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Xianyang Palace , in (Qin) Xianyang (咸陽), now 15 km/9 miles east of modern Xianyang, Shaanxi province: this was the royal palace of the state of Qin before the Chinese unification, and then the palace of the First Emperor when China was unified. Burnt down by Xiang Yu after the fall of the Qin dynasty.
The common English name "Forbidden City" is a translation of the Chinese name Zijincheng (紫 禁 城; lit. ' Purple Forbidden City '), which first formally appeared in 1576. [9] Another English name of similar origin is "Forbidden Palace," though "city" is much closer to the original Chinese meaning. [10]
The palace survived until the Tang dynasty, when it was burnt down by marauding invaders en route to the Tang capital, Chang'an. It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [26] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City.
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The Palace Museum holds close to 50,000 paintings. Of these, more than 400 date from before the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). This is the largest such collection in China and includes some of the rarest and most valuable paintings in Chinese history. [23] The collection is based on the palace collection of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility (simplified Chinese: 坤宁宫; traditional Chinese: 坤寧宮; pinyin: Kūnníng Gōng; Manchu: ᡴᡠᠨ ᠨᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᠩ kun ning gung) is the northernmost of the three main halls of the Inner Court of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. The other two halls are the Palace of Heavenly Purity and Hall of ...
Yuan renamed Zhongnanhai Palace of the New China (Xinhua Palace, Chinese: 新华宫) during his brief reign as Emperor of China. When the Republic of China government moved its capital to Nanjing , the Zhongnanhai compound was opened to the public as a park.
The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan (traditional Chinese: 圓明園; simplified Chinese: 圆明园; pinyin: Yuánmíng Yuán; lit. 'Gardens of Perfect Brightness') or Yuanmingyuan Park, [1] originally called the Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yù Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, [2] [3] was a complex of palaces ...