帮忙用英语介绍一下故宫，我要给一个国外朋友看的，越详细越好

怎样给外国友人一个精彩的故宫游？~

小朋友游故官, 半天行程经已足够。用过早餐，约8:30进入景点。
入门之后，在故宫导游的引领下，先观看故宫图片展，让他对这个始建于明永乐四年（1406年），建成于永乐十八年（1420年），距今约有600年的历史的世界上规模最大、保存最完整的宫殿建筑群有基本认知。
听过讲解之后，再带他观看故宫3D影片。这部影片非常值得观看，尤其是年龄稍小的孩子。因为故宫巨大的宫殿群包括成千上万幢精美的建筑，珍藏着众多的历史文物，我们用一天的时间是无法遍赏的。但是现在，我们通过虚拟世界技术，可以俯瞰故宫的整个结构，了解各个宫殿的用途，甚至可以看到太和殿屋顶当中正脊两端各有的琉璃吻兽。通过观看故宫3D影片，可激发了少年们探索故宫神秘事物的好奇心，同时也使他体会到了这个令人惊异的巨大空间所散发出的威严之感和感受到了中华民族传统文化的博大精深。
最后，你们可依次参观故宫的保和殿、中和殿、太和殿，最後看看陶瓷馆或清帝大婚庆典展览，故宫游活动就可结束了。在参观途中可不失时机介绍一些有趣的故事:　例如
1）为甚麼故宫过去叫紫禁城：在古代的天象观测中，人们发现，有一颗星的位置是不变的，始终居 于天空的正中，它是紫微星，也就是大家熟悉的北极星。人们认为那是天帝 居住的地方，称它为“紫宫”。皇帝称自己为天子，就是天帝的儿子，他所 居住的宫殿就叫“紫宫”，皇帝居住的宫院，对寻常老 百姓来说，是绝对的禁忌之地，所以就叫“紫禁城 ”。
2）经过午门，时可介绍“推出午门斩首”这句话。其实， 这句话纯属是误传，北京当时的刑场在南城的菜市口。那这句话是怎么传出 来的呢？过去大臣们和皇帝在朝堂上议政，经常出现意见不和的情况。在明 朝时，皇帝就可以把触犯他的大臣拉到午门外用竹子打屁股。这竹子，它是一种碗口粗的毛竹，里面还要灌上水银，几杖下去就能皮开肉绽。被打的人不死的话也要终生残疾。 这种恐怖的事情从皇宫传到民间，就逐渐变成“推出午门斩首”了。
3）　走到神武门 ，可说说“半夜三更”的说法。故宫的北门，上有一只大鼓和一口大钟，每 夜有专人值班击鼓报更。过去人们对夜间的计时方法，一更 约为两小时，一夜分为五更。夜里11点到第二天1点，正是三更的时候，所 以就有了“三更半夜”或者“半夜三更”的说法。每天夜幕降临后，在击鼓 报初更之前，先要敲钟108响，而当第二天拂晓，报过五更后，再次敲钟108 响。楼高夜静，紫禁城里的人们，都能听到这钟鼓之声。
游览参观完故宫博物院以后可以去附近的王府井小吃一条街午餐。那里还有专门售卖、制作民间工艺品、民俗用品的旧式摊位，不少流传于民间的工艺品将在这里展现，相信他也会有兴趣的。
饭後如果天气晴朗，可以去故宫对面的景山公园，在万寿亭俯瞰故宫全景。

故宫内餐饮服务较少，且售价较高，可带备蒸馏水饮用，也较体贴。亦可租赁语音讲解器接收英语导游解说，押金100 元，租金40元。

The fobbiden City is the palace museum; also know as the Purple Forbidden City. It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today. Under Ming Emperor Yongle, construction began in 1406. It took 14years to build the Forbidden City. The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi. For five centuries thereafter, it continued to be the residence of23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne. In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City was a world cultural legacy.

It is believed that the Palace Museum, or Zi Jin Cheng (Purple Forbidden City), got its name from astronomy folklore, The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Yuan (North Star) . The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace. Because the emperor was supposedly the son of the heavenly gods, his central and dominant position would be further highlighted the use of the word purple in the name of his residence. In folklore, the term “an eastern purple cloud is drifting” became a metaphor for auspicious events after a purple cloud was seen drifting eastward immediately before the arrival of an ancient philosopher, LaoZi, to the Hanghu Pass. Here, purple is associated with auspicious developments. The word jin (forbidden) is self-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people.

The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic. Red represents happiness, good fortune and wealth. Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau, the original home of the Chinese people. Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty, when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.

The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape. It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meter wide from east west. It has 9,900 rooms under a total roof area 150,000 square meters. A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9. 9-meter—high wall which encloses the complex. Octagon —shaped turrets rest on the four corners of the wall. There are four entrances into the city: the Meridian Gate to the south, the Shenwu Gate (Gate of Military Prowess) to the north, and the Xihua Gate (Gate of military Prowess) to the north, and the Xihua Gate (Western Flowery Gate ) to the west, the Donghua (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east.

Manpower and materials throughout the country were used to build the Forbidden City. A total of 230,000 artisans and one million laborers were employed. Marble was quarried from fangshan Country Mount Pan in Jixian County in Hebei Province. Granite was quarried in Quyang County in Hebei Province. Paving blocks were fired in kilns in Suzhou in southern China. Bricks and scarlet pigmentation used on the palatial walls came from linqing in Shandong Province. Timber was cut, processed and hauled from the northwestern and southern regions.

The Palace Museum

The Palace Museum, also called the Forbidden City, is one of the Country's most important sights, for it is a symbol of traditional China and likewise the biggest and best preserved masterpiece of Classical architecture.

The Forbidden City was completed in 1420 during the Ming Dynasty. It was the home of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qin dynasties. Naturally it was the scene of many important events affecting the course of Chinese history,including political struggles and palace coups,some of them extremely tragic.

The Forbidden City occupies a total space of more than 720, 000 square metres. It is surrounded by a moat of 50m wide and a wall 10.4m high with watch towers at each of the corners.The building in this palace complex are measured in 9,999.5 bays.The surrounding palace walls are 10 metres high and have a total length of 3,400 metres,and are protected by a 52-metre-wide moat. The Forbidden City consists of two parts, the Outer Court and the Inner Court.The Outer Court centres around the Hall of Supreme Harmony,the Midway Hall of Harmony and the Hall of preserved Harmony,which are flanked by the hall of Literary Glory and the Hall of Military Prowess.The Inner Court centres around the Hall of Celestial Purity,the Hall of Union and Peace and the Hall of Terrestrial Transquility,which are flanked by the Six East Palaces and the Six West Palaces. The layout is orderly and symmetrical.

Every year millions of Chinese and foreigners throng to the huge palace grounds to see the treasures and precious objects, power and splendor abundance and extravagance of former emperors.

旅游网上好多这样的信息，而且图文并茂：

http://www.synotrip.com/beijing/tourist-attractions/the-forbidden-city-1378.shtml

http://english.china.com/zh_cn/culture_history/heritages/11023762/20040907/11867381.html

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