故宫为我国明清二朝的皇宫，也是现存最大、最完整的古建筑群。
Welcome to the Bund of Shanghai. I'm your tour guide today. You can call meXiao _. Today's itinerary will be provided by me for you. I hope my service canget your satisfaction. I also wish you have a good time today.
The Bund was originally a place along the river beach outside Chengxiang,Shanghai (Town God's Temple). Formerly known as "Huangpu Beach", after theopening of Shanghai in 1843, the first consul of British Consul in Shanghai tookthe place of the Bund, and designated the Bund.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Linjiang built towering classical style buildingsaround the world, and opened more than 110 financial institutions. It became the"Wall Street of the Far East". In the 1990s, the tide of China's reform andopening up came to Shanghai, and the municipal government began to carry outlarge-scale transformation of the Bund, forming the city we see today The Bundscenic spot is like a wonderful staff. It is composed of "solidified music"World Architecture Expo and "flowing music" Huangpu River. Our friends to watchthese western classical style buildings, not only to pay attention to itsexternal beauty. And we should appreciate them as sculpture art.
In this "solidified music" music, 26 buildings, the buildings arescattered, just like the beating keys on the piano. The music is composed ofprelude, three climaxes, epilogue and other movements.
Its prologue is undertaken by the weather signal station in front of theflood control wall on the Bund. This weather signal station is an ancientarchitecture of "atuonupo" style. Its main functions are as follows: first, wecan have a look at the signs of various shapes hanging on the mast on the top ofits tower. This is to play the role of weather forecast. According to themeteorological information measured by Xujiahui weather station, it will be usedfor the fifth time in the day In order to ensure the safety of navigation, thechessmen of different colors are hung on the mast to announce the wind, wavesand other meteorological information outside Wusongkou to the ships. Second, wecan observe that there is a big ball on the mast that can rise and fall up anddown. At 11:45 on the next day, the ball rises to half the height of the mast.At 11:55, the ball rises to the top again. At 12:00, the ball falls back to itsoriginal position. I don't want to say that we all know what we do. By the way,he is the time desk. But with the development of modern informationcommunication science, there are so many kinds of clocks that they can onlyretire. In October 1993, in the second phase of the comprehensive renovationproject of the Bund, in order to protect this ancient building with more than 80years of history, it was moved 20 meters from its original position to thenortheast as a whole, and it was decorated to make it look new. At night, withthe light of blue and white, such as a huge crystal clear "Yuzhu", beautiful andmoving.
The climax in the solidified music is divided into three parts: the firstpart is composed of three buildings: Asia building, Shanghai Federation andChina Commercial Bank building. Due to the time constraint, I would like tointroduce the Shanghai Federation. It is located at No.2, East 1st Road,Zhongshan. It was built in 1920__ and cost 450000 taels of silver. It wasoriginally a place for British expatriates to have leisure and entertainment.The building is Renaissance style. In the East facade of the building, threehorizontal sections are adopted, and the front door is taken as the verticalaxis. The decorative patterns of the left and right doors and windows aresymmetrical, making the whole building harmonious, symmetrical and stable. Inaddition, we can see that the third and fourth floors of the building aresupported by six Ionic columns, which are slender, about 9 to 10 times as highas the bottom diameter. The columns are banded, and there are curled up vorticeson their heads. They are the symbol of "female beauty". There are Baroque towerpavilions at the north and south ends of the top floor of the building,enhancing the height and luxury of the whole building. From a distance, he lookslike a perfect work of art in the hands of a sculptor. In addition, the interiordecoration of the building is also very elegant and luxurious. There is a 34meter long wine bar covered with Italian marble, which is known as the longestbar in the Far East. There is also a semicircular iron fence elevator on thenorth side of the lobby. This is also the earliest elevator in Shanghai at thattime. Now many TV dramas reflecting old Shanghai are shot here. The decorationof the building imitates the style of the British palace, so it is known as the"Royal Society".
Next to the Shanghai general meeting is the China Commercial Bank building,which is located at No. 6 on the Bund. It is a Gothic building with a classicalcolonnade at the front door. This is the first climax of solidified music.
The second climax of solidified music is composed of HSBC building andcustoms building. It is the most representative building in the WorldArchitecture Expo Group. The HSBC building, located at No. 11, East 1st Road,Zhongshan, was built in 1923. From 1955 to 1995, it was the seat of ShanghaiPeople's government and then used by Pudong Development Bank. The British claimthat this building is the most exquisite one from the Suez Canal to the BeringStrait. It covers the widest area, has the widest facade and is the largestbuilding. The whole building presents the classical style of Europe in the 17thand 18th centuries and is an ancient Roman building. On the ground floor of thebuilding are three Roman stone arches. From the second floor to the fourth floorof the building, there are six Greek Corinthian pillars. This kind of columnappeared in the prosperous city of Corinth in the Greek era. On the top of thecolumn, there is a bunch of leaves and flower vines, which is shaped like aflower basket and beautifully carved. It is a symbol of "the rich". On the topof the column, there is a Baroque spire. The most noteworthy thing is that italso has three rare treasures: the first one is a pair of bronze lions on bothsides of the gate, sitting north facing south, one with a big mouth open,sitting on the back The one in the South Dynasty and the one in the NorthDynasty is closed, which has the meaning of bank funds. It is said that themodel was destroyed after it was cast in England, making it out of print in theworld. The second one is a huge mosaic mural on the roof of the room, which israre in the world, with a total area of 200 square meters. The third is thatthere are 28 Italian marble pillars 13 meters high in the lobby of the building,which are all formed naturally. Four of them, if not spliced, are carved out ofpure natural boulders. It is said that there are only six in the world. Thereare four here, which shows its value. (the other two are in the Louvre inFrance). So that the whole building palace, which commands more than 20buildings nearby, showing a gorgeous and solemn style. It makes it the mosteye-catching in the whole Bund complex.
The customs building was built in 1920__ and cost 4.3 million taels ofsilver. The building is eclectic. The big clock on the top of the building ismade in imitation of the big clock of the parliament building in London, whichcosts more than 20__ liang of silver. It is the largest clock in Asia and theworld famous clock. The big clock has a diameter of 5. It's four meters long andthree minutes long. 17 meters, 2 hours long. Three meters. There are threependulums of up to two tons in the clock. The clock opens three times a week,and it takes four people to wind each time for one hour. In addition, every dayat a quarter of an hour, a piece of "Dongfanghong" will be played, and at thesame time, a whole piece of "Dongfanghong" will be played.
The two buildings, known as sister buildings, are Shanghai's landmarkbuildings. The HSBC building is graceful and elegant, while the customs buildingis vigorous and straight. The two buildings stand side by side and complementeach other. They share the second climax of solidified music.
The third climax of solidified music is composed of Huizhong Hotel, Shaxunbuilding and Bank of China building. The theme of this movement ismodernism.
