Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the Chinese regal palace from the mid-Ming house to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China and now houses the Palace Museum. For approximately five centuries, it served as the home of the monarch and his household, and the ritual and political centre of Chinese government.

Built from 1417 to 1420, the composite consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,706 bays of rooms and covers 720,000 square metres. The palace complex exemplifies conventional Chinese palatial structural design, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved antique wooden structures in the world.

Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose general collection of artwork and artefacts were built upon the royally collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same organization, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat), a World tradition Site, is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the premature 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a important spiritual centre since its base—first Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, then Buddhist. The temple is the essence of the high standard style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime magnetism for visitors.

Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple building: the temple mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to symbolize Mount Meru, home of the gods in Hindu mythology: within a moat and an outer wall 3.6 km (2.2 miles) long are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the centre of the temple stands a quincunx of towers. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west; scholars are divided as to the consequence of this. The temple is admired for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, its widespread bas-reliefs and for the frequent devatas (guardian spirits) adorning its walls.

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China, one of the furthermost wonders of the world, was enlisted in the World legacy by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a enormous dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching about 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles ) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the sections in great wall are now in ruins or even completely vanished. However, it is still one of the most attractive magnetisms all around the world unsettled to its architectural magnificence and historical significance.

Anticipation abounds in the derivation, vicissitude and nature of the great wall of the Qin, Han, and Ming dynasties.The Great Wall was originally built in the Spring, Autumn, and martial States Periods as a suspicious strengthening by the three states: Yan, Zhao and Qin. The Great Wall went through steady extensions and maintenance in later dynasties. In fact, it began as self-governing walls for different states when it was first built, and did not become the "Great" wall until the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Qin Shihuang succeeded in his attempt to have the walls joined together to fend off the attack from the Huns in the north after the amalgamation of China. Given that then, the Great Wall has served as a monument of the Chinese nation throughout history. A visit to the Great Wall is like a tour through the history backwards; it brings tourists great excitement in each step of the wall