The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an important effect on Chinese dietetic culture. Using the traditional diet of the Manchu ethnic group as ...

The emperors also gave a grand “tea banquet” in Chonghua Palace (the Hall of Double Glory) in the Forbidden City almost every year during the Qing Dynasty. Chonghua Palace was located in a ...

British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston's time in Beijing between 1919 and 1924, at the ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing ... testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Imperial Palace of the Qing ...

An ornate Qing dynasty bell. For all its grand history ... where the emperor lived and the women of the Forbidden City were sequestered. You enter to the sight and (recorded) sound of jade ...

In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...

However, the Forbidden City has also been the site of a lot ... 1988 Oscar-winning movie "The Last Emperor," which depicted Qing dynasty emperor Puyi's life over the course of 60 years until ...

Treasures from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris and The Palace Museum in The Forbidden City in Beijing —both Unesco ...

The Forbidden City is a palace complex in central Beijing. It houses the Palace Museum, and was the former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. The Forbidden ...

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of rulers ... Chinese-speaking Muslims elsewhere in China. Han were mostly forbidden to move into the outer regions of Tibet, Xinjiang ...