各位游客大家好啊!我姓金。大家可以叫我导或金同学都没关系，我很荣幸能够带领大家去故宫旅游。希望大家能够听我对故宫的解说。
我们现在要去故宫了。故宫可是世界文化的遗产。我们要注意的事项：不能带火种，不能带危险物品：如小刀，剪刀等危险物品。不能有乱扔垃圾，乱涂乱画等不文明的事情。
现在展现在我们面前气势宏伟的古代人民的建筑——故宫，故宫又称紫禁城。故宫的大门是南为午门也就是故宫的正门，北为神武门，东为东华门，西为西华门，这宫墙四门的角楼都是风格独特，造型绚丽的。故宫的石墙上有龙的`雕刻，有双龙戏珠，龙腾
虎跃，龙飞凤舞等美丽的图案。全殿面阔11间，进深5间，外有廊柱，殿内外共立72根大柱。殿高35米，殿内净空高达14米，宽63米，面积2377平方米，为全国最大的木结构大殿。我再给大家介绍介绍其他的宫殿吧!
现在大家来到的是保和殿。保和殿是皇帝宴请外藩王公，贵族和京中文武大臣之处。你们知道乾清宫吗?不知道也没关系，现在我告诉大家乾清宫是明清皇帝居住和处理政务的地方。你们看过"还珠格格"这部电视剧吗?它就是在故宫拍的。
规划严整，气魄宏伟，壮观美丽，这就是我国的故宫。现在大家可以自由参观了。
Lying at the center of Beijing，the Forbidden City，called Gu Gong，in Chinese，was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum，it is to the north of Tian an men Square. Rectangular in shape，it is the world‘s largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9，999 buildings. The wall has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tian an men Gate，to the north is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen)，which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters，while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters. There are unique and delicately structured towers on each of the four corners of the curtain wall. These afford views over both the palace and the city outside. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section，or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section，or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family. Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the Inner Court，fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here. Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries，it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities. Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987，the Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions world wide.
Construction of the palace complex began in 1407，the 5th year of the Yongle reign of the third emperor of the Ming dynasty. It was completed fourteen years later in 1420. It was said that a million workers including one hundred thousand artisans were driven into the long-term hard labor. Stone needed was quarried from Fangshan，a suburb of Beijing. It was said a well was dug every fifty meters along the road in order to pour water onto the road in winter to slide huge stones on ice into the city. Huge amounts of timber and other materials were freighted from faraway provinces. Ancient Chinese people displayed their very considerable skills in building the Forbidden City. Take the grand red city wall for example. It has an 8.6 meters wide base reducing to 6.66 meters wide at the top. The angular shape of the wall totally frustrates attempts to climb it. The bricks were made from white lime and glutinous rice while the cement is made from glutinous rice and egg whites. These incredible materials make the wall extraordinarily strong.
Since yellow is the symbol of the royal family，it is the dominant color in the Forbidden City. Roofs are built with yellow glazed tiles; decorations in the palace are painted yellow; even the bricks on the ground are made yellow by a special process. However，there is one exception. Wenyuange，the royal library，has a black roof. The reason is that it was believed black represented water then and could extinguish fire.
Nowadays，the Forbidden City，or the Palace Museum is open to tourists from home and abroad. Splendid painted decoration on these royal architectural wonders，the grand and deluxe halls，with their surprisingly magnificent treasures will certainly satisfy "modern civilians".