of Prince Zhou's Mansion? This shouldn't be difficult, right?" Han Kongque asked.
"It's not difficult. Even if I were asked to look for it, I could easily find it. I shouldn't be looking for a warehouse." Li Da said.
According to the records of "Ru Meng Lu" written by Li Guang, a feudal lord of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were four gates in the Forbidden City of the Ming and Zhou Dynasties. "The south gate is called Duanli Gate, the north gate is called Chengzhi Gate, and the east gate is called Liren Gate.
The west gate is called Zunyi Gate.
"Ru Meng Lu" also records the scale and layout of the Ming and Zhou palaces: "The Zhou Mansion was built on the old foundation of the capital palace during the Song Dynasty. It faces south from the north, facing the Nanxun Gate, which is the Zhengyang Gate of the Song Dynasty. There are five gates in the north and three openings.
That is, the Great Song Gate of the Song Dynasty.
The surrounding wall is nine miles and thirteen steps, about two feet high. It is suppressed by centipede wood, covered with glazed tiles, and has a platform five feet high. There are railings on top. Outside the railings, the street is five feet wide, where residents can live. There are seventy-two wells around it.
The so-called seventy-two evil spirits...
On the palace gates and palaces, the buckets are covered with copper wire nets, called windbreakers, and underneath there is a white stone, called the foot stone, which means ample food and clothing...
The east and west gates serve as ministers, serve the internal officials, and are in charge of the affairs of the whole government. They deliver this chapter, which is the same as the ceremonial supervisor in the Jingdong factory. To the north, there are more than a hundred straight rooms, with two east and west gates in the middle, which is the Kedao Yamen in the Song Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were one, two, and three intermittent rooms. Officials came in, waited here, and stopped to change their clothes. Passing through the gate in the east leads to the ancestral temple in the south. Passing through the gate in the west leads to the altar of heaven and earth in the west. There are stables in the east, and two warehouses in the east and west of the straight room, which are forbidden for idlers. Land." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!