The plane of Ningshou Palace area is rectangular, 406 meters from north to south, 115 meters from east to west, covering an area of ​​about 46,000 square meters. There are more than a thousand houses, just like a miniature version of the Forbidden City panorama.The overall layout of Ningshou Palace is divided into front and rear. There is a nine-dragon wall at the southernmost end of the front of the palace area, which was built in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772) when Ningshou Palace was rebuilt.There are three most famous Nine-Dragon Walls in China: one is in Datong, Shanxi Province. It is the screen wall in front of the Duanli Gate of Zhu Gui, the thirteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. It is 45.5 meters wide, 8 meters high and 2.02 meters thick. It is the largest Nine-Dragon Wall in China.The other is in front of Luohan Hall in Beihai Park, Beijing. It was built in the 21st year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (1756). It is 25.52 meters wide, 5.96 meters high and 1.6 meters thick. The main ridges, vertical ridges, tiles, glazed bricks and other building components all have dragon patterns.According to statistics, there are 635 dragons on the Beihai Nine Dragon Wall, which is the Nine Dragon Wall with the most dragons in China.The other is the Nine Dragon Wall in front of Huangji Gate, which is 29.4 meters wide, 3.5 meters high and 2.06 meters thick. It is made of 247 prefabricated seven-color glazed bricks.The lower part is a white stone xumizuo, the upper part is a yellow glazed tile roof, and the middle is a relief of 9 giant dragons, which are vigorous and vivid.The entire wall is set against sea water, and there are 9 giant dragons galloping.Looking at the Nine-Dragon Wall from the south of the Huangji Hall, the yellow panlong is docile and curled up in the middle, like a pilgrimage, and like a guard. It is the most beautiful Nine-Dragon Wall in China because of its majestic momentum, fine carvings, gorgeous colors and lifelike images.

The underbelly of the third white dragon from the east of the Nine Dragon Wall was carved out of wood and then added.There is a legend here that when firing this nine-dragon wall component, the craftsman accidentally burned the belly component of the white dragon, but the construction schedule was tight and it was too late to burn it again.A carpenter carved that piece of dragon belly out of wood overnight, painted it with white paint, and installed it. From the outside, it looked like a real one, but it escaped the inspection of the officials, and the craftsman avoided a disaster.

In the north of the wall and in front of the palace, there are two gates - Huangji Gate and Ningshou Gate.Inside the gate is an independent courtyard. The front of the main building is the Huangji Hall, and the back is the Ningshou Palace, that is, the front hall and the rear palace.The distance between the hall and the palace is only 11.5 meters.The Huangji Hall is a double-eave and hip-roofed palace, and the Forbidden City is not on the central axis of the double-eaves and hip-roofed palaces, only the Fengxian Hall and the Huangji Hall.The name and roof of the Huangji Hall show that the Huangji Hall is the symbol of the highest imperial power.Ningshou Palace is similar in shape to Kunning Palace. It was used for offering sacrifices to gods in the Qing Dynasty and is now a treasure house.

The back part of the palace area is divided into middle, east and west roads, with the middle road as the main road and the two wings as supplementary. Inside the Yangxing Gate on the middle road, there are four courtyards that are both divided and combined. The main buildings are Yangxing Hall, Leshou Hall, Yihexuan, and Jingqi Pavilion.This is mainly the living area. The Hall of Mental Cultivation has the same shape as the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and there is also a building on the front.Emperor Qianlong's poem said: "You are allowed to return to the great government, and enjoy the blessings in the rest of the day. It is a structure to cultivate one's nature, which is like a house for nourishing one's heart." It was originally the daily living place of Emperor Qianlong when he was the Supreme Emperor.The Xinuan Pavilion of the hall is quite distinctive: there is a Buddhist hall, with a two-story fairy building, built-in Buddha statues and pagodas; there is an ink cloud room, imitating Sanxi Hall, named after Emperor Qianlong obtained ancient ink.The ink in the four treasures of the ancient study brush, ink, paper and inkstone is extremely difficult to preserve, and the ancient is the most precious.

