Why is the Forbidden City in Biejing, China so called?
Because Beijing is the Capital! In the Forbidden City, fourteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing Dynasty lived and ruled China here for as long as 490 years from 1421 to 1911. When the 1911 Revolution broke out to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, the last emperor Pu Yi was driven out of the palace in 1924. Afterwards, the Forbidden City was converted into the Palace Museum and has been open to the public Now the Forbidden City is not forbidden any more, but welcomes visitors from all over the world. The Forbidden City was surrounded by a ten-metre-high city wall and enclosed by a moat of 52 metres wide. At each corner of the city wall, there is a magnificent watchtower. Once inside, visitors will see a succession of halls and palaces spreading out on either side of an invisible central axis. It is a magnificent sight, the buildings’ glowing yellow roofs against vermilion walls, not to mention their painted ridges and carved beams, all contributing to the sumptuous e
