The Forbidden City

Author: Hanbu
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The "Beijing Scenic Series" published by Beijing Fine Arts Photography Publishing House selects and aggregates the historical and cultural heritage created by ancient laborers and architectural masters, featuring distinctive aspects of Beijing. It provides a detailed introduction to their administrative reforms, architectural styles, artistic and practical functions, as well as their rise and fall and the historical mists embedded within. Its significance is self-evident. From the perspective of cultural construction, this series has left an extremely important historical record in preserving the appearance of the ancient capital. However, its value is not limited to this. As people's reverence for the history of ancient Beijing grows increasingly intense, especially with the rise of the tourism industry, the publication of this series will help deepen people's understanding of Beijing, leading them to cherish its precious historical and cultural heritage even more and to love this great historical and cultural city. This is precisely what the compilers and authors of the series hope for. Beijing belongs not only to China but also to all of humanity. Beijing is an ancient city with a history of over three thousand years, especially as the capital of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, it rose to become the political and cultural center of the nation. This historical and cultural city is not only a masterpiece of feudal imperial capital architectural art in China but also, as the capital of the new China, it inherits the legacy of history and holds an unparalleled status, making Beijing an extremely valuable historical and cultural city for all of humanity.