Huizhong hotel is located at the intersection of Zhongshan East Road andNanjing Road. Its sixth floor is at 23 Nanjing East Road. Built in 1920x, it hasa beautiful appearance with white fair faced brick as the wall and red brick asthe waistline. It is known as "Bund beauty". This was the site of threeimportant meetings. The first is the "Shanghai Universal anti smokingconference" in 1920__; the second is the "Shanghai International" conference in1996; and the third is the conference of 17 provincial representatives of Chinain 1920__ to welcome Dr. Sun Yat Sen back to China and take up the post ofinterim president.
Shaxun building and Bank of China Building Shaxun building were called "thefirst building in the Far East" because of the luxurious interior decoration atthat time. Now it's the North Building of the peace hotel. The outer image iscapitalized with the English letter A. The Bank of China building is the onlyone built by Chinese in the World Architecture Expo. It is 60 cm lower thanShaxun building. There is another story. When the Chinese capitalists thoughtthat the Bund was full of high-rise buildings of different forms built byWestern powers, which reflected the strong economic strength of the powers ofvarious countries, in order not to let us Chinese lose face, the Chinesebureaucratic capitalism also decided to build a building, which was higher thanthat of other countries, so the original plan was to build 34 floors, but laterthe owner of Shaxun building was also affected He said, "you Chinese peopledon't have any status. How can you build a building higher than ours?" so hefiled a lawsuit in London, England. As you can imagine, the Chinese people lostthe lawsuit. Later, they could only build 15 floors, 60 cm lower than the Shaxunbuilding. But the Chinese are still unconvinced that "there are policies at thetop and there are countermeasures at the bottom". Your building won't let mesurpass you. I put up two national flags on the bottom of the building. Thesetwo chess sticks are higher than your Shaxun building. You should have nothingto say this time? So the two chess sticks we see now are authentication. Theshape of Bank of China building has Chinese national characteristics, the bottomof the building is slightly tilted, and the cornice is decorated with a bucketarch. The window frame is a deformed form of Chinese coins.
The finale of solidified music is played by the Oriental Bank and Shanghaibuilding.
The Oriental Bank is a baroque building. The whole building is full ofconcave convex feeling and strong contrast. Now it is the building protectionunit in Shanghai. Broadway building is a modern style, and it is the best placeto enjoy the scenery of Huangpu River, Bund and Pudong. Premier Zhou onceaccompanied many foreign heads of state and distinguished guests to visit. Inthe 1990s, the company won the title of "top ten safety units" for foreignhotels.
Well, dear friends, this is the end of the whole explanation of what iscalled the frozen music Bund. I hope I can leave you good memories.
各位团友，大家好！欢迎你们来到上海外滩。我是你们今天的导游___，大家可以叫我小_。今天的行程就将由我为大家提供服务，希望我的服务能得到大家的满意，在此也预祝大家今天能玩得开心、愉快。
外滩原是在上海城厢(城隍庙)外的一处沿江滩地，旧时称“黄浦滩”早在1843年上海开埠以后，英国第一任驻沪领事巴富尔看中了外滩一带地方，于是划定外滩
在内的800 我们各位朋友观赏这些西方古典风情的建筑群，不仅要注意它的外部的造型美。而且要把它们视为雕塑艺术来欣赏。
在这“凝固的音乐”乐曲上，26栋建筑，楼宇的高低错落犹如钢琴上跳动着的琴键，乐曲上有序曲、三个高潮、尾声等乐章组成。
它的序曲部分由外滩防汛墙前的气象信号台所承担，这座气象信号台，是“阿脱奴婆”式的古建筑，它的主要功能有两个：第一个我们各位可以看一下在它的塔顶桅杆上悬挂各形状的标志，这是起到天气预报的作用，它根据徐家汇气象台测得的气象信息，第天五次在在桅杆上挂不同颜色的棋子，向来往的船只告示吴淞口外的风力和海浪等气象信息以保证航行的安全。第二个作用我们可以再观察一下桅杆上有一只可以上下升降的大球，第天中午11点45分，球升到桅杆一半的高度，11点55分，又将球升到顶端，12点正时，球又降到原来位置。这个目的我不说咱们在座的各位也知道是干什么的了吧？对了！他就是报时台。但是随着现代化信息传播科学的发展，各式各样的钟表数不胜数，它只能“退休”了。在1993年的10月份，在外滩综合改造二期工程中，为了保护这座具有八十多年历史的古建筑，由是将它在原来的位置向东北整体的平移了20米，并且对它进行装修，使之面貌一新。夜晚，用青白色的灯光照着，如一个巨大的通体晶莹剔透的“玉柱”，清丽动人。
在凝固的音乐上的高潮分为三部分：第一部分由亚细亚大楼、上海总会、中国通商银行大楼三幢大楼组成。由于时间的关系这里着重给各位介绍一下上海总会，他位于中山东一路二号，建成于1920__年，耗资45万两白银。原是来是供英国侨民休闲娱乐活动的场所。大楼是文艺复兴式的风格。在建筑的东立面采用的是横三段处理，又以正门为纵轴线，左右门窗装饰图案对称，整幢大楼显得和谐匀称而且稳重。另外我们再看大楼的第三层与第四层是用六根爱奥尼克式立柱支撑，这种柱式，柱身修长，高度约为底径9至10倍，柱身有条带状，柱头上有卷起的旋涡状，是“女性美”的象征。在大楼层顶南北两端有巴洛克式塔亭，增强了整幢建筑的高度和豪华气派。从远处望来他就像一件雕塑家手中的完美的艺术品。另外大楼内部的装修也十分曲雅、豪华。这里有一长34米的用意大利的大理石铺面的酒巴台，号称远东最长的酒吧。大堂的北侧还有一个半圆形的铁栅栏电梯，这部也是当时上海最早的一部电梯，现在好多的反映老上海的电视剧都是在这里拍摄的。大楼内的装饰仿英国皇宫格调，因此它有“皇家总会”之称。
