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

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

Tea drinking was an important part of palace life. The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The tea drunk by the Royal Family was a tribute from the tea ...

The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an ... to develop the dietetic culture of the Qing Palace. Even today this cuisine is important to people ...

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.

BEIJING — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...

Inside the Forbidden City, within a lab-like workshop, restorers are undertaking a meticulous effort to preserve the sprawling palace's historical treasures. A fragment of glazed roof tile ...

I n the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City stands as a testament to China's rich imperial past. Now serving as the Palace Museum, it houses over 1.8 million relics, including scroll paintings ...

A small team of Minecraft users have spent more than two years building a virtual model of China's Forbidden City. SEE ALSO: The Lego 'Minecraft' Mountain Cave is the new biggest set in town The ...

Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private dwelling of the Ming and Qing emperors, their huge families and 70,000 eunuchs.

During the late reign of the Qing dynasty skilled physician To Chung is named the new Imperial Palace Physician when ... is under house arrest at the Forbidden City and stripped of his powers ...