Culture Heritage
Of the world cultural heritages the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing was put relatively earlier on the World Heritages List . The Imperial Palace is also called the Forbidden City , where the emperors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties lived . It has a history of over 590 years . It is situated in the center of Beijing proper , a city inside the city . 
The construction of the Imperial Palace commenced at the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Yongle (1406) in the Ming Dynasy and took fourteen years to complete . It occupies an area of 720,000 square meters , and has 9,999 and a half rooms with palace wall 3,400 meters long . Outside the wall a 52 meter-wide moat surrounds . It is the largest and most complete ancient palatial architectural complex now existent in the world . It was the abode of fourteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty and ten emperors in the Qing Dynasty .
The palace follows the traditional Chinese palatial layout . The halls for official affairs are positioned in the front , the bed rooms in the rear , the ancestral shrines on the left side , and the sacrificial temple on the right . All the halls and rooms are positioned along a central axis in strict conformity with a symmetry principle . The Heavenly-Purity Gate is a boundary . In its front are the Hall of Supreme Harmony , the Hall of Central Harmony and the Hall of Preserving Harmony in the center , and the Hall of Liberal Splendor and Hall of Military Feats in the two wings . In these halls the emperors held majestic ceremonies , interviewed ministers , and listened to briefings . Behind the Heavenly-Purity Gate are situated the six East Palaces and the six West Palaces , and the outer eastern buildings and the outer western buildings , where the emperors conducted routine affairs and the royal family lived .
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