The Forbidden City in Beijing covers an area of about 720,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 150,000 square meters.

The Forbidden City in Beijing was built by Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty and designed by Kuaixiang (1397-1481, Tingrui, a native of Suzhou). Covering an area of 720,000 square meters (961 meters long and 753 meters wide), the building area of about 150,000 square meters, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with 1 million civilian workers, *** built 14 years, there are houses 9,999 and a half, in reality, according to the 1973 experts on-site measurements of the Forbidden City, there is a large and small courtyards of more than 90 seats, houses with 980 seats, *** counted 8707 rooms.

The Forbidden City Palace is arranged along a north-south axis, the three great halls, after the three palaces, the Imperial Garden are located on this axis. And spread to the sides, north and south to take straight, left and right symmetry. This central axis not only runs through the Forbidden City, but also as far south as the Yongding Gate, north to the Drum Tower and Bell Tower, running through the entire city.

Beijing Palace construction process

Beijing was originally the fiefdom of Yan Wang Zhu Di, after the battle of the war, the first year of Yongle (1403), the Ministry of Rites, Li Zhigang, etc., said, Yanjing, Beiping, the emperor is the "Longxing place", should follow the example of the Ming Taizu on the Feng Yang practice, and set up as a paternity capital. The Ming Emperor then vigorously promoted the Emperor to be the accompanying capital. Ming Emperor Chengzu then vigorously promote the status of Yanjing Beipingfu, with Beiping as Beijing, and changed Beipingfu to Shuntianfu, called "Xingzhi". At the same time, he began to move the people to enrich Beijing; those who were forced to move into Beijing included exiles from all over the world, rich families in Jiangnan, and merchants from Shanxi, and so on.

Yongle four years (1406), Ming Emperor Chengzu issued an edict to Nanjing Palace (Nanjing Imperial Palace) as a model, the construction of Beijing Palace and city walls. Zhu Di first sent out men to travel around the country to quarry valuable wood and stone, which were then transported to Beijing. The preparations alone lasted 11 years. Precious nanmu grows in the mountains, people venture into the mountains to extract wood, many people lost their lives, later generations left "into the mountains of a thousand, out of the mountains of five hundred" to describe the price of life paid by the wood.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Forbidden City