Tian’anmen Square sits in the heart of Beijing, East Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng District. It lies between two ancient massive gates—Tian’anmen Gate to the north and Zhengyangmen Gate to the south.
Located in the center of the central axis of Beijing, the Palace Museum of Beijing, formerly called the Forbidden City, used to be the imperial palace of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Beihai Park is the most time-honored and best protected royal palatial garden in existence in China. With a unique garden design style, it represents the ultimate in ancient Chinese garden art and one of the infinitely precious human cultural heritages in the world.
Shichahai is both a historical and cultural scenic area and a historical and cultural protection zone in Beijing. It is located in the Xicheng District, which is in the downtown and adjacent to the central axis of Beijing.
It includes three water areas: Qianhai (Front Sea), Houhai (Back Sea) and Xihai (West Sea, also known as Jishui Pond) and surrounding areas.
The Badaling section of the Ming Great Wall was called a "natural chasm" and was one of the eight scenes of Juyong Pass in Ming Dynasty. The Badaling Great Wall is the first section of the Ming Great Wall open to tourists.
Zhengyangmen, known as Qianmen Gate, Gate Tower of Qianmen, or Daqianmen, was formerly named the Lizheng Gate. It served as the south gate of the Inner City of Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The Summer Palace, an imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty of China, was originally named Qingyi Yuan or the Garden of Clear Ripples. It is located in western Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the urban area. Covering an area of about 290 hectares, it is contiguous to the Old Summer Palace.
In the south of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven stands on the east side of Yongdingmen Inner Street in Dongcheng District. It covers an area of about 2.73 million square meters. The Temple of Heaven was built in the eighteenth year of Emperor Yongle's reign (1420 AD), and was rebuilt during the reigns of Emperor Qianlong and Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty.
The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanming Three Gardens, is located in the northwest suburb of Beijing and adjacent to the Summer Palace.
The Old Summer Palace, founded and operated in the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years, enjoys great prestige in the world for its large scale, amazing craftsmanship, exquisite building landscape abundant cultural collections as well as extensive and profound national culture.
Located in the Jiaodaokou area on the east side of the central axis of Beijing, Nanluogu Alley, an 8-meter-wide and 787-meter-long hutong starting from Gulou East Street in the north and ends at Ping'an Avenue in the south
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