Today’s Xian was the location of the Capital of China during most of the Tang Dynasty that is revered as China’s Golden Age.
Helping to remember and celebrate that era are these Chinese Musicians who are seen close up in this video as they exit wearing the traditional dress of the Tang Dynasty,
Watch as one of the players offers an acknowledgement accompanied by a signaled greeting as she approaches the lens.
Watch this extended finale as Performers dressed in the costume of the Tang Dynasty perform on the stage in Xian China.
Recently filmed, it evidences China’s return to welcoming foreign visitors after the challenges of COVID.
Performers exhibit their acrobatic acumen and dancing grace on an elaborately constructed stage setting. Actors walk into the audience as the curtain falls.
The elaborately costumed Tang Dynasty Musicians have returned and they offer accompaniment before once again exiting to bring the performance to a close.
A Tang Dynasty Six-Course Dinner preceeded the "Historical Dance Performance by the Tang Dynasty troupe."
(Included in the theatrical presentation was a segment honoring China's only Female Emperor, Wu Zetian, who served during the Tang Dynasty from 624 AD to 705 AD.)
Reportedly now only 8,000 people are allowed to enter China’s Forbidden City daily and each must have an advance reservation. In addition multiple security checks are required and on the day of our entry it took 2 hours to get through those.
The Prime Minister of Poland had been meeting in or near Tiananmen Square with China’s leadership that morning which added to the security precautions. (It also apparently contributed to the day’s allotment of visitors all arriving at the security checkpoints at the same time instead of being spread out.)
In this video you see the gate from which the Square derives its name. Tiananmen Square is immediately south of Tiananmen Gate, separated only by Chang’an roadway.
Watch as the final security measure is provided by umbrella covered “Men in Gray” who second by enforcing crowd control.
This gate was built near 1420 along with the multiple wooden structures within the Forbidden City.
Apart from providing access to the Forbidden City it has been since 1949 the symbol of Mao’s takeover of China in the name of The People’s Republic by virtue of his having stood on its balcony that year to proclaim such. From then on Mao’s own portrait has adorned Tiananmen Gate.
In this below video one can begin to grasp the sheer size and magnitude of China’s Forbidden City which extends for 178 acres. It took one million people 14 years to build what remains today the largest collection of preserved wooden buildings in the world.
It is also the most valuable piece of real estate in the world valued at 70 Billion Dollars.
When the Ming Dynasty relocated its capital from then Nanking (now Nanjing) to then Peking (now Beijing) in 1420 it continued to serve as the home of the Emperor until “The Last Emperor’s” removal in 1924. 14 Ming and 24 Qing Dynasty Emperor’s called it home during that final 500 years of Imperial rule.
Watch the workers’ carts as they traverse the expanse of The Forbidden City’s Outer Court and continue to watch to see Chinese Women dressed in the Ming Dynasty dress that would have been worn by the Emperor’s Concubines in The Forbidden City.
(For historical accuracy though they would only have been seen in the Inner Courtyard as only men were allowed in the Outer Courtyard during the Ming Dynasty since this was where the official business of state was conducted, and that only by men.)
In the video below, one is standing on the same raised level where the Emperor’s Throne was positioned one can see in this video what the Courtyard beyond looking south toward Tiananmen Gate looked like to the ruling Emperor as the Court Officials gathered below.
The video then pans rearward to view The Hall of Supreme Harmony. the palace building in which the throne was positioned.
All told the Forbidden City had 8,886 rooms in its multiple palace buildings, 980 of which buildings survive to this day.
Below, this is the Inner Courtyard of China’s Forbidden City which fronts three primary residential Palace buildings.
On the right is where the Emperor had his bedroom. In the middle is where the Empress resided. It also is the location of the bridal chamber in which an Emperor and his new bride would be locked for 3 days to spend their wedding “night” before the Emperor would move into his own palace building.
The third palace building on the left would house the night’s selected concubine who would be under the supervision of the Empress.
The Chinese term for Forbidden City is Zijincheng literally, “Purple Taboo Fortress”, Zi (Purple) jin (taboo) cheng (fortress).
(The reference to Purple is a reference to Ziwei, the Purple Jade (North) Star in the heaven above. In effect, the Purple [jade]Taboo Fortress on earth is its replication.)
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China’s Golden Age of the Tang Dynasty extended from 618 AD to 907 AD. During this period the Arts and Culture flourished,
Innovations such as gunpowder, and the printing press were included,
In this video Performers dressed in period costume demonstrate music of that time using instruments developed and played then.
