One time when I was there, they were "restoring" the Forbidden City for the Olympics. This included removing and trashing 800 year old roof tile from all of the buildings (I posted a picture of the workers doing this somewhere -- probably in this thread). My wife, who is Chinese, asked one of the workers if we could have some tiles so he gave us a couple of large pieces. Now, in my collection, I have 800 year-old royal yellow roof tiles! Good for me, but not so good, I think, for China. ----- Well, I just looked and the photo is not in this thread, so here it is:
Well, I just looked and the photo is not in this thread, so here it is: [/quote] Like is for sharing the picture with us, not what is going on in the picture !!
Double thumbs up (we need that emoticon). I've seen the Forbidden City since the restoration was completed. The darn thing looks like a plastic Disneyland, all shiny and new. It's definitely lost some of its magic.
All pictures are marvelous. The great wall of China looks amazing. Thank you so much for worthy shared.
