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12-Part Series: The Forbidden City- CCTV-9 Documentary Channel

The Imperial Palace, also known as the Forbidden City, is located in the heart of Beijing.
It has served as the residence to 24 emperors throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties
between 1368 A.D. and 1911 A.D. but is now used as the Palace Museum.

The Forbidden City has been the center of the highest authority for more than 500 years
in China. With garden landscapes and an enormous architectural complex consisting of
9,000 chambers and halls containing furniture and works of art, it has become the
historical landmark witnessing invaluable Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing
dynasties.

The Forbidden City

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Full Episodes
Part 1: Initiation of the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City had been created history and
civilization.It situated on the Imperial City during the
Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Upon the establishment of the
Ming Dynasty,the place had been reconstructed and in
1406 the Forbidden City had been made.

World cultural heritage: The Imperial Palace

English Name: Imperial Palace of the Ming
and Qing Dynasties

Part 2: The pinnacle of the flourishing age

In 1644,the Manchus had achieved supremacy in
northern China, and a ceremony was held at the
Forbidden City to proclaim the young Shunzhi Emperor
as ruler of all China under the Qing Dynasty...

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Forbidden
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Part 3: Governing the country by rites

The east gates are called the "East flower Gate". All
gates in the Forbidden City are decorated with a nineby-nine array of golden door nails, except for the East
Glorious Gate, which has only eight rows...

China
Postcards:
Taipei Palace
Museum

Part 4: Administration of state affairs

The Hall of Mental Cultivation is a particularly significant
building in the inner courtyard of the Forbidden City. It
was here that from the time of Yongzheng Emperor in
the 18th century the Qing Emperors lived and ruled the

Palace
Museum puts
its house in

Chinese Empire.

order

Part 5: Between the state and family

During the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance in
1900,Cixi ordered Consort Zhen to be taken out of the

Forbidden
City takes on
new challenge

prison and finally she ordered Consort Zhen to be

thrown into a well behind the Ningxia Palace in the
north-eastern part of the Forbidden City.

Part 6: Porcelains in the Forbidden City

Forbidden
City art expo
graces
Shanghai

The are 340,000 pieces of porcelain in the Forbidden

City. These include imperial collections from the Tang
Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, as well as pieces
commissioned by the Palace, sometimes by the Emperor
personally.

Part 7: Paintings an calligraphic works in the

Forbidden City
In the room Hall of Three Treasures, an emperor

admired paintings and works of calligraphy. 200 years

ago, Emperor Qianlong would often sit in the small room
of less than 6 squar meters, and quitely appreciated
three works of calligraphy...

Part 8: Jade objects in the Forbidden City

Nobody knows how long this jade disk had been there,
but opposite the side was located "Stands the Hall of
Mental Cultivation", the place where Qing emperors
worked the lived. So when the emperors delt with the
state affairs, he could see the jade disk from the throne.

Part 9: Western Fever in the Forbidden City

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the thing taht
most represented the western advanced techniques and
which was therefore the most creative gadget in the
Forbidden City was the clock.

Part 10: From palace to museum

On October the 10th, 1995, more than 3,000
distinguished guests and 23,000 ordinary citizens
gathered on the square at the Gate of Heavenly Purity in
the Forbidden City to witness a special event: The
opening ceremony of the Palace Museum.

Part 11: The shifting and loss of national treasures

For most people, November the 1st, 1924 was an
ordinary day, but for Pu Yi, the last emperor of Qing
Dynansty, it was an unextrordinary one, as he did not
expected that it would be his last day in the Fobidden
City.

Part 12: The everlasting Forbidden City

Shortly after the founding of new China, a scholar
describes his inner feelings: The sky is blue, the water is
sweet, and the air is fresh. We can breathe freely now...
With the arrival of the new era came also a feeling of joy,
and the Imperial Palace turned a new page in the time
when there was a new atmosphere.

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