Today’s Xian was the location of the Capital of China during most of the Tang Dynasty that is revered as China’s Golden Age.
Helping to remember and celebrate that era are these Chinese Musicians who are seen close up in this video as they exit wearing the traditional dress of the Tang Dynasty,
Watch as one of the players offers an acknowledgement accompanied by a signaled greeting as she approaches the lens.
Watch this extended finale as Performers dressed in the costume of the Tang Dynasty perform on the stage in Xian China.
Recently filmed, it evidences China’s return to welcoming foreign visitors after the challenges of COVID.
Performers exhibit their acrobatic acumen and dancing grace on an elaborately constructed stage setting. Actors walk into the audience as the curtain falls.
The elaborately costumed Tang Dynasty Musicians have returned and they offer accompaniment before once again exiting to bring the performance to a close.
A Tang Dynasty Six-Course Dinner preceeded the "Historical Dance Performance by the Tang Dynasty troupe."
(Included in the theatrical presentation was a segment honoring China's only Female Emperor, Wu Zetian, who served during the Tang Dynasty from 624 AD to 705 AD.)
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Reportedly now only 8,000 people are allowed to enter China’s Forbidden City daily and each must have an advance reservation. In addition multiple security checks are required and on the day of our entry it took 2 hours to get through those.
The Prime Minister of Poland had been meeting in or near Tiananmen Square with China’s leadership that morning which added to the security precautions. (It also apparently contributed to the day’s allotment of visitors all arriving at the security checkpoints at the same time instead of being spread out.)
In this video you see the gate from which the Square derives its name. Tiananmen Square is immediately south of Tiananmen Gate, separated only by Chang’an roadway.
Watch as the final security measure is provided by umbrella covered “Men in Gray” who second by enforcing crowd control.
This gate was built near 1420 along with the multiple wooden structures within the Forbidden City.
Apart from providing access to the Forbidden City it has been since 1949 the symbol of Mao’s takeover of China in the name of The People’s Republic by virtue of his having stood on its balcony that year to proclaim such. From then on Mao’s own portrait has adorned Tiananmen Gate.
In this below video one can begin to grasp the sheer size and magnitude of China’s Forbidden City which extends for 178 acres. It took one million people 14 years to build what remains today the largest collection of preserved wooden buildings in the world.
It is also the most valuable piece of real estate in the world valued at 70 Billion Dollars.
When the Ming Dynasty relocated its capital from then Nanking (now Nanjing) to then Peking (now Beijing) in 1420 it continued to serve as the home of the Emperor until “The Last Emperor’s” removal in 1924. 14 Ming and 24 Qing Dynasty Emperor’s called it home during that final 500 years of Imperial rule.
Watch the workers’ carts as they traverse the expanse of The Forbidden City’s Outer Court and continue to watch to see Chinese Women dressed in the Ming Dynasty dress that would have been worn by the Emperor’s Concubines in The Forbidden City.
(For historical accuracy though they would only have been seen in the Inner Courtyard as only men were allowed in the Outer Courtyard during the Ming Dynasty since this was where the official business of state was conducted, and that only by men.)
In the video below, one is standing on the same raised level where the Emperor’s Throne was positioned one can see in this video what the Courtyard beyond looking south toward Tiananmen Gate looked like to the ruling Emperor as the Court Officials gathered below.
The video then pans rearward to view The Hall of Supreme Harmony. the palace building in which the throne was positioned.
All told the Forbidden City had 8,886 rooms in its multiple palace buildings, 980 of which buildings survive to this day.
Below, this is the Inner Courtyard of China’s Forbidden City which fronts three primary residential Palace buildings.
On the right is where the Emperor had his bedroom. In the middle is where the Empress resided. It also is the location of the bridal chamber in which an Emperor and his new bride would be locked for 3 days to spend their wedding “night” before the Emperor would move into his own palace building.
The third palace building on the left would house the night’s selected concubine who would be under the supervision of the Empress.
The Chinese term for Forbidden City is Zijincheng literally, “Purple Taboo Fortress”, Zi (Purple) jin (taboo) cheng (fortress).
(The reference to Purple is a reference to Ziwei, the Purple Jade (North) Star in the heaven above. In effect, the Purple [jade]Taboo Fortress on earth is its replication.)
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