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The Forbidden City - Must go in Beijing

Address: 4 Jing Shan Qian Jie, Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Phone: +86 10 8500 7428

The Forbidden City is not onlythe essence and culmination of traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment but also the largest ancient palatial structure in the world. This former imperial palace, which is called Gu Gong in Chinese, is located at the Beijing’s heart. It was the imperial palace for twenty-four emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In other words, it witnessed the enthronement of fourteen Ming and ten Qing emperors over the following 505 years until the Republic overthrew the last Qing emperor.The Imperial Palaces of Beijing was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987.

The construction of the grand palace was built throughout 14 years, started in the fourth year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), and ended in 1420. It is such a divine place was certainly forbidden to ordinary peopleto enter without special permission of the emperor. That is the reason why it is named “The Purple Forbidden City” or “The Forbidden City”.

The Forbidden City - Must go in Beijing

Enclosed by a 10-meter-high defensive wall with a circumference of 3, 430 meters, the Forbidden City is China’s largest and best-preserved collection of ancient buildings in the world. Extending 753 meters from east to west, and 961 meters from north to south, the Forbidden City covers an area of about 72 hectares with a total floor space of approximately 150,000 square meters. There are 90 palaces and courtyards, 980 buildings and 8,704 rooms in it.

City walls were 10 meters in height, and a 52 meter - wide moat surround the Forbidden City. The wall extraordinarily is very strong because of their incredible materials. They are the bricks were made from white lime and glutinous rice while the cement is made from glutinous rice and egg whites.

The Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner palaces. The Outer palace, includes the Hall of Central Harmony, the Hall of Supreme Harmony and the Hall of Preserving Harmony comprise, where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation whereas the Inner, comprisesthe Hall of Union, the Hall of Heavenly Purity and the Hall ofEarthly Tranquility, where he lived with his royal family.The Forbidden City can be called a masterpiece in Chinese, even world, architectural history because its buildings fully show the artistic features and style of ancient Chinese palace architecture.

This palace is known as called the Palace Museum orthe largest museum of cultural relics in China. It collected and displayed some one million precious historical relics from the Shang Dynasty (16th century -771 BC) through to the Qing Dynasty.

The Temple of Heaven - You can not ignore when to Beijing!

 Address: China, Beijing, Dongcheng, 天壇東路1号
Hours: Open today · 6:00 am – 8:00 pm
Phone: +86 10 6702 8866

The Temple of Heaven is one of four international temples in Beijing includes the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Earth, the Temple of the Moon and the Temple of Sun. Among them, the Temple of Heaven is the largest, most important and best known in Chinese history. The Temple of Heaven is not only China's largest and most representative existing masterpiece but also the most holy of Beijing's imperial temples.

The Temple of Heaven Park is located in the Chongwen District, southern Beijing. This is the place where the emperors of the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) and Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911) would worship the god of heaven and solemnly pray for a good harvest once a year at winter solsticeor in other words, they held the Heaven Worship Ceremony.The Temple of Heaven has also been listed as one of the World Cultural Relics by the UNESCO in 1998.

The Temple of Heaven was built in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1420) by the emperor by the 18th year of the reign of Emperor Yongle. During the reigns of the Ming emperor Jiajing and the Qing emperor Qianlong, it was extended and rebuilt.

The Temple of Heaven - You can not ignore when to Beijing!

To better symbolize heaven and earth,the northern part of the temple is circularwhich symbolizes the heavens, and the southern part is square - symbolizing the earth, which reflect the ancient Chinese belief. The northern part is higher than the southern part shows that the heaven is high and the earth is low. Its mighty architectural style and deep cultural meaning givesan insight into the practices of the ancient Eastern civilization.
Covering an area of 273 hectares, the temple is divided by two enclosed walls into inner altar and outer altar.The main buildings lie from the south to north of the middle axis of the inner part. The main buildings are the Altar of Prayer for Good Harvests, Circular Mound Altar and Imperial Vault of Heaven.

Circular Mound Altar is the center for the emperors would offer sacrifice here to Heaven on the day of the Winter Solstice every year. A circular wall of polished bricks known as the Echo Wall encloses the Imperial Vault of Heaven, where houses the Gods’ tablets to be used at the Heaven Worship Ceremony. The Altar of Prayer for Good Harvest stands on a round foundation built with three levels of marble stones, where the emperor held the worship ceremonies to pray for good weather and abundant harvests.

When tourists go into the Temple, they can have a feeling of solemnity, respectfulness, holiness and quietness will well up in the mind.

