Fasting Palace

Magnolia, flowering period February, March. Magnolia is named for its "color white and microbillion, fragrance like orchid". There is a magnolia flower in the east and west courtyard of Zhai Palace in Temple of Heaven Park. The red wall and blue tiles reflect the white magnolia flower, which has become the net red place for the city to shoot magnolia. The Zhai Palace is the place where the emperor fasted. In the various sacrifices and prayer buildings of the royal family, there is the Zhai Palace. The most complete building in existence is the Zhai Palace of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

The palace is located in the west gate of the Temple of Heaven, covering an area of about 40,000 square meters, built in 18 years of Ming Yongle (1420 AD). The palace is the place where the emperor fasted before the sacrifice of the sky. The main buildings are the main hall without beam, the bedroom palace, the bell tower, etc. The front and sides of the main hall have the hour pavilion and the bronze pavilion. The whole palace is surrounded by two walls and a heavily guarded porch, which shows that the emperor is very strict in defending.

Zhai Palace is the emperor's living place when he sacrifices the heavens. It is large in scale. There are moats around, a promenade outside, several floors inside, and a bell tower. The main hall is five beamless halls. Now the inside has been changed to an exhibition hall, showing the relevant content of the emperor's life in Zhai Palace. Behind the main hall is the bedroom hall. Although the Zhai Palace is not as luxurious as the palace in the Forbidden City, the place where the emperor lives is naturally very magnificent and magnificent, but it is necessary to be as low-key as possible in front of heaven.

Zhai Palace is located in the south of Chengsu Palace of the Forbidden City, west of the Yuqing Palace, the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. The fasting before the sacrifice of the heavens and the earth was carried out in the Temple of Heaven outside the palace. After the reign of the Emperor, the fasting ceremony was changed to the palace.

According to the ancient Chinese ritual system, people should do fasting before sacrifice, in order to show respect for God, but also to emphasize the importance of sacrifice. The Temple of Heaven was built in the 18th year of Ming Yongle and is the place where the emperor held the ceremony before the ceremony. Before the sacrifice, the emperor came here three days in advance to fast and bathe, asking not to be scorned, not to drink, not to listen to music, not to sleep in the house, not to ignore the name of the criminal, not to ask for the death, clean and clean, to show sincerity.

The Zhai Palace is the place where the emperor fasted. In the various sacrifices and prayer buildings of the royal family, there is the Zhai Palace. The most complete building in existence is the Zhai Palace of Beijing Temple of Heaven. The Zhai Palace is northwest of the Temple of Heaven and the Qiutan Temple. It sits west to east and is square. The palace wall is two floors, the outer layer is called the brick city, the circumference is 66.07 meters; the inner palace wall is called the purple wall, the circumference is 41.33 meters. There are 2 palace gates in the east of the wall, there is 1 corner door on the left and right, and there is 1 Han white jade bridge in front of the corner door. The purple wall is surrounded by 167 corridors, which is the place where the eight flag soldiers guard the palace wall to hide the wind and rain. There are more than 1,300 paintings of people, landscapes, flowers, mane hair and other color paintings. There is a deep pool outside the corridor, and the entire Zhai Palace is fortified. In front of the stone bridge, there are five 朝ing houses in the north and south, which are temporary housing for bodyguards and forbidding soldiers.