It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing ... is like the ceiling of a building, to which skilled craftsmen ...

director Shan Jixiang told the Beijing Times. “The Palace Museum is spending the next three years making sure the Forbidden City has only ancient architecture, without a single building of ...

The grandest and most important building inside ... while admiring the main six halls and palaces across the outer and inner courts. The Forbidden City (Gugong in Chinese means former palace) is an ...

Heavy wet snow was falling on Beijing as we walked along Chang'An Avenue, the main boulevard ... The old building flows into a newer addition which houses restaurants, spas and shops. But its ...

Donald Trump will receive an honor in Beijing not granted to any US President since the founding of the People’s Republic of China: official dinner inside the Forbidden City. When Trump and his ...

Step into the heart of history as we wander through the Forbidden City! 🏯 Discover the secrets ... #ForbiddenCity #HistoricalJourney #Beijing Thunderstorm warning issued for five states as ...

I'm Noel King. How many Legos does it take to build a miniature version of Beijing's Forbidden City? Li Zhining did it with 700,000. He spent a year building the model. There are more than 70 ...

The Forbidden City ... to Beijing to pursue his mission to find out what China’s ancient emperors and their families really ate. It wasn’t an easy task. In his path were two main obstacles.

Ancient documents suggest rocks were transported to the Forbidden City on ice sledges (Reuters) Ancient Chinese documents have revealed how ... relocating a 15,000-ton building in modern society ...

The poster for the 15th edition of the Beijing ... in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture. "It is like the ceiling of a building, to which ...