This is the Palace Museum， also known as the Purple Forbidden C It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China Under Ming Emperor ， construction began in It took 14 years to build the Forbidden CThe red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also Red represents happiness， good fortune and Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau， the original home of the Chinese Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty， when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their The Forbidden City is rectangular in It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meters wide from east It has 9900 rooms under a total roof area 150000 square A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9 –meter- high wall which encloses the It is believed that the Palace Museum got its name from astronomy The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Y The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple The Forbidden City is divided into an outer and an inner We are now standing on the southernmost part of the outer In front of us lies the Gate of supreme H The gate is guarded by a pair of bronze lions， symbolizing imperial power and The lions were the most exquisite and biggest of its The one on the east playing with a ball is a male， and ball is said to represent state The other one is a Underneath one of its fore claws is a cub that is considered to be a symbol of perpetual imperial The Forbidden City consists of an outer count and an inner The outer count yard covers a vast space lying between the Meridian Gate and the Gate of Heavenly P The “three big halls” of Supreme Harmony， Complete Harmony and Preserving Harmony constitute the center of this building The great three halls are built on a spacious “H”-shaped，8-meter-high， triple marble Each level of the triple terrace is taller than the on below and all are encircled by marble balustrades carved with dragon and phoenix This area is called the Hall of Supreme Harmony Square， which covers a total of 30000 square Without a single tree or plant growing here， this place inspires visitors to feel its solemnity and In the middle of the square there is carriageway that was reserved for the E On both sides of the road the ground bricks were laid in a special way seven layers lengthwise and eight layers crosswise，making up fifteen layers in 这是我以前做的PowerPoint，可能不太连贯，见谅！
故宫的英文是The Imperial Palace，中文地名可以不加the，英译词需要前加the。词汇分析音标：[ðə ɪmˈpɪəriəl ˈpæləs]释义：故宫；御茶膳房短语At the Imperial Palace 故宫The imperial palace figure 故宫人物Memory of the Imperial Palace 故宫的回忆Ceremony of the Imperial Palace 第一幕皇宫盛典Hofburg - The Imperial Palace 霍夫堡皇宫拓展双语例句1、Once I had stood before the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City， hat in my hands， waiting for the realization to engulf 又一次我曾经站在故宫的大殿前面，手里拿着帽子，等待着现实来把我包围。2、I showed them to the Great Wall， the Imperial Palace， and the Summer P 我带领他们去了长城、故宫和颐和园。3、The Imperial Palace is one of the sights of C 故宫是中国名胜之一。4、Have you been to the Imperial Palace? 你去过故宫吗？5、On the second day， you can visit to the Imperial Palace where you can learn more about Chinese 第二天，你们可以参观故宫，在那里你们可以学习更多关于中国的历史。
The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing D It is located in the middle of Beijing， C It now houses the Palace M The complex consists of 800 buildings with 8，886 It covers 720，000 square The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 as the "Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties"，[1] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the
