Digging treasure at night? Palace Museum response

The Forbidden City expressed its gratitude to the audience for paying more and more attention to cultural relics and ancient buildings.

According to a netizen on Sina Weibo, “archaeological battles are much more than this.” according to the on-site staff of the Palace Museum, please rest assured that it is not an archaeological project, but a routine maintenance of power wells.

In the picture, you can clearly see a downward ladder.

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The reporter saw at the scene that at present, the construction site has been blocked, and no tourists are curious.

In recent years, the traffic brought by the Forbidden City has become the hottest topic.

Another picture looks like a wellhead.

This construction is not an archaeological project, but a routine maintenance of power equipment.

From the photos on the microblog, we can see that there are excavators digging at night outside the Donghua gate of the Forbidden City.

According to the plan, the construction period of the power high-voltage capacity increase project will be the end of September, from 0:00 every night to 5:00 the next morning.

In fact, this construction site is not in the Forbidden City, but in the north of Donghua gate of the Forbidden City.

Construction at night is to minimize the impact on tourists.

The museum will release relevant information in time and accurately.

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Recently, some netizens photographed an excavator digging earth near the Forbidden City, so someone speculated that it was digging treasure late at night? Some people even speculated that they were digging Yongle grand ceremony…

Netizen comments: source ▼ Beijing Evening News, Sina Weibo, etc.

Some netizens sent microblogs to doubt, “are you sure this is not night construction and maintenance, but looking for Yongle grand ceremony? At first glance, it doesn’t look like a battle looking for classics”.

Please don’t believe rumors and spread rumors and protect the Forbidden City together.

Similar “topics” are often on hot search.

The staff said that every “ground breaking” of the Palace Museum will go through a strict approval process, and it will never be easy to shovel.