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The Forbidden City The Forbidden City or Forbidden Palace, located at the exact center of the ancient city of Beijing, was the imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing dynasties. Known now as the Palace Museum, its extensive grounds cover 720,000 square meters, 800 buildings and 9,999 rooms ...

Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is an ancient Chinese fortification built circa 200 BC and greatly strengthened from the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the Ming empire from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls ...

Marble Boat The Marble Boat, also known as the Boat of Purity and Ease (Qing Yan Fang) is a lakeside pavilion on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. The original pavilion was made from a base of large stone blocks which supported a wooden superstructure done in a traditional Chinese design ...

Ming Dynasty Tombs The Ming Dynasty Tombs are located some 50 kilometers due North of Beijing at an especially selected site. The site was chosen by the third Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle, who moved the Capital City of China from Nanjing to the present location of Beijing. He is credited with envisioning the layout of ancient Beijing ...

Temple of Heaven The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven is situated in south eastern urban Beijing, in Xuanwu District. Construction began in 1420, and was thereafter visited by all subsequent Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although the worship of Heaven, especially by the reigning monarch ...

Discover SHANGHAI Shanghai, with a population of more than 18 million (and over 5.8 million migrants), is one of the most populous and most developed cities in the People's Republic of China. Shanghai was the largest and most prosperous city in the Far East during the 1930s, and remained the most developed city in Communist China ...

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