Hari ke 2.. kat cni masa sama ngan Malaysia je.. so xde masalah .. cuma kol 5am dah terang benderang... mula2 terkezut gak sbb ingatkan terbangun lmbt.. hehehe..
Pagi ni ke Tiananmen Square.. Luas betul tmpt ni.. Kami akan berjalan sejauh 5km hari ni bermula dari Tiananmen Square hinggalah ke Forbidden City.. Sronok betul jalan2 tmpt historical camni.. Superb.. Macam tgok kat dlm drama2 atau muvi2 cina la.. tapi frust gak sbb x dpt masuk The Hall of Supreme Harmony.. Tgh baikpulih.. isk isk isk ..
Lepas tu kami dibawa ke Capital Museum.. Moden giler museum ni... eskalator je berjela2... capital museum ni bangunan baru so sume pon serba baru la kan..
Akhir sekali kami di bawa ke Foot Health Care.. sedap betul dapat foot massage free setelah berjalan berkilo2 meter hari ni..
Tiananmen Square
Monument to the People's Heroes, Tiananmen Square
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Tiananmen Square is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. It has great cultural significance as a symbol because it was the site of several key events in Chinese history.
The square is 880 metres south to north and 500 metres east to west, a total area of 440,000 square meters, which makes it the largest open-urban square in the world.
Enlarged in 1949 to the current size, its flatness is broken only by the 38 metre high Monument to the People's Heroes and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. The square lies between two ancient, massive gates: the Tian'anmen to the north and the Zhengyangmen, better known as Qianmen to the south. Along the west side of the Square is the Great Hall of the People. Along the east side is the National Museum of China. Chang'an Avenue, which is used for parades, lies between the Tian'anmen and the Square. Trees line the east and west edges of the Square, but the square itself is open, with neither trees nor benches. Link |
Imperial Garden, Forbidden City
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The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It now houses the Palace Museum.
The complex consists of 800 buildings with 8,886 rooms and covers 720,000 square metres. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 as the "Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties",and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
The Palace Museum in the Forbidden City is not the same as the National Palace Museum in Taipei. They descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War. Link |
The Capital Museum
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The Capital Museum, which re-opened on December 19,2006 is now located at 16 Fuxingmenwai Road in west Beijing. Formerly housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road, the museum pays tribute to Beijing life in bygone eras.At a cost of 1.23 billion yuan (US$147 million), the new venue can accommodate 2,000 visitors daily.
With a floor area of more than 60,000 square meters, Capital Museum is second only to the National Museum of China in terms of size. To see all the exhibitions in the new museum, it would take at least four or five hours.
There are 5,622 items on display, almost 10 times the number of exhibits displayed at the old venue.
Construction on the new museum started four years ago. The Beijing municipal government decided that a bigger venue was necessary to put on display more of the museum's 200,000 relics. Link |
