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Buildings of the Beijing Legation Quarter: 东交民巷使馆建筑群: Beijing 5-474 Architecture in the Garden of Yan at Weiming Lake 未名湖燕园建筑: Beijing 5-475 Early Buildings of Tsinghua University: 清华大学早期建筑
There are many landmarks in Beijing. The best-known ones include the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China , the Temple of Heaven , the Tian'anmen and the Forbidden City , a number of temples, hutongs and parks, relics of ages gone by.
The first event in Beijing's history with archaeological support dates to the 11th century BC when the Zhou dynasty absorbed the Shang dynasty. According to Sima Qian , King Wu of Zhou , in the 11th year of his reign, deposed the last Shang king and conferred titles to nobles within his domain including the rulers of the city states Ji ( 薊 ...
A map of Beijing from 1914. It was created by the German East-Asian Expeditionary Corps. Beijing, the political, cultural, military, and commercial centre of the empire, was the capital city of the last three dynasties of China; it was the last imperial capital built in China's history.
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The Ten Great Buildings (Chinese: 十大建筑) are ten public buildings that were built in Beijing in 1959, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. They were part of an architecture and urbanism initiative of Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward ; most of the buildings were largely completed in a ...
View of the Forbidden City from Jingshan Park. The Forbidden City was first built in the early-15th century as the palace of the Ming emperors of China. It is located in the centre of Beijing, China, and was the Chinese imperial palace from the early-Ming dynasty in 1420 to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, continuing to be home of the last emperor, Puyi, until 1924, since then it has been ...
The reason why Beijing's Siheyuan is famous is that its structure is unique and typical of traditional Chinese residential architecture. Most Chinese residential buildings are inner courtyard houses. The residential courtyards in the southern region are very small, and the houses on all sides are connected, which is called "a seal".