Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and ...

The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an important effect on Chinese dietetic culture. Using the traditional diet of the Manchu ethnic group as ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...

In the Qing Dynasty, the emperors held annual feasts ... This section of the Forbidden City has an interesting history. Emperor Kangxi ordered construction of the Hall of Ultimate Greatness ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...

During the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), only Manchu girls ... whose role as royal servants in China long preceded the building of the Forbidden City. In his autobiography, Emperor Puyi wrote that ...

In the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City stands as a testament to China's rich imperial past. Now serving as the Palace ...

In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to ... especially that of the Qing, China’s last dynasty that was known for its relative prosperity and cultural advances through trade ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of rulers ... Chinese-speaking Muslims elsewhere in China. Han were mostly forbidden to move into the outer regions of Tibet, Xinjiang ...

When AFP visited the brightly lit Forbidden City studio on a government-organised ... glistening liquid over an ancient scroll from the Qing Dynasty. "The conservator is currently repairing ...