At the 46th UNESCO World Heritage Conference, "the central axis of Beijing - a masterpiece of the order of China's ideal capital" was successfully included in the The World Heritage List. As an important component of Beijing's central axis, the Forbidden City was included in the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units as early as 1961, and was listed as China's first batch of world cultural heritage by UNESCO in 1987. As a palace relic, the Forbidden City not only carries and gathers the essence of Chinese excellent traditional culture, but also is a treasure house of cultural inheritance and academic research. The birth process of the Palace Museum, from royal palaces to public museums, embodies the exploration and development of museums and cultural relics protection in modern China as a public institution. The Palace Museum was one of the earliest museums to explore how to provide better social services. At the beginning of its establishment, it adhered to the purpose of "collecting treasures that have been revered for generations, setting up an antique exhibition area in the city as a precursor to museums" and "preparing for use in national libraries, museums, and other facilities, to promote culture and preserve it for a long time". It transformed private antiques into public cultural products for display to the public, and turned the palace into a public art temple for the public to observe antiques and study painting techniques. Especially in terms of cultural relic protection and research, it started earlier and is more mature in the field of cultural relic protection in China. For example, the openness and organization of calligraphy and painting have promoted the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese painting art in modern times; The sorting and research of bronze ware not only continues the tradition of epigraphy since the Song and Ming dynasties, but also combines the theoretical achievements of modern archaeology to scientifically present the inheritance of Chinese bronze ware collection. Through the joint participation of several generations of people from the Palace Museum and various sectors of society, the academic research of the Palace Museum has accumulated a considerable amount. On this basis, Zheng Xinmiao, the then director of the Palace Museum, proposed the academic concept of "Palace Museum Studies" in October 2003. The proposal and theoretical construction of the academic concept of "Palace Museum Studies" are based on a profound reflection and understanding of the overall and systematic collection of the Palace Museum architectural complex and its cultural relics. As a result, the Palace Museum has further connected ancient architecture, cultural relics collections, and court history from a cultural holistic perspective for protection, research, and interpretation. By exploring its collection resources and combining the disciplinary advantages of universities and research institutions, the Palace Museum has made further improvements in talent cultivation, cultural inheritance and innovation, academic research, and international exchanges in recent years. Firstly, based on the study of the Palace Museum, it has built a more sound academic team and a more comprehensive and mature academic platform, enhancing the influence of the academic research system in the cultural and museum fields and even the whole society, and fully leveraging the role of cultural inheritance and innovation and think tanks; Secondly, fully activate and mobilize social scientific research forces, encourage non Palace Museum researchers to participate in the study of Palace Museum cultural relics through open research projects, and conduct in-depth research and interpretation of Palace Museum cultural relics and the excellent traditional Chinese culture they carry; The third is to provide a platform for experts and scholars from around the world to exchange and cooperate through the "Taihe Scholars Program", actively leveraging the pioneering role of the Palace Museum in promoting dialogue and exchange between Chinese culture and foreign cultures, and expanding the international influence of China's excellent traditional culture. The theoretical exploration and practical innovation of Palace Museum studies have only been over 20 years, and as a discipline, it is still very young. In the new era, how to explore the construction of a modern academic system within the traditional cultural knowledge system, promote the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural heritage through academic research, and make the cultural treasures of the Chinese nation shine with new vitality and brilliance in the new era? This is an inherent requirement for the inheritance and development of the century old academic tradition of the Palace Museum, as well as an opportunity to accelerate the construction of Chinese philosophy and social sciences for the development of Palace Museum studies. It is also an important call to Palace Museum studies to inherit and promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture of the times. The Chinese culture carried by the Forbidden City and its cultural relics is typical and unique. The Palace Museum complex contains a well-organized and closely related knowledge system, and its planning concepts, form layout, and architectural imagery have clear ideological origins and practical paths to follow. Similarly, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City also contain an orderly and well-organized knowledge system, and their cultural inheritance and academic evolution are in line. Looking towards the future, further systematically sorting out the cultural relics and pictorial literature of the Palace Museum, extracting and summarizing their cultural connotations and spiritual cores, will help to solidify the concepts, categories, systems, and methods of Palace Museum studies. At the same time, inheriting the academic philosophy and traditions of the Palace Museum helps to form an interdisciplinary and integrated disciplinary system, an academic system of cross institutional communication and cooperation, and a discourse system of cross-cultural communication and mutual learning. The Forbidden City, its cultural relics, and the Palace Museum are cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. The Forbidden City and the Palace Museum have always been important places for the intersection and integration of Chinese and foreign cultures. We should focus on "tradition and modernity", "history and present", and "China and the world", explore the theoretical innovation, mechanism construction, and practical path of Palace Museum studies in the Chinese context and global perspective, fully utilize the academic resources of the Palace Museum, continuously improve the theoretical system of Palace Museum studies, deeply explore the historical and cultural connotations and contemporary value of the Palace Museum and its cultural relics, and find ways to promote excellent traditional Chinese culture and promote cross-cultural exchange and mutual learning in the future academic development, enhance the academic discourse power of Palace Museum studies and the international influence of Chinese culture. (New Society)