Beijing -- An unforgettable city

1. Beijing--An unforgettable city

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3. scenic spots and historic sites

4. Tian'anmen Square

5. Tian'anmen Square Tian'anmen Square is one of the largest city squares in the world. It is situated in the heart of Beijing. Tian'anmen was built in 1417 and was the entrance gate to the Forbidden City. Now the square stretches 880 meters from north to south and 500 meters from east to west. The total area is 440,000 square meters. That's about the size of 60 soccer fields, spacious enough to accommodate half a million people.

6. The Palace Museum

7. The Palace Museum The Palace Museum, known as the Forbidden City in the West, located in the centre of Beijing, covering an area of 72 hectares, was the imperial palaces of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now，it is the best preserved palace all over the world and opened to people as a palace museum.

8. Wangfujing street

9. Wangfujing street Wangfujing street is one of Beijing's most famous shopping streets. Much of the road is a pedestrian area with several shops, malls and shopping complexes.

10. Gardens of Perfect Clarity

11. Gardens of Perfect Clarity Gardens of Perfect Clarity originally called the Imperial Gardens was a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing. It is located 8  kilometres northwest of the walls of the Imperial City, built in the 18th and early 19th century, where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty resided and handled government affairs.

12. The Great Wall

13. The Great Wall The Great Wall was built during the Spring and Autumn Period.It runs across North China like a huge dragon, It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at lastit reaches the sea. It's the longest wall on the earth, also one of the wonders in the world. The Great Wall has a history of more than 2000 years.

14. Summer Palace • It is one of the best parks in the city. • Originally it was a retreat for emperors to escape the scorching summer heat of Beijing. • The Summer Palace is huge, most of it being taken up by Kunming Lake. • The dirt that was dug up to make the lake was piled up and made into Longevity Hill. • On top of Longevity Hill are several Buddhist temples, which, on clear days, offer good views of the lake. • Small boats are available for rent and you can motor or paddle about the lake. • Another part of the park, called Suzhou street, which is supposed to be a model of what the city of Suzhou looked like in the Qing Dynasty. • The “street”encircles a short canal, which you can go up and down in a gondola-like boat.

15. Temple Of Heaven • Built between 1409 and 1420, the Temple of Heaven is one of Beijing"s most impressive parks in terms of Heaven is one of Beijing"s most impressive parks in terms of architecture, color and significance. • The Temple is basically a huge communications terminal which the Emperor used to communicate directly with Heaven. • Several times a year, the Emperor would come here to pray for good harvests, enough rain and other heavenly boons. • The construction of the Temple is based around the number nine, the largest of the single digits, which is divine in Chinese numerology. • The Temple consists of four basic parts: the Round Altar, the Echo Wall, the Imperial Vault of Heaven, and the Hall of prayer for Good Harvests. • The Round Altar is where the Emperor would report on the status of the country to Heaven. • The Altar is constructed in the middle, anything you say is amplified several times.

16. Hutong • A hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing, where hutongs run into the several thousand. • The main buildings in the hutong were almost all quadrangles--a building complex formed by four houses around a quadrangular courtyard. • The quadrangles varied in size and design according to the social status of the residents. • The ordinary people's quadrangles were simply built with small gates and low houses. • Hutongs, in fact, are passageways formed by many closely arranged quadrangles of different sizes.

17. Lama Temple = The Yonghe Temple = Palace of Peace and Harmony • Is a temple and monastery of the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism located in the northeastern part of Beijing. • The building and the artworks of the temple combine Han Chinese and Tibetan styles. • Building work on the Yonghe Temple started in 1694 during the Qing Dynasty. • The Yonghe Temple is arranged along a north-south central axis, which has a length of 480m. • The Hall of the Heavenly Kings is the southernmost of the main halls, it served originally as the main entrance to the monastery. • In the center of the hall stands a statue of the Maitreya Buddha, along the walls statues of the four Heavenly kings are arranged

18. Beihai Park • It is very large, about 68.2 hectares, and almost two-thirds of the park is a lake. • The park sits in the Beijing’s center, used to be the royal garden of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Emperors. • Besides the lake, the main things to see in Beihai are the Round City, which contains a jade vase from the time of Kublai Khan; the Temple of Eternal Peace, the Nine Dragon Screen, which is really a 5-meter-high, 27-meter-long wall covered with glazed tiles carved into nine intertwining dragons;and the White Pagoda on Gem Island in the center of the lake. • Within Beihai is also the famous Fangshan Restaurant, the best known of the Imperial Court style restaurants where you can eat Qing Dynasty type food, for a pretty penny.

19. Capital Museum • The former Capital Museum, which was located in the Confucius Temple, started its planning stage in 1953 and formally opened to the general public in 1981. • The museum is a five-storey building, allowing for a maximum of 13 concurrent exhibitions, which can be seen in about 5 hours at the cost of 30 Yuan per visitor. • The architectural design concept of the Capital Museum is based on human and cultural heritage to serve the community and underlines the harmonious integration of past and present, history and modernism, art and nature. • The construction of the Capital Museum itself is a piece of architectural artwork integrating both classical and modern beauty.

