Nanjing Ming Palace Museum (in simplified Chinese 南京明故宫) is the blueprint for the Imperial Palace in Beijing, and Nanjing, is the first place with a unified national palace of a dynasty, at the current north-south on both sides of Zhongshan Road. Ming-Qing Zhu Yuanzhang got Set (Nanjing), the change to be set Renqing Tianfu Rd. Does the emperor as the emperor, “Liuji life such as land designated for the new BU Palace”, finally selected the land when the “bell Longpan Fu”, “emperor of the house” and poised. It is said that the emperor levy hair craftsman 200,000 military and civilian people, to fill Lake songbirds “to build new town.” Year project began in 1366, lasted one year and built a magnificent towering, very popular.

The emperor’s palace, by the Imperial and Miyagi is composed of two parts, collectively known as the Imperial Palace. Imperial outer, with envelope of Miyagi, the museum is very beautiful. According to today’s scholars research, the scope of the East from this Imperial Nanjing Nanjing Museum and the School of Electrical and Mechanical west line, west to Zhu Bridge, east of Yixian bridge, south to Gwanghwamun, North Bridge area of the heart to the Buddha. 25 kilometers long from north to south, east-west 2 wide, the circumference of 9 kilometers, showing convex-shaped. Therefore, the area of the palace is so great that you might not be able to visit it in one day.

Such a magnificent, magnificent palace Chong-hong building, how to decline, decay and destruction it? There are a lot of people thinking that they are Qing Xianfeng who destroyed in the war years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this argument is full. In fact early in the Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Nanjing Ming Palace Museum has been repeatedly undermined, its decline are destroyed there is a process.

October 1956, Ming Palace Museum site was declared as a key units to be protected in Jiangsu Province, and it is now the city government which is planning to have demonstration of new protection and utilization of Ming palace sites to make them play a bigger role.

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