Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Aim/Goal: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing Dynasty?

Do Now: Have your parents ever forbidden you do to something? What was the outcome or

consequences?

Homework: Write “a day in the life” of some one who would live in the Forbidden City.

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Stats on the Forbidden City

• The Forbidden City is built on 180 acres (Central Park is 800 acres).

• There are 9,999 rooms in this series of exquisite palaces inside the City. Nine is a lucky number for the Chinese.

• The walls are 32 feet high • The moat is 165 feet wide • Took over 14 years (1407-1420) using

200,000 laborers to build.

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Enter the Forbidden City

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Forbidden City

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Floor Plan

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

View from Above

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Who lived in the Forbidden City

• 18th century 9000 people lived within the Forbidden City

• guards, servants, eunuchs, concubines, civil servants and the Royal Family.

• The inner sanctum rooms were forbidden to women except to the Empress on her wedding day

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Guards

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Servants

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Eunuchs

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Concubines

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Civil Servants

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

The Royal Family

Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

Group Activity

• You will be assigned one person from the Forbidden city.

• You will draw a picture of that person.– What would that person feel being in the

Forbidden City?– What would that person hear?– What would that person see?