紧挨着上海总汇的这个就是中国通商银行大楼，它位于外滩六号。是一幢哥特式的建筑，正门有古典式的柱廊。这就是凝固音乐的第一高潮部分。
凝固音乐的第二高潮，是由汇丰银行大楼和海关大楼所组成。是万国建筑博览群的最有代表性的建筑。 汇丰银行大楼位于中山东一路11号，1923建成，1955年至1995年这四十年间它曾是上海人民政府所在地，再在是浦东发展银行使用。这座大楼英国人自称是从苏伊士运河到白令海峡的最讲究的一幢建筑，它是外滩占地最广，门面最宽，体形最大的建筑，整幢建筑呈现十七、十八世纪欧洲出现的古典主义风格，是古罗马式的建筑。大楼底层是三个罗马石拱券大门，大楼第二层至第四层，用六根希腊式科林斯柱子。这种柱式出现在希腊时代商业繁荣的科林斯城，其柱顶上有一束树叶和花蔓组成，似花篮形状，雕刻华美，是“富豪”的象征，在他的顶端还有巴洛克式尖塔，最值得我们注意的是它还有着三件稀世之宝：第一件是大门两侧有一对铜狮，坐北朝南一只张着大口，坐南朝北的一只闭着嘴，这正好有银行资金的吐纳之意。据说在英国铸成之后就将其模型毁掉，使 第三件是大楼大堂内有28根高13米的意大利大理石石柱，全是天然形成。其中有四要是没有拼接的，是纯天然巨石雕成的，据说世上只有六根，这里拥有四根，可见它的价值，(另外两根在法国卢浮宫)。使整幢大楼皇宫，它统领着附近的二十多幢建筑，显出了华丽庄严的风范。使得它在整个外滩建筑群
海关大楼建成于1920__年，花去430万两白银。大楼是具有折中主义建筑风格。大楼顶部的大钟，是仿英国，伦敦国会大厦大钟式样制造，花白银20__余两。它是亚洲第一大钟，又是世界上著名的大钟。大钟直径5。4米，分针长3。17米，时针长2。3米。钟内有三个最达两吨的钟摆，这个大钟每周开三次，每次上发条要四个人操作一小时。另外每天在一刻钟的时候会奏响一段《东方红》乐曲，到整点奏响一整曲《东方红》。
这两座大楼被称为姐妹楼是上海的标志性建筑，汇丰银行大楼雍容曲雅，海关大楼雄健挺拔。两幢大楼并列一起相得益彰。共同承担了凝固音乐的第二高潮。
凝固音乐的第三高潮由汇中饭店、沙逊大厦、中国银行大楼三幢建筑组成。这一乐章以现代主义为主题。
汇中饭店位于中山东路南京路口，它的正六在南京东路23号。1920__年建造，它外形美观，白色清水砖作墙面；红砖作腰线。有“外滩美女”之称。这里曾是三次重要会议所在地。第一，1920__年“上海万国禁烟大会”;第二是1996年“上海国际”会议；第三是1920__年中国17省代表召开欢迎孙中山先生回国就任临时大总统会议。
沙逊大厦与中国银行大楼沙逊大厦因当时内部装修豪华被称为是“远东第一楼”。现在是和平饭店的北楼。外形象大写英文字母A。中国银行大楼是万国建筑博览中唯一一个中国人自己建造的大厦，他比沙逊大厦低60厘米，这还有一个故事。当被中国资本家觉得在外滩全是西方列强建造的形式各异的高楼，而且反映了各国列强的雄厚的经济实力，为了不让我们中国人丢脸面，于是中国官僚资本主义也决定造一个大楼，而且要造比其他国家的都要高，于是原计划要造34层，但是后来受沙逊大厦的业主也就是沙逊的阴挠，他说“你们们中国人是一点地位没有的，造的楼怎么可以比我们英国人的还要高呢？”于是打官司打到英国伦敦，结果大家是可想而知的，中国人败诉了，后来只能造成15层，比沙逊大厦低了60厘米。但是中国人还是不服气“上有政策下有对策”，你楼房不让我超过你，我在楼底上竖了两杆国旗，这两个棋杆比你们沙逊大厦高，这回你们应该没话讲了吧？所以我们现在看到的这两个棋杆就是鉴证。中国银行大厦外形有中为民族特色，楼底国角微翘，檐口用斗拱装饰。窗框是中国钱币的变形的形状。
凝固音乐的尾声是由东方汇理银行和上海大厦担当。
东方汇理银行为巴洛克式建筑，整幢大楼富有凹凸感，对比强烈。现在是上海市建筑保护单位。百老汇大厦具有现代主义风格是观赏黄浦江、外滩、浦东景色的最佳处，周总理曾经陪同不少外国元首和贵宾登临观光。20世纪90年代，连续获得涉外宾馆“十佳安全优胜单位”称号。
好了，各位朋友，整个被称为凝固的音乐外滩的讲解到此就结束了。希望能给各位留下美好的回忆。
亲爱的旅客朋友们：
我是你们的导游。我叫青严茜，你们可以叫我小青。今天我们要去丽江古城。
丽江古城位于中国西南部云南省的丽江纳西族自治县，始建于公元13世纪后期。古城海拔2400余米，自古就是远近闻名的集市和重镇。古城现有居民25000余人。其中，纳西族占总人口绝大多数，有30%的居民仍在从事以铜银器制作、皮毛皮革、酿造业为主的传统手工业和商业活动。
在丽江古城区内的玉河水系上，修建有桥梁354座，其密度为平均每平方公里93座。桥梁较着名的有锁翠桥、大石桥、万千桥、南门桥、马鞍桥、仁寿桥，均建于公元14～19世纪。
古城里的五凤楼始建于明代公元1620xx年，楼高20米。因其建筑形制酷似五只飞来的彩凤，故名“五凤楼”，楼内的天花板上还绘有多种精美的图案。
丽江古城历史悠久，古朴自然。丽江民居既融和了汉、白、彝、藏各民族精华，又有纳西族的独特风采，是研究中国建筑史、文化史不可多得的重遗产。丽江古城包容着丰富的民族传统文化，是研人类文化发展的重要史料。
今天的旅行到此结束，拜拜。
Dear friends: passenger
I am your tour guide. My name is green YanQian, you can call me xiaoqing. Today we are going to go to lijiang.
Lijiang ancient city is located in the lijiang naxi autonomous county in southwest China's yunnan province, founded in the late 13th century. The ancient city of more than 2400 meters above sea level, since ancient times is known fairs and towns. The ancient city of existing more than 25000 inhabitants. Among them, the naxi nationality for the vast majority of the population, 30% of the residents are still engaged in mainly copper, silver, fur, leather making, brewing traditional handicraft industry and commercial activities.
Built on the YuHe water system in the ancient city of lijiang, there are 354 Bridges, the density of the average per 93 square kilometers. Bridge is a famous cui bridge, a lock in, myriad bridge, south gate bridge, saddle, the bridge bridge, built in the 14 ~ 19 century.
The ancient town of five phoenix tower was built in the Ming dynasty in 1601 AD, 20 meters high. Because of its architectural form like five flying colourful feng, therefore "the five-phoenix towers", in the building also painted on the ceiling of a variety of exquisite patterns.
Lijiang has a long history, natural style. Lijiang residence is harmony the han, bai, yi, Tibetan ethnic essence, and has a unique style of the naxi nationality, is the study of Chinese architectural history, culture history, rare heavy heritage. Lijiang is containing the rich traditional culture, is an important historical research of human cultural development.
Today's trip to this end, bye bye.
