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Palce of Celestial Purity, Forbidden City, Beijing

Offering comprehensive information on the Forbidden City where twenty-four emperors reigned over the country for over 500 years.

The Forbidden City, also named Palace Museum, is the most magnificent and splendid palace complex in China and one of the five world-famous palaces with the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in England, the White House in the U.S. and the Kremlin in Russia.

Introduction
Virtual Guide
Meridian Gate
Gate of Supreme Harmony
Hall of Supreme Harmony
Hall of Central Harmony
Hall of Preserving Harmony
Huge Stone Carving
Gate of Heavenly Purity
Hall of Heavenly Purity
Hall of Union and Peace
Hall of Earthly Tranquility
Hall of Mental Cultivation
Six Western Palaces
Hall for Ancestral Worship
Six Eastern Palaces
Nine Dragon Wall
Palace of Tranquil Longevity
Hall of Joyful Longevity
Imperial Garden

Comments and Questions

My daughter and son-in-law and I recently were in China. A young Chinese man gave us a ride back to our hotel from a temple after we were deserted by our taxi. We took a taxi to Chagan Lake and didn't know how to get back to Songyuan. No one else spoke English, but a young man called a friend who spoke English and we were able to get the information we needed. So our experiences were very positive!

Reply7/4/2010 4:48:00 PMDorothy Bowers , United States

Bella :7/4/2010 8:41:00 PM

i have an idea about your situation. you can ask someone to write down the name and address of your living place on a piece of paper, when you get lost, you may show the paper to the taxi drivers or other people, i think they will tell you how to get back.

does any one no who built the imperial palace or more information????? email me please :)

Reply3/31/2010 4:56:00 PMmaze , Canada

Dave :3/31/2010 9:51:00 PM

I think it is the ancient Chinese people.

Cymphonique ( Jamaica ) :5/23/2010 7:38:00 PM

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i hope to see.very nice place.

Reply7/18/2009 6:10:00 AMmohsenkhoshru

bob :4/28/2010 1:14:00 PM

i like you.

i wantn to learn more about the forbidden city!!!!

Reply4/13/2010 10:06:00 AMsierra , United States

David :4/13/2010 9:27:00 PM

This website provides you detailed info. about Forbidden City.

Hi,
The forbidden city sounds intresting but what is the architecture like?

Reply3/30/2010 5:47:00 AMmart89

David :3/30/2010 8:35:00 PM

All of the architecture in the Fobidden City is in anciet royal style of China.

I have about half a day to visit Tiananmen Sqaure and Forbidden City. May I know:
1. What is the price for entry into Forbidden City for children- aged 13, 10 and 5?
2. What is the way to enter Forbidden City- is it by entering Tiananmen Square then going to Meridian Gate?
3. I am visiting on a Friday-is there usually a long line of people waiting to enter? How long is the waiting time to enter the Meridian Gate?
Thank you.

Reply3/16/2010 3:48:00 AMWilliam Lim , Malaysia

Linda :3/16/2010 8:53:00 PM

1. The ticket for children is CNY40.
2. Yes, you are right.
3. There is lots of people visiting it everyday, but I don't think you will wait for long to enter it on Friday when most people are in their office.

HEY i love this place. !!!!!! i will live here someday. AND MAYBE SOMEDAY WE'LL FIGURE ALL THIS OUT

Reply3/5/2010 1:01:00 PMBrooke F , Uganda

cool place. BEAUTIFUL.

Reply3/5/2010 12:58:00 PMBrooke , Botswana

nice city like this

Reply2/7/2010 5:45:00 AMsarthak , India

Be very carreful about "friendly" chinese who invite you for a drink (no neccessary alcohol, could be a tea also); they were very nice , they invite me to a tea, and at the end I payed around 100$;
so, it's better to avoid any invitation fron unknown chinese people; it's not a joke!
I hope my unhappy experience could help others

Reply7/14/2009 9:13:00 AMGeorge

Sophia ( China ) :11/14/2009 10:56:00 AM

One of my foreign friends had similar experience in Shanghai, who was invited by two pretty girls to an expensive tea house and ended up with paying hundreds of yuan. But scam is a universal problem, and Chinese people are not to blame. Most of them are very nice and generous. Chinese people can afford a cup of coffee or a dinner to treat foreign friends. If you want free coffee but only to find you are fooled by young ladies or guys, it's your own fault. If you don't try to take advantage of others, you will never be cheated like this.

Sarah ( United States ) :1/2/2010 10:43:00 PM

Sophia - What are you talking about? My boyfriend and I had this happen to us. We were walking out of the Forbidden City in December and ice cold after walking for several hours. Two MEN came up and started talking to us. I was suspicious, but they walked with us for over an hour. My boyfriend was deep in conversation with the older man who was supposedly a professor. They invited us to have tea with them (well, they invited us to have duck with them as well, but we were not hungry). It cost us about $55 US dollars each for something that I later found out should be free. (I have heard of people paying much more for this scam.) I like to think that we are savvy travelers having traveled most of Asia and Europe without being taken for a ride, but these guys were smooth. We had no intention of taking anything free from cute Chinese girls. It was just interesting to chat with some locals. I am sure there are a lot of friendly Chinese people, but there are also many who want to scam you. Don't trust anyone who seems too nice or too interested in you!!!!

Jeff ( United States ) :1/17/2010 5:15:00 AM

This just happened to us today...First as we were going in there was an older man and a teenage boy that started talking to us. They seemed pretty nice and said they also were going to see the Forbidden City. They repeatedly asked us to join them for tea and when we didn't, they got frustrated. On our way out, there were 2 girls that were also pretty nice and started talking to us. They did basically the same thing - asked the same questions, walked with us for about 20 min and asked us to join them for tea outside a teahouse. We said no to them as well and kept going. I felt kind of bad because I didn't find anything suspicious and thought they were just being friendly. After walking for about 25 yards, we looked back & saw that they had left the teahouse and were walking back in the opposite direction!

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