If the Chinese emperor who ordered the Forbidden City's construction were still alive ... firm Tencent imagines the digital life of Zhu Di, a Ming Dynasty emperor. During Zhu Di's reign, the ...

The palace complex was ordered built by Zhu Di (the Yongle Emperor) who lived A.D ... Whatever doubts Mao had about the Forbidden City had when he first entered it have been swept aside and ...

The production tells how the Ming Emperor Zhu Di (1360-1424) established his capital at Beijing and constructed the Forbidden City, and narrates the epic construction of the royal complex.

After years of painstaking restoration, a new section of Beijing's Forbidden City will be opened to the public for the first time in ... a private retreat for the emperor, who abdicated after ...

Completed in 1420, construction lasted over 14 years and required over a million workers when Ming Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital ... of China's Forbidden City.Another tip: restrooms are few ...

Encompassing 180 acres in central Beijing, the Forbidden City, or a complex of nearly a thousand red palaces, towers, and gardens, pays homage to the reign of one of China’s most powerful ...

The complex, home to Chinese emperors for five centuries, was opened at night for the first time since ... abandoned after the last emperor left the Forbidden City in 1924, the 18th century ...

Beijing’s Forbidden City ... be open to the public for the first time. The Qianlong Garden spans two acres of the Forbidden City and was built by its namesake Emperor Qianlong, the fourth ...

For the emperor, life in the Forbidden City was not as opulent as one might imagine. While each dynasty claimed the emperor was heaven’s earthly representative destined to drive the immense ...

A historic portion of Beijing’s famed Forbidden City ... very first time since its centuries-old origins. The Qianlong Garden was created for the anticipated retirement of the Qianlong Emperor ...

The Forbidden City in Beijing ... the journey of the emperor.” Related: China restores great swaths of denuded forests with exemplary conservation program The first major stage of the project ...