Mr. Cat leaned on the city wall and looked at the Mujiang River outside the city, and unconsciously praised:
"The Mujiang River and the two Cao Rivers are full of mercury. No wonder the tomb is so bright. Mercury is gold. When a long candle shines on the water, the light reflected will only be more gorgeous and bright. It is said that the underground palace of the First Emperor adopted the works of the pre-Qin alchemist Lu Wuji. It is recommended that the palace be sealed with mercury and illuminated with everlasting candles, which can prevent corrosion and insects, and also make the underground palace shine forever, as bright as day."
There is no difference between the mercury Cao River and real water. Only by observing the water color carefully can you see the silver-white liquid, which is thicker than clear water. The Milky Way trembles and sparkles under the clouds and mist, as if the river is hanging from the sky and falling on the imperial city, like two silver-white divine dragons. Fly around the city!
Everyone got off the tower and walked into Shangjing City. The Suzaku Road, which should have been spacious and open, had obviously shrunk a lot. It was only 20 meters wide from left to right. The square wall was slightly higher than their heads. There were vaguely owl-kissed flying eaves exposing the square wall, which could be seen in the distance. Rows of residential houses.
Viewed from a high place, the soldiers on both sides of the ditch wearing armor and holding swords were indeed domineering. When they got closer, they realized that they were just puppet vine soldiers as tall as everyone's heart. The carriage had shrunk to the size of a water tank, only reaching everyone's waist!
For a moment, the magnificent city that I had just seen from the tower seemed to have shrunk dozens of times in the blink of an eye!
"Why is it that the ancient city we saw in the city tower was normal, but after entering the city, it shrank in size!"
With Geda's height, he could easily lean out of the square wall, looking like a giant half a head taller than the wall, which looked extremely funny.
Song Siyuan looked at everyone and said slightly seriously:
"Human eyes can deceive themselves. When we overlook the ancient city, our brains will blur the distance, orientation, and size, and only show the macro scene. Being deceived by the red sun above our heads, we can easily mistakenly think that the city is very big. In fact, this is just a trick. "
"However, although it is not a one-to-one restoration of Shangjing City, even if it is reduced ten times, it is still magnificent. The livestock, characters, carriages and objects are so realistic, it is probably the work of skilled craftsmen."
"Just imagine, if we really restore the Shangjing City one to one, it will cost countless money. Moreover, we may not be able to find a larger underground cave. It is reasonable to shrink it. All the objects buried with the tomb are , it will indeed be much smaller than what a living person would use.”
Although the upper capital city has shrunk, it is only compared to the real Longquan Mansion. It still takes nearly a thousand meters for everyone to cross Suzaku Street to reach the imperial city.
With such a long distance, everyone was already sweating profusely by the time they crossed the streets of the Imperial City.
If you look carefully, you will see that the palace of Haidong Shengguo has only been reduced in land area, and the size of the palace has only increased. It is still built after the palace, and living people can live there!
The entire palace city is in the shape of a "concave" with its opening downwards. There are long buting courtyards sandwiching the city in the east, west and north directions. Under the clouds and mist, the palace walls of pepper, yellow, red and red surround the inner palace city where the royal family lived. Green tiles, double eaves and arches, verandas, pavilions and pools are vaguely visible, majestic and elegant.
Song Siyuan picked up the "Picture of Peace in Beijing" and walked into Danfeng Gate.
It has vermillion lacquered red pillars, white straight lattice walls, and flying pavilions on both sides extending to the pepper-yellow city wall. The city gate has three openings, copper buttons and iron beasts, and a tight confinement. It looks like a pocket-sized city tower, no longer majestic and domineering, but more delicate and delicate.
The Bohai Palace belongs to a group of palaces at the county level. According to the maintenance orders of the Tang Dynasty, princes and below are not allowed to pass through five nine-bay gates or build heavy caissons. The construction of nine-bay city gates by the vassal king is quite satisfactory and cannot be said to be against the rules.
According to the Anle Map of Shangjing, the Bohai Sea Palace City consists of the Northern Citadel, the Western Ye City, and the Eastern Villa. The Inner Palace City is surrounded by the three Clamping Cities and is the real place where the imperial palace resides.
The entire imperial palace is modeled on the architectural form of the Daming Palace, and is divided into the layout of the former dynasty, the middle dynasty, and the inner dynasty. The former dynasty is the place for ritual sacrifices in the Bohai Palace. The Hanyuan Palace sits on the central axis, with hundreds of meters long on both sides. The corridors and flying pavilions surround the wide square in front of the palace. You can overlook the Shangjing Square City and the Mujiang Golden Temple from the distance!
Zhongchao was the place where Emperor Bohai handled government affairs. The Qingsi Hall was located on the central axis, echoing the front and back of the Hanyuan Hall. The palaces here were obviously much denser, with gray tiles like window panes and rows of courtyards.
Many palaces and pavilions are distributed with official institutions such as Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Yushitai, Taishi Pavilion, Hongwen Pavilion, Mingfu Yuan, Shaoyang Yuan, Dianzhong Province, and Internal Affairs Ministry. Many edicts come from this.
After passing through an interlocking city, we arrived at the rear dynasty of the imperial palace, which was also the harem in the secular sense.
With the Danchen Hall as the central axis, there are many harem empresses' bedrooms. The palaces are much more exquisite, and the gardens account for nearly half of the harem, with the beauty of changing scenery as you move around.
Master Mao was walking in the corridor and looked at the garden of the harem. Zanjianbao Pavilion was surrounded by dense flowers and trees, and the corridor bridge penetrated into the Changbaiye Pond, showing the magnificent garden scenery.
Of course, the long white liquid pool is not a real river, but a mercury pool introduced by the canal. The many flowers and trees are all velvet silk grass, with tung oil moistening them. They have not faded and withered for thousands of years, just like the sacred flowers that never bloom or fail in the garden. In the room, the oil shines in the candlelight.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it is said that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the area has been reduced, the palace is still more majestic and majestic than ordinary houses."
