故宫的英语课文

The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It now houses the Palace Museum. The complex consists of 800 buildings with 8,886 rooms. It covers 720,000 square metres. 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 world.

The imperial palace and the Forbidden City it is in 1407 built, two hundred thousand people spent 14 years, was built in 1420 it all the palaces: a total of 9999 rooms. In China, and the number to be considered traditional auspicious now, every week on Tuesday, the imperial palace to open four free Chinese students. The palace has a history of China 5000 years of treasure

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The Palace Museum is located on city center in Peking.China is existing biggest, most integrity of thou building cluster.It is been one of five greatest temples in the world by the fame.

故宫位于北京市中心。中国现存最大、最完整的古建筑群。被誉为世界五大宫之一。

The Palace Museum start to set up in A.D.1406, the Palace Museum have the size courtyard more than 90s and the house contain 980 and add up to 8704.

故宫始建于公元1406，故宫有大小院落90多座，房屋有980座，共计8704间。

the Palace Museum surroundings surround 12 meters in height, long the Palace Museum wall of 3400 meters, form is one rectangular city defense, there is 52 meter wide moat outside the wall surround, formation a fortress of severe barracks.

宫城周围环绕着高12米，长3400米的宫墙，形式为一长方形城池，墙外有52米宽的护城河环绕，形成一个森严壁垒的城堡。

The Palace Museum has 4 doors, center door Wu door, east door Donghua door, west door Xihua door, north door Shengwu door.

故宫有4个门，正门名午门，东门名东华门，西门名西华门，北门名神武门。

故宫的名称考义

故宫又称紫禁城。中国古代讲究“天人合一”的规划理念，用天上的星辰与都城规划相对应，以突出政权的合法性和皇权的至高性。天帝居住在紫微宫，而人间皇帝自诩为受命于天的“天子”，其居所应象征紫微宫以与天帝对应，《后汉书》载“天有紫微宫，是上帝之所居也。王者立宫，象而为之”。

紫微、紫垣、紫宫等便成了帝王宫殿的代称。由于封建皇宫在古代属于禁地，常人不能进入，故称为“紫禁”。明朝初期同外禁垣一起统称“皇城”，大约明朝中晚期，与外禁垣区分开来，即宫城叫“紫禁城”，外禁垣为“皇城”。

The Palace Museum is also called the Forbidden City,which started to be built in 1407.It took 200,000 people fourteen years to build it.It was finished in 1420.There are 9,999 rooms in all the palaces.In China,nine is regarded as a lucky number traditionally.At present,it is free for Chinese students to visit every Tuesday.The Palace Museum has treasures of over 5,000 years' history.