Visiting Nanjing’s Ming Imperial Palace Ruins Park – A Unique Landscape
Nanjing’s Ming Imperial Palace Ruins Park, located in the Xuanwu District of Nanjing, you will feel regret and loss upon visiting this site.
Nanjing Imperial Palace, also known as the Ming Imperial Palace, is Nanjing’s Forbidden City, the capital of the Ming Dynasty’s Yianting Prefecture (Nanjing). The construction of the Ming Imperial Palace spanned twenty years, illustrating the immense time and effort invested, along with substantial manpower, resources, and finances. The Imperial City covers an area of 6.53 square kilometers, while the Palace City covers 1.16 square kilometers, making it the largest palace complex in the world during the Middle Ages. Known as ‘the world’s first palace,’ Nanjing Ming Imperial Palace is a comprehensive example of Chinese palace architecture, inherited by Beijing’s Forbidden City. It is the progenitor of Beijing’s Forbidden City Museum and a symbol of Ming and Qing government buildings.
In October 1956, the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government announced the Ming Imperial Palace Ruins as a Provincial-level Cultural Relic Protection Unit.
In May 2006, the State Council designated the Ming Imperial Palace Ruins as a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit.
This magnificent Nanjing Ming Imperial Palace, standing in the East, has been completely destroyed by five historical calamities, leaving only foundations and landmarks, echoing the lines of Yuan Dynasty poet Zhang Yanghao: ‘Sadness wherever the Qin and Han armies marched, palaces and halls have become earth.’
Many tourists come to Nanjing Ming Imperial Palace Ruins Park with regret. It can only continue to be passed down as a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit.
Image from the internet.
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