Zhujiajiao Ancient Town – The Venice of Shanghai

Situated forty seven kilometers away from Shanghai city, Zhujiajiao Water Town is a popular tourist location to escape the noisy modern city. Covering an area of 47 square kilometers, it is a typical and ancient water town well-known throughout the country, in Qingpu District, south of the Yangtze River, with a history of more than 1700 years.

Zhujiajiao is the best-preserved ancient water town among the four ancient towns in Shanghai. Zhujiajiao is the little fan-shaped town which are compared with a bright pearl in the landscape of lakes and mountains. With lovely waterways, old streets cemented with stone, curved rock bridges and over 10,000 buildings dating back to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties (1644-1911), Zhujiajiao is considered as Shanghai's Venice.

In the centuries past Zhujiajiao was a trading area due to the canals, which were used to ferries along in little boats and barges, especially in Ming dynasty. Now Zhujiajiao is a graceful and peaceful town. The graceful ancient town is well-decorated with water ways, 36 unique old bridges in different shapes and styles, from wooden to stone to marble across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees,unsophisticated local people, traditional Chinese-style residences with courtyards attached all transport people who have been living among the bustle and hustle of the modern big city to a brand-new world full of antiquity, leisure and tranquillity.All of these are the charm of the small town.Young people and those who want to unwind after a day’s work go there from Shanghai to relax.

Zhujiajiao Ancient Town – The Venice of Shanghai

Zhujiajiao has numerous historical sites and private gardens. Those gardens were designed and built between the Qing and Ming dynasties. The most famous destinations here are Fangsheng Bridge, Kezhi Garden andPost Office of Qing Dynasty. Fangsheng Bridge is the longest, largest and tallest stone bridge in Zhujiajiao and in the Shanghai region, resting on five arches. A stone tablet named Dragon Gate Stone engraved with 8 coiling dragons encircling a shining pearl is stood on the bridge. On top of the bridge are 4 lifelike stone lions.Kezhi Yuan at the northern edge of the old district on Xijing Street is a garden dating to 1912.Among the ancient architecture, Ke Zhi Yuan garden is the largest manorial one.There are three different parts in this destination which is the main hall, the garden and the artificial hill area.Post Office of Qing Dynasty was an official body introduced from the Western Europe. It is more than just a depository of mail.This place also has an exhibit of old post cards and letters.

Visitors go there not only to see the old buildings, shop, and but also to eat in the many restaurants and coffee shops.

Lingyin Temple – a destination for Buddhist faithful

Address: China, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Xihu, 灵隐路法云弄1号
Phone: +86 571 8796 8665

Lingyin Temple (Temple of Soul's Retreat) located in a long, narrow valley between Peak Flown From Afar (Fei Lai Feng) and North Peak to the northwest of the West Lake at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. It is one of the oldest, beautiful and most significant ancient Buddhist temples of China. With the long history and charming scenery,thousands of visitors and Buddhist faithful from home and abroadfor tourism and pilgrimswas attracted to come here every day.
Ling Yin Templewas first built in AD 326 by the Indian Monk Huili at Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of over 1600 years. It has been damaged and undergone several renovations.
Lingyin in Chinese means the soul's retreat so that the temple also can be named Temple of Soul's Retreat. Sheltered by forested hills on three sides, this temple is a quiet and sheltered sanctuary place. The temple covers an area of 5.66 square kilometers and has many scenic spots, including Xiaoyingzhou (Lesser Yingzhou, an islet) and Santan Yingyue (Three Pools Reflecting the Moon, a part of Lesser Yingzhou). Surrounding hills are manypagodas, temples, caves, rock carvings and natural springs.

Lingyin Temple – a destination for Buddhist faithful

The temple consists ofthe Hall of the Great Hero, the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of the Buddha of Medicine, the west wing,, the East and West Winding Corridors,  the Liandeng Tower, the Dabei Tower, the dining halls and the Abbot's Room.In front of the Ling Yin Temple is the Hall of the Heavenly King, which is the main entrance of the temple. In the center of the hall, there is a statue of Maitreya - the laughing Buddha, with a smiling face and a bare belly. Hall of the Great Hero is the temple's most magnificent building. It is 33.6 meters high. It contains the largestand most magnificent statue of Sakyamuniin the lotus position.Behind Sakyamuni is a colorful sculpture of 150 Buddhas. Another recently added hall holds the 500 Arhats. Hall of Medicine Buddha enshrines the statue of the Medicine Buddha which is also called Bhaisajyaturu.

Lingyin Temple in China is considered to be one of the wealthiest temples. It contains an important collection of Buddhist literature together with many other treasures. As a result, it is a great storehouse of information for those who wish to study aspects of Chinese Buddhism in detail.Moreover, it has tranquil and deep mountains,old and lofty trees, ancient Buddhist temples as well as the varied clouds and mist.

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