What tourist attractions are there in Beijing?

1. The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the royal palace of China's Ming and Qing dynasties. It was formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located at the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on the three main halls, covering an area of ??720,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??about 150,000 square meters. There are more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and best preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

2. The Great Wall

The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall, is a military defense project in ancient China. It is a tall, strong and continuous long wall used to Limit the movement of enemy cavalry. The Great Wall is not just a single city wall, but a complete defensive engineering system composed of various fortifications such as city walls, watchtowers, gates, piers, camps, guards, and town beacons. This defense engineering system is commanded and controlled step by step by military command systems at all levels.

3. Temple of Heaven

Temple of Heaven Park is the place where emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties worshiped heaven and prayed for a good harvest every year. The Temple of Heaven is famous for its rigorous architectural layout, unique architectural structures and magnificent architectural decorations. It covers a total area of ??about 2.7 million square meters and is divided into inner altar and outer altar.

The main building is the inner altar, with the Circular Mound Altar and the Imperial Vault in the south, and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and the Huangqian Hall in the north. These two groups of buildings are connected by a corridor that runs from north to south, the Danbi Bridge. Connected. The ancient cypresses in the outer altar surround the inner altar, making the main building complex appear more solemn and grand. There are also echo walls, three-tone stones, dialogue stones, etc. built by clever use of acoustic principles in the altar, which fully demonstrate the advanced level of ancient Chinese construction technology. Temple of Heaven Park is the largest preserved altar building complex in China.

4. Beijing Fangshan Global Geopark

Beijing Fangshan Global Geopark has rich geological heritage resources, which shows the historical picture of the evolution and development of the earth in North China over billions of years. It records the turbulent changes in various geological eras from the Archean Era - Proterozoic Era - Paleozoic Era - Mesozoic Era - Cenozoic Era. It is a vast natural geological museum.

5. Shihua Cave

Beijing Shihua Cave National Geopark is located in Nancheying Village, Hebei Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, 55 kilometers away from the capital. It is a seven-story cave with a height difference of 150 meters. . Now all the first and second floors and parts of the third and fourth floors are open to the public, with a tour length of 2,500 meters.

6. Summer Palace

The Summer Palace, a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of ??about 290 hectares, and is similar to the Old Summer Palace adjacent. It is a large-scale landscape garden based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace garden and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum" , is also a key national tourist attraction.

Extended information:

Beijing, referred to as "Beijing", is the capital, municipality, national central city, megacity, international metropolis, and national political center of the Republic of China. center, cultural center, international exchange center, and scientific and technological innovation center.

Beijing is located at 115.7°-117.4° east longitude and 39.4°-41.6° north latitude. The center is located at 39°54′20″ north latitude and 116°25′29″ east longitude, with a total area of ??16,410.54 square kilometers. It is located in the northern part of the North China Plain, adjacent to the Bohai Bay, the Liaodong Peninsula above, and the Shandong Peninsula below.

Beijing is the city with the most World Heritage sites (7) in the world, and is the first capital city in the world to have a global geopark. Beijing has more than 200 tourist attractions open to the outside world. Beijing has 7,309 cultural relics and historic sites, 99 national key cultural relics protection units (including the Great Wall and the Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal), 326 municipal-level cultural relics protection units, 5 national geological parks, and 15 national forest parks.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing