Beijing Forbidden City Tour Route

The tourist route of the Forbidden City in Beijing is as follows:

Meridian Gate - Gate of Taihe - Hongyi Pavilion (Exhibition of Imperial Ritual and Music) - Hall of Supreme Harmony - Hall of Zhonghe - Hall of Baohe - Qian Qingmen - Qianqing Palace - Jiaotai Palace - Kunning Palace - Imperial Garden - Shenwu Gate.

Introduction to the Forbidden City in Beijing

The Forbidden City is located in the center of Beijing, also known as the "Forbidden City". 24 emperors once lived here. It was the royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911 AD) and is now the "Forbidden City Museum". It was built by Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty in the fourth year of Yongle (AD 1406) and was basically completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (AD 1420).

The Forbidden City is 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west. It is surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall and a 52-meter-wide moat. There is a gate on each side of the city wall. The palace complex of the Forbidden City is the largest and most complete ancient wooden structure complex in the world, with a total area of ??more than 720,000 square meters and 9,999 and a half palaces and rooms. It is called the "Sea of ??Palaces" and is magnificent. , extremely spectacular.

The entire building of the Forbidden City is magnificent, majestic and gorgeous, and is known as one of the five major palaces in the world. A central axis runs through the entire Forbidden City, and this central axis is on the central axis of Beijing. The three main halls, the three back palaces and the imperial garden are all located on this central axis. On both sides of the central axis palace, there are many palaces symmetrically distributed, all of which are magnificent and magnificent.