Le Shoutang, behind the Yangxing Hall, is planned to be the bedroom of Emperor Qianlong after he returned to power.The hall is seven rooms wide and three rooms deep, with yellow glazed tiles on the top of the mountain, distinguished in shape and tall in size.In front of the Guangting, there are screen doors on the left and right corridors, and the situation is cheerful.The corridor wall is inlaid with stone carvings of "Jingshengzhai Fatie".The fan in the hall and the decoration of the fairy building are mostly made of precious and famous wood such as pear and red sandalwood.

Inside the back door of the Leshou Hall, there is a jade mountain in the "Dayu Water Control Map", which was carved with the blue and white jade of Milata Mountain in Khotan (Hotian), Xinjiang, and was carved in the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787). It is 224 cm high and 96 cm wide. Weighs about 5330 kg.According to records, the jade was first excavated from the mountains, and then long-distance transportation was carried out.It is 11,100 miles from Hotan to Beijing, and it is necessary to make extra-tertiary vehicles. More than 100 horse-drawn carts are used in the front, and a number of husbands are used to support and push them. It takes five or six miles a day, and it takes three years to transport it.After the jade stone arrived in Beijing, Emperor Qianlong chose the famous painting "Dayu Controlling Water" in the palace as a blueprint, and sent painters to copy and paint it on Yushan.First make a wax sample of Yushan, fearing that the wax sample will melt, and then carve a wooden sample.After passing through the canal, it was carried to Yangzhou. Skilled craftsmen continued to carve it.It took six years and eight months from the start in September of the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781) to the completion in June of the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787).It took ten years from jade mining to making of Yushan, and 150,000 labors were spent on carving alone.In the same year, Yushan was transported to Beijing and installed in Le Shoutang.Yushan engraves the spectacular scene of Dayu's flood control, with high mountains, ancient trees, caves and streams, and dangerous terrain. Dayu worked on the mountainside, and the people chiseled rocks to open the mountain, causing the water to flow down.This vivid picture is artistically processed according to the natural color of jade material.On the back is engraved a poem made by Emperor Qianlong, praising Dayu's water control, and his merits and virtues will last forever.Such a large jade material is used to make ordinary utensils, which seems overkill, but when it is made into a jade mountain, it will last for a long time.The poem warns children and grandchildren that if they are pursuing treasures, they should not do it again in the future.This Jade Mountain of "Dayu's Controlling the Water" carved from a single piece of jade on all sides is ingenious in conception, exquisite in carving, full of dynamics, and superbly crafted. It can be called a rare Chinese art and shows the wisdom and talents of the people of all ethnic groups in China. ("Forbidden City Classics: Forbidden City Treasures Volume")

Yihe Pavilion, behind the Leshou Hall, has stone carvings embedded in the two corridors of the pavilion, and mountain stone flower ponds are arranged on both sides of the corridor.There is a pavilion in the west courtyard of Yihexuan. The couplet in the pavilion is: "The environment is natural and wins painting, and the interest and reason must be subtle." There used to be a small stage in the pavilion, and there was a corridor connecting Jingqi Pavilion behind the pavilion. Jingqi Pavilion is in the north of Xuanzhi.Outside the pavilion is Zhenfei Well.Go north out of Zhenshun Gate, turn left and go forward, which is the back gate of the imperial palace - Shenwu Gate.

Although the palace in this area was built by Emperor Qianlong for himself as the Supreme Emperor, he did not move in after becoming the Supreme Emperor. He did not want to leave the Palace of Mental Cultivation because he had an emperor complex, and because Emperor Qianlong had confidence in life and believed that the future would be long. , and because of nearly forty years of living habits, he is unwilling to change the environment.Later, Le Shoutang became the residence of Empress Dowager Cixi in her later years.Cixi celebrated her 60th birthday in Le Shoutang, and it is said that she spent more than ten million taels of silver.

