The Forbidden City was the residence of the emperor and it has been so called as the access was forbidden to the people.
The city was built between 1407 and 1420 by the emperor Ming Yongle, it has 9.999 rooms and it extends over a surface of around 5 square kms.
The forbidden City is protected from tall boundaries with four towers to the angles.

The Temple of Heaven is constituted by three buildings:

- Yuanqiu Tan (Circular Altar);
- Huangqiong Yu (Celestial Imperial Dome);
- Qinian Dian (Temple of the Prayer for the Good Crops).

The emperor went to the Temple of the Sky twice a year, in the summer solstice and in the winter solstice.
The subjects could not participate in the procession and could not go out.

The Summer Palace is about twenty km from Beijing.
The building is called "Summer Palace" as the Emperor spent in this palace the summer period.

Along the south shore of the lake there is a wooden gallery (Long Corridor or Changlang), l728 meters long, covered and decorated by around 14.000 paintings that represent landscapes of Hangzhou, mythological scenes, historical episodes and events immortalized in the Chinese literature.