December 3, 2006

• Forbidden City

  Picking up from the last china post, after returning from the great wall, several of us went out for a night of heavy drinkering and, as such, i elected to sleep in the next morning and my mother, brother and myself went to the forbidden city to tour on our own when we finally got up.

  
  The south entrance to the forbidden city, perhaps best known for the portrait of Mao which hangs overhead
  
  and the backside of the entrance
  
  of course i had to be co-oprative before i entered the city.

  On an interestin side note, the reason the city is forbidden is because it is where all the emperor’s concubines lived and thus no men were allowed into the city. The few functionaries who had to enter were all castrated by the emperor (hows that for a job requirement??), and thus it became known as the forbidden city
  
  i’ll give the chinese this: they sure can make the most ordinary things sound poetic…give a hoot, dont pollute
  
  Me and my shaw
   
  and because the forbidden city was full of huge pots, and because i am immature…

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