The Forbidden City The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is in the centre of Beijing. Behind the 10 metre high walls and the moat there hundreds of meeting halls, houses (there are 9000 rooms in the Forbidden City), shrines, libraries, courtyards large enough to hold 100 000 people, and a garden.
The
Forbidden City, completed in 1420, was home for 24 emperors of
two dynasties, the Ming and the Qing (say ching) The emperors
lived here with with their families, court ladies and gentlemen
and servants. Inside the Forbidden City they held court sessions
with government ministers to make rules, plan for wars and expeditions
and met important people from other countries. No ordinary people
could enter the city.
Over
the hundreds of years since it was first built, most parts of
the Forbidden City have been rebuilt many times.
In modern times, The Forbidden
City has been renamed the Palace Museum and is open to
the general public.
Urns like these are found in all parts of the Forbidden City. They were kept filled with water in case of fire.
Go here for a tour of the Forbidden City
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updated November 2006
