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