7th Day

On the 7th day, we went sight seeing again and this time is to visit the Forbidden City (Tian An Men), Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven. There are alot of pictures to post here as Forbidden City is one of my favourite place and I've been longing to visit it. It is the palace for the Emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties and they used about 16 years to build this palace. The palace is so big and some said that you will need 3 days to walk the whole palace but there are only a few places opened to outsiders to visit, not all of them.

Pictures Time

This is the entrance of the Forbidden City.

Darling and I standing in front of the entrance. Can't wait to go inside and have a look at the magnificent palace.

This is the Imperial Garden where the Emperors or Empress Dowager sitting there and enjoying the beauty of flowers.

This place look familiar. If you guys had watch the movie "Wars and Beauty" which is a HK film, you should notice that "Yu Fei" usually likes to walk at this compound.

Darling and I standing here to snap a pic of this ancient stone.

This is the Couple Tree and it said that couples who snap pic with this tree will be blessed being a lovey dovey couple. May we bless with joy and happiness but I look so fat in this pic =( Its the angle problem, I'm not so fat actually...... Hehe!!

This is the "Kuen Ling Gong" which is one of the palace where the China Queens live in.

The bedroom looks like this.

These are the rooms for maids and eunuchs

Thats on the way from "Kuen Ling Gong" to "Quan Qing Gong" which is the emperor's study room and to held important meetings.

"Quan Qing Gong"

It is so big inside the Forbidden City and there are still alot of courts and rooms but not all are allowed for outsiders to visit.

This is the middle court named as the "Zhong He Dian"

The stone carving: one of the culture of China. During the ancient time, there are no airplanes nor lorries or cars so the ancient peoples shipped this stone during winter using the slippery of the ice so that it would be easier for them to pull the stone. Ancient peoples like to carve pictures of dragons and pheonixs. Dragons is the king of the animals and it represent power whereas pheonix is the queen of birds.

Inside the "Zhong He Dian" looks like this.

The Big Court here is the Imperial Court and it is named as the "Tai He Dian". This court is use for morning meetings. Just like our morning assembly, the dukes, officials and princes assemble here to discuss and report things to the emperor.

Darling and me. Behind us is the "Tai He Dian".

Tortoise represents fortune during the ancient time.

This is named as the "Wu Men". The middle one is the exit for the emperors, the side is for the princes and the corner there is for the officials or dukes.

Next, we proceed to the Temple of Heaven. This is the place where the emperors pray for the God and hope that their country be blessed with prosperity.

eikkss... posing again!!

Yellow colour is the colour for the emperors while blue colour is the colour for the heaven and God. You can refer back to the above pictures. The palace is built with yellow roofs.

And behind that building is another building of the Temple of Heaven.

Later on, we stop by the silk factory and spot how silk is process and then only to the Summer Palace. There are still alot of pictures to post so if you guys got tired of it can just click the close button and sorry to have bored you. Anyway, I have to post it all as they are memories for me and Ee Yang. I just don't care if it make anyone feels bored about it.

This is the silk factory.

The workers are stretching pieces of silk to make a quilt.

Different patterns of silk

This is the entrance of the Summer Palace. Summer Palace is built by QianLong Emperor from Qing dynasty and it is built for his mother during her 60th birthday. After a few decades, the Empress Dowager (ChiXi) like it alot and deided to live there with her son Emperor Guangxu.

This is another building of Summer Palace which is the chamber of Empress Dowager ChiXi and we have to seat on a boat in order to reach this place.

We get someone to help us to snap pic 1st while waiting for our tour guide.

This is the boat and the China people named it as Dragon Boat.

Darling and me sitting on the boat.

Now, we have reach the place. This is the chamber from a nearer angle.

It's chamber looks like this.

This is the bridge built by Empress Dowager ChiXi. There are 17 holes there because Empress Dowager Chixi enter the alace since when she was 17 years old.

Darling and I standing on the bridge.

After all sight seeings, it is time for us to relax and enjoy so we asked the tour guide to drop us at "Hou Hai". Darling told me the place was very nice and he wanted to bring me there since when before I came to Beijing. "Hou Hai" is a bar street in Beijing and it is different from Malaysia. Alot of people came to "Hou Hai" to enjoy the beautiful view and sitting there drinking a glass of beer to relax and chill out.

Darling standing there looking at the opposite street of "Hou Hai".

Couple flip-flops.

This is the bar which we choose to chill out here.

Darling and me sitting here to relax while enjoying the lake view.

Holding your hand tightly and I'm not going to let you go.