Everybody is good! Welcome to the Palace Museum, I'm glad to serve you, I am the guide from this journey all Korean an inscription, everyone call me Korean guide line. Today I accompanied him you have a good time.
Now, you have came to the Forbidden City, which is located in the centre of Beijing by bus. 24 emperors lived here, is the imperial palace during the Ming and qing dynasties, it is the Palace Museum. The palace the whole building magnificent and solemn gorgeous, whether plane layout, magnificent mountains, in the form of the 3 d effect still is incomparable masterpiece.
Let's watch the center axis of the palace! The central axis in the central axis of Beijing city. After the three main halls, palace, imperial garden is located in the central axis. On both sides of central axis of the palace, but also with many house, grand magnificent.
Looking at central axis, art treasures museum! Some of the Forbidden City palace the establishment of a comprehensive history museum of art, painting, pavilion pavilion, classification of ceramics, bronze, engraved hall, toys, craft art gallery in the Ming and qing dynasties, pavilion, four treasures of the study hall, pride, watches and clocks, and judgments of clear acting palace relics exhibition, collect a large number of ancient art treasures. According to statistics, there are 102653, including many cultural relics are unique priceless.
Even the palace of the four corner, every Angle has 18 column seventy-two liras turrets, there is a legend about turrets. One day, the emperor yongle let ministers in the Forbidden City on the four horns of building a nine beam column 10 seventy-two liras, baffled ministers to it. One day, a carpenter saw a des sauterelles cage, very strange, feel cage went up and took a look, a number, that's nine beam column seventy-two liras ten! The carpenter immediately to the secretary. From then on, they left such turrets.
Dear visitors, our today's tour end, right now, today's explanation to me, you are welcome to put forward opinions and Suggestions, I am thankful. Finally, I wish you all have fun! thank you
杭州宋城景区是中国人气最旺的主题公园，首批国家文化产业示范基地，20xx年游客有380万人。宋城景区采用宋代营造法式，依据宋代著名的《清明上河图》而建，尽量还原宋代都市原貌。
Hangzhou songcheng scenic area is China's most popular theme park, the first batch of national cultural industry demonstration base, visitors will be 3.8 million people in 20xx. Songcheng scenic area by the song dynasty building, on the basis of the song dynasty built the famous painting "on the qingming festival, song dynasty city as far as possible.
我们首先爬到了一个小房子前，看到了人造的小佛祖山，然后，我们就走到了一个宋城小街，我们看到有很多人，他们好像在看一些有趣的东西，我们也就去看了。我发现那些表演的人看上去很厉害的样子，但是，他们一点表情也没有。然后，我们又来到“聊斋惊魂”鬼屋，我们先排队进去，我们推开窗帘发现里面黑呼呼的，妈妈就被吓跑了，接着，我也跟着吓跑了。六哥出来以后跟我说：其实，那个鬼屋一点也不恐怖，只是声音有一点恐怖而已。
We climbed to a little house, on the first saw the small artificial Buddha mountain, and then, we went to a songcheng street, we see a lot of people, they seem to be seeing some interesting things, we also went to see. I found that those who perform looks great, but they have no facial expression. And then, we came to "serial shock" haunted house, let's line up, we opened the curtain found black whirring, mother was away, then, I followed away. Brother six come out later told me, in fact, the ghost don't scare, just sound a little terror.
宋城的怪街也很有意思，有隐身小屋、魅影空间、横屋、倒屋、斜屋，还有迷宫。接着我们又来到“佛窟探秘”，我一进去就不敢迈步了，因为太黑了，妈妈就带着我一起走，等到我们走出来就到吃中午饭的时间了，因为宋城不怎么好玩，所以六哥爸爸就带着我们来到农坞茶村。
Songcheng strange street is also very interesting, stealth hut, the phantom of the space, transverse house, house, house, and the labyrinth. And then we came to the "road" dambulla cave temple, dare not walk I go in, because too dark, mother will go with me, when we go out and it's time for lunch, because songcheng wasn't fun, so elder brother dad took us to the agriculture docking tea village.
吃完饭，我们来到旁边西山森林公园来爬山。我们一走出去就下雨了，我们只好每人拿一把伞。打着伞走在两边长满竹子的路上真是舒服，但是，我今天有一点累，所以，我就有一点不想爬山，落到最后。还没有走到一半时，熊叔叔就说要下山了，原来是蚊子太多了，时间也不多了，我们要赶着去看晚上的演出呐！
Next to a meal, we came to west mountain forest park to climb the mountain. We walked out of it to rain, we had to hold an umbrella for one person. His umbrella is in the way of dripping with bamboo is really comfortable, but I'm a little bit tired today, so I don't want to climb a mountain, there is a little into the final. No walk in the middle, uncle said to bear down, turned out to be too many mosquitoes, time is running out, we want to catch up on go to see the evening show!
Hello, dear visitors by I lead you to the Palace Museum in Beijing, my name is Kong Fanlu, hope I can bring you the best service. But now I want to bring some requirements: 1. To keep your valuables; 2. If you get lost, please don't hesitate to call me don't leave. 3. Be sure to protect the environment. Ok, finished my request, please consciously abide by, thank you for your cooperation!
First of all, I give you a brief introduction, the Palace Museum is located in the center of Beijing, used to be called the Forbidden City, is the imperial palace during the Ming and qing dynasties, the world's largest and the most magnificent, most complete existing ancient palace. At least 580 years old. Large-scale palace, 753 meters wide from east to west, north and south 961 meters, the total area of 720xx0 square meters, a total of about ten thousand between the palace.
Dear visitors, now show in front of our eyes is the magnificence of the ancient palaces of the Forbidden City. You look at all sides is a wall, surrounded by tall gate, south is the meridian gate, north gate of creature, for DongHuaMen east, the west gate of Sherwood.
Now tell me, please go to the imperial palace the biggest palace in the taihe palace and have a look! This is the place where the emperor to hold, look over there, is in the middle of the white marble sculpture "dragon playing pearl", both sides is white marble steps; The steps on the left is a turtle, right is a crane, it is a symbol of longevity.
I'll give you introduce other house! Now we come to zhonghe palace, zhonghe palace is a place where king on his way to the hall of supreme harmony in learning etiquette and Baohe Palace? It is supported by many root red giant column, each post are engraved with a lifelike dragon, very spectacular, we take a look at the mandarin house!!!! He is the crown prince of DouShuChu in Ming dynasty. Gate of heavenly purity was the palace at at home and abroad, inside the parting of the delay, which is to the north.
Okay, end of the tour, I hope you again to watch the other scenery and wish you a happy!
Entering the Meridian Gate, there are five marble bridges on the Inner Golden Water River, shaped like a bow. The five marble bridges just look like five arrows reporting symbolically to heaven. The five bridges were supposed to represent the five virtues preached by Confucius-benevolence, righteousness, rite, intelligence and fidelity.
