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= = CHINA toc by: Michelle Lu

= Introduction =  Tiananmen, Forbidden City, Great Wall… are great places to visit in China. Tiananmen Square was first build during the **[|Ming Dynasty]** at 1420s; it’s also the entrance of Forbidden City. Tiananmen is at the center of Beijing. It’s especially beautiful at night. Forbidden City is placed exactly in the middle of the town/city. 24 emperors have lived in the Forbidden City long time ago. It is called the Forbidden City because this god-given place is forbidden for the normal people. The Great Wall of China was built in 1368 – 1644  during the Ming dynasty. In 1987 the UNESCO ( United Nations Educational  Scientific and Cultural Organization ) listed it as a world **[|bequest]**!

= Tiananmen = Beijing Tiananmen Square is first build during the Ming Dynasty at 1420s; it’s also the entrance of Forbidden City. Tiananmen is at the center of Beijing. It also meant [|Mao Zedong], he is the one who builds the Republic of China and died at the age of 83. His picture is on the front wall of Tiananmen. Words in Chinese you don’t understand? Oh there are some Chinese at right and left of the picture of Mao Zedong, words that is at the right side meant “ Long Live the People's Republic of China ” the meaning for the words at the left side of the photo’s, "Long Live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples"  Mao Zedong is really important to Chinese! And that is why his photo is on Tiananmen. Square, Tiananmen Square is the world largest public Square! Where you can visit at any time and any day! Mao Zedong’s body is also rested in the Tiananmen Square at Tiananmen Mao Zedong memorial hall. Tiananmen Square look especially beautiful at night, there is light al around it, white, red... lights all around! = Forbidden City = Forbidden City is a place where normal people are not allowed to enter long time ago; Forbidden City is surround ed by 6-meter deep channel, and 10-meter high wall. The reason for the deep channel and the high wall is Forbidden City to protect the emperors, who lived in Forbidden City, how it will protect the people and emperors; the channel is really wide so it’s hard to swim to the other end and the high wall is really hard for them to shut through… Forbidden City is the world largest complex place and covers 1831.011[|acre] ! The shape of Forbidden City is a rectangle. 14 Ming dynasty emperors and 10 ofemperors had lived in the Forbidden City, the last emperor who lived there was at the time 1924. It’s also a world cultural Heritage, it was listed as the world Heritage by UNESCO  (  United Nations Educational  Scientific and Cultural Organization ) at 1987. media type="youtube" key="ZdwvZHhHV9w" height="344" width="425" = =

= = = Great Wall =

It took Chinese people over 2,000 years to finish the Great Wall of China! The length is over 5,500 mile! It is a good place for people whom like sports and an art… the Great Wall is really high and amazing beautiful! At the top you can see Green all over! You can take pictures and get fresh air and relax! You can see how hard Chinese people had worked before! Each brick weighs about 1 kg! Before there wasn’t anything to help you carry the brick, so they had to carry the brick up the mountain and then build it! It helps you to choose a good one to climb! The Great Walls are not the same! Some of them have been rebuild the road is really wide that two can go at the same time! Now people just fix a little bit. So whichever one you like the best go to that one! The one which now people built ‘Badaling Changcheng’, the one now people just fixed a little bit is Jvyongguan… 

= Conclusion =

All the places, Tiananmen, Forbidden City and Great Wall are all really well known and have a lot of history in it. They are all great places to visit at different time of the day. Tiananmen is nice to visit at day because in the day time the Tiananmen square show the photo and the words great to take word pictures, at night there are lights all around Tiananmen and some lights are also in the air. Forbidden City is also great to go at day and night the only difference is the shadow of Forbidden City is shown in the river or channel around it and it’s really pretty. Great Wall is different from Tiananmen and Forbidden City it can only go at the day. It’s really dangers if you slipped and you’ll get hurt and the Great Wall is closed in the night so there is no way to enter the Great Wall at night. So come and visit those places!

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