Forbidden City Turret Roofs

The cultural richness of china is truly reflected at this 72 hectare historical palace.

Forbidden city turret roofs. It is a complex construction in itself. Yellow is the color of the emperor. The roof of the forbidden city is full of glazed tiles. 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.

One of the most beautiful parts of the forbidden city s architecture is its roofs and their eaves. The roof form of chinese architecture is rich and colorful. Amazingly the total of these numbers add up to 99. Photo gallery of forbidden city pictures.

Watch the full documentary on all 4. There are only two exceptions. The roof shape of the forbidden city s most important buildings also had significance. In the forbidden city building there are more than 10 different types of roofs.

Forbidden city 紫禁城 officially called gugong 故宫 was the imperial palace for 24 emperors of ming a d. There are four beautiful turrets of the same structure on the four corners of forbidden city. Each turret tower has nine girders eighteen columns and 72 ridges. The library at the pavilion of literary profundity 文 渊 阁 had black tiles because black was associated with water and thus fire prevention.

Watch how this structure built in the forbidden city style of architecture holds up to a simulated earthquake. All of which are divisible by 9. The watch tower of the forbidden city lights up at night. Once forbidden and now permitted.

First their heights are one of the characteristics of the power of the person living in the pavilion as is the case for roofs. Yellow was the emperor s color. Yellow tiles and stately roof shapes only the imperial buildings of the forbidden city were permitted to have yellow tiles. The terraces of the forbidden city serve as support for the floor of each pavilion.

Take the three halls as an example the roofs are different. 1368 1644 and qing a d. 1644 1911 dynasties. Interestingly enough the turrets were constructed like the cages made for crickets.

The two turrets on the northeast and northwest corners offer the best photo opportunities. 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 turrets are inaccessible to visitors. Thus almost all roofs in the forbidden city bear yellow glazed tiles.