Beijing biography

Photo of Beijing "Northern Capital" - this is how the word "beadzin" is translated with Pignin, the name of the city, which we are used to calling Beijing. It is difficult to resist such a combination, so the capital of China literally enchants everyone who gets there. People built cities on the territory of modern Beijing in the first millennium BC. In the days of various empires and wars, the city standing in this place became the capital of one or the other state under different names.

He was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, and he acquired modern outlines during the Empire of the mines, although the main structures of the city - the forbidden city, the temple of the sky, and so on, were built in the 13th century. The Russian -speaking “Beijing” is an old name given to the city by French missionaries, which is now not used in China itself or in most European languages.

Beijing was renamed several times, and since the names of cities here literally mean their status, the name “Baypin”, which the city bore with the years and years, meaning “northern calm”, also meant the loss of the city of metropolitan status - both times the capital was transferred to Nanjing. Accordingly, the receipt of Beidzin by Beijing also meant the return of the capital's functions - the last time this happened after the proclamation of the People's Republic of People's Republic in the year.

Beijing now is a political, cultural and educational center of China, but economic functions perform mainly Hong Kong and Shanghai. Beijing’s climate is a wet continental, subject to Musson, with a hot moist summer and cold windy dry winter. The average temperature of January is minus seven degrees, July - plus Beijing is a geometric city, arranged according to the principle of diverging circles ending with ring roads, and the core of the city begins from Tiananmen Square.

It is with her that, perhaps, it is worth starting an inspection of the city. Firstly, its incredible sizes will impress even the types of cynics after all, this is the largest area in the world, and secondly, there are many important attractions: the Museum of the Revolution, the building of the People’s Assembly, the Mao Zedun Maozole, the modern building of the Opera Theater, the Chinese Historical Museum; In the middle of the square - a monument dedicated to the folk heroes of the Chinese Republic, striking in size no less than the area itself.

In addition, there are gates to another world in the square - the imperial city, and these gates themselves - the gates of heavenly calm, built in the year - are one of the symbols of China and the real architectural and historical artifact. The imperial city is surrounded by another most important attraction of Beijing - a forbidden city. As Tiananmen Square is the largest area in the world, so the forbidden city is the largest palace complex in the world.

But the main attractiveness of this place is, of course, that once it was forbidden to enter here under pain of death, and now-walk, I do not want to. The temple of the sky of the year of construction has so many amazing details in its decoration, and each of them means: for example, the roof consisting of three tiers stands on 28 pillars, 4 of which indicate the seasons, 12 months, and the other 12-hours.

Be sure to inspect the Badalin of the Great Chinese wall and the summer palace, and also go to one of the local parks - for example, Baikhai or Sianshan.