Blog Tag - Forbidden City

Trending in Beijing: A Life-Changing Moment for College Graduates, a Subway Spat, and Public Toileting
Submitted on Feb 15, 2019
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Dive into Beijing's Artistic past with Little-Known Xuannan Cultural Museum
Submitted on Jan 17, 2019
Tianqiao area is best known for its vibrant acrobatic and performing art scene and Xuannan Cultural Museum, tucked away inside Changchun Street,...
Danish Museum Director Talks the History of Shit, Cutting up Dead Animals Ahead of Bookworm Talk
Submitted on Nov 21, 2018
The days of stodgy and dull museum exhibits are reaching their end, at least if Rane Willerslev has anything to say about it. The director of the...
Forbidden City Perimeter Wall Opens to Visitors in Near-Entirety for First Time
Submitted on Oct 14, 2018
Visitors to the Forbidden City can now not only enjoy the thousands of rooms contained within the mammoth attraction but also escape the crowds with...
Home-Style Noodles and Cuisines at Chef Wei’s Noodle House, Dongsi
Submitted on Aug 28, 2018
As hopeless noodle lovers, neither the heat, the burning sunshine, nor the traffic could stop us from traveling to the small lane in Shatan near...
Famous Scroll Painting Among Treasures to Be Displayed at the Forbidden City This Month
Submitted on Sep 15, 2017
One of China’s most famous and seldom seen works of art will go on display at the Forbidden City today (September 15) until December 14. A Thousand...
Brush the Dust off of Beijing Museums With These Apps
Submitted on Aug 19, 2017
The last few times I have asked Beijing visitors or newbies about their impression of The Forbidden City, the answers were pretty standard: the first...
R Forbidden City Will Organize A Memorial Service for Selfless Peasant He Gang from Henan Province on June 22
Submitted on Jun 21, 2017
On May 30, the 54-year-old He Gang was one of six people who passed away during an engineering accident on a construction site for the Shijiazhaung-...
R 300 Imperial Treasures Exhibit Since 18th century at Forbidden City Until July 2
Submitted on Jun 01, 2017
The Forbidden City is no stranger to historical treasures, having been home to 24 Chinese emperors throughout the ages, but this summer a new...
Forbidden City Tickets Only to be Sold Online Beginning October
Submitted on May 09, 2017
The Forbidden City without massive queues for tickets? That’s the plan as Palace Museum administration announced this week that all ticket sales will...
2016 Visitors to Beijing Palace Museum Topped 16 Million, An Average of 40,000 Every Day
Submitted on Jan 03, 2017
The Forbidden City is known for its overwhelming crowds during peak periods. Last year, visitors to Beijing’s famous Palace Museum topped 16 million...
Blinged-Out Mobile Not the First Telephone Controversy at the Forbidden City
Submitted on Dec 23, 2016
A tempest over a telephone has erupted at the Forbidden City. State media and netizens this week poured derision on the Palace Museum’s decision to...
Palace Feud: Taipei museum sues Forbidden City
Submitted on Nov 13, 2016
It’s a battle royal with the Palace Museums of Beijing and Taipei locked in a lawsuit over who owns the copyright to some of China’s most famous...
Modern Structures to be Demolished, New Areas Opened to the Public at the Forbidden City
Submitted on Oct 17, 2016
The Forbidden City is home to some of Beijing’s oldest and best preserved imperial architecture, but it also features some god awful structures of...
5 Hacks for Visiting (and Actually Enjoying) the Forbidden City
Submitted on Sep 21, 2016
The October holiday is around the corner and with it the promise of teeming crowds turning already packed historical sites into Satan’s mosh pit. For...