Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Forbidden City

If you are in Beijig you must go to the forbidden city to explore a place that is 600 years old , And a pace where 24 different emperors lived.
The forbidden city was the home of the emperors and his family they called the forbidden city was the home of the emperor and his family they called it the forbidden city because no one was a loud in only his family and his servants untly 1949 .In 1949 they let the public in the forbidden city.
The out side walls of the forbidden city are made of brick
In the in side its mostly wood . There are 9,999 rooms that emperors used for eating and sleeping and there are many temples. Because the temples were made out of wood they were scared that there temples were going to get caught on fire so they had big giant pots ful of water around the city if the temples caught on fire then wood use the water to put the fire out.The forbidden city is in the centre of beijing like tianamen squara.
It has a moat that gos around the city .
There are also no trees In side because the first emperor of the forbidden city was scared that some one wood hide and hurt him at night. The entrance is south of the forbidden city and the eixtis on the nouth side .You sould go to the forbidden city it wood be a cool exploreing place.

By The Travel Group (WW)

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