Side Arcades of Fengtian Hall of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing: Guard House in the Forbidden City in Beijing During the Ming and Qing Dynasties
摘要
During the reign of Zhu Di, known as Emperor Yongle, Beijing became the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di seized the throne under the banner of “Purging the Treacherous Official.” To solidify his rule and eliminate the remaining force of the Yuan Dynasty in the north, he designated Beipingfu (Khanbaliq), where he was enfeoffed as the King of Yan, as the capital and named it Beijing Shuntianfu. In the 4th year of Yongle’s reign (1406 AD), Zhu Di issued an edict to move the capital to Beijing. In the 5th month of the following year, the construction of the palace, ancestral temple, and the imperial mausoleum, known as Changling, began.