Wednesday, September 13, 2006

The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is an enchanting place with hundreds of treasures beneath its gold roofs. The stone in the foreground is a single piece of carved marble.
The throne of the Chinese Emperor. This is the same throne that Pu Yi retrieves the cricket from in the film "The Last Emperor"

A Royal Garden shelter

The gate through which Pu Yi, The last Emperor of China, was forced to leave the Forbidden City and become an ordinary citizen of the People's Republic.

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