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Forbidden City (紫禁城), now known in China as the Beijing Gugong (北京故宫), in Beijing (北京): imperial palace of the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty from 1420 until 1924. Area: 720,000 m 2 (178 acres). The Forbidden City is the world's largest palace currently in existence. [2] [3] [4]
The Hiram Morgan Hill house was built in 1886 for Morgan Hill and his wife, Diana. [2] The site also includes the Morgan Hill Museum is in a farmhouse built in 1911 by John Acton. [3] Hill was from Missouri; his wife Diana was an heiress. The house was built on land inherited by Diana from her father, Daniel Murphy. [2]
The rooms of the pavilion are full of luxury items brought to Sweden from China by the Swedish East India Company: porcelain, silk, lacquers, etc. China had become a mythic land, a paradise, a fascination, to Swedes and every nobleman wanted to have a Chinese room or just some objects to get a glimpse of this fabled, but to Europeans, forbidden ...
Jade Spring Hill (Chinese: 玉泉山; pinyin: Yùquán Shān) is located to the west of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. It was also formerly known as Jingming Palace (景明宫, "Jǐngmíng gōng"). It contains an imperial garden, the Jingming Garden and is named after the Jade Spring. It is the location of the Xiangji Temple, the Yufeng ...
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Jingming Garden (simplified Chinese: 静明园; traditional Chinese: 靜明園) is an imperial garden on the Jade Spring Hill in Beijing, China, west of the Summer Palace. It is one of Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level.