Yuetan

Yuetan is located on the western side of Nanlishi Road, Yuetan is also known as Xiyuetan, and is one of the five famous altars and eight temples in Beijing. First built in the Ming Dynasty, it was the place where Ming and Qing emperors offered sacrifice to the Deity of Moon Brightness. The altar inside the park no longer exists. The people's government revamped other ancient buildings and planted precious tree inside the park s. It is now an urban park with a beautiful environment.Address: ... View Detail

Bao Han Tai Taihsi

This is a museum about tombs in Xihan Dynasty in ancient Chiana, which can not escape early grave robbers and vandals. Over 400 burial objects of pottery, bronze, iron, jade, agate, lacquer and silk were salvaged. A piece of the earliest decarbonized steel known in China, woven brocade hat ribbons and iron axes stamped with the characters Yuyang Ironsmith, as well as local agricultural products are also on display. This will be quite wonderful things about knowing chinese culture and history. ... View Detail

Ancient cliff residence

It is located in the valley to the northwest of Yanqing County. Route: Go along the Badaling Expressway to Yanqing County, and then change the bus to arrive at it. It is now the largest cliff residence site found in North China. The ancient cliff houses were digged by some unknown ancestors on steep cliffs. There are altogether 147 stone rooms, divided into front, middle and rear parts, hanging on the cliffs of about 100,000 square meters. The stones rooms have various shapes and positions. In ... View Detail

Emperors temple

Commonly known as the imperial temple, Jiajing Decade (1513) was built, the site for security Temple. Jiajing nine years (1530) reconstruction, the Qing Emperor Yongzheng seven years (1729) rebuilt. Idolization Emperor Ming and Qing dynasties and ancient imperial dynasties founding fathers opened the place, the worship emperors 167, hero 79. status in the ancient buildings on the higher, the experts call it "the Qing Dynasty costumes, the skeleton of the Ming Dynasty." This framework ... View Detail

Regulus Taiwan

Xuanyuantai is in Pinggu City, 7.5 km northeast of the fisheries sub-mountains. It is located in south to Panyue, west to Western Han Pinggu Old City, east to the Jinhai Lake. According to historical literature Shandong Zhuang Xuan Yuan Taiwan was built in the Warring States Period to the Western Han Dynasty, regulus the west side of Jiulonghu Regulus Taiwan can Teng Jiulongshan sightseeing, boating, fishing, leisure, but also to Canton Street shopping dining. Regulus sets of four sides is the ... View Detail

Deshengmen watchtower

The Beijing Deshengmen Watch Tower is located on the inner city northern wall's western section.There used to be a gate tower here, but it was dismantled in 1921 and its platform in 1955. Deshengmen's barbican's northern and southern axis are extra wide (118 m), thus it wasn't necessary to dismantle them when Beijing's metro system was built. In 1979, it was proposed that the watchtower be dismantled but fortunately it has been kept intact as the last remains of the important ... View Detail

Yuan Dynasty city site

Dadu, which was located in present Beijing, became the capital of Yuan Dynasty several years after it was founded. Thus it got the full name Yuan Dadu.Since it was a newly-built city, the planning of Dadu was not restricted to any old patterns. Thus different from the Zhongdu of Jin Dynasty which combined old and new lanes and streets, the residential area of Dadu were built with open lanes and streets, orderly-planned, straight from north to south and east to west. Each two opposite city gates ... View Detail

Beijing Underground City

The front entrance of the underground city as old and common in the same hotel floor small building, hanging above a "Beijing Underground City," the plaque. From the door inside, along the twenty-grade level, you can enter the mysterious and ambitious Beijing underground city. Down the steps, and then is a long corridor, and then you can see one by the rise of Mao Zedong's "Beijing Underground Great Wall" of the plaque, plaque below the sculpture and the picture of Mao ... View Detail

West side door out remains of Beijing city wall

Ming Dynasty City Wall of Xibian Gate is located at the northwestern corner of the outer city walls. It has a height of 10,5 metres, and the other specifications are the same as that of Dongbianmen. It was dismantled in 1952. Parts of the barbican walls remain. There are four corner guard towers at the four vertices of the outer city walls. Beijing belongs to a warm sub-continental monsoon climate; its summer is hot and rainy while winter is cold and dry. Spring and fall are short. Its annual ... View Detail

Zhengyangmen

The Zhengyangmen is situated on the central north-south axis of Beijing. The main gateway of the gatehouse is aligned with Yongdingmen Gate to the south, the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong and the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, the Tiananmen Gate itself, the Meridian Gate, and the imperial throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, the city's Drum and Bell Towers and the entrance to the Olympic Green in the far north. Zhengyangmen was first built in 1419 ... View Detail