Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City More Minor Courts - Part 1

 

Ok, enough of religious sculpture! Let us go back to the maze of more minor courts in the palace. When will we ever end our exploration in the Forbidden City??? The answer is, never! Even one full day is not enough to see everything in the palace. And again, above photo, look at the names they give to these courts..... 

Entering each with it's own gate, door sign, compound etc.

Some of the courts have exhibit of it's own. More history about the place, and the people living there in the past. I don't even have time to see everything! No need to mention whether you have time to read everything! Just look at what you fancy, and they go watch a documentary when you have the time after your visit to learn more about the history or the place here. 

But seeing the place in person, that you must do when you are here. To be there, in the hall, looking at the ceilings and the space. It's something you can't experience via books or videos.

To stare up at those ceilings. So much details! So look at how high they are. How elaborated. 

Or to see the colours of the hall in person, and all the calligraphy hanging there.

Peeping into the minor offices and study room of the ancient past. Imagining what daily life was like here a long time ago. Perhaps the closes you could see that would be the movie "The Last Emperor".  Now I feel like rewatching it to relive all the places I've visited in Beijing.

I leave you here with an intimate corner of this hall, with all it's calligraphy hanging and reflecting from the mirror. Words. Characters. Writings. They were somehow so important to the Chinese. As if those characters have power itself. So much respect for the writings.