Is it true that the Forbidden City is supernatural? If so, why did it happen?

The so-called "paranormal" is completely false.

Weird horror stories are often set in the Forbidden City in the dead of night, and interpreted in the inaccessible closed area of the Forbidden City, especially in the western regions where the legend of "Yin Qi" is very strong. It's dark in the moon, the old house is deep in the courtyard, ghosts are haunting, or tears or songs come and go, which sounds terrible.

Yesterday, the official of the Forbidden City made a public response to this for the first time: the so-called "supernatural" is completely false. Because people are unfamiliar with this aspect, they are distorted and interpreted. With the opening of the previously dusty western region, the closed area has become a public visiting space, and these rumors will also be shattered.

According to experts from the Forbidden City, "Forbidden City people" have never seen or experienced supernatural phenomena in the Forbidden City. Those widely circulated stories are all made up by hearsay and embellishment after a meal. With the expansion of the opening area of the Palace Museum in June 10, many areas that have not been opened in the past 90 years began to meet the audience, and the closed areas were transformed into public spaces for exhibitions to welcome every audience. For example, Waixi Road, where Cining Palace and Shoukang Palace are located, as a "woman's world", is full of all kinds of historical stories and folklore, and is often mentioned by major film and television dramas. After the opening up, this area unveiled a mysterious "veil" to the audience, presenting a real and unique western region with exquisite exhibition furnishings and elegant courtyard gardens.

"All the good things went to Taiwan Province Province" is not true.

In the exhibition of Baoyunlou, a red wooden box with a seal shows people the story of cultural relics moving south, which reads "the first box in ancient times". According to experts, this wooden box is a physical object that was transported back to the north during the process of cultural relics moving south.

People often ask: Did all the good things in the Palace Museum go to Taipei? According to experts from the Palace Museum, in fact, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in order to avoid war, the Palace Museum transported 1349 1 box of cultural relics to the south in five batches from February to May, temporarily stored it in Shanghai, and then hid it in Nanjing. At that time, there were millions of collections in the Palace Museum, most of which were kept in their original places, and even some cultural relics in the whole warehouse did not move south. In addition, each exhibition hall must be kept open and visited normally, and a certain number of exhibits must be reserved. According to the inventory of the National Palace Museum in Beiping during the Republic of China, there are more than 1 189000 cultural relics in Beiping, and there are millions of archives in Ming and Qing dynasties, which is more than 20 times of the cultural relics involved in the southward migration.

Experts from the Forbidden City introduced that they initially decided to choose cultural relics and move them to Shanghai for storage. However, due to the tight time and many boxes, it is not completely done to choose fine cultural relics for packaging. Moreover, packers are "two knives" and have limited knowledge of cultural relics, which leads to the joke of "keeping the truth and choosing the false".

According to records, 2,972 boxes of cultural relics in the Forbidden City were moved to Taiwan Province Province for preservation, accounting for 22% of the total number of boxes of cultural relics 1349 1. After these cultural relics were moved to Taiwan Province, the National Palace Museum in Taipei made three counts, and the number increased greatly, mainly 204 boxes of Qing Dynasty archives. Due to the change of piece counting method, it increased from 28,920 boxes in 1954 to 386,862 boxes. "Not all the good things went to Taiwan Province Province." Experts said.

The first exhibition of Mao Zedong's photographic works in the Forbidden City.

This newly opened exhibition shows Mao Zedong's photos in the Forbidden City for the first time. This completely overturns the statement that "Mao Zedong has never been to the Forbidden City because of superstition".

According to Mr. Han Bingwen, the old "Forbidden City Man" and then the head of the security department of the Palace Museum, Chairman Mao has not only been to the Forbidden City, but also more than once, three times at a time. Moreover, he once strolled through the East Gate Tower and walked through the southeast part of the city wall to the Wumen Exhibition Hall to see the exhibition. This is the area that the audience can walk through on June 65438+ 10/0.

The first time was in the afternoon of May, 1954, 17. Chairman Mao is wearing a gray Chinese tunic suit, cloth shoes and a bamboo pole in his hand. After entering from Shenwumen, he walked up the stairs along Dongma Road in Shenwumen, stopping from time to time to look into the distance.

The second time was in the afternoon of May 19. Chairman Mao came to the Forbidden City for the second time. This time, the chairman still drove into Shenwumen, got off the bus and visited the city wall along the west road.

Chairman Mao came to the Forbidden City for the third time at 4 pm on May 20th. This time, accompanied by Comrade Luo Ruiqing, I entered the Forbidden City from the east gate of Wumen and went straight to Wumen Gate Tower to continue to watch the "National Unearthed Cultural Relics Exhibition" held in the building.

