【正文】 he shape of mythical pillars, encircling the platform, are decorated with coiled the throne is the gold painted caisson the middle of the ceiling is the design of two dragons playing with pearls, so called “Xuanyuan Mirror”, were made of glass and painted with represents orthodox was believed that “Xuanyuan Mirror” was a symbol of the emperor who was the legitimate was also a symbol to subdue floor is paved with “golden bricks”.The hall is heavily painted with dragons and has an aura of solemnity and Hall of Middle Harmony is smaller and square with windows on all the emperor rehearsed for is followed by the Hall of Preserving Harmony in which banquets and imperial examinations were the Hall of Preserving Harmony lies a huge marble ramp with clouds and dragons carved in marble, 250 tons in weight, is placed between two flights of marble steps along which the emperor’s sedan was carried up or down the is the largest piece of stone carving in the Imperial Gate of Heavenly Purity leads to the Inner three halls of the Inner Palace are replicas of the three halls in the front, but smaller in are the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the Hall of Union and Peace, and the Palace of Earthly Palace of Heavenly Purity was once the residence of the Ming emperors and the first two of the Qing the Qing Emperor Yong Zheng moved his residence to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and turned it into an audience hall to receive foreign envoys and handled the state the emperor’s death, his coffin was placed here for a period of Palace of Union and Peace was the empress’s throne room, where the empress held the important ceremonies and her birthday Hall of Earthly Tranquility, once a private living room for the empress, was west chamber served religious purposes and the east one was the bridal chamber where the newly married emperor and empress spent their first two nights after their these three halls lies the Imperial small, and pact in design, the garden nevertheless contains several elaborate landscaping the north of the garden is the Gate of Divine Prowess, the north gate of the to the east and west of the three rear palaces are a series of selfcontained courtyards and minor palaces, where the Emperor’s concubines Hall of Mental Cultivation is located on the south side of the Six Western a minor palace, after Qing Emperor Yongzheng moved his living quarters here, this palace had bee the most important building besides the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden of Mental Cultivation Eastern Chamber is of historical interest because it was here that Empress Dowager Cixi gave audiences behind a screen or controlled power behind the throne for many years, a political phenomenon which was previously unheard of in the records of the Qing Dynasty(16441911).When Emperor Tongzhi ascended the throne in 1862 at the age of six, Empress Dowager Cixi and Ci’an(the first empress of Xianfeng)both sat on a throne in the room, which was separated from the Emperor’s throne by a screen, to assist him in the conduct of state practice continued when Emperor Guangxu succeeded to the throne in 1875 at the age of with the sudden death of Ci’an one morning in 1881, state power passed entirely into the hands of the Empress Dowager Ci’an was believed to be poisoned to death by effectively held the power and ruled China for as long as 48 , she had to stay behind the screen all the time because at that time in China women were not supposed to be in the Outer Court or to hold any public positions.第二篇：沈陽故宮英文導(dǎo)游詞Shenyang Imperial Palace Hello,everyone!Please allow me to express a warm wele on behalf of Shenyang 39。第一篇：故宮英文導(dǎo)游詞The Meridian Gate The Forbidden City has four is the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to the Forbidden Chinese, we call it in Chinese means Wu is the short of Ziwu in Chinese which could be translated as meridian line in to the ancient Chinese pass, the word “meridian” indicates the direction of the the Meridian Gate also served as the south gate of the Forbidden , Chinese emperor believed that the meridian line went right through the Forbidden City and his imperial residence was the center of the whole is why Chinese emperors considered themselves as the “Son of the Heaven.” So the Forbidden City best demonstrates the elements of Chinese palace architecture, such as “supremacy”, “hierarchy” and “everlasting.”Now please look at the central was exclusively for the empress could use it once when she got married on the day of the imperial wedding that day, the empress could be permitted to enter the Forbidden City through the middle doorway on a sedan is the only chance in her exception was for the top three outstanding scholars who passed the Imperial Palace on the day when the results were announced, they were allowed to go through the central was the greatest honor for the Chinese scholars in the old this is why Chinese people have been valuing education so gate as high as Meridian Gate is 35 meters gate is topped by five towers monly known as the Five Phoenix is recorded that the towers were installed with the bells and the emperor went to the Temple of Heaven, bells were he went to the Ancestral Temple, drums were beaten in order to publicize the a matter of fact, there were mainly two functions for the Meridian is for Chinese emperor to enjoy the festival activities and the other is for reviewing the official ceremonies.“Court Beating” also took place in front of the Meridian Gate。it is a kind of punishment for those offending officials by beating them on their buttocks with any officials who went against the emperor’s wishes would be taken out of the Meridian Gate and be beaten in this way。m with great pleasure to be your tourist guide and from now on I will show you around Shenyang Imperial Palace,shere the founder of Qing Dynasty Nuerhachi and his son Huangtaiji Imperial Palace ,Fuling tomb and Zhaoling Tomb made in the early period of Qing Dynasty are t