Today, Beijing is a modern, constantly evolving city, bustling with cars and bicycles, with the vibrant, pulsating pace of life to be expected of the political and economic capital of a superpower...
Among the most popular starters are vegetarian spring rolls, chūnbǐng juǎncài, filled with mushrooms or vegetables, and there’s also a Beijing version of the famous wonton Chinese...
With a surface area of 440,000 square meters, 880 meters long and 500 meters wide, this is the largest square in China, and the sixth largest in the world. It is especially well known as the location...
Its Chinese name, Zǐjìnchéng, means forbidden purple city, because the ancient Chinese astronomers believed that the Purple Star, or the Pole Star, marked the center of heaven, and...
Its history stretches back almost a thousand years, to the time when China was governed by the Liao and Jin dynasties, when it was the garden of the imperial palaces, located where the Forbidden City...
The Museum of History, originally founded in 1912, was renamed the Museum of the History of Beijing on October 1st, 1949, the date on which the People’s Republic of China was founded, and ten...
It was built during the Liao dynasty, between 916 and 1125, and was expanded and altered on numerous occasions. For the most important reconstruction, however, we have to thank Emperor Qianlong, who...
The complex was later expanded and given the name Temple of Heaven during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming dynasty in the 16th century, and renovated again in the 18th century under Emperor...
The Great Wall also allowed for border controls and for the imposition of duties on goods. It was used to keep checks on immigration and emigration and as a transportation corridor for...
Its origins date to 1153, when the fourth emperor of the Jin dynasty ordered the building of a palace on a small hill known as Jar.Around 1271, after the Yuan dynasty established its capital in...
The temple was built in 1694, during the Qing dynasty, where one of the residences housing the eunuchs of the emperor’s court once stood. It was replaced with a residence destined for Prince...
The huge Shichahai area comprises three lakes, surrounded by ten Buddhist and Taoist temples and numerous prestigious buildings.During the Yuan dynasty, from 1271 to 1368, Shichahai marked the end of...
When Zhu Di, or Yongle, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, he looked for a site near the city to build his own tomb. Basing his choice on the principles of Feng Shui,...
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