BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

ONCE a restricted site for access to the ordinary during the Chinese Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zijincheng, which translates to ...

I had expected to feel awe as I approached the Meridian Gate guarding what most Chinese ... of the Forbidden City still echo through the centuries. The Yongle emperor, son of the Ming dynasty's ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern ... all kinds were available in the Forbidden City. Beijing had been the capital ...

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty-the years 1420 to 1912. The Forbidden City may have been the main stage of many stories ...

Tea has been the chief drink in China since ... cultural center of the Forbidden City, and tea was served whenever the emperors attended lectures. As early as the Ming Dynasty, it became an ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing ... skilled craftsmen in ancient China added exquisite carvings ...

Only a small fraction of the 1.86 million artefacts held by the Chinese ... the Ming and Qing dynasties after the last emperor Pu Yi and his household were evicted from the Forbidden City ...