1. The Forbidden City

2. Residents Of The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was the imperial Palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Ming Dynasties Emperor moved from different places. He moved from the Hall of Martial Valor to the Hall of Literary Glory, two rooms in the Forbidden City.

3. Rooms In The Forbidden City
There are 9,999.5 rooms in the Forbidden City. Some of those are the Hall of Supreme Harmony, The Hall of Literary Glory, The Hall of Martial Valor, and The Gate of Supreme Harmony. There are a few entrances into the Forbidden City. A couple of them are the Meridian Gate (the southern entrance) and The Gate of Heavenly Purity (which is the main entrance and splits the Forbidden City into two halves).

4. How The Forbidden City Got It’s Name
No one really knows how the Forbidden City got it’s name, but people think it was because of stories or astronomers. Ancient astronomers made groups of constellations around Ziwei Yuan, also known as the North Star. The constellation containing Ziwei Yuan is called The Constellation of Heavenly Gods, and Ziwei Yuan is called the Purple Palace. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhudi, was supposedly the son of the Heavenly Gods, and he had the word purple as the name of his palace. That is why another name for the Forbidden City is the Purple Forbidden City.

5. Why It Was Called The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was called the Forbidden City because of the last Qing Dynasty Emperor, P’u Yi. He became Emperor in 1908, when he was almost three years old. But then, in 1912, his rule as Emperor ended, because of a change in government. This made him the last Qing Dynasty Emperor; however, he was still allowed to live in the Palaces with his family and staff.