The Beijing Bus Tour to Forbidden City

As capital of China, Beijing attracts large numbers of tourists from all over the world. The Forbidden City tour becomes more and more popular in recent years. If you are not interested in visit Forbidden City alone, you can take part in Beijing Group Tour. In Beijing Bus tour, you will not only save money from private tour, but also will you make friendship with members in this group.

Forbidden City is the world cultural heritage and national relic protections unite. And it is located in the center of Beijing. Forbidden City was palace in Ming and Qing dynasty originally. When the last one emperor of Qing dynasty was expelled from palace in 1914, it became an antique exhibition museum in south of Forbidden City. The Palace Museum was set in Oct. 1925. The important cultural relics were sent to Shanghai, Nanjing and Sichuan. After the victory of anti-Japanese, they were sent back to Palace Museum and parts of them sent to Taiwan later.

Forbidden City, formerly known as the Palace Museum, located in the center axis of Beijing, is the palace of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It covers an area of ​​720,000 square meters, with the construction area of 150,000 square meters. Many tourists would like to see this symbol of China. The building started from the 4^th year of Yong Le of Ming Dynasty (1406) and completed in 18^th year (1420). Forbidden City culture, in terms of the sense of classical culture, has the characteristic of authority, immortal and tradition. For any one nation and country, classical culture is always the backing of its life, the spirit of support and a source of innovation, which are the veins and blood vessels of the subsisting and extension of the country.

When you walking across these places in Forbidden City, the time seems like back to that time with flouring dynasties. Some of the palaces in the Forbidden City have also established a comprehensive history of the Museums. Forbidden City has a large number of ancient art collections. According to statistics, there are totally 1,052,653, accounting for one sixth of the total number of the Chinese cultural relics. It is the museum with richest collection of cultural relics in China, and also the world famous ancient culture and art museum and many of these relics are unique priceless. During the Beijing Bus tour to the Forbidden City, tourists will feel the grand of emperors’ power in Chinese ancient times.

Beijing Forbidden City tour

If you want to know more about Chinese history and culture you can take the Forbidden City tour and the Beijing hutong tour. You will learn more about ancient Chinese imperial culture and common people’s life.

The Forbidden City presents the imperial power in every brick and each tile. In the function, the Forbidden City suits to the social estate system in the feudalism society.

 The proofs in Chinese architectures are various. In the architectures in the Forbidden City, there are more than ten kinds of different proof styles. The three great halls are different. The proofs in the Forbidden City are full of different colors glazed tiles. The main halls have yellow color. Green color is used in the emperor's suns houses. Other blue, black, purple and jewelry blue various glazed tiles are used in garden or colored glazed walls. On the two sides of the ridges in Taihe Hall, there are color glazed beasts. They have beautiful sculptures. They are not only the structures, but also ornaments. The front part of the Forbidden City has gorgeous and magnificent structures. The courtyards are spacious and wide. The present the supreme feudal power Taihe Hall is in the center of the Forbidden City. On each corner of the quadrangle, there are ten auspicious and lucky beasts. They are vivid and lively. The designer thought only in this way the emperor’s dignified can be shown. The inner court has deep yard and well-knit architectures. The east six palaces and west palaces have their own system. The rockery, pavilion, terrace and water side room make the back yard beautiful and quiet.

In common people’s house, Hutong is an important part. Hutong is a small alley or street and a special architecture in Beijing. The Hutong in Beijing now is developed on the foundation of Yuan Dynasty. In Yuan Dynasty, the residential area was divided into squares and there are rows of residences in the squares. Most of the Hutongs and houses are in east-west line. The streets and valleys in Beijing form chessboard shape. In Ming and Qing dynasties, the layout was not so clear. There is not only horizontal and vertical Hutongs, but also inclined and half Hutongs and so on. Some small Hutongs are in the large Hutong.

Hutong is the passageway between quadrangle courtyards in essence. Many quadrangles in Beijing are linked by the Beijing Hutong. The whole Beijing likes a large quadrangle courtyard. The courtyards are divided into different grades according to the position of the residents and the architecture.

You can visit the Forbidden City and Hutong during your Beijing bus tours. You will be more interested to Chinese architectures.