Visiting The Forbidden City and Tian An Men in China For Your Special Honeymoon

China means romantic, wide, and strong. It is a perfect place to visit during your honeymoon. Not so expensive, but has a magnificent history and exotic scenes. As the biggest country in East Asia and the world's biggest population, China has many special places to visit. Two of those are the Forbidden City and Tian An Men.

Tian An Men means "Gate of Heavenly Peace" was built in 1417 and rebuilt in 1651 due to fires accident.Tian An-men Gate was the principal entry to the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It is one of the finest monumental gates in the world, extraordinary for its imposing size. Ornamental Columns (huabiao), stone lions and white marble bridges decorate the front. Tian An-men is the front yard of the Imperial Palace or The Forbidden City. People in the world remembered Tian An-men as the spot where the series demonstration was happen in 1989 or in China is known as "the June Fourth incident." Many has been reported injured in that incident.
You may visit the Working People's Cultural Park in eastern Tian An-men and Zhongshan Park in west part of Tian An-men.
Best time to visit is during summer time about July - August.



The Forbidden City is the best preserved imperial palace in China and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world.

It is recognized as one of the most important five palaces in the world (the other four are the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the UK, the White House in the US and the Kremlin in Russia). The splendid architecture of the Forbidden City represents the essence and culmination of traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment.In 1961 the Forbidden City was listed as one of the important historical monuments under the special preservation by the Chinese central government and, in 1987, it was nominated as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. The Palace Museum is a real treasure house of Chinese cultural and historical relics.

The Forbidden City, situated in the very heart of Beijing, was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The construction of the grand palace started in the fourth year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), and ended in 1420. In ancient times, the emperor claimed to be the son of Heaven, and therefore Heaven’s supreme power was bestowed upon him. The emperors’ residence on earth was built as a replica of the Purple Palace where God was thought to live in Heaven. Such a divine place was certainly forbidden to ordinary people and that is why the Forbidden City is so named.

The Forbidden City covers an area of about 72 hectares with a total floor space of approximately 150, 000 square meters. It consists of 90 palaces and courtyards, 980 buildings and 8,704 rooms. To represent the supreme power of the emperor given from God, and the place where he lived being the center of the world, all the gates, palace and other structures of the Forbidden City were arranged about the south-north central axis of Beijing.

It is really a fascinating and awesome site. The greatness for more about 400 years was kept in this palace. Beside ultimate arts you will discover the king's household, one of has about a thousand concubines wow...
I admire how Chinese people treated their heritage and history, they are taking care the ancient building so well that "not a single stone has been moved" from this palace. Even the trees is more than 300 years. What a journey..