BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ... Ever since the Tang Dynasty there has been a saying in China that tea is above wine. This saying was embodied in ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty ...

Great Wall; Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor; Mogao Caves; Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian (China) The Bureau was informed about the results of a World ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and ... which sought to grind out all vestiges of China’s imperial past. With the abandonment in recent years of ...

the raw materials from Northeast China were the ones used in imperial meals. The eating habits and cooking of the Manchu nationality dominated the imperial meals of the Qing Palace. The valuable ...