There are more than 9,000 rooms in the Forbidden City, but this is the only place no one dares to stay: Visitors are afraid to enter

Once one of the most important palaces Tu Cam Thanh, why later on the Kunning Palace no longer inhabited.
The Forbidden City (Beijing, China) is a palace system of 24 emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City is 960m long from north to south, 760m wide from east to west, with a total area of ​​720,000 square meters. This is the most complete and preserved system of ancient buildings in China.

Map of the Forbidden City with more than 9,000 rooms. Photo: Ton That Minh Khoi With the huge area of ​​the Forbidden City, there have been many debates about how many rooms this building has. In 1972, architectural experts conducted comprehensive statistics according to the standard of “four pillars and one room” (meaning that each space is equal to 4 columns as a room). Statistical results show that the Forbidden City has a total of 9,687 rooms. However, among all those rooms, there is one place where no one has lived for a long time, which is the Kunning Palace. Kunning Palace The royal family members living in the Forbidden City all have their own residences: The Emperor lives in the Can Thanh Palace, the Empress lives in the Kunning Palace, the Empress Dowager lives in the Tu Ninh Palace, and with the Supreme Emperor is the Ninh Tho Palace. Each place has its own meaning. If the Qianqing sign represents the positive, the Kunning sign represents the negative. Photo: Sohu The position of the empress is opposite to the emperor, the emperor is heaven, the empress is the earth, so the word “Kun” in “Kunning” is taken from the hexagram “Kun” in “Chu Yi”, meaning that a gentleman uses virtue. to support all things. The bow of Khon Ninh is understood as “Knowing of the land of security”, which means that this is a place where the land is safe and clear. Beginning in the Ming Dynasty, Kunning Palace was used as a royal palace for the empress. Red is the main color of Kunning to represent love and fertility. The emperors will stay with their queens in this palace right after the wedding day in the hope that they can soon have a son. Empresses after being ordained will live at the Kunning Palace until their death. If the queen moves out of the palace, it is usually due to two reasons, one is that the emperor has died, the queen has moved to the empress dowager’s palace, or the worse case is when the queen is deposed. With such a good place to live, why did the Kunning Palace later become a gloomy, uninhabited place? “Death land” queen Contrary to the name, which means peace, Khon Ninh Palace is considered a turbulent place. During the Ming Dynasty, Empress Chu – the empress of Minh Tu Tong Chong Trinh De hanged himself here. In the Qing Dynasty, King Khang Hi had a total of 4 concubines, but two of his empresses died inside the Kunning Palace, which made Khang Hi extremely miserable and never married again. After these haunting events, the Kunning Palace was left empty for more than 30 years because it was considered a curse. The decoration inside the Kunning Palace is only for the emperor’s wedding day, the rest of the year is used as a place of worship. Photo: Sohu According to the analysis of experts, the main reason why Kunning Palace is uninhabited is because of the policy of building Di Hoa Vien by the Qing royal family. Many concubines were moved to Di Hoa Vien, so the existence of the harem is very dim, the old Kunning palace is also increasingly empty. Although always vacant, according to royal etiquette, this Kunning Palace is still the place where the emperor and empress get married, they will live there for 3 days before moving to another palace. Later, the Kunning Palace was used mainly as a place of sacrifice to the gods of the Manchu people. Although not frequented by people, this place is still decorated with splendid architecture and interiors according to royal standards. However, the fact that it was only used as a place of incense for a long time without people living made the Kunning Palace become murky and scary. The dark space and many dark legends will make visitors to the Forbidden City feel extremely scared when entering this palace.