Beijing Trip 2009

Beijing Trip 2009

Duration: 4 days, 3 nights

Day 1:
Tiananmen Square
The Tiananmen Square was first built in 1651. Its present size is four times as big as the original size. Through lots of hard work, it was finally cemented over in 1958. The Tiananmen is just south of Forbidden City (see Day 2), and the Tiananmen gate separates it.

Day 2:
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Museum, is the Chinese imperial place from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. It is served as the home of Emperors for nearly 5 centuries. It covers a total of 720,000 square meters, 980 buildings and 8707 bays of rooms. There is barely any entertainment there besides looking at some clocks and going to a park.

Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven is used by the Emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties. They pray there during special annual ceremonies for good harvest.

Day 3:
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China was built between the 5th century and the 16th century to protect the enemies from attacking China. The Great Wall used to be 10,000 km during the 14th century, but only 6,400 km remain now since a lot are collapsed or destroyed. If you look very closely to each brick, the name of a worker is written down on each brick. If that brick collapse, the worker who put that brick on will be responsible. The whole great wall is so log that it could be seen from space. Since people from all over the world start visiting it now, cable cars were built so that people do not need to hike up the Great Wall. However, thousands of workers died building it. There even is a story of a women and her husband who went to build the great wall.
During the Qin Dynasty, there was a beautiful women called孟姜女. Her husband went to build the Great Wall of China, and she heard from her neighbors that people there, including her husband, were not provided with clothes or food. Consequently, she made some clothes and food for her husband and brought it to the Great Wall the next day. She asked one of the workers where her husband was and when she heard that her husband was dead, she cried so hard that a part of the Great Wall collapsed.
This is a fake story, but the moral of the story is that lots of people starved to death when they built the Great Wall. Thank you Tour Guide for providing this story.

Summer Palace
The Summer Palace was first built by the Jin Dynasty emperor Wanyan Liang. He named it the Gold Mountain Palace, but it was renamed to Jug Hill. Then it was rebuilt by the Qianlong Emperor of Qin Dynasty. He gave the place its present name and gave it to his 60-year old mother as her birthday gift.

Day 4
Water Cube
Water Cube, also known as the Beijing National Aquatics Center, is built alongside of the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It is open for anyone for display until August 8th 2009, so quickly go and visit it before it closes down.

Birds Nest
The Birds nest, also known as the Beijing National Stadium, is built for sports and Olympic purposes. A total of US$423 million is used to build the stadium, as tons of steel is used and carved to make this stadium. Construction took about 4 years and a lot of people helped to build it. Again, it is open for anyone for display until August 8th 2009, so quickly go and visit it before it closes down.

Thank you everyone for watching, I hoped you enjoyed the video and the description.

Songs used:
Chinese Connection by The Diplomats of Solid Sound

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[charmed6057]

Do a lot of people speak English? I'm going for two weeks, and am only in my first year of Mandarin Chinese at my High School. I'll know the basics, but still am curious.

[ShadowJalza]

well, If you're at a 5 star hotel, they will know how to skeap basic English, but I'm sure you'll do fine if you know how to speak a little Mandarin.

[ivokim01]

beijing is such a beauty... how do i go around place? are taxi drivers honest? or do they have buses similar to hkg (with the electronic pass)? im planning to visit next year! ty

[ShadowJalza]

If you do not speak Mandarin, I suggest you hire a tour guide or something like that, it's much more convenient. And yes, taxi drivers are honest. As for buses, I dunno.

[TriDeltaCutie]

Hey BP, Great photos and fantastic jazzy music! I also like the animated titles and dates. What an exciting trip you took last year! Thanks for sharing! ~bundun

[wodemoshou]

Totally wrong, everyone know china is the best place for shopping because their cheap price and the stuff you can never imagine in America. China has most of products collection from all of the world,especially asian stuff, but America only have basic necessary stuff that they can accept. I watched this video and notice you pretty much wasted your trip if you are looking for entertainment because the most amazing/entertainment places are not what shown in videos.

[beckybaecon]

check out beijing's nice shopping places, 'Shi Mao Tian Jie' 'Da yue cheng' 'Guo mao' 'Lan se gang wan' and somewhere near 'Gong ti'. and if you love club& pubs, then go to 'Hou hai' or 'San li tun'!!

[gyradoslover90]

icecream, john, dude, u comment on nearly all of sj's vids, LOL and kewl

[ShadowJalza]

It depends on what kind of vacation you like. America is indeed great, lots of shopping and other stuff to do, but Beijing is all about visiting places. If you're the kind of person who likes to visit museums etc, Beijing is the right place for you.