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 ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens ... civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Imperial Palace of the ...

The Forbidden City was constructed during the Ming Dynasty in the early 15th century and served as the imperial palace for over 500 years housing 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its ...

Step inside China’s most iconic historical site: the Forbidden City. Discover the imperial palaces, ancient rituals, and hidden corners of this royal complex that once ruled the Middle Kingdom.

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ... Ministers of the first rank were inside the hall. Officials of the second rank and foreign envoys were under the ...

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 ...

The museum’s nine galleries display the many precious artefacts of the Palace Museum collection, which not only illustrate the imperial family’s way of life, but also show how writing ...

The poster also includes was the fest describes as “an Easter egg” in the form of a design inside the kaleidoscope ... Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

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 ...

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.

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...