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Tian'anmen and Tian'anmen square.
1.What was the layout of Tian'anmen square in the Ming and Qing?
2.What important events happened on Tian'anmen Square from 1911 revolution to 1949 (the year of founding new China)?
3.What was the layout of Modern Tian'anmen Square?
4.What's the international status of the Square?
5.How many bridges are ther over the Outer Golden River? Who used them?
6.How was the name of Tian'anmen Changed in Ming and Qing?
7.What is 'JInFengBanZhao'?
8.Pls. describe the new National Flage Pole and Flag in front of Tian'anmen?
9.Pls. describe the National Flag raising and lowering ceremony nowadays on the Tian'anmen square?
10.When was the Great Hall of the People Built, Waht is the floor space of the Hall in total?
11.Pls.describe the Grand Auditorium (Assembly Hall) inside the Great Hall of the People.
12.Pls. describe the Banquet Hall and offices for the Standing Comittee of the National People's Congress.
13.Pls. Say something about the National Museum of China. What are the main exhibits inside the Museum of Chinese History and Museum of Chinese Revolution.
14.Pls. brief something on the Monument to the People's Heroes.
15.Pls. let us know something about the building material of the Monument to the People's Heroes.
16. Pls.describe the inscription on the south side of the Monument to the People's Heroes.
17. Pls. describe the bas-relieves of the Monument to the People's Heroes.
18.How large is Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and when was it built?
19.Pls. describe the major structure of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.
20.Pls. say something about the South Facing Gate.
21. Tell us the origin of the name of Chang'an Avenue.
22.What is the 'Dragon Gate' or the 'Tiger Gate'?
23.In feudal dynasties, it was said 'civil east and military west' on both sides of Tian'anmen square. Can you brief the reason.
24.How many rooms were there along the 'Thousand-step Corridor' in the old days.
25. Who wrote the couplets on the Gate of Great Ming in Ming Dynasty? Do you know the meaning?
26. Tellus the history of Huabiao (Sculpted White Marble Columns) and
describe the Huabiao in front of Tian'anmen?
27.What kind of renovation took place on Tian'anmen Square in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of New China?
28.What's the special feature of Chairman Mao's portrait on Tian'anmen Rostrum and who was the painter of it?
29.What's the main decoration inside the Tian'anmen Rostrum?
30.Who wrote the plaque of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall?
31.When did the National Museum of China Setup? The Palace Museum
32.How many emperors run the government from the imperial palace in Ming and Qing?
33.Tell us the origin of the name of the Forbidden City.
34.How large is the Forbidden City in area and what is the floor space of it?
35.Do you know the construction time of the Forbidden City?
36.When did the Forbidden City open to public?
37.How many rooms are there in the Forbidden City?
38.Where did the material needed for building the Forbidden City come from?
39.What is the status of the Forbidden City?
40.How were the five element embodied in the layout of the Forbidden City?
41.What's the regulation of passing through the Meridian Gate?
42.What's the function of the Meridian Gate?
43.What was the beaten out of the Meridian Gate?
44.What's the origin of the name of Inner Golden Water River?
45.Please describe Inner Golden Water Bridges.
46.Say something about the Gate of Supreme Harmony.
47.What's the function of the east and west buildings in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony?
48.Give us a brief account of the architecture of Hall of Supreme Harmony and its function.
49.What is 'Jin Dian Chuan Lu'?
50.What's the symbolism of the name of the Hall of Supreme Harmony?
51.Give us a brief account of 'Zao Jing' of Hall of Supreme Harmony.
52.Pls. Describe the emperor's throne inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
53.What is the symbol of the Peace Elephant?
54.What is 'Lu Duan'?
55.What Decorations are there in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony?
56.What is 'RiGui'?
57.What is "JiaLiang"?
58.What's the function of the Peace Water Vats?
59.What is the symbolism of the Hall of Complete Harmony?
60.What's the function of the Hall of Complete Harmony?
61.What's the symbolism of the name of the Hall of Preserving Harmony?
62.What are the construction feature and the function of the Hall of Preserving Harmony?
63.What is the Palace Examination? Where was it held?
64.Where is the huge cloud and dragon carving and what's character of it?
65.Try to tell us the transportation process of the huge cloud and dragon carving.
66.What is the function of the Gate of Heavenly Purity?
67.Where is the South Study and what's the function of it? What incident happened here in early Qing?
68.Where is the Upper Study and what the function of it?
69.What are the major objects inside and outside the Hall of Heavenly Purity?
70.What's the symbolism of the Palace of the Heavenly Purity?
71.What's the function of the Palace of the Heavenly Purity?
72.What's the 'One thousand Old Men Banquet'? Who gave the four banquets respectively?
73.What's the connection between the plaque of 'Be Open and Aboveboard' and the secret system of appointing the crown prince in the Qing?
74.What were the suspicious cases related to the Palace of Heavenly Purity?
75. Please tell us the case of 'Ren Yin' incident.
76.Please tell us the 'Red Pill Case'.
77.What's the symbolism of the name of the Hall of Union?
78.What's the function of the Hall of Union?
79.What are the decorations inside the Hall of Union and why there 25 seals inside it?
80.What are the explanations of the Plaque of WuWei?
81.What is the function of the Palace of Earthly Tranquility?
82.Where were the court maids selected in Qing Dynasty? What was their outlet afterwards?
83.Please brief the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City?
84.What are the implied meanings of the four pavilions?
85.Please brief the Hall of Imperial Peace and its function.
86. What's the function to DuiXiu (Accumulated Refinement ) Hill and where is it located?
87.What is the symbolism of the Gate of Divine Pride (Gate of Military Prowess)?
88.Please say something about Office of of Privy Council.
89.What's the symbolism of the Hall of Mental Cultivation?
90.What's the function of the Hall of Mental cultivation and where is it located?
91.Where is the Room of Three Rare Treasures and what's the symbolism of its name?
92.What's the function and location of the Palace of Collecting Excellence?
93.What's the function of Hall of Ancestral Worship?
94.What is the function and location of the Hall of Imperial Zenith?
95.What are the Gold Chimes and the emperor's armor?
96.Describe the Gold Tower for holding the fallen hair of Qian Long's mother.
97.Describe the Ivory Mats.
98.Describe the Jade Hill of Yu the Great harnessed the flooding river.
99.What is the location and function of the ChangYin Pavilion?
100. Please give the brief introduction to Emperor Qianlong's Garden.