Across the Inner Golden Water Bridge, we get to the Gate of Supreme Harmony. During the Ming and early Qing dynasties, here was the place where the emperor gave his audience, accepted documents from his ministers and made decisions here. There are two bronze lions guarding in front of the Gate of Supreme Harmony. The male lion was usually put on the left, playing with an embroidered design ball, which is said to show the emperor's supreme power. The other one on the right is the female lion, playing with a lion cub with its left paw symbolizing prosperity of the royal family's offsprings.
Across the Gate of Supreme Harmony , we come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Here the emperor held grand ceremonies such as the emperor's enthronement ceremony, the wedding ceremony, dispatched generals to the battles, and the emperor received the successful candidates of the imperial examination etc. Also, the emperor held grand feasts each year on New Year's Day, Winter solstice and his own birthday.
The Hall of Supreme Harmony is 35.5 meters high with double layered roof that represents the highest construction rank of all. Now, let's ascend the stairs and move on to look at articles in display on two sides of the hall. On the top layer of the terrace stands a sundial on the east an imperial grain measure on the west. The sundial is an ancient time measure or a time-measuring apparatus used in the old days. The sundial tells the time by seeing the shadow of the metal pin on the sundial, which has an inclination angle of 50 degrees with the graduation on it. The grain measure was used as the national standard measure in agriculture in the old days. Both the grain measure and the sundial were symbols of the emperor's justice and rectitude.
There are two pairs of incense burners in the shape of bronze dragon-headed tortoises and bronze cranes placed on each side. They are both symbols of longevity.
When you look up the building in the Forbidden City, you can see mythical animal statues on the eaves of each building. Originally, there used to be big wooden nails on the roof to prevent the tiles from sliding down. Later they were replaced by glazed tiles, which were shaped into mythical animal statues for better beautification. They are symbols of auspiciousness and peace, and people believed that they are capable of subduing fire and warding off evil spirits.
Inside of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, you can see the gilded caisson ceiling high above the throne with a magnificent sculpture of a curling dragon playing with a huge pear was called “Xuanyuan Jing”， representing orthodox succession.
This hall is supported by 72 giant columns inside. In the old days, the traditional way of the Chinese to calculate a “room” is that: a square enclosed by four pillars was treated as one “room”， so the hall can be said to have 55 “rooms” in total. The six columns inside are gilded and painted with coiled dragon amidst clouds, and the rest are painted red.
The emperor's throne is placed on the dais in the center, and carved in cloud and dragon patterns and gilded. On both sides of the throne are a pair of elephant-shaped incense burners symbolize universal peace and two incense burners shaped as a mythical animal 9,000 kilometers per day and speaking all the languages of nearby kingdoms. Around the throne stand a pair of bronze cranes and in front of the dais is four cloisonné incense burners. The floor on the ground is paved with “Gold Bricks”， specially made in Suzhou.
The Hall of Middle Harmony is a square-shaped hall with a single pyramidic roof standing behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony. This was the place where the emperor would take a short rest before he went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for grand ceremonies. Every year before the emperor went to the Altars and Temples, the emperor would receive and read the sacrificial address here.
Before the emperor went to the Altar of Agriculture for offering the sacrifice, the seeds intended for spring sowing and the ploughs were examined here, just to show the concern of the emperor for agriculture.
According to the rule, the imperial genealogy should be revised every ten years. The ceremony of presenting the genealogy to the emperor for revision and approval would also be held here.
Now, we come to the Hall of Preserving Harmony, the last of the three front halls.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, on each New Year's Eve and the 15th day of the lunar moth, banquets would be held to entertain the civil and military officials and the princes and envoys of the Mongolian nobles and other nationalities. To celebrate the princess's marriage, the emperor would incite the bridegroom and his father as well as their relatives who served for the imperial government to a banquet.
The Imperial Palace Exam was held here once every three years in the Qing dynasty.
Just behind the Hall of Preserving Harmony, there is a big Marble Rampcarved with mountain cliffs, sea waves, clouds and nine dragons. It is 16.57 meters long, 3.07 meters wide and 1.7 meters thick, and weighs about 250 tons.
欢迎你来到北京故宫！这里又称紫禁城，是明朝两代的皇宫，为我国现在最大最富贵的古建筑群，面积达15500平方米，房屋9000多间。故宫四周围有10米高的城墙，墙外四角各有一座华丽奇特的角楼。
Welcome you to Beijing's Forbidden City! Also called the Forbidden City, here are two generations of the Ming dynasty in the imperial palace, for our country is now the largest and most prosperous of ancient architectural complexes, an area of 15500 square meters, more than 9000 houses. Around the Forbidden City has 10 meters high walls, corners of the wall have a magnificent strange watchtower.
从午门进入紫禁城，然后沿着中轴线依次参观内金水桥，太和门，太和殿，中和殿，乾明宫，交泰殿，坤宁宫，御花园。参观完御花园，可以通过御花园左侧的门进入东六宫依次参观储秀宫，翎坤宫，永寿宫，咸福宫，长寿宫，太极殿，然后出内右门回到乾明广场，东行进入内左门，可依次参观延禧宫，永和宫，景阳宫，乘乾宫。参观完东六宫可沿东长庆门，然后再进入皇极门，可以参观皇极殿，宁寿宫，扮戏楼，畅音阁，养性殿，乾隆花园，贞妃井，最后出贞顺门西行出神武门就可以离开故宫了。
From the meridian gate to enter the Forbidden City, and then along the central axis, in turn, to visit the jinshui bridge, the gate, taihe palace, zhonghe palace, Ming palace, tai temple, palace of earthly tranquility, the imperial garden. Visiting the imperial garden, can pass to the left of the garden door into the east sixth in turn to visit the palace of gathering excellence, yi kun palace, YongShou palace, salty fu palace, longevity palace, tai chi temple, and then the right door to dry bright square, east into the inside the left door, can, in turn, to visit the jubilee palace, yonghe palace, palace, sunell group by the palace. Visiting the east sixth changqing gate along the east, and then enter the emperor extremely door, can visit Huangji Palace, tranquility and palace, actors floor, chang pavilion, temple raises a gender, the qianlong garden, zhen princess well, finally a zhen shun the west door the creature can leave the palace door.
今天我能给你们当导游我感到非常荣幸，我跟着大家一起游览了美丽的北京故宫，高兴的度过了一天。希望你们再来北京故宫的时候再请我当导游，我会更好地讲解美丽的故宫的。
Today I can give you when I feel very honored to guide, I followed all of you to visit the beautiful Beijing the imperial palace, spent a happy day. I hope you come back to Beijing the imperial palace please when I when the tour guide, I can better explain the beautiful palace.
