What are the famous historical buildings in China?

1, Beijing Forbidden City

Beijing Forbidden City is the royal palace of China's Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of Beijing's central axis, is the essence of China's ancient palace architecture. Centered on the Three Great Halls, the Forbidden City of Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 150,000 square meters, more than seventy palaces of various sizes, and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

In 1987, the Forbidden City in Beijing was listed as a World Heritage Site. The World Heritage Organization said of the Forbidden City, "The Forbidden City was China's supreme center of power for more than five centuries, and with its landscaped gardens and a vast complex of 9,000 rooms housing furniture and artifacts, it stands as a priceless historical testimony to Chinese civilization in the Ming and Qing eras." ?

2, Summer Palace

The Summer Palace, a royal garden in China during the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the Garden of Clear Ripples, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of about 290 hectares, and is adjacent to the Yuanmingyuan.

The administrative area of the Summer Palace, centered on the Hall of Benevolence, is where the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu sat in court to listen to politics and meet with foreign guests in those years. Behind the Hall of Benevolence are three large courtyards: the Hall of Leshou, the Hall of Yulan, and the Hall of Yiyun, where Cixi, Guangxu, and the consorts lived. The Deheyuan Theater Building on the east side of the Yiyun Hall is one of the three major theater buildings of the Qing Dynasty.

3, Zhaozhou Bridge

Zhaozhou Bridge, also known as Anji Bridge, is located in Zhao County, Hebei Province, Hebei Province, on the Xiao River was built in the Sui Dynasty between Kaihuang eleven years to Kaihuang nineteen years, designed and built by the famous master craftsmen Li Chun, more than 1,400 years ago, is the world's earliest and best-preserved ancient single-hole open-shoulder stone arch bridge. Zhaozhou Bridge is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people, creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese bridges.

Landscape of Zhaozhou BridgeThe bridge is a hollowed circular stone arch bridge, is China's earliest surviving, best-preserved huge stone arch bridge. Zhaozhou Bridge was selected as the world's earliest open-shouldered stone arch bridge by the World Records Association, creating the world's largest. Hebei folk Zhaozhou Bridge and Cangzhou Iron Lion, Dingzhou Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Zhengding Longxing Temple Bodhisattva statue and known as the "four treasures of North China".

4, the Great Wall

The history of the construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is the origin of the famous story "Beacon Fire Playing with the Lords and Lords" that took place in the capital city of Haojing (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the Great Wall was built as the first climax as the powers competed for supremacy and defended each other, but the length of the Great Wall at this time was relatively short. After the Qin Dynasty was united, Qin Shi Huang connected and repaired the Great Wall of the Warring States, which was called the Great Wall of 10,000 Miles.

The Great Wall not only ensures the normal development of agricultural economy and culture and animal husbandry economy and culture, but also plays an important role in mediating the two kinds of economy, so that the agriculture and animal husbandry economy develops in the direction of main and auxiliary complement each other. Therefore, the Great Wall is not simply had played the role of the two economies and cultures separated, but also had the responsibility of the two economies and cultures tightly tied together.

5, Suzhou classical gardens

Suzhou classical gardens began in the Spring and Autumn period when the capital of the State of Wu Gusu, formed in the Fifth Generation, mature in the Song Dynasty, flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou had more than 170 gardens of various colors, now there are more than 60 well-preserved, 19 open to the public, mainly Canglang Pavilion, Lion Grove, the Humble Administrator's Garden, Liouyuan Garden, the network of the Master's Garden, Yiyuan Garden and other gardens.

Suzhou gardeners use a unique gardening techniques, in a limited space, by stacking mountains and water, planting flowers and trees, configure the garden buildings, and a large number of plaques, couplets, paintings and calligraphy, carvings, monuments and stones, furniture furnishings and various furnishings and so on to reflect the philosophical concepts of ancient times, cultural awareness and aesthetic taste, so as to form the poetic literati landscaped gardens.

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