Beijing 2.1 -Forbidden City-

1st site visit, The "Once" Forbidden City... This place is MEGA, I am sure ancient emperors did get lost. The Palace for Ming & Qing Dynasty, this place has the best feng shui in the whole china that's why the two dynasty decided to rule from here.

I am not a fengshui guy but our tour guide Mr.Li is an avid beliver, he once follow, not lead a group of Msian fengshui master & his students to learn about fengshui in the palace. One new beast I learnt from this tour is "Pi Siu". Everyone in the tour know about this beast but I don't... Anyway, for fengshui practitioner, the Pi Siu is the "iPhone" of fengshui. Pi-siu looks like a tiger with a flat or no ass!!! Ancient bed for the King, looks very uncomfortable to me but in those days... these are the besta! The emperors has lotta bed, because they fear assassination thus sleeping in random beds all over the palace. There are actually 7k+ bedroom not 9999.5 as in folklore... The 0.5room is the room for the emperor as the emperor is only suppose to be son of Tua Pek Kung (Jade Emperor) sort of this kinda stuffs???

This looks like the biggest bowl in the world but in actual its an ancient fire-fighting tools. It will be filled up with water at all time especially in the summer. The Forbidden City is too huge to transfer water from on corner to another. This is the Real "Bunga Emas" (Gold Flowers), smaller kingdoms send "Bunga Emas" to China Emperor as sign of "kow tow"but not mention in Malaysian History, instead sign of submission its a sign of "friendship"!!! These 2 are the most populor hat in china... I didnt get one as I wont be using it for 2nd time... Nice idea though!

The Dragon has 9sons.... this is the eldest... the *turtle dragon* sign of strength and longevity...

I didnt get much from the tour guide, as I am more keen on taking pix.... history is interesting but with the WWW, its easier to search for info