Expose the secret of the incident

The largest Huang Huali furniture in Shoukang Palace has a small vault.

"Zhen Xuan" in the film and television drama, historically, is the mother of Qianlong, Niu, who lives in the palace. In her bedroom, the reporter saw the largest existing Huang Huali furniture in the Forbidden City-two sets of Huang Huali carved dragon cabinets with a height of 2.9 meters and a single cabinet width of 1.76 meters. It is reported that this cabinet was given to the palace by officials in those years. The emperor was very happy and greatly rewarded the giver.

The cabinet is usually used to store the daily necessities of the empress dowager. Its unknown "mechanism" is that there is a secret compartment at the bottom of the cabinet with a single lock on it, which contains gold, silver and jewels. It is said that the key to the secret box was hung on the queen mother's waist, which shows that it is the queen mother's favorite thing.

The first naked exhibition of the cultural relic "Invisibility Cloak" in Cining Palace

A major feature of the sculpture exhibition is that there are many large-scale cultural relics appearing for the first time. For the first time, the Palace Museum presents them in the form of "naked exhibition", that is, there is no showcase and no glass partition, and the audience and cultural relics can face each other directly. This is a test of management and cultural protection.

According to reports, in order to ensure the safety of cultural relics, the Forbidden City has coated it with a protective material, which has no harm to cultural relics, and the audience can't see it from the surface. The ventilation effect is good and moisture will not be trapped in cultural relics.

The main stone Buddha weighing 4 tons turned into a smiling face when he cried.

In the exhibition, there are huge statues of one Buddha and two Bodhisattvas in the Northern Qi Dynasty. The statue is carved with white stone, which embodies the characteristics of Buddhist statues in Hebei during the Northern Qi Dynasty. Although Buddha and Bodhisattva are tall and finely carved, such as the thick texture of Buddhist robes, the softness and fullness of Bodhisattva's fingers and the same white stone chisel, they have made two completely different artistic effects.

According to experts from the Forbidden City, only the big stone Buddha in the middle weighs more than 4 tons. Prior to this, it took more than 20 days for more than 20 people to erect the giant Buddha and have been "lying" in the warehouse. It is quite amazing that the giant Buddha's face showed a "crying face" when he was lying alone in the warehouse, but now he can stand upright and show a charming smile under the light. Experts explained that this is because different viewing angles have different visual effects.

Stone Carvings of Young Couples Showing Love in the Eastern Han Dynasty

There is a stone statue of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the exhibition hall, which is quite eye-catching.

According to experts from the Forbidden City, this image of a man and a woman sitting in each other's arms comes from the third lintel of a tomb door in Pengshan, Sichuan, which should be an expression of the life of the couple.

194 1 year, the Chuankang historical relics investigation team excavated this tomb. The discovery of hugging the statue caused quite a stir at that time. There were many onlookers, and the surrounding wheat seedlings were severely trampled, which disrupted the order of life. People who maintained ethics also wanted to destroy this indecent thing.

In desperation, after asking the superior, Mr. Li Ji, then director of the preparatory office of the National Central Museum and head of the archaeological team of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, the investigation team cut the pillow, moved it to the warehouse of the preparatory office of the Central Museum for preservation, and then handed it over to the Palace Museum. This once "indecent" exhibition now looks more like "showing love".

Open four areas to visit the "harem" and climb the Wumen Gate Tower.

Starting from tomorrow, it will be a new way to visit the Forbidden City to climb the tower overlooking the Forbidden City, walk into the West Sixth Palace and see the life of women in the harem.

Yesterday, the Palace Museum introduced that there will still be no large-scale celebration ceremony for the 90th anniversary of this year. Instead, it will open four major regions and eight major exhibitions as scheduled, presenting a rich cultural feast for the audience. The new area and exhibition will be free, and you can visit it by ticket. The newly opened areas include Baoyun Building, Cining Palace, Wumen Yanchi Building and Donghuamen. Eight exhibitions, including the original exhibition, the permanent museum and the special exhibition, were set up separately, and the open area increased from the current 52% to 65%.

In addition, an "air" tour route has been added. Visitors can board the Wumen Gate Tower to watch the exhibition of the longevity celebration of the East and West Yanyi Buildings, stroll along the wall of the East Yanyi Building to the corner building, and then turn to the Donghuamen area to overlook the Forbidden City and explore the wonders of the Forbidden City architecture.