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unusual facts about Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress


Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress

Forbidden City was developed by Stephen Clark, Dick Lee and Steven Dexter


Erasmus Gower

In 1792, Gower was named Commander of the British expedition to the Chinese Imperial court and sailed in the 64-gun HMS Lion.

Gilded Chopsticks

Wong Cho-lam as Ko Tin-po (高天寶) — a poor chef who is later hired to serve in the Forbidden City.

History of Vancouver

One famous sale of trees cut from the Jericho neighbourhood (west of Kitsilano), was a special order for the Celestial Emperor of China consisting of dozens of immense beams for the construction of The Gate of Heavenly Peace in the Forbidden City, Beijing.

Imperial Ancestral Temple

These two parks along with Beihai Park and Jingshan and several other parks have a deep historic tie with the Forbidden City.

Istana Nurul Iman

Using various self-serving definitions, a number of palaces are claimed to be the world’s largest: Istana Nurul Iman, Buckingham Palace, Quirinal Palace, Royal Palace of Madrid, Stockholm Palace, The Forbidden City, The Palace of Versailles, The Royal Palace of Caserta, The Winter Palace, The Louvre, Prague Castle, and Romania’s Palace of the Parliament.

Katie Targett-Adams

She also became the only Western performer at the Phoenix Television 15 Year Anniversary Celebrations in the Great Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

From 1994 to 1995 Evidencias de lo invisible, cien fotografías (Evidence of the Invisible, One Hundred Photographs) was presented at the Fine Arts Museum in New Delhi, the Imperial Palace in Beijing and the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon.

National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine

Built on Chingshan Mountain and overseeing the Keelung River in Taipei's Zhongshan District in 1969, the Martyrs Shrine recalls the architecture of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing's Forbidden City.

Neijing Tu

In addition, a Qing Dynasty colored scroll Neijing tu was painted at the Ruyi Guan 如意館 "Palace of Fulfilled Wishes" library in the Forbidden City (Despeux 2008:767).

Phoebe nanmu

The Forbidden City was originally constructed using P. nanmu wood by Ming emperor Zhu Di.

Virginia Gentlemen

Additionally, the group has performed in recent years at the Sydney Opera House, the Forbidden City, the Grand Palace of Thailand, and at the White House for the Bush and Obama administrations.

Wei Bin's Temple Bell

In the Ming Dynasty, this area was a suburb of the palace Forbidden City.

Wenxiu

Along with Puyi and Empress Wanrong, Wenxiu left the Forbidden City in 1924, and moved to the Zhang Garden (张园) in the Japanese Concession of Tianjin.

Yongzheng Emperor

Some sources indicate that Yinxiang, the most militant of the princes, then assembled a group of special Peking soldiers from the Fengtai command to seize immediate control of the Forbidden City and surrounding areas to prevent usurpation by Yinsi's cronies.

Zhongnanhai

During the reign of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor would often live in the Zhongnanhai compound, travelling to the Forbidden City only for ceremonial duties.


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