Badaling Great Wall, Located at the northern entrance of the Guangou Ancient Path in Jundu Mountain, Yanqing District, Beijing, the Badaling Great Wall covers a tourist area of 1.19 square kilometers. As a vital section of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, it served as a strategic outpost of the Juyong Pass, historically renowned as the key defensive point where "the peril of Juyong Pass lies not in the pass itself but in Badaling".The Badaling segment of the Ming Great Wall, known as the "Jade Pass and Natural Moat," was listed among the Eight Scenic Views of Juyong Pass. It is the earliest opened section of the Great Wall to tourists and forms the core of the Badaling scenic area, which features modern facilities such as the Badaling Hotel and the China Great Wall Museum inscribed by President Jiang Zemin. Recognized as a national model site for civilized tourism, Badaling is celebrated for its majestic landscape, well-developed infrastructure, and profound cultural significance. Key Hon...

The Temple of Heaven (Tiantan Park), originally named the "Altar of Heaven and Earth", is located at No. 7 Tiantan Neidongli, Dongcheng District, Beijing . Its construction began in 1420, the 18th year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty, and was renamed the "Temple of Heaven" in 1530, the 9th year of the Jiajing reign . It served as the site where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests . Covering a total area of 273 hectares, it is the largest existing ancient sacrificial building complex in China .  On January 1, 1918, it was officially opened to the public as Tiantan Park .The park is encircled by two walls, dividing it into the "Inner Altar" and "Outer Altar" . The northern part of the domain is circular, while the southern part is square, symbolizing the ancient belief that "the sky is round and the earth is square" . It primarily consists of four ancient architectural groups: the "Prayer for Grain Altar" used for spring prayers...

The Summer Palace, a former Qing Dynasty imperial garden originally named the Garden of Clear Ripples (Qingyi Yuan), is located at 19 Xinjiangongmen Road, Haidian District, in the western suburbs of Beijing. The garden is built on the base of Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, drawing design inspiration from the landscape of Hangzhou's West Lake and incorporating the artistic techniques of Jiangnan-style gardens. It is a vast natural landscape garden and the most completely preserved imperial palace-garden complex, renowned as the "Royal Garden Museum." Covering an area of 3.009 square kilometers, water surfaces account for about three-quarters of the total area, which is composed of Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake. The garden contains over 100 scenic structures, more than 20 large and small courtyards, and some 3,000 ancient architectural spaces with a combined floor area of nearly 70,000 square meters, alongside 1,600 ancient and famous trees . The Summer Palace was first constructed ...

The Imperial Palace, also known as the Forbidden City, located in Beijing, China, was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Situated at the center of Beijing's Central Axis, it covers an area of approximately 720,000 square meters, with a floor space of about 150,000 square meters. Centered around the Three Great Halls, it comprises over 70 palaces and courtyards. Traditionally said to have 9,999.5 rooms, a 1973 survey determined the actual number to be 8,707 rooms . Construction of the Imperial Palace began in 1406, the fourth year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty, modeled after the Nanjing Imperial Palace. It was completed in 1420 and served as the palace for 24 emperors throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. On October 10, 1925, the Palace Museum was officially inaugurated . The palace complex measures 961 meters from north to south and 753 meters from east to west, surrounded by 10-meter-high walls and a 52-meter-wide moat . It has four main gates: the Meridi...