The Forbidden City is the world largest surviving palace in China. It, first, built by Han dynasty. Later after collapsed of the Han dynasty, the first emperor of Ming dynasty moved the capital to Nanjing, but it then moved back to old palace in Beijing and the constructions began again in 1406 A.C. The Forbidden Palace was a Chinese imperial city during Ming and Qing dynasties. It was a home for twenty-four emperors. The palace consists of nine hundred buildings and nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine rooms. In additional, the palace was not only the center of politics, but it also the center of culture, the arts, poetry, history and science. Furthermore, Chinese people, in Ming and Qing dynasties, believed that they built the palace to home the son of heaven, the term they referred to their emperors. However, this paper will be focusing on the overall traditional Chinese architecture during Ming and Qing dynasty, as background knowledge, the strictly in the Forbidden City architecture, and the expression of their believing and symbolism through their architecture. The Forbidden City has known, to the world, as one of the architecture masterpieces.
First of all, Chinese traditional architecture may be tracked back 7000 years, though great differences in geographical and climatic conditions coursed, marked diversity in the architecture of various regions. Traditional Chinese architecture is an independent developed unique system and the oldest system in the world. As we know, China had found since the Neolithic Age and had over 15 dynasties. However, the Ming and Qing Dynasties are the two dynasties that had the major changed not only in Characteristics, but also in developments. Traditional Chinese architecture’s characteristics can be described and classified into the following: built environment, planning, construction, bracketing system, roof form, roof section, roof decorations, color scheme, walls, columns, riles,