"From the perspective of traditional regulations, the statistics of the number of houses have always been calculated on the basis of "four pillars and one room." Because ancient buildings in China are all wooden structures, beams, columns and other large wooden pieces are combined to form a skeleton. Filled with bricks and stones, installed doors, windows, and ornaments, so the square or rectangular three-dimensional space above the ground between the four pillars is called "a room", which is the so-called "four pillars and one room." The houses in the Forbidden City are also calculated based on this calculation. , It’s just that the distance between the four pillars (opening, depth) is different, and the size of the building area is also different. There are large and small bays, but there can be no half of them."

Brothers of the Mu family stared at Chu Muyue with admiration. This girl really knows everything so clearly!

"The houses of the Forbidden City include halls, palaces, halls, buildings, studios, xuan, pavilions, etc. in a broad sense. The basic architectural pattern is "four pillars and one room." It is still relatively small-scale inner court rooms, palaces, and temples. It is just that the number and depth of each building are designed and constructed in accordance with the requirements of "regulation", which leads to the size of the building and the size of the building area. The largest palace in the Forbidden City It is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, with 72 pillars, 11 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep, so the number of rooms is 55. The Chuxiu Palace, one of the "West Six Palaces" of the inner court, has only 5 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep, so The number of rooms is 10."

"It looks so profound!" Mu Ziheng scratched his head, admiringly said.

Chu Muyue smiled and said, "According to the "Forbidden City Cong Tan" records: "According to field surveys and statistics by experts on ancient architecture, the Forbidden City has a total of 8,707 halls, halls, buildings, rooms, and pavilions. Therefore, It is incorrect to say that there are nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms in the Forbidden City. It is just a legend. "The History of the Forbidden City" contains: "According to historians, there were more than 10,000 rooms in the Forbidden City. Later, as the years passed, some rooms decayed, collapsed or were destroyed by fire, but the general number should be more than 8,000. . In 1972, experts in ancient architecture conducted a comprehensive statistics on the rooms of the Forbidden City in accordance with the prevailing standard of "four pillars and one room". As a result, there were more than 980 palaces and halls, and 8,707 houses. "

"So it's like this!" When everyone listened, they nodded suddenly.

Chu Muyue smiled, interrupted the somewhat embarrassing atmosphere, and said remindingly, "Hehehe, you guys can just listen to some stories, let's go in!"

"Yes, yes, go in!" Mu Yuntao nodded quickly, turned to look at Chu Muyue, and gave her a thumbs up, "I feel that we did not bring Mu Yue to play in the Forbidden City, but sister Mu Yue. Take us to play in the Forbidden City!"

"I think so too!" Several big men nodded in agreement.

But Mu Ziheng didn't think anything, and said naively, "Then let Sister Mu Yue introduce us to the Forbidden City! I have been here before, but I never knew the legends of the Forbidden City. Look for nothing!"

"Yes!" Chu Muyue also smiled, and while walking, she also explained to Mu Yuntao and the others.

Sitting in the direction of the Forbidden City, sitting north to south, why is this? South, it belongs to "Li Gua" in the position of gossip. Those who leave Ye, Ming Ye, all things meet, the Gua of the South, the sage listens to the world from the south, governs toward the Ming, and takes everything.