If you know China, you must know the
Chinese capital city of Beijing, but what is China like? What is Beijing like?
Maybe you donít know. China is too big for me to tell you about in this essay,
but let me tell you about Beijing. Beijing has many famous places, such as
Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Great Wall.
Beijing is a beautiful city. It has many
ancient buildings, and a lot of modern buildings. Beijing is the biggest city
in the world. It has 16,808 square kilometers. Beijing is situated in the
northwestern part of north China. To the west, the northwest, and the south,
the city is surrounded by mountain ranges. The Great Wall is on the mountain
ranges. To the northeast the ocean lies by the city. A long, long time ago the
king thought this was a good place to build the capital city, so they built the
capital city there. In the years that followed, the many kings still thought
this was a good place for them, so this city is an ancient city from there you
can know about ancient China. First, I am going to tell you the ancient
building Tiananmen Square.
Tiananmen Square is in the center of
Beijing. It was built 800 years ago. It is very beautiful it has the golden
roof and red walls. It is about three stories tall, but has just two floors,
five big arched doors on the first floor, the middle one is biggest. There are
many sculptures near Tiananmen Square. In front of Tiananmen Square is
Tiananmen Plaza. This is the biggest plaza in the world. There can be up to
400,000 people celebrating there. Tiananmen Square is a majestic building.
Behind Tiananmen Square is the Forbidden
City, but itís not very near you need to walk about ten minutes. After walking
for a while, you will see a river surrounding a very long wall. Inside the wall
is the Forbidden City.The Forbidden City? Maybe you feel strange about the name
maybe you will ask me, ìCan I go to the Forbidden City? Of course you can, but
fifty years ago, you couldnít. This is a place where the king and his family
live, and it is also a place for his government workís place. The Forbidden
City was built 800 years ago. It occupies 720,000 square meters. It has 9,999
beautiful rooms that make up this city-within-a-city, so itís named the
Forbidden City. The reason why Forbidden City has only 9,999 rooms, and not
10,000 is because in China, 9 is a lucky number. It means ìlongî; the king
wanted a long life and to have power for a long time. The Forbidden Cityís main
colors are red and gold it has red walls, and the gold roof. In China, the
color gold means rich and red means luck. The Forbidden City has a lot of
sculptures of dragons and phoenixes. The dragon is like the king, and the
phoenix is like the queen. The Forbidden City has many, many precious antiques;
they are very beautiful. The Forbidden City is very beautiful and majestic.
Every day, there are 100,000 people who travel here. They are take a lot of
pictures there to create a wonderful lifetime memory.
Finally, I will tell you about the Great
Wall. The Great Wall is really majestic ancient structure. It was built 2000
years ago. The Great Wall is on the mountain ranges. It crosses five provinces,
and about 6500 kilometers long. It is the only man-made structure you see it
from the moon. We are very proud about it. The ancient people used it for war.
One famous person said: ìIf you can go to the Great Wall, you will be a
success.î It means that 2000 years ago, ancient people were able to build the
Great Wall, so why canít you make some great things? Therefore, many, many
people travel to the Great Wall. Even if they canít be successful, they can
admire the majestic Great Wall.
Now, I think you know some things about
Beijing, but I havenít told about all the beautiful places in Beijing yet. I
want to keep something in case you have time to travel the Beijing you will be
surprised. I love Beijing very much. I hope you will like it, too.
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