Hello, everyone：
We are noe 500 years. The Palace Museum, as the most beautiful spot of interest throughout Beijing, is unique for its location: to the north north to south and 750 meters east to s in it 。 According to legendthere are 9999.5 room-units in all 。The pound is enclosed by a 10-meter-hign pound there is a 3,800-meter-long and 52 meter-plex straddles on an 8-kilometers-long central axis that stretchesfromYongding (Forever Stable) Gate in the south to Gulou (Drum Toinence plex, tplicated processes and high cost, these brick are called “golden bricks.” The Palace Museum serves as a living embodiment of good tradition and styles unique to China` s ancient architecture. It reflects to the full the ingenuity and creativity of the Chinese plete group of royal residences, the Palace Museum is a prominent historical and tourist site.
What -units. It is flanked by tplete with multiple and four edged eaves and pinnacles. All of these structures are connected by a colonnade. Because these halls resemble a soaring bird, it was also know as wufenglou (Five-phoenix Tower) 。 Inside the main hall there is a throne. Drums and bells were stored in the wings. Whenever the emperor presided over grand ceremonies or observed rites in the Hall of Upreme Harmony, drums, bells and gongs would be struck to mark the occasion.
Hello and welcome to the Forbidden City to visit, my name is Chen, you call me Chen guide line. I'll introduce you to the palace, after introducing taihe palace, zhonghe palace and Baohe Palace, dry, and the qing. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is China's important historical relics protection, 1987 by the UNESCO "world cultural heritage" list. Two views are the origin of the Forbidden City, the first one is in accordance with the theory of ancient Chinese horoscope, the north star in transit, the Forbidden City just to the north star, corresponding to the nature and man; The second is: for the palace is purple, it is beat city, so the imperial palace is also called the Forbidden City. In the Ming dynasty emperor yongle began to build the palace, to the Ming yongle eighteen years (1420)。 After more than five hundred years, a total of 24 emperors living here. There are 10 m high wall around the Forbidden City and 52 m wide moat. City, north and south long 961 m, 753 m wide, covers an area of 720000? 。 The palace building layout along the central axis to expand, palace building area of 163000? 。 The hall of supreme harmony is the emperor summoned minister to hold and discuss state affairs. Since 1420, after the completion of burned repeatedly, and rebuilt many times, see today is the qing dynasty emperor kangxi thirty-four years (1695) reconstruction. The hall of supreme harmony construction area of 2377? ， the equivalent of 50 classrooms, 35.05 m high, equivalent to ten stories tall, is the largest temple in the Forbidden City. The hall of supreme harmony decoration is very luxurious, spread inside the brics, sets up the throne. The brics, but the brics is not made of gold, the brics is meant for use by the palace a quality shop place brick, made in places such as suzhou, songjiang, excellent materials, production process complicated. Because of its strong fine texture, knock up a metallic sound, therefore the brics. Before the hall of supreme harmony has a broad platform, called Dan positions, commonly known as the platform. Platform display sundial, jia quantity each, turtles, copper crane each pair, bronze dings 18. Everybody look on both sides of the hall of supreme harmony, there are a lot of big tank? It is stem what of, by the way, is a fire. The bottom of the tank has a groove, because the water freezes in winter, fire into the groove can not let the water freezes. The hall of supreme harmony is the most is always important in the Forbidden City palace, many will go out from this historical decisions. After the hall of supreme harmony is zhonghe palace, is the place where the emperor rest forwards. Baohe Palace is located in and behind the house, is where the first position. Exam's first name, second name is pound of eye, the third is the number three. I don't know the emperor sits on the above, the examinee is nervous shiver. The emperor put position within the palace, the emperor is more visible attaches great importance to the first position. The palace after half is the place where emperors and concubines life and living. Qing dynasty palace is the largest palace harem, is the emperor's bedroom. Palace hanging above the throne "legitimate" plaque, reportedly emperor himself prince name on the "legitimate" plaque, heir to the throne were determined by this method, and reduce the fight for the throne since the massacre. Palace of earthly tranquility is the queen's bedroom, it is the only one on the central axis of the living quarters for the concubine, also from dry recently, qing reflects the status of the queen in the palace, "behind a successful man, there is always a successful woman" this sentence for here. In front of the palace of earthly tranquility there is a small palace hall, it is the queen in the art festival handsel. Just important palace on the central axis, which we paid a visit to the back of the central axis is the imperial garden, both sides have some palace, the first part is the hall of supreme harmony as the center, in the second part is the living quarters for the some concubines and maids. Explanation is completed now, please visit freely.
Hello, everyone, my name is Yang chao, everybody call me Yang guide! Now we are going to visit the unequalled Beijing's Forbidden City.
You see, we went to the grand palace, the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is the imperial palace during the Ming and qing dynasties; The imperial palace is one of the world's largest and most complete ancient wooden buildings, as the largest ancient building group of our country. It makes building the Ming yongle (AD 1406)， 14 years to complete, there are 24 emperors in this reign. "Ok, we are now ready to go to temple, visitors, please friends keep up with the team, don't be left behind, or got lost and could not find us!" Ok, now follow me into the hall, there are three main halls of the imperial palace: taihe palace, zhonghe palace and Baohe Palace. Temple built in white marble stylobate on build by laying bricks or stones into 8 meters high, looking like a myth of Joan GongXian que. The hall of supreme harmony is the most gorgeous architecture, commonly known as "during"， is the place where the emperor held a ceremony, the temple of 28 meters high, 63 meters, northwest of 35 meters, big column with diameter of 1 meter 92, including six root around the throne Pan Longzhu drain powder gold lacquer. Before the throne in inside is 2 meters high on the stage, a modelling, beautiful cranes, furnace, tripod, work behind the folding screen. The whole hall decorated splendid and solemn gorgeous. Zhonghe palace is take a break and exercise before the emperor went to the hall of supreme harmony held a ceremony etiquette, Baohe Palace is outside the emperor gave New Year's eve feast every year pan Kings. Tourists friends to have a rest first, under the watch of the three main halls, can touch, wait us to delay, to dry, qing tai temple, palace of earthly tranquility as the center, what wings have sixth east and west sixth, is the emperor on weekdays and concubines lived. "Well, the activity of today and is now over! I wish you all have fun.
各位游客朋友们：
Dear visitors friends:
欢迎大家来到故宫，我是你们的导游——丫丫。
Welcome to the Palace Museum, I am your tour guide, ya ya.
相信大家都知道，故宫又名紫禁城。它是我国现存最完整的古代建筑。它总面积是72万左右，也是世界著名的艺术馆，其中很多文物是绝无仅有的国宝。
Believe we all know, the imperial palace and the Forbidden City. It is the most complete existing ancient buildings in China. Its total area is about 720xx0, is the world famous art museum, many cultural relics is a national treasure.
