What are the tourist attractions in Beijing?

The famous scenic spots in Beijing are:

1, eight points:

Eight places are surrounded by Cuiwei Mountain, Hutou Mountain, Lushi Mountain and Western Mountain. Three mountains are shaped like seats, and eight ancient temples are scattered among them. The natural "Twelve Scenes" are even more famous. The ancients praised "the three mountains are like beautiful houses, the eight halls are like antiques in the house, and the twelve scenes are like gardens outside the house", and there is a saying that "the beauty of Xiangshan lies in man-made, and the beauty of the eight places lies in nature.

2. The Ming Tombs:

The Ming Tombs are located at the foot of Tianshou Mountain in Changping District, Beijing, with a total area of 120 square kilometers, about 50 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square. The Ming Tombs are located in a small basin surrounded by mountains in the east, west and north, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a plain in the middle and a winding river in front. From May of the seventh year of Yongle, Changling was established, and the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, was buried in Siling.

Over the past 230 years, 13 tombs of emperors, 7 tombs of concubines and 1 tombs of eunuchs have been built successively. * * * buried thirteen emperors, twenty-three queens, two princes, more than thirty concubines and two eunuchs. By 20 1 1, the scenic spots that have been opened are Changling, Dingling, Zhaoling and Lu Shen.

3. The Great Wall:

The history of the construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the famous allusion "bonfire plays princes" that happened in the capital Haojiang originated from this. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, countries competed for hegemony and defended each other, and the construction of the Great Wall entered its first climax, but the construction length at this time was relatively short. After Qin destroyed the six countries and unified the world, Qin Shihuang connected and repaired the Great Wall of the Warring States Period, which was called the Great Wall of Wan Li.

4. Summer Palace:

The Summer Palace is a royal garden in China in the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Qingyi Garden. Located in the western suburbs of Beijing, it is 0/5km away from the urban area/kloc-0, and covers an area of about 290 hectares, adjacent to Yuanmingyuan.

It is a large-scale landscape garden with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the background and Hangzhou West Lake as the basis, drawing lessons from the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most well-preserved royal palace, known as the "Royal Garden Museum" and a national key tourist attraction.

5. Forbidden City:

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle, the Ming emperor, and was based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle.

It is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 m from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city. The architecture of the Forbidden City is divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court.

The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe, which are collectively called the three halls, and are the places where the country holds ceremonies. The center of the Forbidden City is Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where emperors and empresses live.