Huge Stone Carving

This stone carving weighs 200 tons and is the largest stone carving in the palace. They carved it in another location and then in the winter poured water on the road to make it icy so they could push/pull it to the Palace.

The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square

April 5th 2010
April 4, 2010 Today we (Danbo, Sun and I) went to The Forbidden City and to Tiananmen Square. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Wikipedia has an extensive entry on “The Forbidden City”. Here are some fun facts about the Forbidden City: 1. The Forbidden City occupies 720,000 square meters (7,747,200 square feet / 180 acres). The Topkapi Palace in Istanbul measures 700,000 square meters; t ... read more

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