20. Birds Nest • Bird’s Nest is the world's largest steel structure and the most complex stadium ever constructed. • It is the world's largest steel structure and the most complex stadium ever constructed. Also called China's National Stadium, it hosted the opening ceremony, athletic events, the football final and the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

21. culture

22. Beijing culture People native to urban Beijing speak the Beijing dialect, which belongs to the Mandarin subdivision of spoken Chinese. Beijing dialect is the basis for Standard Mandarin, the language used in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and Singapore. Rural areas of Beijing Municipality have their own dialects akin to those of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing Municipality.

23. Beijing culture Beijing Opera, or Peking Opera (Jingju), is well-known throughout the national capital. Commonly lauded as one of the highest achievements of Chinese culture, Beijing Opera is performed through a combination of song, spoken dialogue, and codified action sequences, such as gestures, movement, fighting and acrobatics. Much of Beijing Opera is carried out in an archaic stage dialect quite different from modern Standard Mandarin and from the Beijing dialect; this makes the dialogue somewhat hard to understand, and the problem is compounded if one is not familiar with Chinese. As a result, modern theaters often have electronic titles in Chinese and English. 单击此处编辑您要的内容，建议您在展示时采用微软雅黑字体，本模版所有图形线条及其相应素材均可自由编辑、改色、替换。

24. A hutong in eastern Beijing near Dongsishitiao. In this March 2003 photo the left side was still standing, but it has since given way to new construction.The Siheyuan is a traditional architectural style of Beijing. A siheyuan consists of a square housing compound, with rooms enclosing a central courtyard. This courtyard often contains a pomegranate or other type of tree, as well as potted flowers or a fish tank. Siheyuans line Hutongs , or alleys, which connect the interior of Beijing's old city. They are usually straight and run east-to-west so that doorways can face north and south for Feng Shui reasons. They vary in width — some are very narrow, enough for only a few pedestrians to pass through at a time.。

25. Beijing culture Once ubiquitous in Beijing, siheyuans and hutongs are now rapidly disappearing, as entire city blocks of hutongs are leveled and replaced with high-rise buildings. Residents of the hutongs are entitled to apartments in the new buildings of at least the same size as their former residences. Many complain, however, that the traditional sense of community and street life of the hutongs cannot be replaced. Some particularly historic or picturesque hutongs are being preserved and restored by the government, especially for the 2008 Olympics. One such example can be seen at Nanchizi.

26. Beijing culture Mandarin cuisine is the local style of cooking in Beijing. Peking Roast Duck is perhaps the most well-known dish. The Manhan Quanxi ("Manchu-Han Chinese full banquet") is a traditional banquet originally intended for the ethnic-Manchu emperors of the Qing Dynasty; it remains very prestigious and expensive.Teahouses are also common in Beijing. Chinese tea comes in many varieties and some rather expensive types of Chinese tea are said to cure an ailing body extraordinarily well.

27. Beijing culture The Jingtailan is a cloisonné metalworking technique and tradition originating from Beijing, and one of the most revered traditional crafts in China. Beijing lacquerware is well known for the patterns and images carved into its surface.

28. 点击此处添加标题 Beijing culture Beijingers are stereotypically held by other Chinese to be open, confident, humorous, majestic in manner, enthusiastic about politics, art, culture, or other "grand" matters, unconcerned with thrift or careful calculation, and happy to take center stage. They are also stereotypically aristocratic, arrogant, laid back, disdainful of "provincials", always "lording it over others", and strongly conscious of social class. These stereotypes may have originated from Beijing's status as China's capital for most of the past 800 years, and the high concentration of officials and other notables in Beijing that has resulted.

29. delicacy

30. Peking Duck

31. Peking Duck Peking Duck has the reputation of being the most delicious food in the world. The Chinese have a saying: Visitors to Beijing must do two things: climb the Great Wall and eat Peking Duck. While at Quan JuDe, ducks are roasted directly over flames from fruit-tree wood, at Bian Yi Fang roasting is done in closed containers fired with crop stalks. The best places to go for Peking Duck are Qianmen, Hepingmen and Wangfujing.

32. Feast of Complete Manchu-Han Courses (Man Han Quan Xi)

33. Feast of Complete Manchu-Han Courses (Man Han Quan Xi) One evening in early 1993,35 Chinese and foreign tourists clad in clothes that made them the look-alikes of a Qing emperor, his queen,his concubines and court officials filed into the Fang Shan Restaurant. They were the fifth group to sample Man Han Quan Xi, or Feast of Complete Manchu-Han Courses, in the 70-year history of the restaurant. Man Han Quan Xi foods include bears' paw, hedgehog hydnum, tiger kidney,David's deer, ginseng, bracken, camel hump, shark fin, soft-shell turtle and fish skin, to name only a few. As many raw dishes come from wild life now under state protection, these courses are no longer available.

34. Folk Snacks A Beijinger who has long resided abroad says: What miss most are the numerous snacks back home. These snacks all make the mouth water.

