The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient court architecture in China. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world.

2. The Great Wall

The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall of Wan Li, is an ancient military defense project in China. It is a tall, solid and continuous long wall, which is used to limit the enemy's actions. The Great Wall is not just a single wall, but a complete defense engineering system composed of various fortifications such as the wall, watchtower, Guancheng, Dunbao, Yingcheng, Weifang and Zhencheng beacon tower. This national defense engineering system is commanded and controlled by military command systems at all levels.

3. Temple of Heaven

Tiantan Park is the place where the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties prayed to heaven and prayed for a bumper harvest every year. The Temple of Heaven is famous for its rigorous architectural layout, peculiar architectural structure and magnificent architectural decoration. The total area is about 2.7 million square meters, which is divided into inner altar and outer altar.

The main buildings are in the inner altar, with the altar and the royal dome in the south, and the Hall of Praying for the New Year and the Hall of the Dry Emperor in the north. The two groups of buildings are connected by a tunnel running through the north and south-a single bridge. The outer altar is lush with cypresses and surrounds the inner altar, which makes the main buildings look more solemn and magnificent. There are also echo walls, three-tone stones, dialogue stones and so on. The altar was skillfully built by using acoustic principles, which fully demonstrated the developed level of ancient architectural technology in China. Tiantan Park is the largest existing altar complex in China.

4. Fangshan World Geopark in Beijing

Beijing Fangshan World Geopark is rich in geological relics. It shows the historical picture of the earth's evolution and development in North China for billions of years, and records the turbulent changes in various geological ages from Archean-Proterozoic-Paleozoic-Mesozoic-Cenozoic. This is a huge natural geological museum.

5. Shihuadong

Beijing Shihuadong National Geopark is located in Nancheying Village, Hebei Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, 55 kilometers away from Beijing. It is a seven-story cave with a height difference of150m. Now the first floor, the second floor, the third floor and the fourth floor are all open to the public, and the tour length is 2500 meters.

6. Summer Palace

The Summer Palace, the imperial garden of China in the Qing Dynasty, was originally named Qingyi Garden. It is located in the western suburb of Beijing, 0/5km away from the urban area/kloc-,covering an area of about 290 hectares and adjacent to Yuanmingyuan. It is a large-scale landscape garden with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the background and Hangzhou West Lake as the basis, drawing lessons from the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most well-preserved royal palace, known as the "Royal Garden Museum" and a national key tourist attraction.

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Beijing, referred to as "Beijing" for short, is the capital, municipality directly under the Central Government, national central city, megacity, international metropolis, national political center, cultural center, international exchange center and scientific and technological innovation center of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Beijing is located at east longitude115.7-17.4, north latitude 39.4-41.6, with its center at 39 54' 20 "north latitude and east longitude1/kloc-. Located in the northern part of North China Plain, adjacent to Bohai Bay, with Liaodong Peninsula on the top and Shandong Peninsula on the bottom.

Beijing is the city with the largest number of world heritage sites (7 sites) and the first capital city with a world geopark in the world. More than 200 tourist attractions in Beijing are open to the outside world. There are 7309 cultural relics in Beijing, 99 national key cultural relics protection units (including the Great Wall and the Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal), 326 municipal cultural relics protection units, 5 national geological parks and 0/5 national forest parks.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing