Forbidden City was formerly known as the Imperial Palace, which covers an area of over 720,000 m², has more than 9,000 buildings and construction area of 150,000 square meters. Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, is the existing China's largest and ...
Painting of Queen Wu Zetian Patrolling in the Royal Palace, by Court Artist Zhang Xuan of the Tang Dynasty — National Museum of China Among people that overthrew the emperors' reigns, from royal members and powerful officials to rebel peasants, some brought society a better monarch or empire ...
If you want to know more about the emperor, there are two places you can visit: the Museum of Terracotta Warriors & Horses, and the underground palace of Qin Mausoleum. Terra Cotta Warriors, Xi'an The First Female Emperor - Wu Zetian The Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD) was a time of relat...
The most memorable monument of the Moghuls is the Tāj Mahal, , , "Crown Palace." Shāh Jahān built this mausoleum in tribute to his favorite wife, Mumtāz-i-Mahal, , "Select of the Palace" (in Persian, this would be pronounced Momtāz-e-Mahal -- mumtāz is Arabic [root myz] and ...
The size of Chengde Summer resort is as big as the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace combined. The 10-km-long wall around it winds its way through plains and high mountains like the Great Wall. The magnificent resort and the 12 Buddhist temples at its periphery were built during the ...
A series of these sabers were made, and a few of them are still preserved in the Palace Museum Collection in Beijing. They combine a Chinese jiàn shaped tip on an otherwise single edged straight sword. The guard is lobed, like our example here, but the pommel is octagonal which could be...