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 china travel-Forbidden City
The former Imperial Palace, known to Westerners as the Forbidden City, rectangular in shape

and 720 thousand square meters In size ， is surrounded by walls ten meters high and a moat

52 meters wide. The buildings with some nine thousand rooms are more than 560 years old and

constitute the largest and most complete existing ensemble of traditional Chinese

architecture.

Construction of the palace begins in 1406 during the reign of the third emperor of the Ming

Dynasty,Yongle. It was finally completed in 1420. The Imperial Palace is composed of the

outer palace, where the emperors held official audiences, and the inner palace,which served

as the living quarters for the imperial family. This harmonious assemblage of buildings

displays the best characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture—majestic style,flawless

construction,and fine coordination of the while and the parts. Now，the Forbidden City,the

Palace Museum, is a treasure house of cultural relics, and a place that attracts

approximately ten thousand visitors each day with its magnificent architecture and precious

collections of cultural and art objects.