A single pillar is worth $2.8 billion! He has 68 of them! The richest man in the world couldn't afford to buy them with all his money!156

The most supreme palace in history

One pillar alone is worth $2.8 billion!

The entire palace has 68 of them!

The pillars alone are worth 160.4 billion!

There are countless other treasures in the palace.

The value of the palace is immeasurable!

On the east side of the south central axis of the Forbidden City

There is a temple

It was once a place where the Ming and Qing emperors

where ancestors were worshipped

It was also the place where the emperor's family enshrined the ancestral tablets

That's the Imperial Temple!

The Temple was built in the 18th year of the Ming dynasty (1420)

It's 600 years old

The temple is dedicated to the ancestors of all the emperors

It is the world's largest surviving

The most complete ancestor worship complex in the world

The ancestors of the kings and ministers who have made great achievements in history

After their death, their tablets can be placed in the Temple to accompany their ancestors.

The rituals of worship were raised directly to the standard of state worship.

It was a top political honour.

In the past few years

The Forbidden City, which has always been perceived as majestic and solemn

has suddenly become a "web-site".

Even the emperor has become cute

The previously forbidden palace

The palace is slowly opening its doors to the public

The Forbidden City, a royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties

It is remembered as the largest

The highest-ranking palace

The Taihe Hall is the most important

Generally speaking, when you visit the Forbidden City

is along this line

First of all, we go to the Three Great Halls to see how the emperor conducts his court

Then we go to the Harem

See how the emperor sleeps

The imperial garden where the emperor enjoyed the flowers

However, these areas were opened to the public after the founding of the country

Only 30% of the Forbidden City

But in fact the largest palace in the Forbidden City

is not the Hall of Supreme Harmony, where the emperor held court

The Imperial Temple is even bigger than the Hall of Supreme Harmony

It's even higher in rank than it is!

Because the ancients believed that

"The Emperor's position is high, but not his ancestors
Therefore, the Imperial Temple for ancestor worship

was the largest and most honoured palace in the Forbidden City

We will now take you into the Imperial Temple

Experience the mysterious realm of royal supremacy

The entire Imperial Temple is rectangular in shape, measuring

It is 475 metres long from north to south and 294 metres wide from east to west.

It consists of three main halls: the front, middle and back.

It covers an area of 2,240 square metres

It is the size of a standard football field

The main building of the temple is the three main halls.
The main gate in the red wall is a multicoloured glazed door

The Gate of the Halberd Gate Bridge and the Gate of the Halberd are directly opposite the entrance

Beyond the Great Halberd Gate is the Temple Square.

In the south-west corner of the square is a prairie stove.

It is said that there was another one in the east.

It is said to have been used mainly for burning paper and silk for prayers at ceremonies.

After the prairie stove

the three main halls in turn

The Hall of the Heung, the Hall of the Bed, and the Temple of the Sacred Temple.

commonly known as the Front Hall, Middle Hall and Back Hall.


The main hall is the highest ranking of the three halls

This was the place where the emperor held his ancestral rituals

The bedchamber is dedicated to the four generations of Qing ancestors of the emperor and the empress

The tablets were enshrined in the bedchamber, along with jade books and jade treasures

Each emperor had his or her own jade treasure

This is often referred to as the heirloom jade seal

All the concubines and officials of the Qing dynasty were given jade books

The jade book was made of the finest jade

The seal was engraved on it

The jade book was not only an honour for concubines and officials

It was an honour for a family

However, due to the successive generations of the imperial family

there were only a limited number of tablets that could be placed in the bedchamber.

The ancestors of the emperor were usually enshrined in the ancestral temple

Only the ancestral tablets of the previous emperors are enshrined in the chambers

After introducing the three main halls of the Temple

It's time to move on to our main event


As mentioned earlier

The Imperial Temple is the most important place for royal rituals.

It was the highest-ranking palace in the Forbidden City.

When it was first built

it was built using the most precious and rare golden-beam wood

The Temple of the Gods is currently the world's largest

palace building in the world.

Speaking of goldenrod, the
Here's a bit of a primer for you

The goldenrod wood has a golden thread in its grain.

It has a satin-like texture, which gives it its name.

It is a highly prized and high quality

for architecture, furniture and decoration

It is also fragrant and can be made into strings

Wearing a goldenrod string

A beautiful hand

When it comes to the price of goldenrod

In its heyday there was a saying

"A table costs 300 million",

"1 gram of heather is equal to 10 grams of gold"

Although slightly exaggerated.

But it is clear how expensive goldenrod is

The gilded beams of the Imperial Temple

In modern economic terms alone

A single pillar would be worth at least US$400 million, or

That's RMB 2.8 billion!

The entire temple

There are 68 main beams in total

All of them are made of goldenrod!

In other words

The economic value of the temple's pillars and beams alone

is worth a staggering 190.4 billion yuan

Not including the other carvings, ornaments, etc.

The richest man in the world today could not afford to buy it with all his money!

Not to mention the goldenrod pillars of the Imperial Temple

still have heritage value.

The value of the Imperial Temple can never be measured.

Even the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the symbol of supreme authority

Due to the many burnings throughout history, the

The main wooden structure is no longer made of

The main structure of the temple is no longer made of the precious wood of goldenrod.

Therefore, all the palaces in the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is not comparable to the Imperial Palace

After seeing the Imperial Temple, let's move on to

unravel the mysteries of the Forbidden City