这是午门，是宫殿的正门。它的地位十分重要。许多重大的仪式都是在这里举行的。说道午门大家会想到“退出午门斩首”这句话。其实纯属误会。过去，皇上和大臣议政总有意见不同的时候。在明朝时就可以把触犯他的大臣拉到午门外用竹子打屁股，可不要小看这竹子，它是一种碗口粗的毛竹，里面还要灌上水银，具说是为了加大杀伤力，几仗下去就能皮开肉绽。被打的人不死也要终身残疾。这件恐怖的事情从皇宫传到民间，就逐渐变成“退出午门斩首”了
This is the meridian gate, is the main entrance of the palace. It is very important. Many great ceremony are held here. Meridian gate you will think of "exit the meridian gate beheaded" this sentence. It is a misunderstanding. In the past, the emperor and his ministers council always have different opinions. In the Ming dynasty can break his ministers to the meridian gate for external use bamboo to be spanked, don't look down upon this bamboo, it is a kind of bamboo wankou thick, inside irrigation on the mercury, even, in order to increase the damage, several wars can were raw. Be dozen deathless also want to permanently disabled. This horror from the palace to folk, it gradually became "exit the meridian gate beheaded"
怎么样？先不要激动，前面的美景正等着咱们呢！
? Don't be excited, first in front of the beautiful scenery waiting for us!
The Gate of Heavenly Purity, where emperors from Kangxi to Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty sat on the throne hearing reports and making decisions, is the main gate of the Inner Court.
In front of the Palace of Heavenly there is a small miniature gilded pavilion standing on the east is called Jiangshan Pavilion, representing the integrity of the country; the one on the west is called Sheji Pavilion , the God of Land and Grain, a symbol of bumper harvest in agriculture.
The first of the three back palaces, the Palace of Heavenly Purity was where the 14 emperors of the Ming and the first two emperors of the Qing Dynasties lived and handle the daily affairs. It was used as an audience chamber for receiving envoys from vassal states who presented their tributes to the emperor. Here was also the place for holding the mourning service for the deceased emperor. The famous “banquet of thousand aged people” was held twice here in the Qing Dynasty. The three famous events took place here. They are “the red pill” event, the “palace coup in 1542” and the event of “moving from this palace.”
The plaque inscribed by the first Qing Emperor Shunzhi, hangs over the throne in the palace and reads, “Be Open and Aboveboard.” It enumerates with modesty, the qualities an ideal Son of Heaven should possess. Beginning in the Qianlong's reign, for reasons of security the name of the successor to the throne was not announced publicly, as it had been preciously, but was written instead on two pieces of paper, one kept on the emperor's person throughout his reign, and the other placed in a small box that was stored behind this plaque. The box was opened only when the emperor passed away.
The Palace of Union and Peace was the place where the empress held the important ceremonies and her birthday celebration. The empress usually received greetings from the concubines, concubines, princes and princesses on her birthday celebration.
In the Qing Dynasty, the ceremony for examining the tools of picking mulberry was held here one day before the empress went out to offer the sacrifices on the altar for silkworm in spring.
In 1748, Emperor Qianlong kept twenty-five imperial seals in this hall, symbolizing the imperial power of the emperor. Twenty-five was regarded as a heavenly number for the reason of that: if we plus the total odd numbers of one, three, five, seven and nine together, that is twenty-five which means the imperial authority from the heaven and also indicates the Qing dynasty could rule the country for at least twenty-five generations.
The Water Clock is placed on the west side of this building. It is a time-measure, made by the manufacturing office of the Qing Dynasty based on the Western mechanic theory. On the west of this building, there is a 5.6-meter-high large western chiming clock.
There is a plaque hung in the center of this hall, with two Chinese characters “Wu Wei” inscribed on it.
The palace of Earthly Tranquility was used as the residence for the empresses during the Ming and early Qing dynasties. During the Qing dynasty, the western chamber became the wedding chamber for the emperor.
The Imperial Garden is located on the north-south axis almost at the north-south axis almost at the northern end of the Forbidden City. It is rectangular in shape, 90 meters long from north to south and 130 meters wide from east to west, with an area of over 11, 700 square meters.
The Hall of Imperial Peace is the main building in the Imperial Garden and also the only religious building built along the central axis. It is a Taoist temple and inside the hall the statue of the King of Xuan Wu used to be enshrined.
There are four pavilions built on left and right of the Hall of Imperial peace, two on each side, representing the four seasons of the year. Near the north gate in the Imperial Garden, the Imperial View Pavilion stands on an artificial hill of rocks. The rockery is called “Collecting Elegance Hill”。 In the old days, the emperor would climb up the hills to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival every year in this way.
大家好！我是故宫旅游业的颜剑大家可以叫我小颜导游，我今天要和大家一起去北京有名的景点：故宫。我们今天要去的地方有：太和殿、中和殿、保和殿。
Everybody is good! I am Forbidden City tourism YanJian you can call me xiaoyan tour guide, I want to go with you today Beijing famous scenic spots: the Forbidden City. We went there today: taihe palace, zhonghe palace and Baohe Palace.
我先主要介绍一下故宫：北京故宫，是世界上规模最大、保存最完好的古代皇宫建筑群，是中国古代建筑最高水平的体现。北京故宫，始建于明朝永乐四年(1406)，建成于永乐十八年(1420)，是明清两朝的皇宫，其时称紫禁城，1920xx年始称故宫。从1420xx年明成祖迁都北京，到1920xx年辛亥革命推翻清政府，将末代皇帝溥仪赶出故宫，结束中国历史上封建王朝的统治，故宫一直是中国统治阶级的政治和文化中心，先后经历了24位皇帝。
I mainly introduce the palace first: Beijing's Forbidden City, is one of the world's largest and best preserved ancient palace complex, is the highest level of ancient Chinese architecture. Beijing the imperial palace, the Ming dynasty yongle four years (1406), was built in the eighteenth year (1420), is the imperial palace during the Ming and qing dynasties, the timely according to the Forbidden City, beginning in 1925, according to the Forbidden City. Ancestor cheng, Beijing from 1421 to 1911 revolution to overthrow the qing government, the last emperor pu yi out of the palace, to end the rule of feudal dynasty in Chinese history, the palace has been the ruling class of the political and cultural center of China, has experienced the 24 emperors.
故宫占地面积72万平方米，建筑面积15万平方米，现有建筑980余座，有屋8700余间，故宫四周绕以10米高的城墙，外有50多米宽的护城河。明清故宫建于北京城的中央，
The Palace Museum covers an area of 720xx0 square meters, construction area of 150000 square meters, the existing buildings of more than 980, have house more than 8700, around the Forbidden City around 10 meters high walls, and there are more than 50 meters wide moat. The middle of the Ming and qing dynasties imperial palace was built in the city, to the north and the south central axis, faces south, which fully reflect the supreme imperial power of the feudal rule, outside the Forbidden City is emperor city, outside the imperial city and Beijing city, the city surrounded by city, shows the guarded hierarchy.