35. Folk Snacks Beijing snacks used to be very famous in Beijing in the old days. The kind of snacks is varied, there were approximately more than 200 of them, but the most of the snacks are derived from Chinese Muslims. Bean Soup (豆汁) is one of the distinguished Beijing snacks. In making the bean soup, the only material is the remainings after making Tofu. Because of its low price, it was welcomed by the majority of Beijingers. Bean Soup tastes sour. If you are not familiar with Beijing, you will hate this at the first taste.

36. Folk Snacks Another famous Muslim style snack is Sweet Cake (糖火烧). It is made of flour and red sugar. It is sweet, but with no harm to your health. You will love it at the first bite. If you are not allergic to the viscus of animals, you can try to have some Luzhu. It is made of the tharm and stomarch of the pigs. Though seems to be disgust, it in fact very delicious.

37. Folk Snacks Most of Beijing snacks can be found around Qianmen Gate, but now, with the construction of that area, the snacks are facing great threat. As more and more youngsters pay little attention to the traditional things, they are now only welcomed by senior citizens

38. 糖葫芦 Tang hu lu Sugarcoated haws on a stick BEIJING snack

39. 做法：驴打滚是黄米面团卷豆沙，卷好后将其在黄豆面上翻滚，让表面沾上一层黄豆面，以避免水分蒸发导致干裂从而影响口感，可能就是因为最后这个动作而被幽默的北京人把它命名为驴打滚。做法：驴打滚是黄米面团卷豆沙，卷好后将其在黄豆面上翻滚，让表面沾上一层黄豆面，以避免水分蒸发导致干裂从而影响口感，可能就是因为最后这个动作而被幽默的北京人把它命名为驴打滚。 驴打滚口感软糯，不粘牙，深受老北京的欢迎。 • 驴打滚 Lu da gun Pastry Made of Soy Bean Flour Ludagun (donkey roll over) is a glutinous (粘的）yellow rice cake roll, with fried bean flour sprayed（被喷洒上的） onto the surface. BEIJING snack

40. Aiwowo is a snow-white glutinous rice ball with sweet stuffing（填充物）. Average cost is 70 yuan ($10) per person • 艾窝窝 Ai wo wo Sticky rice with sweet fillings BEIJING snack

41. Wandouhuang is a mashed（捣碎的）pea cake made from boiled and mashed peas and small Chinese jujubes（大枣）. • 豌豆黄 Wan dou huang Pea cake BEIJING snack

42. 芝麻球 Zhi ma qiu Fried rice balls stuffed with a sweet filling, usually red bean paste or lotus paste and covered in sesame seeds. This is popular northeastern Chinese snack and still very popular in Beijing. BEIJING snack LS@BJ

43. 萨琪玛 Sachima Sachima, also spelled Shaqima, In Manchu cuisine originally, sachima is a sweet snack. It mainly consists of flour, butter, and rock sugar or rock candy. It is now popular in mainland China among children and adults. BEIJING snack

44. 糖火烧 Tang huo shao Sweetened baked wheaten cake BEIJING snack

45. 做法：果子干以柿饼（ dried persimmon ）为主，加入杏干儿（ apricot ），用温开水浸泡，最后加鲜藕片（ lotus root ），调成浓汁，味甜酸，为老北京夏季食品。 • 果子干 Guo zi gan Dried fruit dish BEIJING snack

46. 果铺 Beijing preserved fruit BEIJING snack • 蜜饯 • Beijing candied fruit LS@BJ

47. 宫廷奶酪 Beijing cheese 奶酪在元、明、清三朝曾是只有皇家才能独享的宫廷小吃，由于其工艺秘方从不外传，因此即便是当年的高官贵戚也难得一尝，寻常百姓更是对此等珍馐闻所未闻……。多少年后随着清廷衰亡，这当年曾象征着尊贵皇家身份的奶酪也便随之散落民间，成为了老北京首屈一指的著名小吃。 BEIJING snack

48. 油条 You tiao & 豆浆 Dou jiang Sweetened Fried Bread Twists & Soya-bean Milk People in Beijing love to eat this treat in the morning. It is often served with warm doujiang (Soya-bean Milk). BEIJING snack LS@BJ

49. 豆汁儿 Dou zhir & 焦圈儿 Jiao quan 没有喝过豆汁儿，不算到过北京。 Fermented Soya-bean Milk 豆汁——老北京最有名的传统小吃，但这可不是一般人都能享用的。盛到碗里灰绿色的，闻着一股酸腐味，据说人们对待豆汁的不同态度，能检验出是否是真正的北京人。 BEIJING snack 焦圈——是喝豆汁配套的食品，当然还有咸菜。 DON’T MISS

50. 芥末墩 Jie mo dun Mustardy Chinese cabbage 芥末墩儿是地道的百姓菜，一到冬天大白菜上市，老北京很多讲究的家庭都要做芥茉墩儿。尤其是过年的时候，吃得油腻，换换口味，芥末墩儿最好不过了，清爽、利口，颇受老北京人喜爱。 BEIJING snack