Top Ten Beijing Tourist Attractions

The top ten tourist attractions in Beijing are Beihai Park, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Badaling Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Yuanmingyuan, Bird's Nest, Fragrant Hills, the Ming Dynasty Tombs, and Houhai.

1, Beihai Park: located in the central area of Beijing, the city west of Jingshan, in the northwest of the Forbidden City, and the sea, the South China Sea is known as the three seas, belonging to the ancient Chinese royal gardens. The whole park to the North Sea as the center, an area of about 71 hectares, the water accounted for 583 acres, the land accounted for 480 acres.

2, the Forbidden City: located in the center of Beijing's central axis, is the essence of China's ancient palace architecture, for the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Royal Palace, known as the Forbidden City.

3, Summer Palace: located in the western suburbs of Beijing, is China's Qing Dynasty period of royal gardens, formerly known as the Garden of Clear Ripples, which is the Kunming Lake, Wanshoushan as the base, the West Lake in Hangzhou as a blueprint, drawing on the design of the Jiangnan gardens and the construction of a large landscape gardens, but also one of the best-preserved royal palaces and imperial gardens, known as the "Royal Museum of Gardens "

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4, Badaling Great Wall: located in Beijing Yanqing District, Beijing Jundu Mountain Guan ditch ancient road north mouth, is an important part of the great ancient Chinese defense project of the Great Wall of China, is the Ming Great Wall of a pass. Badaling Great Wall is an important outpost of Juyong Pass, and it is said that "the danger of Juyong is not in the pass but in Badaling".

5, the Temple of Heaven: located in the southern part of Beijing, Dongcheng District, Yongdingmennei Street east. For the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed to the Emperor, praying for the place of grain harvest. Altar of Heaven is Huanqiu, pray for the general name of the two altars, there are two altar wall, the formation of the inner and outer altar, altar wall of the south and north circle, symbolizing the circle of heaven and earth.

6, Yuanmingyuan: located in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, by the Yuanmingyuan, Changchunyuan and Wanchunyuan, so also known as the Yuanming three gardens. In addition, there are many small gardens, distributed in the east, west and south, the stars like a moon around the perimeter. The garden area is very large, a **** more than one hundred and fifty scenes, there is a "garden of ten thousand gardens".

7, the Bird's Nest: located in the southern part of the central area of Beijing Olympic Park, the main stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, track and field competitions and soccer finals have been held here.

8, Fragrant Hill: located in Beijing Haidian District, No. 40, Buy and Sell Street, where the terrain is steep, verdant and rolling, is a royal garden with mountain characteristics. The main peak of the scenic area incense burner peak is commonly known as the ghost see the sadness, 557 meters above sea level.

9, Ming Thirteen Mausoleums: located in Beijing Changping District, Tianshoushan foothills, about fifty kilometers from Tiananmen. Mausoleum area surrounded by mountains, the central plains, mausoleum in front of a small river twists and turns, is the place of the royal tombs, a *** has built thirteen emperors' tombs, seven consorts' tombs, a eunuch's tomb.

10, the back of the sea: located in Beijing Xicheng District, is a part of the Shichahai, by the front of the sea, the back of the sea, the West Sea, three pieces of water composed of the Shichahai, in order to and the Beihai, the Middle Sea, South China Sea, the "three seas" difference, known as the "back of the three seas".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia - Beihai Park Baidu Encyclopedia - Houhai Baidu Encyclopedia - Ming Dynasty Mausoleum