Forbidden City

English Etymology en zh 紫禁城 Zǐjìnchéng Purple Forbidden City”, or “Imperial Forbidden City. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Forbidden City.wav Southern England Proper noun 1 forbidden city en palace of the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty located district/Dongcheng city/Beijing c/China. en https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor2101unse/ 1834 February Description of the City of Peking. II 10 w:The Chinese Repository Canton 6841132 438 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor2101unse/page/438/ The northern division of Peking consists of three inclosures one within another, each surrounded by its own wall. The first contains the imperial palace and the abodes of the different members of the imperial household ;[...]The first inclosure, which is called the forbidden city, being the seat of ‘ the dragon’s throne,’ the place from which emanates the authority that governs one-third of mankind, is the most splendid, as well as the most important part of Peking. According to the notions of a Chinese, all within its walls is gold and silver. en 1968 PEKING (PEIPING) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 532 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n585/ 1, 2 And within the Imperial city was the moated Forbidden city, with walls two and one-quarter miles long, plastered with a violet-coloured mortar, whence comes the popular name of the Purple city. The Forbidden city contained the Imperial palaces, which have been converted into a museum. en February 11, 1979 Lantern festival enchantment Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-02-11_20_5/ 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-02-11_20_5/page/n1/ During the Tang Dynasty 12 centuries ago, even the Forbidden City in Peiping would stay open for three days to allow ordinary citizens to observe the Lantern Festival. en 1983 w:Roderick MacFarquhar The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 The Origins of the Cultural Revolution https://archive.org/details/greatleapforward0002unse/ w:Columbia University Press 2 0-231-05716-4 73-15794 10055329 235 https://archive.org/details/greatleapforward0002unse/page/235/ Finally, in October, P'eng was moved from his quarters in the Chungnanhai area of the Forbidden City, where Mao, Liu Shao-ch’i and other Politburo members lived, to a dilapidated house in the Wu Chia Hua Yuan (Wu Family Garden), a compound within the Yuan Ming Park on the northern outskirts of Peking. en 1991 Chris Mullin The Year of the Fire Monkey https://archive.org/details/yearoffiremonkey0000mull/ London w:Chatto & Windus Fiction 0701136936 26471461 252 https://archive.org/details/yearoffiremonkey0000mull/page/252/ The wall surrounding the Chung Nan Hai is high and wide, painted vermilion in keeping with the decor of the Forbidden City. It has a circumference of many miles, intersected at intervals by gates guarded day and night by armed soldiers. en 2005 w:Bill Clinton My Life (Clinton autobiography) My Life https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/ II New York w:Vintage Books 1-4000-9673-1 60594427 435 https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/page/435/ After we toured the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, I held a question-and-answer session with students at Beijing University. en February 19, 2019 w:Anna Fifield China’s Forbidden City to open to the general public at night for the first time in 94 years w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20190219142032/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/19/chinas-forbidden-city-open-general-public-night-first-time-years 19 February 2019 0190-8286 2269358 WorldViews Those lucky visitors may be able to discover whether there is any truth to the legend that the Forbidden City, which was the home of China's emperors between 1420 and 1912, is haunted by ghosts who come out just at night.Usually only VIPs — such as President Trump in 2017 — get to venture into the Forbidden City at night. en Translations palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties Arabic: ar اَلْمَدِينَةُ الْمُحَرَّمَةُ f Asturian: ast Ciudá Prohibida f Catalan: ca Ciutat Prohibida f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 紫禁城 Mandarin: cmn 紫禁城 Zǐjìnchéng, cmn 故宮 Gùgōng Danish: da Den Forbudte By c definite form Finnish: fi Kielletty kaupunki French: fr Cité interdite f Galician: gl Cidade Prohibida f German: de Verbotene Stadt die Verbotene Stadt f Greek: el Απαγορευμένη Πόλη f Hindi: hi फ़ॉरबिडन सिटी f, hi निषिद्ध शहर m literally, hi निषिद्ध नगर m Hungarian: hu Tiltott Város Irish: ga Cathair Thoirmiscthe f An Chathair Thoirmiscthe Italian: it Città Proibita f Japanese: ja 紫禁城 しきんじょう ,Shikinjō Korean: ko ^자금성(紫禁城) Manchu: mnc ᡩᠠᠪᡴᡡᡵᡳ ᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ, mnc ᡶᡝ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠩ Mongolian: mn Хориотой хот Occitan: oc Ciutat Proïbida f Polish: pl Zakazane Miasto n Portuguese: pt Cidade Proibida f Russian: ru Запре́тный го́род m Spanish: es Ciudad Prohibida f Thai: th พระราชวังต้องห้าม Phra-rat-cha-wang-tong-ham Uyghur: ug گۇگۇڭ Vietnamese: vi Tử Cấm Thành Further reading en 2008 Forbidden City Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1246 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1246/ 2 pn en terms calqued from Chinese en Royal residences