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Impressive #Beijing #ForbiddenCity

Those fishes were real and moving. Although they look artificially glowing in the picture. There was also a tibetian exhibition in the military gate #Beijing #ForbiddenCity

It's quite ok. A bit crowded meanwhile. Last time I've been here in 2000. There were almost no people back the. #Beijing #ForbiddenCity

60th Anniversary Palace Museum, Forbidden City, 1985 - Brass Coin & 14 Postcards

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/60th-anniversary-palace-museum-forbidden-city-1985-brass-coin-14-postcards-223159967.htm

#Beijing #Peking #ForbiddenCity #Coins

From temples to thrones, concubines existed across ancient civilizations. Some served kings. Others served gods. Their status balanced between sacred and submissive—trapped by power, politics, and religious belief.
#Concubines #ForbiddenCity #HistoricalWomen #AncientPower #MingDynasty #RoyalSecrets#Storytelling #DidYouKnow #AncientHistory #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

From temples to thrones, concubines existed across ancient civilizations. Some served kings. Others served gods. Their status balanced between sacred and submissive—trapped by power, politics, and religious belief.
#Concubines #ForbiddenCity #HistoricalWomen #AncientPower #MingDynasty #RoyalSecrets#Storytelling #DidYouKnow #AncientHistory #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

From temples to thrones, concubines existed across ancient civilizations. Some served kings. Others served gods. Their status balanced between sacred and submissive—trapped by power, politics, and religious belief.
#Concubines #ForbiddenCity #HistoricalWomen #AncientPower #MingDynasty #RoyalSecrets#Storytelling #DidYouKnow #AncientHistory #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

Forbidden City
2025

Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - Nights

Italian gangster movie meets Chinese martial arts - what a combination. Mei grows up as the second child in the family during the one-child policy in China - hidden from the family, her father teaches her kung fu. She lets herself be smuggled to Rome by human traffickers to look for her missing sister.

👉 https://boxd.it/9E5uUl

#ForbiddenCity #KungFuInRome #FilmReview #FilmMastodon #SoilentFilm #Zoopalast #FantasyFilmFest

My Social Psychology class held a workshop where we get to make an art piece. I ended up drawing this because I couldn't think of anything else to draw soooooo... yeah!

Here is my attempt at drawing the 弘義閣 - Belvedere of Spreading Righteousness, a building located in the Forbidden City (紫禁城) of Beijing, China.

Might not be the best but hey, I tried 😅

#art #drawing #forbiddencity #beijing #china

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Jadeite Cabbage ✧

The Jadeite Cabbage, also known as Jadeite Cabbage with Insects, is a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a head of Chinese cabbage, with a locust and a katydid camouflaged in the leaves. Created by an unknown sculptor in the 19th century, it was first displayed in the Forbidden City's Yong...

#NationalPalaceMuseum #JadeiteCabbage #ForbiddenCity #GuangxuEmperor #Meat-ShapedStone #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_Cabbage

Forbidden City, NE Corner, with blue sky. If you have been to Beijing, Blue Skys are a rarity. #forbiddencity #forbidden #china #beijing #temple #city #travel #photography

https://youtu.be/4lAgpq7zMXw
- The complete Vagabond Couple Travel Blog photo-story on Beijing and the Trans-Mongolian railway train ride from Ulaanbataar is at https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2017/07/beijing-and-great-wall-china-2017.html

#VagabondCouple #transsiberianrailway #transmongolianrailway #beijingchina #beijing #ulaanbaatar #ulaanbaatarmongolia #greatwallofchina #TiananmenSquare #forbiddencity #Qianmen #hutong #rickshaw #travelblogger #travelingphotographer #travel #travelphotography #travelpics

https://youtu.be/4lAgpq7zMXw
- The complete Vagabond Couple Travel Blog photo-story on Beijing and the Trans-Mongolian railway train ride from Ulaanbataar is at https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2017/07/beijing-and-great-wall-china-2017.html

#VagabondCouple #transsiberianrailway #transmongolianrailway #beijingchina #beijing #ulaanbaatar #ulaanbaatarmongolia #greatwallofchina #TiananmenSquare #forbiddencity #Qianmen #hutong #rickshaw #travelblogger #travelingphotographer #travel #travelphotography #travelpics

https://youtu.be/4lAgpq7zMXw
- The complete Vagabond Couple Travel Blog photo-story on Beijing and the Trans-Mongolian railway train ride from Ulaanbataar is at https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2017/07/beijing-and-great-wall-china-2017.html

#VagabondCouple #transsiberianrailway #transmongolianrailway #beijingchina #beijing #ulaanbaatar #ulaanbaatarmongolia #greatwallofchina #TiananmenSquare #forbiddencity #Qianmen #hutong #rickshaw #travelblogger #travelingphotographer #travel #travelphotography #travelpics

https://youtu.be/4lAgpq7zMXw
- The complete Vagabond Couple Travel Blog photo-story on Beijing and the Trans-Mongolian railway train ride from Ulaanbataar is at https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2017/07/beijing-and-great-wall-china-2017.html

#VagabondCouple #transsiberianrailway #transmongolianrailway #beijingchina #beijing #ulaanbaatar #ulaanbaatarmongolia #greatwallofchina #TiananmenSquare #forbiddencity #Qianmen #hutong #rickshaw #travelblogger #travelingphotographer #travel #travelphotography #travelpics

https://youtu.be/4lAgpq7zMXw
- The complete Vagabond Couple Travel Blog photo-story on Beijing and the Trans-Mongolian railway train ride from Ulaanbataar is at https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2017/07/beijing-and-great-wall-china-2017.html

#VagabondCouple #transsiberianrailway #transmongolianrailway #beijingchina #beijing #ulaanbaatar #ulaanbaatarmongolia #greatwallofchina #TiananmenSquare #forbiddencity #Qianmen #hutong #rickshaw #travelblogger #travelingphotographer #travel #travelphotography #travelpics

#Zimingzhong opened 1 month ago @sciencemuseum , uncovering beautiful clockwork treasures once collected by the emperors of China's Forbidden City.

Take a peek inside the stunning exhibition and hear from its curator on what makes it so special 👇

Book your tickets: https://bit.ly/3URWOJY #clockwork #China #exhibitions #forbiddenCity

There’s something about the fragility of somewhat bare trees beginning to bloom that strikes me. If you’ve been following my work for a while, you’ll recognize this theme in my ‘Forbidden Tree’ image. Let me know what you think? Thanks!

'Forbidden Tree' is available for print here:

https://www.joshuahallerart.com/warehouse-open-edition-prints/art_print_products/fourseasons-forbiddentree?product_gallery=288407&product_id=6163018

#forbiddencity #beijing #photography #china

For ref, here's where I stopped today. Really pleased with the work I was able to get done on it today. Gonna sleep on it to see if there's anything else I'd like to do before it's deemed 'done'.

#photoshop #workinprogress #joshuahallerphotography #forbiddencity #beijing #sunset

https://unescowhstamps.blogspot.com
Forbidden City, China – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #ForbiddenCity #紫禁城
#故宫 #故宫博物院 #北京 #Beijing #ThePalaceMuseum #PalaceMuseum

Henri Cartier-Bresson

China 1948

#OldMasters #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhite #ForbiddenCity

"Ending Title" by Shigeru Umebayashi, from Curse of the Golden Flower 👘 (2006)
#CurseOfTheGoldenFlower #ForbiddenCity #Cinema #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #MyGeekPlaylist 🎧 #110 https://youtu.be/PIWKXY_xsPQ?si=MxkcTgXvPbMguVhn