This Spring Festival holiday, many people came to Beijing for tourism, many of them came to the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City was first built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and it has a history of 603 years. The Palace Museum was officially established in 1925, and it has a history of 98 years.

The Palace Museum, which has been established for nearly a century, will soon have a branch.

Not long ago, on December 30, 2022, the North Campus of the Palace Museum, which had been in preparation for nearly ten years, officially broke ground.

The project is located in Xiyuhe Village, Xibeiwang Town, Haidian District, in the northwest suburb of Beijing.

Facing water on the south side and mountains on the north side, the building area exceeds 100,000 square meters.

It is more than 30 kilometers away from the Palace Museum, which takes about an hour's drive.

　　Covering an area of ​​over 700,000 square meters, why is the Forbidden City building a branch?

　　The Palace Museum is the largest ancient architectural complex in my country and the largest and best-preserved wooden structure palace complex in the world. It covers an area of ​​720,000 square meters, with more than 70 palaces and more than 9,000 houses.

Friends who have been there know that the Forbidden City is so big that you can't finish it in a day.

Since it is so big, why build a branch?

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: The number of cultural relics exhibited in the Palace Museum is less than 10,000 each year, but after the completion of the North Campus, we can exhibit 2 to 3 cultural relics every year Ten thousand pieces.

　　It is understood that at present, the Palace Museum has a total of 1,863,404 cultural relics. After the completion of the North Campus of the Palace Museum, the exhibition conditions will be fundamentally improved and enhanced.

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: Many of our cultural relics were exhibited in the Palace Museum in the past. Like calligraphy and painting, there are seasons. They cannot be exhibited in the rainy season, winter, and summer. Because of calligraphy and painting The requirements for temperature and humidity environment are higher.

Many cultural relics made of silk and cotton were not exhibited because the environment and conditions for their exhibition were not enough.

A modern museum must be built to display these more than 1.8 million cultural relics.

After the completion of the new museum, there will be 12 exhibition halls with an area of ​​about 35,000 square meters.

　　In addition to exhibiting cultural relics, what other functions will the North Courtyard of the Forbidden City have?

　　The building of the Palace Museum itself is a cultural relic.

Unlike museums, palaces have many spaces that are not suitable for exhibition halls, so that it is difficult for quite a few cultural relics to have the opportunity to meet the public.

After the completion of the North Court of the Forbidden City, this problem will be solved very well.

In addition to exhibiting cultural relics, what functions will the North Courtyard of the Forbidden City under construction have?

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: The Palace Museum carries too many things now. In the ancient buildings of the Palace Museum, we still have many (ancient buildings) to work in, and there are many more (Ancient buildings) turned into warehouses, these are some unsafe factors.

In fact, the construction of the North Campus is the biggest factor in solving the security issues of the hospital, including the safety of cultural relics and ancient buildings, the safety of visitors, and the safety of movable cultural relics.

　　The Forbidden City is the first batch of world cultural heritage in my country, with a history of 603 years. Every palace, every inch of land, every flower and plant is a carrier of historical and cultural inheritance.

At present, the open area of ​​the Forbidden City accounts for about 75% of the total area, and the completion of the North Courtyard of the Forbidden City will maximize the space occupied by offices and cultural relics storage in the Forbidden City.

At the same time, many cultural relics have high requirements on temperature, humidity, light and other conditions, and need to be protected from insects, moths, and oxidation, and even need to be placed in special gas. The newly built North Courtyard of the Forbidden City can also provide better storage conditions.

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: It must have a modern warehouse. In the construction of the North Campus project, we have fully considered the construction of the warehouse.

It does not mean that all the cultural relics in this courtyard are moved to the North courtyard, so these two warehouses store different cultural relics according to their own environmental conditions.

　　The traditional craftsmanship of the restoration of cultural relics in the Forbidden City is the most complete in the country. Among them, "ancient calligraphy and painting mounting and restoration techniques", "ancient calligraphy and painting manual copying and reproduction techniques", and "Chinese bronze traditional restoration and reproduction techniques" are all national intangible cultural heritages. .

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Hospital of the Palace Museum: It should be said that this cultural relic hospital is still very advanced, but there are two problems that cannot be solved now. One is that the number of repairs is still limited, and we can only repair them every year. Hundreds of cultural relics.

The second very important thing is that some large-scale cultural relics cannot be restored here (the Palace Museum).

　　The restoration and research of cultural relics is one of the important responsibilities of the Forbidden City. The completion of the North Campus will not only provide a large space, but also provide corresponding hoisting equipment for the restoration of large-scale cultural relics, and provide special guarantees such as special passages.

In addition, friends who are interested in the restoration of cultural relics can also have related experiences in the North Courtyard of the Forbidden City in the future.

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: Not only do we know the results of the restoration of the cultural relics, but also allow the audience to see the process of our restoration of cultural relics, to experience our craftsman spirit and superb skills, It is more open than this hospital.

　　Coordinate Xiyuhe village What is the site selection of the North Court of the Forbidden City?

　　The North Campus is located in Xiyuhe Village, Xibeiwang Town, Haidian District, Beijing, more than 30 kilometers away from the Palace Museum.

So, what is the point of selecting the site for the North Campus of the Forbidden City?

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: This location is a very special one. Its place is called Cuijiayao, and there are three kiln sites. In the past, it was used to make bricks, tiles, glazed components, etc. for the Forbidden City, so it was an important production base of raw materials in the Forbidden City in the past. It complements the three mountains and five gardens in Haidian District.

　　During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were also many royal leisure spaces outside the Forbidden City.

The so-called Three Mountains and Five Gardens refer to Fragrant Hill, Yuquan Hill, Longevity Hill, Changchun Garden, Yuanming Garden, Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden and Jingyi Garden, all of which are within the scope of today’s Haidian District in Beijing.

　　Will the head of the North Campus be a replica of the Forbidden City?

　　According to the relevant person in charge, the total land area of ​​the Forbidden City North Campus project is 11.56 hectares, with a total construction area of ​​102,000 square meters.

The whole building faces the water in the south and the mountains in the north. The golden-roofed building forms an axis. As the center of the whole building volume, the elements of the Forbidden City with red walls and yellow tiles stand out.

The North Campus plans to build a cultural relics exhibition center, a cultural relics restoration center, a cultural relics exhibition hall, a cultural relics turnover warehouse, and a palace gardening center. An international cultural relics restoration platform and an intangible cultural heritage studio will also be set up.

　　Du Haijiang, Deputy Director of the Party Committee Secretary of the Palace Museum, Chief Project Manager of the North Campus of the Palace Museum: The North Campus project does not adopt the model of directly moving the ancient architectural style of the Forbidden City. It is a modern museum, drawing on some of the Forbidden City Elements, after it is completed, it should be said to be a simple, thick and atmospheric museum.

　　According to the person in charge of the project, the construction of the North Campus of the Forbidden City is currently being stepped up, and it will take three years to complete it in 2025, the 100th anniversary of the Palace Museum.