Analyze the Old Beijing City Wall and Eight Arms Nezha City, and understand the history of old Beijing in Zhongshan suit.

Both locals and tourists in Beijing often say the word Beijing, but they have never heard of Shanghai and Chongqing. Why do they have to say "Beijing"

In fact, Beijing, like Tianjin Wei and Shanghai Beach, has become synonymous with Beijing. In the past, there was a legend that there were two tigers fighting in old Beijing. It is said that in the early Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu was eager to build a Beijing city in Beijing, and two engineers participated in the design bidding. They were Yao and Liu Bowen.

On the tenth day after the bidding started, Yao and Liu Bowen drew the same picture back to back. Just when it was evenly matched, Liu Bowen put forward the concept of "eight-armed Nezha City", so Yao, who can talk but can't talk, lost directly to the talking and capable pk of Liu Bowen. Yao once asked Liu Bowen, "Where are the internal organs?"

Liu Bowen replied that the imperial city is Nezha's five internal organs. In fact, according to historical records, Liu Bowen has never been to Beijing. This legend is just that people are looking for the source of the expression "Nezha City with Eight Arms". Secondly, a new expression is used.

It is said that the Zhongshan suit is like Beijing, and the once popular Zhongshan suit is no stranger to old Beijingers. The iconic stand-up collar is still like this. The five buttons represent Sun Yat-sen's five-power constitutional theory, namely, executive power, legislative power, judicial power, review power and supervision power. Four pockets represent thinking, which is what we often say.

There are six buttons on the two sleeves, which respectively represent nationality, civil rights, democracy, equality, freedom and fraternity. There is obviously a shadow of Beijing. If the head is the Forbidden City, then the first button on the collar of the Chinese tunic suit is the meridian gate, the second button is the end gate, the third button is Tiananmen, the fourth button is Zhengyangmen, and the fifth button is Yongyong.

When Yongdingmen came in, there were two big pockets, one was the Temple of Heaven, the other was the Xiannongtan, the other was the ancestral hall and the other was the Ditan. On the map of the Ming Dynasty, when the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Imperial City, Wumen Gate, Duanmen, Tiananmen Square, Qianmen Gate, Yongdingmen Gate, Ancestral Temple, Shetan, Tiantan and Xiannongtan were outlined, they were indeed presented.

Although there is no figure of old Beijing in the history of Zhongshan suit, it is historical inevitability that Zhongshan suit is similar to Beijing. This is the aesthetic concept of' clear central axis and symmetrical wings' in the traditional concept. When we re-examine the pattern of Beijing with this interpretation, we discover another secret of Beijing.

There are agate chess pieces and white porcelain pots in the exhibition hall of "History and Culture of the Ancient Capital Beijing" in the Capital Museum.

These seemingly unrelated cultural relics all have the identity of * * *, and they were all unearthed in the ruins of the Yuan Dynasty. Old Beijingers should know that in the 1970s, a Yuan Dynasty site was discovered in Houying Hutong, Xinjiekou, and it was later determined that this was the earliest form of quadrangle.

1972, west taihu lake Hutong and Houtaoyuan were excavated and cleaned up. These sites were rediscovered with the vigorous demolition movement around 1970s. Houyingfang Hutong is located in the northwest corner of Beijing, which tells us that there is still such an irregular wall in this perfect big city of Beijing.

More importantly, the reason is not to bypass the stagnant pool lightly, but to hide something else. Some people blame the trite topic "Feng Shui", while others reveal the truth. If the city wall is built according to the rule that all directions are square, the northwest corner of our Beijing city is just in Taiping Lake.

However, the silt in the river is so soft that it is impossible for the city wall to take root here. There is nothing to do but bypass this area and make the city wall look like a missing corner. Judy, like Virgo, pursues perfection and can't accept such regrets at all, so she found a Feng Shui gentleman to clear her name, so that everyone can believe that such defects are intentional, not helpless.

Ming city wall

There are more than 2 million city bricks, one fifth of which are the original old city bricks in the Ming Dynasty, and more than 6,543,800 of them are new city bricks. The Ming city wall outside Chongwenmen, which is connected with Dongbianmen watchtower, once faced the problem of restoration, and there was also a secret hidden in it.

Perhaps few people know that there is a museum at the corner of Dongbianmen, which is integrated with the ruins of the Ming City Wall. In fact, there are not many museums with cultural relics in Beijing, such as Dabaotai Western Han Tomb Museum, Zhengyangmen Museum and Qianmen Railway Station Museum. These museums themselves are the most representative giant exhibits.

At the same time, as an exhibition hall for displaying related cultural relics, there is an ancient city brick fired in the Ming Dynasty on the corner of Dongbianmen. In the 17th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, the Yongle emperor Judy, who moved the capital to Beijing, longed to build a powerful city. Tucheng, which was left over from the Yuan Dynasty, couldn't stand the rain and the invasion of foreign enemies, so a large-scale city-building movement began.

Because it basically followed the pattern of the capital city of the Yuan Dynasty, and in order to save costs, the Ming city wall was built only with city bricks on the basis of the earth city of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was not rebuilt. Seventeen years later, in order to resist foreign invasion, the outer city of Beijing began to be built in the same way.

Today, the site of the Ming City Wall, which is located outside Chongwenmen and connected with the East Side Gate turret, is a part of the outer city of Beijing. The core of the Ming city wall is the rammed earth structure in Yuan Dynasty. In order to restore the original appearance of the Ming city wall as much as possible, all the parts close to the rammed earth on the city wall were repaired with new bricks, and only 400 thousand old city was used as the outermost layer of the city wall.

In other words, the Ming city wall has a history of more than 600 years, the heart has a history of more than 700 years, and there are transplanted organs for teenagers.

Perhaps the movement of the North Wall of the Yuan Dynasty was so loud and striking that Beijingers ignored the next detail change in Beijing, that is, the South Gate where the main entrance of the Yuan Dynasty was located, which also moved one mile to the south in the seventeenth year of Yongle. Actually, it's very simple to say.

In order to expand the space between the main entrance of the imperial city, Daming Gate and the main entrance of the inner city, there is such an exhibit in Zhengyangmen Museum, which is called "Ji Sheng Tu of the Imperial Capital". Although the Beijing in the painting is in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the inner city pattern has never changed since the seventeenth year of Yongle.

Therefore, this painting can help us to solve the real reason of the south wall and moving. What is the vacant space after moving between the south gate of Inner City and the south gate of Imperial City in Beijing? The tower in the painting is Zhengyang Gate, and the main entrance is on the right. The lively scene is similar to today.

On the left side of the tower, which is Zhengyangmen, there are many shops and people are crowded. All kinds of people in the world took temporary residence permits to join in the fun in the chessboard street between Daming Gate and Zhengyangmen, indicating that the economy was prosperous at that time, but the truth was not revealed until the Qing Dynasty. After the implementation of the Manchu-Han separation system, the market in the inner city was moved to the front door, and the real role of Chessboard Street was finally shown to the world.

In the past, government agencies worked together, and Judy moved the south wall to make room for the cadres of the Ming Dynasty. Having said that, we can learn a lot from the history of Beijing. The coincidence of the pattern of Beijing and the Chinese tunic suit proves that the beauty of Beijing is everywhere, and the regret of missing the corner of the Ming city wall is the failure of human struggle with nature.