The huge birthday congratulatory team walked in this huge imperial city where the edges could not be seen at a glance.
In the Longyan Dynasty.
Jinghua is just the capital.
The real imperial city is the palace that was expanded and renovated countless times by the Longyan Dynasty.
Yes.
This is almost a city.
How big is Longyan Imperial City? According to calculations from previous lives, it covers a total area of one million square meters! The construction area is about 200,000 square meters! There are more than 100 large and small palaces and nearly 20,000 houses. The walls of the imperial city are enough It is 15 meters high. Outside the imperial city, there is a moat 52 meters wide. The buildings in the imperial city are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony and the Hall of Baohe. Zhonghe Hall, collectively referred to as the three main halls, is the place where the country holds major ceremonies.
Wherever people go.
It is the Huangqian Hall not far from Baohe Hall.
The Baohe Hall means that only by being single-minded and maintaining harmony within the universe can you live a long and happy life and achieve peace in the world. The plaque of the Baohe Hall is "The Imperial Building Has Extremes". The canon is from Jizi's "Hong Fan", "The Imperial Construction has its extremes".
It wasn't until they actually entered the imperial city that people could realize that the Longyan Dynasty's thousands of years of history was not just a name for itself.
Especially the barbarians, when they saw the uncanny architecture and the exquisite sculptures they had never seen before in the imperial city, they were undoubtedly shocked.
Whenever they come here, they will feel the greatness of this heavenly country and their insignificance.
In this imperial city, there are treasures everywhere, and things that are hard to exchange for a thousand dollars!
For example, in the middle of the back steps of Baohe Hall, there is a royal road stone carved with clouds, dragons, sea water and cliffs. People call it the Yunlong stone carving. This is the largest stone carving in the imperial city, 16.57 meters long and 16.5 meters wide. It is 3.07 meters tall, 1.70 meters thick, and weighs 250 tons.
The pattern is of nine swimming dragons playing with pearls among the cliffs, sea water and flowing clouds. Their images are dynamic, full of vitality and lifelike.
The sculpture art of the Longyan Dynasty is so vivid that people can't help but take a breath when looking at it.
The stone for the Yunlong Stone Sculpture was produced in Dashiwo in the western suburbs of Beijing. At that time, it took more than 10,000 civilians to haul such heavy boulders to Beijing, and they were hauled by land boats. To this end, a well was dug every mile along the way to provide drinking water for the civilians. It was more than a hundred miles from the western suburbs to Beijing, and the hauling time took nearly a month. Although this hauling method was difficult and difficult, it also showed the talent and wisdom of the workers given the level of productivity at that time. .
For example, the thousand dragons spitting water.
Thousand dragons are more than a thousand stone-carved faucets protruding from the bottom of the pillar. Whenever it rains, rainwater is discharged from the mouth of the dragon, so that the practical function of diverting rainwater and the ornamental function of architectural art are organically combined. The spectacular sight of Qianlong spitting water The scene comes from the three-story platform on which the three main halls of Taihe, Zhonghe and Baohe stand. The "three platforms" cover an area of about 2,500 square meters and are made of large pieces of white marble. Each platform is surrounded by There is a Xumizuo carved on it. On the Xumizuo, there is a large rectangular stone bar called the earth burden.
There are viewing pillars between the pillars, and railings are installed between the pillars. Under them, there are drainage holes. A stone faucet protrudes from the bottom of each pillar. The entire "three platforms" have a total of 1,100 There are forty-two faucets. Except for the faucets protruding from the folded corners of each platform base, round holes are drilled between the lips of the other faucets, which are connected to the holes under the pillars.
Since the center of the table is designed to be higher than the surroundings, whenever it rains, the rainwater that falls on the "Three Terraces" table will naturally flow to the surrounding areas at the bottom of the terrain, and then be discharged from the dragon's mouth, forming the spectacle of "thousands of dragons spitting water"!
uncanny workmanship!
There are countless such rare places throughout the imperial city.
Liu Zheng was also dazzled by what he saw. He couldn't help but be amazed in his heart.
Although this feudal dynasty has been criticized in terms of its system, to a certain extent, without the arrogance and extravagance of these royal families, it would indeed be difficult to leave various treasures to future generations under those production conditions.
Once there is a big event in the royal family, it will be the Palace of Preservation and Harmony.
Including when the emperor changes clothes before the grand ceremony, and when the queen and crown prince are appointed, the emperor will receive congratulations in this hall.
Every New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival in the Longyan court, the emperor would also give banquets to vassal kings, princes and first- and second-rank ministers here. The scene was very spectacular.
Even the emperor's wedding would be held here.
As for the Huangqian Hall, it is a temple dedicated to worshiping the "Emperor God" and the emperor's ancestors. In the imperial city, it belongs to the category of the Praying for Grain Altar. The Praying for Grain Altar is the place where the Meng Chun Praying for Grain Ceremony is held. The main buildings include the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the Hall of Emperor Qian, the East and West Side Halls, the Gate of Prayer for Good Harvests, the Divine Kitchen, the Sacrifice Pavilion, and the Long Corridor. The auxiliary buildings include the inner and outer walls, the service platform, and the Danbi Bridge. There are Tianmen on the southeast and northwest walls of the inner altar. There is a praying for grain altar gate on the west outer altar wall, and there is a seven-star stone on the east side of the inner altar.
Every year before the emperor went to the Praying for Grain Altar to offer sacrifices, he would bathe and change clothes in the nearby Baohe Hall.
A verandah-style main hall, covered with blue glazed tiles, with a white marble railing and a pedestal below. It is located near the Baohe Hall.
For the Christmas ceremony, all preparations for the sacrifice have been prepared here.
The ancient, vicissitudes of life and solemn Huangqian Hall are connected by precious glazed doors. In the Longyan Dynasty, worshiping the sky had to be carried out before dawn. But worshiping the ancestors only needed to be done before noon.