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Interesting places in Forbidden City:The Forbidden City (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zijinchng; literally "Purple Forbidden City") was the Chinese imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing Dynasties. The Forbidden City is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It is now known as the Palace Museum.
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Temple of Heaven
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The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven in traditional Chinese, is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in south-eastern Beijing. Construction of the complex began in 1420, and was thereafter visited by all subsequent Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Temple grounds covers 2.73 km² of parkland, and comprises three main groups of constructions, all built according to strict philosophical requirements: the Earthly Mount is the altar proper. It is an empty platform on three levels of marble stones, where the Emperor prayed for favourable weather; The House of Heavenly Lord, a single-gabled circular building, built on a single level of marble stone base, where the altars were housed when not in use; and The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, seen above, a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests. The Temple of Heaven was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998. All the buildings within the Temple have special dark blue roof tiles, representing Heaven. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is 32m in diameter and 38m tall. It has four inner, 12 middle and 12 outer pillars, representing the four seasons, 12 months and 12 traditional Chinese hours respectively. It was built without a single nail.
Rooftops
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Forbidden City Beijing, China June 19, 2007 on black at my site I wish there had been nice skies during my visit, but with such a horrible pollution problem, I wonder how often there actually are nice skies in Beijing. We saw horrible smog the entire time we were there. We could even see it indoors at night in places like the airport. Lonely Planet says that health experts warn that breathing the Beijing air could be the equivalent of smoking 70 cigarettes a day. Don't think that tidbit wasn't lost on me each and every day I spent breathing in that air. Fortunately, most of what I wanted to see was outside of Beijing, so I only spent a few days in the city on my trip.
Canal / 運河
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The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five centuries, it served as the home of the Emperor and his household, and the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government. Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms[1] and covers 720,000 square metres. The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture,[2] and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere.
Forbidden City
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I wonder what it must have been like actually to live in this place, a couple of hundred years ago. Of course, I'd probably be a servant in charge of washing underpants or something...
Taihedian in repair故宫太和殿
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in may,2006 ,the most important building-TaiHeDian -in the forbbiden city got its first thoroughly repaired since it was built about 4 centuries ago
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The Forbidden City was the imperial palace during the Ming and Quing dynasties. It covers 74 hectares surrounded by a ten meter wall and consists of 9999 buildings.
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