The front part of the East Road is the Changyinge Theater Building, which sits south and faces north, with magnificent buildings.The south of the building is a theater building, and the second floor is the backstage.Changyin Pavilion is 20.71 meters high (equivalent to the height of a seven-story building), with three rooms wide and three rooms deep, with a total area of ​​685.94 square meters, triple eaves, rolling sheds on the top of the mountain, a plaque of "Changyin Pavilion" hanging on the upper floor, and a plaque hanging on the middle floor. "Guohe Yitai" plaque, and the lower layer hangs "Hutian Xuanyu" and "Hutian" are from "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Fei Changfang".According to records: There was an old medicine seller in the city, who hung a pot by the side of the market, and jumped into the pot when the market was over.Fei Changfang watched from upstairs, very surprised.Meet the old man.Tomorrow, the old man and I will all enter the pot, and see that "the jade hall is solemn and beautiful, and the wine, sweets and delicacies are filled in it" in the pot, and they drink together and come out. (Volume 82 of "Hou Hanshu") Later, the "hutian" is used as a metaphor for a fairyland with a unique cave.plaque.There are upper, middle and lower stages: the upper layer is called "Futai", the middle layer is called "Lutai", and the lower layer is called "Shoutai".The three-story platform has a patio that runs through the top and bottom, and the Shoutai also has a ground well. According to the needs of the plot, actors and props are raised and lowered by using a potter's wheel or a winch.When performing the fairy descending, the scene and actors are sent down from above with a potter's wheel, which has the dramatic effect of falling from the sky.During the performance of "Golden Lotus Emerging from the Ground", the actors and the lotus are drilled out of the ground well with a winch, which has a dramatic effect of rising from the ground or water.There is also a hidden well under the stage to provide water for the water spray in the play.Changyin Pavilion is the largest stage in the palace. It is also known as the three royal theaters of the Qing Dynasty together with the Deheyuan Theater Building in the Summer Palace and the Qingyin Pavilion Theater Building in Chengde Mountain Resort (destroyed).

The Yueshi building behind the pavilion is a place for the emperors to watch operas and a place for the emperors to have banquets.In the north of the building is Xunyan Bookstore, with five small rooms, with corridors in front and back, and the name of the house is elegant.When Cixi lived in Le Shoutang, Emperor Guangxu asked An to take a rest here before serving meals.To the north of the house is the Qingshou Hall.This is a courtyard imitating the residential style in the south of the Yangtze River, with green water brick walls, Su-style colored paintings, glazed tile roofs, and verandas all around.Prince Jin Fujin and Prince Gong Gege lived here when they came to the palace.Behind the hall is Jingfu Palace, and in the courtyard in front of the palace stands a strange stone named "Wenfeng".Wenfeng Stone stands on a flat octagonal white marble xumizuo about 1 meter high, surrounded by copper railings.Wenfeng stone is 4.5 meters high, handsome and straight, abrupt and towering, with clear texture and holes everywhere.There is a small pavilion on the stone mountain named "Cuihuan"; there is a grotto at the foot of the mountain named "Yundou".Emperor Qianlong said in "Wenfeng Poetry": "It is difficult to count the huge holes and small holes, and the strange edges are lingering."There are doors on all sides of the courtyard, and in the stone courtyard, there are scenery on all sides, full of wit and wit.Gyeongbokgung Palace is also known as Wufu Palace.This is because in the forty-ninth year of Qianlong (1784), the 74-year-old Emperor Qianlong was pleased with his great-great-grandson, who was the fifth generation under the same roof.He wrote the "Five Blessings and Five Generations Hall" plaque and hung it in Gyeongbokgung Palace.Therefore, Gyeongbokgung Palace is also called Wufu Wudaitang.Emperor Qianlong also cured one side of the "Five Blessings and Five Dynasties Hall Ancient Rare Treasures of the Son of Heaven" seal.This has become a historical story of the fifth emperor living under the same roof.

In the north of Jingfu Palace, there are two pavilions built in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772): one is the Fori Tower, which has two upper and lower floors, and each has 3 rooms, dedicated to Lamaism Buddha statues; The buildings are adjacent to each other and connected by stairs.The glazed tile roof, two floors above and below, is 7 rooms wide and each is divided. There are Buddhist halls inside, and Buddha statues are enshrined.In the building, there are six enamel towers built in the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), which are exquisite and colorful.When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the palace, because the two floors were remote, they were not damaged and were well preserved. The west road behind Ningshou Palace is the garden of Ningshou Palace.