The Forbidden City: Red Walls and Eternal Silence

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While you stand at the Meridion Gate, the square bustles around you, buses honk, tourists take photos of each other—but step through the gate, and everything changes.
The Forbidden City seems to draw you into another era.
The air becomes thicker, the sounds quieter, and even the light here is somehow different: soft, golden, like on old silk scrolls.

Once, no one except the emperor, his family, and his closest servants were allowed here. Today, you can stroll through the same courtyards where the fate of the country was decided, where dozens of generations of rulers lived.
Hundreds of gates, red walls, yellow-tiled roofs—the color of power and the sun. Every curve radiates order and symbolism, everything is subordinated to the north-south axis, as if the planet itself is aligned around the throne.

📍 How to get there
Entrance is through the southern Meridion Gate, in Tiananmen Square.
The easiest way to get there is by metro, taking Tiananmen East or Tiananmen West (Line 1).
It's best to arrive in the morning: by midday, the flow of people becomes almost continuous, and the palaces lose their magic.

👣 What to see
— The Outer Courtyard with the Hall of Supreme Harmony—a symbol of imperial power.
— The Inner Courtyard, where the imperial families lived.
— Gardens with pine trees over four hundred years old.
— And the farthest part—from there, a view opens up of rooftops stretching to infinity.

Post by Liseykina | Oct 28, 2025