Forbidden City Huge Stone Carving
|
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Forbidden City Huge Stone Carving |
|||||
| Behind the Hall of Preserved Harmony, in the centre of the stairway, is a huge marble relief of nine dragons playing with pearls. It is the largest stone sculpture in the Forbidden City. Sculpted originally in the Ming dynasty, it was re-sculpted in the Qing dynasty. During these dynasties, anyone who was caught touching this holy stone would receive the death penalty! The huge stone was hauled into the palace all the way from Fangshan, a distance of some 70 kilometers from Beijing. This difficult task took about a month employing twenty thousand men and thousands of mules and horses. Weighing about 250 tons, the marble slab is 16.57 meters long, 3.07 meters wide and 1.7 meters thick. It had to be dragged along the ground and it is said that a well was dug every 500 meters so that water could be pumped onto the road to facilitate transportation! Can you imagine that? |
|
|||||
You
can find more information about keywords in everything you wish. Fast
food, Restaurant, pizza, hamburger,
sauna, rent a car, bike rental, car
rental, renting
apartment, apartment
for rent, house
for rent, house
to let, lodging, tenement, dry
cleaners, repairman, sauna, pub, massage, tours,
tourist guide, map, beach, road, for
sale, florist, nightlife, flower
Travelers
Checks, faith, make, shop, making, drinking, pub,
show
|
Books,
bookshop, recipes, tropical, Airport, post offices, Pharmacy, Dentist,
hospital, fishing, fish, river, sea, seafood, station, bus, flights,
train, doctor, price, markets, firms, town, education, drinking,
shop, touristic
sights, forest, cheap, free, luxury, deluxe, canoeing, surfing,
windsurfing, underwater, electrician, gas
systems, address, important, climbing, camping, camp, safari,
place, culture, best of, banks, ATM, coiffeur, hairdresser, gift,
present,
|
Marinas,
Operators, Balloon, Golf, Hunting, hunt, hunter, beauty, Jogging,
park, Mountaineering, Parachute, Rafting, Ski center, skiing, Folklore,
Islam,
Armenians,
Jews, Syriacs, Historical, History, Districts, Photos, cost, Mosque
and Church, Sporting, bank, Activities, Pratical, Bars, Pansions,
Minaret, Theater, Canyon, valley, Bazaar, carpet, Thermal, spa, city
center, Safety, honeymoon, love, girlfriend, girls, man, jogging,
money, life, clubs, nightclub,
|
beaches,
hotels, hostels, Caverns, cave, Congress Tourism, Highlands, Brochure,
Video, Health, Job, Real Estate, Moving, Money, Daily Shopping, Embassy,
Army, Botanic, Endemic, Holy
Days, Luck Games, Summer
Schools, Special, Famous, Festivals
Guide, Eating, Cuisine, salad, soup, Sports, Diving
Clubs, Point, Yachting, Blue
Flag, how to, why, what
is, when, who
is, where is, visa, for
kids, maps, museums, credit
card, wedding,
|