Whose Forbidden City? Supreme Planning Walking toward Supreme Harmony Snow Dancing in thc Forbidden City PaLace Wall Willows Walls, Walls, and More Walls Imperial Squares Imperial Courtvards A Thousand Gatcs, Ten-thousand Doors The Thronc in Control of All the Lands under the Heaven Kiss between Heaven and Earth Big Chinese Roofs Flowing Imperial Authority Inside and Outside the Windows Dancing Colorful Ribbons Patting All the Balustrados Glazed Flowers Mountains and Water in the Imperial Palace Life and Death Predestined Crying Palace Grand Sculpture to Worship Heaven Appendix: Episodes in Restoration of the Hall of Supreme Harmony
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Walking on a street like this, I should have seen much.But then was nothing because everything has been changed so much tHa this street looks like any other street, except for its name and the imagination that it arouses.Four-kilometer distance was passec within half an hour.(In one year and a half, it is said thal the street before the Front Gate would be restored to its original condition and reopened to the public.) Just imagine, the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors once walked upon the same street on the way to the Temple of Heaven to pray for rain.Maybe they were in plain clothes.There were definitely quite a few people who saw, but did not recognize them.No matter how much this street has changed, the above-mentioned incident often occurs to me. The tower of the Gate of Positive Yang and its arrow tower were under renovation.Although the towers remain the same, they do not look like themselves any more without the enceinte and city walls extending out from either side, just as the situation at the Gate of Eternal Stability.Despite reconstruction or renovation, none of them could recover their original appearances.Besides, with endless streams of cars running around the towers all the time, pedestrians could only take the underground passage, instead of walking through the gateways of the towers.Between the tower of the Gate of Positive Yang and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the change is even greater.
