The Forbidden City is a palace complex in Dongcheng District,Beijing,China,at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing. It is surrounded by numerous opulent imperial gardens and temples including the 22 ha (54-acre) Zhongshan Park,the sacrificial Imperial Ancestral Temple,the 69 ha (171-acre) Beihai Park,and the 23 ha (57-acre) Jingshan Park. It is officially administered by the Palace Museum.
The Jiajing Emperor,personal name Zhu Houcong (朱厚熜),was the 12th emperor of the Ming dynasty,reigning from 1521 to 1567. He was the former Zhengde Emperor's cousin. His father,Zhu Youyuan (1476–1519),Prince of Xing,was the fourth son of the Chenghua Emperor and the eldest son of three sons born to the emperor's concubine,Lady Shao. The Jiajing Emperor's era name,"Jiajing",means "admirable tranquility".
Khanbaliq or Dadu of Yuan was the winter capital of the Yuan dynasty of China in what is now Beijing,the capital of China today. It was located at the center of modern Beijing. The Secretariat directly administered the Central Region of the Yuan dynasty and dictated policies for the other provinces. As emperors of the Yuan dynasty,Kublai Khan and his successors also claimed supremacy over the entire Mongol Empire following the death of Möngke in 1259. Over time the unified empire gradually fragmented into a number of khanates.
The Beijing city fortifications were series of walls with towers and gates constructed in the city of Beijing,China in the early 1400s until they were partially demolished in 1965 for the construction of the 2nd Ring Road and Line 2 of the Beijing Subway. The original walls were preserved in the southeastern part of the city,just south of the Beijing railway station. The entire perimeter of the Inner and Outer city walls stretched for approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi).
The Mukden Palace,or Shenyang Imperial Palace,was the former palace of the Later Jin dynasty and the early Qing dynasty. It was built in 1625,and the first three Qing emperors lived there from 1625 to 1644. Since the collapse of imperial rule in China,the palace has been converted to a museum that now lies in the center of Shenyang,Liaoning.
Emperor Zhangzong of Jin,personal name Madage,sinicized name Wanyan Jing,was the sixth emperor of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty of China. He reigned from 20 January 1189 to 29 December 1208.
Chinese imperial cuisine is derived from a variety of cooking styles of the regions in China,mainly from the cuisines of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. The style originated from various Emperors' Kitchen and the Empress Dowagers' Kitchen,and it is similar to Beijing cuisine which it heavily influenced.
The Battle of Ningyuan was a battle between the Ming dynasty and the Later Jin dynasty in 1626. The Later Jin had been waging war on the Ming for several years,and their leader Nurhaci had deemed Ningyuan to be a suitable target for his attack,in part due to advice from a Ming defector,Li Yongfang. Later Jin failed to take the city and Nurhaci was wounded in the assault,dying eight months later. The Ming emerged victorious,marking a temporary resurgence of the Ming army after an eight-year-long series of defeats.
The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years. Prior to the unification of China by the First Emperor in 221 BC,Beijing had been for centuries the capital of the ancient states of Ji and Yan. It was a provincial center in the earliest unified empires of China,Qin and Han. The northern border of ancient China ran close to the present city of Beijing,and northern nomadic tribes frequently broke in from across the border. Thus,the area that was to become Beijing emerged as an important strategic and a local political centre. During the first millennia of imperial rule,Beijing was a provincial city in northern China. Its stature grew in the 10th to the 13th centuries when the nomadic Khitan and forest-dwelling Jurchen peoples from beyond the Great Wall expanded southward and made the city a capital of their dynasties,the Liao and Jin. When Kublai Khan made Dadu the capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368),all of China was ruled from Beijing for the first time. From 1279 onward,with the exception of two interludes from 1368 to 1420 and 1928 to 1949,Beijing would remain as China's capital,serving as the seat of power for the Ming dynasty (1421–1644),the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1912),the early Republic of China (1912–1928) and now the People's Republic of China (1949–present).
A Chinese palace is an imperial complex where the court,civil government,royal garden and defensive fortress resided. Its structures are considerable and elaborate. The Chinese character gong represents two connected rooms (呂) under a roof (宀). Originally the character applied to any residence or mansion,but it was used in reference to solely the imperial residence since the Qin dynasty.
The Ming Palace,also known as the "Forbidden City of Nanjing",was the 14th-century imperial palace of the early Ming dynasty,when Nanjing was the capital of China.
The Forbidden City was first built in the early-15th century as the palace of the Ming emperors of China. It is located in the centre of Beijing,China,and was the Chinese imperial palace from the early-Ming dynasty in 1420 to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912,continuing to be home of the last emperor,Puyi,until 1924,since then it has been a museum.
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility is the northernmost of the three main halls of the Inner Court of the Forbidden City in Beijing,China. The other two halls are the Palace of Heavenly Purity and Hall of Union.
Yeheidie'erding,also known as Amir al-Din,was a Muslim architect who helped design and led the construction of the capital of the Yuan dynasty,Khanbaliq,located in present-day Beijing,the current capital of the People's Republic of China. According to Cary Y. Liu interpretation of the Ma-ho-ma-sha Stele inscription,either Amir al-Din's ancestors came from the Western Regions,although originating from Arabia,or that he directly came from Arabia.
The Chaotian Palace,is located in Nanjing,China. It was built as an imperial palace in the Ming dynasty,and today it is known as the Nanjing Municipal Museum. Chaotian Palace area has the largest preserved traditional Chinese architectural complex in Jiangnan.
Zhongdu was the capital of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in medieval China. It was located in the southwestern part of Beijing's Xicheng District. It had a population of nearly one million by the late 12th century,and was the last and largest city built on that location before the Yuan dynasty.
Taizicheng is a village in Sitaizui,Chongli District of Zhangjiakou in the northwest of Hebei Province,China. Its name means "City of the Crown Prince",and archaeological excavations carried out between May and November 2017 uncovered the remains of an imperial palace of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). It is thought that this was the summer palace for Emperor Zhangzong of Jin,which is named Tai He Palace in the History of Jin.
Consort Ning,of the Han Chinese Bordered Yellow Banner Wu clan,was a consort of the Yongzheng Emperor.
