当人们信步走进天安门,经端门,来到紫禁城的正门——午门前的时候,情不自禁地会止步发问,这个皇宫门前宽阔的宫廷广场有何用途?是否就是臣僚获罪,“推出午门斩首”的地方?其实,午门斩首并无此事,它只是流传于民间的故事传说,可能出自古代小说,或由明代的午门廷杖演变而来。午门前宽阔的宫廷广场的左边,过阙左门,是皇家太庙;右边,过阙 When people walked into Tiananmen Square and reached the front entrance of the Forbidden City through the end gate-in front of the afternoon gate, they could not stop asking questions. What was the purpose of the wide court square in front of the imperial palace? In fact, there was no such thing as the beheading of the Meridian Gate. It was just a story circulating in the folk that may have come from the ancient novels or evolved from the Ming Men’s Meridian Gate Staff. On the left side of the broad palace square in front of the gate, Que left door, is the royal temple; the right, over Que