Concubines often developed close attachments to the eunuchs, whose role as royal servants in China long preceded the building of the Forbidden City. In his autobiography, Emperor Puyi wrote that ...

The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features ... of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element ...

In the Qing Dynasty, the only people who lived in the Forbidden City are the Emperor's concubines, their maids, the eunuchs and the Emperor himself. Lee Lien Ying is an eunuch who enters the ...

Designed by Huo Tingxiao, vice chairman of the China Film Association and president of the China Film Art Direction Academy and an art director on such films as Farewell My Concubine, Hero ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.