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It has been compared to a set of intricately carved Chinese workboxes within each
opened boz lles another similar. Even today. when the Forbidden City is open to western
yes it retains a sense of mystery. Just as it is impossible to know exactly what may be
hidden within a given bok so many of the secrets of Beijing stately place complex may
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never be revealed
The building of the Forbidden City was undertaken by the third Ming emperor. Young Lo.
who niled between 1400 and 1423 after he had finally ousted the Mongols from Beijing
An estimated worldorce of 100000 craftsmen and a million labourers set to work.
fashioning the cy's 800 palaces. 7 halls, numerous temples, pavilions, libraries, and
shudios, all linked by gardens, courtyards, and pathways in the city, which from its
Inception was forbidden to outsiders, 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties
reigned, shielded behind a moat and a wall 35 ft high-until the republican revolution
begin in 1911.
The Forbidden City is an architectural masterpiece whose beauty lays not so much in any
one building as in the ordered layout of the whole and the exquisite combination of
colours used in its decoration. Altogether. It reflects the Chinese view that the emperor
was the son too. Heaven was the mediator responsible for order and harmony on earth
The formal entrance to the city is the Meridian Gate, where a drum and bell were
sounded whenever an emperor passed by. The vast courtyard beyond the gate contains a
section of the Golden River. Shaped like an archer's bow and spanned by five marble
bridges. It leads to the Gate of supreme Harmony-deemed centre of the Chinese world. In
this splendid chamber, the emperor presided over the Dragon Throne and grand
ceremonies were held on festive occasions. Behind it stand the Hall of Complete
Harmony, where the emperor prepared for audiences with envoys from abroad. No
emperor ventured from the Forbidden City at all if he could avoid it. He entertained
visitors in the most northerly of the three-state imperial buildings, the Hall of Preserving​

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Q 2 _____ is considered as sacred and worshipped in Hindi homes.

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Summarize the above paragraph

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The Forbidden City is an architectural masterpiece whose beauty lays not so much in anyone building as in the ordered layout of the whole. It reflects the Chinese view that the emperor was the mediator responsible for order and harmony on earth. An estimated worldorce of 100,000 craftsmen and a million labourers set to work.

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