【正文】 n(or one hectoliter)of hall is supported by a total of 72 thick these, 6 are carved in dragon patterns and painted with gold and surround the the very center of this hall there is a zaojing, or covered ceiling, which is one of the Specialities of China `s ancient the middle of the ceiling is a design of a dragon playing with a ball inlaid with copper ball, hollow inside and covered with mercury, is known as the Xuanyuan Mirror and is thought to be made Xuanyuan, a legendary monarch dating back to remote placing of the caisson above the throne is meant to suggest that all of China` s successive emperors are Zuanyuan` s descendants and hereditary you might have noticed that the Xuanyuan mirror is not directly above the ? It is rumored that Yuan Shikai, a selfacclaimed warlordturned emperor moved the throne further back because he was afraid that the mirror might fall on 1916 when Yuan Shikai became emperor, he removed the original throne with a Westernstyle, highback the foundation of the People` s Republic of China in 1949 the throne was found in a shabby furniture repaired and returned to the hall.(Leading the tourist to the bronze vats either on the east or the west)the water vats in front of the palaces or house were called ―menhai,‖ or sea before the door by the ancient believed that with a sea by the door, fire could not wreak vats served both as a decoration and as a fire were kept full of water all year the Qing Dynasty, they were altogether 308 vats in the palace were made of gilt bronze or couse, the gilt bronze vats were of the best the allied forces(Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the United States, Italy, Japan and Austria)invaded Beijing in 1900 under the pretext of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, the invadersransacked the imperial pound and scraped and gold off the vats with their the Japanese occupation of Beijing, many vats were trucked away by the Japanese to be made into bullets.(In front of the Hall of Complete Harmony)The square architecture before us is called the Hall of Complete served as an Emperor came here to meet with his countiers and add his final touches to the prayers which would be read at the ancestral seeds, snowers and prayer intended for spring sowing were also examined two Qing sedan chairs here on display were used for traveling within the palace during the reign of Emperor Qianlong.(In front of the hall f Preserving Harmony)this is the Hall of Preserving the Qing Dynasty, banquets were held here on New Year` s eve in honour of Mongolian and Northwestern China` s xingjiang princes and ranking Emperor also dinned here with his new soninlaw on the wedding examinations were also held here once every three the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were three levels of exams: the county and prefectural level, the provincial level and national national exam was presided over by the civil service exam in ancient China started during the Han served the purpose of recruiting Confucian scholars to the ministers and high the Tang and Qing dynasties reinstituted and ancient every three years, three hundred scholars from all over the country came to Beijing and took exams for three day and system was abolished in 1905.(Behind the hall of preserving harmony)this is the largest stone carving in the is meters long, meters wide and meters weighs about 200 block was quarried in Fangshan County, roughly 70 kilometers transport such a huge block to Beijing, laborers dug wells along the roadside half a kilometer apart, and used the groundwater to make a road of ice in the blocks were used in the 1760, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty ordered the carving of the existing cloud and dragon design in place of the old one which dated back to the Ming : From here, the tour can be conducted via three different routes: a western route(Route A), a central route(Route B)or an eastern route(Route C).The mentary for each A Ladies and Gentlemen: You have seen the three main halls of the Forbidden I ` d like to show you around the hall of mental cultivation and the imperial hall of mental cultivation is situated is in the western part of the innermost enclosure and is symmetrical to Fengxian(enshrinement of forebears)Hall in the hall was built during the Ming is a Hshaped structure consisting of an antechamber and a main hall is surrounded by front of the hall is the Office of Privy Emperor Kangxi of Qing the Dynasty came to power the Hall of Heavenly Purity served as the living quarter of the Yongzheng chose to live in this hall and attended to every day state affairs from the sake of protecting cultural relics, this hall is not open to the can have a look at the inside from the central hall was the audience chamber where the emperor read memorials, granted audience to officials and summoned his minsters for western chamber of the hall was where the emperor read reports and discussed military and political hall consists of many inner rooms and is decorated with images of Buddha and miniature the screen wall there hangs a picture of two emperors in the Han a southern room there three rare calligraphic scrolls, hence the name of the room ―Sanxitang‖(Room of Three Rare Treasures).The room on the eastern side is of historical interst because it was here that Empress Dowager Cixi usurped power and made decisions on behalf of the young bamboo curtain was used to separate Dowage Cixi was born in 1835 in Lu` an Prefecture of shanxi ` s of Manchurian nationality and her father was a provincial governor from south she was 17 years old ,she was selected to bee a concubine of Emperor Xianfeng and moved into the Forbidden gave birth to a son when she was 21years old and was made a concubine the following the emperor passed away in the summer of 1861, her son ascended the throne and title of Cixi, meaning ―Holy Mother‖ was conferred upon her and she became the Empress that same year Empress Dowager Cixi carried out a count coup d`