The Forbidden City (known as shunzhi door) located inside city east from west ZhengYangMen walls, sp6, for "the yuan dynasty bearing door" about the Forbidden City BeiDaJie nankou and this xidan street 7-minute within north entrance south Ming yongle seventeen years will rebuild still when the south walls extension the name "bearing door", orthodox reign (1436 years) reconstruction WengCheng, JianLou co-using towers, gate, floor, orthodox four years (1439 years) completion, was renamed as "the Forbidden City".

Today the Forbidden City in something street interchange.Gates ChengTai 10.40 meters high, 43.80 meters, the width ChengTai yankees top face 38.00 meters wide, city 23.80 meters deep mesa, the medial coupon door 8.50 meters, the width of high 6.90 meters, lateral coupon door high 5.50 m, width ChengTai 6.05 meters, medial left, right there, wide to ribbon-laced 1 5.10) meters.Gates ChongWenMen slightly with, structure and surface broadly five rooms, the corridor about 32.6 meters wide, through deep three rooms through corridor 23 metres, deep towers together sets about 33 meters high.

WengCheng is rectangle, north-south 83 metre long 75 meters wide, things pick up north, south south orthogonal askew WengCheng rounded and built on the east sluice gate monarched coupons, southeast WengCheng build guandi temple tower in 1927 (guandi temple demolished).

For the rest JianLou double-hipped roof, roof, roof mountain type TongWa, green glazed tile shop ash cut edge, adorn green glaze, JianLou surface broadly ridge beast seven rooms, the wide between 36 meters, width, three BaoSha 14 meters north out of five 27 meters between surface broadly, drive wood door three, width of seven meters, even the width 21 meters, building connects tall 30 meters.South JianLou JianChuang four layers, stope of each layer of 12 holes, east and west sides JianChuang four layers, each monarch per layer 4 holes, BaoSha east, west side JianChuang 1 hole, QuanLou stope JianChuang 82 hole, there JianLou built during the reign of orthodoxy to four years (1436-1439 years), the Forbidden City in 1927 JianLou demolished, only to save ChengTai and WengCheng brake floor ChengTai and door, WengCheng coupons in 1930 dismantled, 1931 finished.

WengCheng sluice floor, built in the east gate, brake coupons floor broadly three rooms, single eaves jehiel mountain small type, top TongWa adorn grey WaJi spread ash JianChuang beast, positive monarch two rows, each row 6 hole, a total of 12 holes, brake floor MingJian drove on the back (west door, two each root, brake floor window 1 in 1927 dismantled.

The Forbidden City in the examinations, zhengde, jiajing, longqin and diachronic have repair, million along the Ming qing dynasty, are different system of repair.Roc years (1921) CengWeiXiu tower, 1944 towers repair records.WengCheng fifth republic in 1930, when ChengTai demolition and 10 meters away from the gates to five bricky build by laying bricks or stones and bricks, Taiwan dismantle Taiwan party 1.5 meters high, build by laying bricks or stones level 4 ChengZhuan overlying boulders and this, because of the Forbidden City of five brick sets minimum, heavy rains, terrain, to accumulate gate rain remit five brick Taiwan side water, water shades of over Taiwan, to open the gate set series, should be the standard discharge water when Ming, qing flood alarm facilities.
Liberation in 1950 in the Forbidden City in the east, and rarely askew, open traffic towers in 1965 dismantled.