Monday, July 21, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Side Courts and Exhibitions
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Gardens and Trees
Visiting the Forbidden City, I wasn't exactly expecting to see a lot of gardens and trees and parks. I thought those would be more at the Summer Palace. But I was mistaken. There was even a whole area at the back which was the royal garden. But when they said garden, it was a garden of stones and gems, lol. Very Chinese. But around the area here and there, I also saw unique gardens and trees. And this post is about those things. Above is just a cover of an exhibit I took featuring plants :P I just though it fitting for this post.
At the garden area, there are pavilions where you could sit down and rest, surrounded by the concrete garden. But this cute little tree here caught my eye.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Main Court - Part 2
Yikes, I forgot to blog about this post when I published it this morning. So I'm writing it now, totally forgotten what this post was supposed to be about. But I guess it's about the main court of the Forbidden City, and the super crowded area where all the tourist in Beijing simply must come visit when you're there. I tried documenting all the door signs that I've visited along the way, with the hope of being able to document down all the places I've actually visited in this great big city. I have this idea that I can map my path with the actual map of the city once day. Yes, one day!
The Main Court area is I guess, where the emperor used to held court. So his throne was in one of the great hall. You can't really enter any of the great hall, but you can try your best to zoom into the dark hall and get a look at it. Note that every door sign is different in all my photos.
As these were all at the main court, I wanted to capture them all here for whatever reasons :P
Apologies if this is a tad dull, just bare with me!
Friday, July 18, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Main Court - Part 1
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Beauties Exhibition Part 2
I realised that my whole China trip was going to be filled with art pieces and historical pieces. Although I visited many locations through out the trip, and seeing almost similar items, every single one of them still has it's own wow factor. So I guess I better get used to narrating the arts! So, second exhibition of beauties! Isn't the cover photo so elegant? Love the colour scheme too.
Beautiful divider of the exhibition. I always thought Chinese colour scheme would be chaotic and assaulted with a thousand colours that doesn't go together. Yes, I was much influenced by the clothing a lot of Chinese aunties tend to wear, lol. But here, at the palace, the colour scheme just blend together in a minimalistic feel of it. I was pretty impressed.
Beauty with wordings. Do zoom in to read.
I forgot what these are. But I like things that comes as a collection. So here are six.
And another six here. Can someone please read them for me! Lol.
Eight beauties in a set.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Beauties Exhibition Part 1
Next court we visited, a painting exhibit. I think it may be a new exhibit or something, as there were a lot of reporters on site. But luckily the crowd was still managable.
Again, the walk there itself was quite relaxing and beautiful. Wooden plank walk beneath the beautiful trees lining each side leading you into the exhibition ground.