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  The Zhoukoudian Relics Museum of palaeoanthropology is located in Fangshan District in Beijing. The museum’s construction first began in 1953, totaling 1,000 square meters. It systematically introduces the life, environment and conditions of the Peking Man who existed 600,000 […]

The Big Bell Temple was built in 1733 during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The temple’s name came after the famous “Yongle” Big Bell that is housed inside the temple, which was cast during the […]

Red Snail Temple (Hong Luo Si) is located at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain on the northern outskirts of Beijing ‘s Huairou District. The temple, which is the largest Buddhist temple in northern China, was originally erected in CE […]

The Temple of Azure Clouds (Chinese: 碧云寺） is a Buddhist temple located in the eastern part of the Western Hills, just outside the north gate of Fragrant Hills Park (Xiangshan Gongyuan), in the Haidian District, a northwestern suburb of Beijing,  […]

The Temple of Great Awakening, also called Temple of Enlightenment or Dajue (in Chinese) Temple, is located on the southern slope of Yangtai Mountain in the western suburb of Beijing. Its construction was started in 1068 in the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) and […]

Lugou Qiao, also known as the Marco Polo Bridge, is one of earliest segmented stone arch bridge about 16 km in the outside of Beijing The bridge is 260 meters long and has 250 marble balustrades supporting 485 carved stone […]

Imperial academy is a kind of university in ancient China, and the history can be traced back to the Sui Dynasty (581–618). In ancient times, scholars who could do studies in imperial academy were regarded as sons of fortune. Up […]

  Prince Gong’s Mansion is located near Shichahai Lake, to the northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The private residence of He Shen, a favorite minister of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Prince Gong’s Mansion is known […]

There are thirteen imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty scattered over an area of forty square kilometers in Changping District to the northwest of Beijing. Construction of the necropolis spanned more than two hundred years, almost throughout the entire Ming Dynasty: […]