Beijing is the Capital city of People's Republic of China. It has 16 million population. The history of Beijing is as long as China. The Forbidden City, The Br Great Wall of China, etc are symbols of the history of China.

Forbidden City is in the center of Beijing City. It is called "forbidden City" because common people were not allowed to go in in ancient times. Only empor and royal families and their officers and servents were allowed to go in forbidden city. there are 9999 rooms in forbidden city. The construction design of the Forbidden City is unbelievably good. It is symmetric. The main colors of the Forbidden City are red and golden. Red represents Good Luck. Golden color represents power and royalty. There are 6 palaces in Forbidden city. The first three are used for emporer to deal with formal affair. The back three are for queens, prince and princess. There are a lot of design of dragon and phonex in Forbidden City. Dragon represents emporer and phonex represents queen. There were altogethe 24 emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasty used to live in Forbidden City. This is the mirror to see the fuduest histry of ancient China.

The Great Wall of China was first built in 6 BC , Qin Dynasty. At that time, the emperor Qin Shi Huang united ancient China and built the Great Wall the prevent the minority Xiong Nu's invention from north of China. There are a lot of beacon towers on great wall, The soldiers stood there to be on duty. If they found enemies, they would use smokes to let soldier on other beacon towers know. They pass the message to each other in this way in war time. The Great Wall of China covers 6 provinces and is as long as about 6000km. This is the symbol of China. Every one who visits China loves to go there.

There are a lot of places of interests worthing seeing in Beijing. I will introduce to you one by one in the future:) Welcome to Beijing:)

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