Blog Tag - Forbidden City

Beijing's Five Architectural Colors, and the Symbolism Behind Them
It sometimes seems like the dominant color in Beijing is “Socialist Taupe.” The streets. The bricks. The roads. Getting away from the gray and the...
Beijing Defines Central Axis Borders for World Heritage Site Bid
Beijing has taken a concrete step forward in its application to list the city’s so-called Central Axis as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by publishing...
Exploring the Murky Mysteries of Beijing's History
Beijing is host to a vibrant mix of old and new, making it the kind of place that begets more questions every time we go in search of answers and...
Beijing Pics: A Different Side to The Forbidden City
In Beijing Pics of the Week, our in-house photographer and lao Beijinger Uni You presents a selection of his photographs from around the capital over...
The Red, The Yellow, The White, The Willow, Four Spiritual Animals in Beijing
Ever since Beijing -- actually back then it was called Yanjing -- was chosen as the capital of the Jin Dynasty, the city has been a bustling...
No, You Are Forbidden From Working Here Unless You Have A Master's Degree!
In case you were wondering where a graduate degree could take you, it can certainly get you places, one of them being in the employ of the Forbidden...
What's In a Name, Anyway?: Why the Forbidden City Isn't So Purple After All
The Forbidden City is perhaps Beijing’s most famous urban landmark. Each year, millions of tourists queue up for a chance to walk the corridors and...
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Every Beijinger knows that the Forbidden City, also called the Palace Museum, is the palace at the heart of the capital. A new book, Forbidden City:...
Throwback Thursday: A Brief History of the Forbidden City's More Salacious Moments
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Imperial Build: US Architect Constructs Forbidden City Entirely Out of Lego
Sometimes it takes a new, smaller perspective to fully appreciate the complexity of objects. While that has been one of the biggest draws of Danish...
600 Years and 24 Emperors Later, Forbidden City Celebrates a Milestone
The Forbidden City turns 600 this year. Over one million laborers toiled 14 years to build the palace for the Yongle Emperor [r. 1402-1424] of the...
Forbidden City Tickets Sell Out in Hours but These Other Major Museums are Reopening Too
[Update May 7, 2pm] Foreigners cannot currently enter the National Museum or the Capital Museum because of an oversight with the reservation systems...
R Trending in Beijing: Australian Jogs Away from Quarantine, Lin Tweets at Trump
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, ...
Making the Forbidden City Fun for Kids: New Spaces, Exhibits, and Dragons Galore
The Forbidden City should be fascinating for children. It’s a palace where princesses dreamed and schemed for love, emperors and courtiers plotted...
Auburn Temples in Snow: Capturing the Forbidden City After the First Snowfall of the Year
Late on Friday, Beijing was treated to its first snowfall of the winter, causing an equal amount of traffic chaos and pavement-side selfie wonderment...