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The Palace Museum which ia also called Forbidden City in Beijing,the capita l of China.Its construction<建筑> began in 1406 and was completed 14 year

s later,having a history so far of some 580 years.Twenty-four emperors（皇帝） from the Ming and Qing dynasties lived and ruled China from there. It s acient building especially good for young people to get familiar with （熟悉）our past. They are stand there to make us understand the culture of Chin a.

The Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) is a palace in Beijing, China.

The initial construction of the Summer Palace began in 1750. Artisans repro duced the garden architecture styles of various palaces in China.

It was ransacked, together with the Old Summer Palace in 1860 by French an d British troops during the second Opium War. In 1888, Empress Dowager Cix i diverted 30 million taels of silver, said to be originally designated fo r the Chinese navy, into the reconstruction and enlargement of the Summer P alace.

The Summer Palace has been listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritag e Sites.

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1The Temple of Heaven

About 2km southeast of the Forbidden City towers Tian Tan, or the Temple o f Heaven, where dynastic rulers in China used to worship the heaven. The te mple plus subsidiary buildings and a surrounding garden covers an area fiv e times the size of the Forbidden City. As Chinese emperors called themselv es Tianzi, or the son of heaven, they had to cede supremacy to the heaven i n terms of abiding.

2Chinese emperors had many other gods to worship apart from the god of heav en, including the gods of earth, water and war. They also worshipped thei

r ancestors. As a result, religious activities were an important part of th eir busy work schedule. Temples of various kinds are scattered in Beijin

g. The best-known are the Temple of Heaven in the south, the Temple of Eart

h in the north, the Temple of Sun in the east, and the Temple of the Moon i n the west. The Temple of Heaven is the grandest of them all.

The period of Qianlong’s reign is generally regarded as the most prosperou s of the entire Qing Dynasty, and this prosperity was reflected in th lavis h refurbishment of the hall. “After the restoration, the Hall of Prayer fo r Good Harvest glowed and shone with beautiful colors,” according to thTian tan Gongyuan Zhi (Records of the Temple of Heaven), compiled in 2002.

All this magnificence was destroyed by fire when the hall was struck by l ightning in 1889, during the reign of Emperor Guangxu. The fire burned fo

r a whole night, leaving only ashes of the building. The court was shocke

d by this ill omen, and Emperor Guangxu ordered th

e immediate rebuilding o

f the hall.

With no blueprint or other construction records to go by, the plan for th e reconstruction relied on the memories of an old craftsman who had worke

d on an earlier restoration project of th

e hall, the Records o

f the Templ

e o

f Heaven says.

The China of the reign of Guangxu was considerably less affluent than i

t had been under Qianlong, but despite any budget restraints that may hav

e been imposed, the reconstructed Hall o

f Prayer for Good Harvest was as ex quisite as the original, although the artistic level of the paintin

g of t

h e building was not as high, antique expert Wang Shiren told Beijing Today.

3The Temple of Heaven was built in 1420 during the reign of Emperor Yongl

e o

f the Min

g Dynasty. Situated in the southern part of the city, this gran d set of structures covers an area of 273 hectares. To better symbolize hea ven and earth, the northern part of the Temple is circular while the southe rn part is square. The whole compound is enclosed by two walls, a square wa ll outside a round one. The outer area is characterized by suburban scener y, while the inner part is used for sacrifices. The inner enclosure consist s of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest and the Circular Mound Altar. Toda y the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest is the hallmark of Beijing, whic

h enj oys a prolonged history of civilization. The annex halls were symmetricall y built on a 1.5-meter-high brick-and-marble terrace, to set off the loftin ess and magnificence of the main hall. This unique building, 38 meters in h eight, is characterized by a cone-shaped structure with triple eaves an

d a top that is crowned by a gilt ball.

The roofing is made of blue glazed tiles, the color of the sky. Underneat

h the roof, the beams and brackets are decorated with colored paintings. Th e base of the structure is a triple-tiered, circular marble terrace. At a d istance, the terrace looks like a gigantic, spiraling cloud with the struct ure perched on top of it. The Imperial Vault of Heaven is the main structur e of Heaven's Storehouse. Aside from exquisitely laid out architectures, He aven's Storehouse is also famous for two structures with peculiar acousti

c features, i.e. the Echo Wall an

d th

e Triple-Sound Stone. A mere whisper a t any point close to the wall can be heard clearly on the other side, altho ugh the parties may be 40 or 50 meters apart. This is possible because th