BEIJING

• The Capital City of the People’s Republic of China

Tourist
attracti
ons
Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City

Tiananmen Square - Symbol of China

Everyday, the national flag is raised in the morning.

There’s also a flag down ceremony everyday in the
evening.

Forbidden City is called so because until a few decades

ago, the palace was not open to commoners.
 Tiananmen Square
• When it was first built in the 15th year
of Yongle (1417), it was called
Chengtian Gate.
• It was twice destroyed in the Ming
Dynasty, once by lightning, once by war.
• In 1651, or the 8th year of Emperor
Shunzhi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the
Emperor named Fulin had it rebuilt on a
large scale and changed its name to
Tiananmen.
• Imposing and magnificent, it stands out
among ancient city gates in China.
 Palace
Museum or
Forbidden City

• Completed in 1420 during the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City occupies a
total space of more than 720, 000 square meters.
• Apart from the complex of immovable palace buildings, the Palace Museum
houses over 1.5 million items or sets of relics.
• Ancient architectural relics and other cultural relics fall into 25 categories,
which are further divided into 69
sub-categories.
• Works of art such as porcelain, paintings and
calligraphy, jewelry, clocks, stone drums,
and bronze wares are kept in special halls.
 Lama
Temple

• Lama Temple is one of the key historic sites under

national protection.
• It is one of the largest lamaseries of Tibetan Buddhism
that remain in Beijing.
• At first it was the residence of Emperor Yongzheng before
he was crowned.
• In the years of Qianlong it was changed into a lamasery,
and began to serve as the headquarters of the Qing
government's administration of Tibetan Buddhism affairs.
Summer Palace

• Its 70,000 square meters of building

space features a variety of palaces,
gardens and other ancient-style
architectural structures.
• It has a huge collection of precious
historical and architectural artifacts.
• Its major attractions are the Four Great
Regions, Suzhou Street, the Pavilion of
Bright Scenery, the Hall of Serenity, the
Wenchang Galleries and the Plowing
and Weaving Scenery Area.
 Summer Palace

• The Summer Palace, originally named Qingyi Yuan

or the Garden of Clear Ripples, was first constructed
in 1750.
• It was razed to the ground by the Anglo-French Allied Forces in 1860.
• The Government of the Qing Dynasty started to rebuild it in 1886
with funds that it had misappropriated from the Imperial Navy and
other sources.
• Renamed two years later as Yihe Yuan or the Garden of Health and
Harmony, it was supposed to serve as a summer resort for the
Empress Dowager Cixi.
 Great Wall of China
• The Badaling Great Wall is located
on the ridge of the northern part
of the GuanGou. Here, between
two peaks, there is an alley and
it's a very strategic place.
• Because of the importance of the
Badaling, it has been a place that
the military fight for.
• Ningxia, Shanxi, Shangxi, Heibei
all have parts of the Great Wall.
 Vocabulary time!
• Capital • Structures
• Ceremony • Artefacts
• Palace • Protection
• Alley • Administration
• Importance • Porcelain
• Ripples • Calligraphy
• Sources • Features
• Misappropriate • Scenery
• Weaving • Plowing