>recommendation of10,000national guard
Trump trolling Xi again
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/symbolism-in-the-forbidden-city-the-magnificent-design-distinct-colors-and-lucky-numbers-of-chinas-imperial-palace/
The Chinese place great emphasis on numerology and incorporated it into the Forbidden City’s design. For instance, nine is the greatest single number, which dictated that it, along with the color yellow, be reserved for the emperor’s exclusive use. Furthermore, the Chinese word for nine, jiu, is also a homonym with “long/lengthy/longevity,” which meant that it was doubly auspicious.16 It is often said that the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms in total (the reality is closer to 9,000), leaving it just shy of 10,000, the number for infinity, the number of rooms one would find in the Forbidden City in heaven.
Nine appears repeatedly elsewhere. The original Ming buildings measured nine “bays” (a measurement for roof spans), wide, and the design called for nine gates with watchtowers (all but the Meridian Gate have come down to make way for later urban construction). The watchtowers each had nine roof beams, eighteen pillars, and seventy-two ridgepoles.17 This use of nine and its multiples was a deliberate nod to the emperor’s number and when added together would total ninety-nine. Visitors will also notice that the gates in the Forbidden City are decorated with studs that held deeper meaning beyond their decorative value. Any gate that would be used by the emperor would be painted bright red and inlaid with nine rows of nine golden studs. Any commoner who copied the emperor’s stud design could face execution. Princely gates would have gold studs on red, but they were limited to forty-nine in seven rows of seven. Lesser officials would have green or black gates, depending on rank, and could have twenty-five bronze or iron studs in five rows of five.18