历史上，故宫因火灾和其它原因曾多次重建，但基本格局没有改变，整个皇宫建筑分为南部前朝和北部后廷两部分。前朝有太和、中和、保和三大殿，这三大殿是故宫中最高大的建筑物，也是皇帝举行重大典礼的地方，是封建皇权的象征。后廷以乾清宫、交泰殿、坤宁宫为中心，左右东西六宫为翼，是皇帝、皇后、嫔、妃居住的地方。前朝后廷，界限分明，不可随便逾越，体现了中国古代传统的等级分明，内外有别的伦理观念。中国的建筑匠师们将如此大规模的建筑规划得井井有条，利用重重得墙门和庭院把故宫有序地组合成壮丽的建筑群。
In history, the Forbidden City has repeatedly reconstruction for fire and other reasons, but the basic pattern has not changed, the entire palace after the building is divided into north and south power at the two parts. Power with taihe, neutralization, and three main halls, are the three main halls in the Forbidden City's tallest building, it is the place where the emperor held a major ceremony, is the symbol of the feudal imperial power. Back to the palace of heavenly purity, tai temple, palace of earthly tranquility of delivery as the center, around something natural to wing, is the emperor, empress, wives, princess lived. Power after the katyn, clear-cut, cannot overstep casually, embodies the ancient Chinese traditional hierarchical, both inside and outside have other ethics. Craftsman will such a large scale of Chinese architecture planning in order to use heavy doors and courtyard to the imperial palace and orderly combination into the magnificent buildings.
明清故宫的规划和建筑，不仅继承了中国古代建筑的传统，而且有所发展创新，是中国古代文化和中国古代建筑艺术成就的集大成者。其室内外建筑空间的组合、建筑体量大小的搭配、材料的运用、小品的陈设、装饰的制作、色彩的选择都达到了很高的水平，产生了激动人心的艺术效果。
The Forbidden City planning and construction of the Ming and qing dynasty, not only inherited the tradition of ancient Chinese architecture, the development and innovation, is the ancient Chinese culture and the achievements of the ancient Chinese architectural art. Its indoor and outdoor architectural space combination, the collocation of cubic construction size, the use of materials, the sketch of the display, decoration, the choice of the color are reached the high level, the exciting art effect.
故宫前朝(中路：太和门至保和殿)
Entering the Meridian Gate, there are five marble bridges on the Inner Golden Water River, shaped like a bow. The five marble bridges just look like five arrows reporting symbolically to heaven. The five bridges were supposed to represent the five virtues preached by Confucius-benevolence, righteousness, rite, intelligence and fidelity.
Across the Inner Golden Water Bridge, we get to the Gate of Supreme Harmony. During the Ming and early Qing dynasties, here was the place where the emperor gave his audience, accepted documents from his ministers and made decisions here. There are two bronze lions guarding in front of the Gate of Supreme Harmony. The male lion was usually put on the left, playing with an embroidered design ball, which is said to show the emperor's supreme power. The other one on the right is the female lion, playing with a lion cub with its left paw symbolizing prosperity of the royal family's offsprings.
Across the Gate of Supreme Harmony , we come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Here the emperor held grand ceremonies such as the emperor's enthronement ceremony, the wedding ceremony, dispatched generals to the battles, and the emperor received the successful candidates of the imperial examination etc. Also, the emperor held grand feasts each year on New Year's Day, Winter solstice and his own birthday.
The Hall of Supreme Harmony is 35.5 meters high with double layered roof that represents the highest construction rank of all. Now, let's ascend the stairs and move on to look at articles in display on two sides of the hall. On the top layer of the terrace stands a sundial on the east an imperial grain measure on the west. The sundial is an ancient time measure or a time-measuring apparatus used in the old days. The sundial tells the time by seeing the shadow of the metal pin on the sundial, which has an inclination angle of 50 degrees with the graduation on it. The grain measure was used as the national standard measure in agriculture in the old days. Both the grain measure and the sundial were symbols of the emperor's justice and rectitude.
There are two pairs of incense burners in the shape of bronze dragon-headed tortoises and bronze cranes placed on each side. They are both symbols of longevity.
When you look up the building in the Forbidden City, you can see mythical animal statues on the eaves of each building. Originally, there used to be big wooden nails on the roof to prevent the tiles from sliding down. Later they were replaced by glazed tiles, which were shaped into mythical animal statues for better beautification. They are symbols of auspiciousness and peace, and people believed that they are capable of subduing fire and warding off evil spirits.
Inside of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, you can see the gilded caisson ceiling high above the throne with a magnificent sculpture of a curling dragon playing with a huge pear was called “Xuanyuan Jing”， representing orthodox succession.
This hall is supported by 72 giant columns inside. In the old days, the traditional way of the Chinese to calculate a “room” is that: a square enclosed by four pillars was treated as one “room”， so the hall can be said to have 55 “rooms” in total. The six columns inside are gilded and painted with coiled dragon amidst clouds, and the rest are painted red.
The emperor's throne is placed on the dais in the center, and carved in cloud and dragon patterns and gilded. On both sides of the throne are a pair of elephant-shaped incense burners symbolize universal peace and two incense burners shaped as a mythical animal 9,000 kilometers per day and speaking all the languages of nearby kingdoms. Around the throne stand a pair of bronze cranes and in front of the dais is four cloisonné incense burners. The floor on the ground is paved with “Gold Bricks”， specially made in Suzhou.
The Hall of Middle Harmony is a square-shaped hall with a single pyramidic roof standing behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony. This was the place where the emperor would take a short rest before he went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for grand ceremonies. Every year before the emperor went to the Altars and Temples, the emperor would receive and read the sacrificial address here.
Before the emperor went to the Altar of Agriculture for offering the sacrifice, the seeds intended for spring sowing and the ploughs were examined here, just to show the concern of the emperor for agriculture.
According to the rule, the imperial genealogy should be revised every ten years. The ceremony of presenting the genealogy to the emperor for revision and approval would also be held here.
Now, we come to the Hall of Preserving Harmony, the last of the three front halls.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, on each New Year's Eve and the 15th day of the lunar moth, banquets would be held to entertain the civil and military officials and the princes and envoys of the Mongolian nobles and other nationalities. To celebrate the princess's marriage, the emperor would incite the bridegroom and his father as well as their relatives who served for the imperial government to a banquet.
The Imperial Palace Exam was held here once every three years in the Qing dynasty.
Just behind the Hall of Preserving Harmony, there is a big Marble Rampcarved with mountain cliffs, sea waves, clouds and nine dragons. It is 16.57 meters long, 3.07 meters wide and 1.7 meters thick, and weighs about 250 tons.