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Beijing Imperial Palace is a royal palace of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It now houses the Palace Museum. It is 961 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded by 10 meters high walls, and 52 meters wide moat outside the city. It is really a golden city.
北京故宫是中国明清两代的皇家宫殿，旧称紫禁城，它坐落在中国北京中心，现在是故宫博物院。南北长961米，东西宽753米，四面围有高10米的城墙，城外有宽52米的护城河,真可谓有金城汤池之固。
The complex consists of 800 buildings with 8,886 rooms. It covers 720,000 square metres. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 as the "Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties",[1] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
故宫博物群包括800座建筑共8886个房间。占地720，000平方米。1987年故宫作为“明清皇陵”被联合国教科文组织列为世界文化遗址之一，其入选理由是世界现存最大的木制建筑。The Forbidden City has four gates, the Meridian Gate in the south, the Shenwu gate in the north, the Donghua gate in the East and the Xihua gate in the West. In the four corners of the city wall, there is a graceful turret. There are 72 ridges of nine beams and eighteen columns in the folk, which describe the complexity of its structure.紫禁城有四座城门，南面为午门，北面为神武门，东面为东华门，西面为西华门。城墙的四角，各有一座风姿绰约的角楼，民间有九梁十八柱七十二条脊之说，形容其结构的复杂。The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer Dynasty is Taihe hall, Zhonghe hall and Baohe hall, collectively referred to as the three halls, which are the places where the state holds grand ceremonies. The left and right wings of the three halls are supported by two groups of buildings: Wenhua hall and Wuying hall.紫禁城内的建筑分为外朝和内廷两部分。外朝的中心为太和殿、中和殿、保和殿，统称三大殿，是国家举行大典礼的地方。三大殿左右两翼辅以文华殿、武英殿两组建筑。
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The center of the inner court is Qianqing palace, Jiaotai palace and Kunning palace, collectively referred to as the back three palaces, which are the main palace where the emperor and the empress live. Then there is the imperial garden. There are six palaces in the East and West on both sides of the rear three palaces, which are the places where the empresses live and rest.内廷的中心是乾清宫、交泰殿、坤宁宫，统称后三宫，是皇帝和皇后居住的正宫。其后为御花园。后三宫两侧排列着东、西六宫，是后妃们居住休息的地方。On the east side of the six Eastern Palaces is the temple of heaven and other Buddhist buildings, and on the west side of the six Western palaces is the main hall and other Buddhist buildings. Besides the outer court and inner court, there are two parts of buildings, namely, the outer East Road and the outer West Road.东六宫东侧是天穹宝殿等佛堂建筑，西六宫西侧是中正殿等佛堂建筑。外朝、内廷之外还有外东路、外西路两部分建筑。
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