Top 5 Must-see Places Visiting in Beijing

As the capital of four dynasties in history and the capital of P.R.China today, Beijing is one of truly imposing city in the world. For centuries Beijing has been the centre for cultural and business activities and is today beyond doubt a truly world class and international city.

The long history leaves Beijing precious cultural treasure. There are 5 place you can not missing when you tour in Beijing. We have listed them below. Through hundreds of years, they have become symbol of Beijing's life. If you have some questions, you can contact with us.

1. Badaling Great Wall

Badaling Great Wall is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China. It was the first section of the wall to open to tourists.

Badaling Great Wall is the most famous and best-preserved section of the Great Wall. The wall threads its way through a jumble of mountains like a giant dragon. It was also the earliest section to be open to the tourists among all the parts of the whole Great Wall.

With its dangerous mountain slopes, splendid scenery, and distinctive four seasons, Badaling Great Wall is really worth visiting during Beijing tour.

2. Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government.

The Forbidden City exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture,and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site.

3.Summer Palace

Summer Palace is the largest and best preserved imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty extant in Beijing, as well as a famous classical imperial garden. The garden consists primarily of the Wanshoushan (Longevity Hill) and Kunming Lake.

The whole garden is a veritable museum of garden type architecture of different styles from different regions in China, and is definitely a gem in the Chinese art of garden construction.

4.Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square is said to be the largest public square in the world.It is named after its magnificent Tiananmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) Rostrum, which was the south gate of the Imperial City. It was surrounded by lofty walls on all sides, and has gates on each side.

Over several hundred years, in front of the Tiananmen, many democracy meetings and demonstrations were held. The Great Hall of the People stands to the east, while the National Museum of China to the west. These buildings, old and new, together form a grand spectacle of tremendous

5. Lama Temple

The Yonghe Temple is a temple and monastery of the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism located in the northeastern part of Beijing, China. It is one of the largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world. The building and the artworks of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles.

The Yonghegong can be said as treasure house of relics which is indeed an epitome of the religious art of China. In 1961 it was listed by the State Council as one of the historical sites under state protection.

Enjoy the Blossoming of Flowers in Beijing Spring

Have a Beijing spring tour when it comes the ideal time to visit many main attractions that famous for its blossom flower. In Beijing, there have many main destinations that locals or foreigners could visit to enjoy the beauty of flowers which start to bloom.

The first destination famous for its flower blossom is Yuyuantan Park which famous for cherry flower blossom. The park located not far from Summer Palace has become a wonderful place to enjoy stunning cherry flowers blossom. Cherry flowers blossom not only famous in Japan, but it appreciated around the world include in China. In Beijing, it also has become a famous activity to see the blooming of this kind of flowers when spring comes.

Each year in spring, at Yuyuantan Park will hold a cherry blossom festival which attracts lot of locals and even tourists abroad to come. At least there have 2,000 cherry trees in over 20 different varieties that displayed inside the park. Visitors could see many cherry trees covered all the park area with stunning and beauty dark pink, pale pink and some white colors of small flowers covered all of branches in each cheery tree. Of course never miss the great chance to capture some photos to make certain memorable memories at that time. At spring, Yuyuantan Park will crowd for some locals to see such a brilliant display of blossoming cherry trees. It will be the best escape place far from the downtown, with cool weather and sweet fragrant in every point of the park.

The next destination that most of locals will visit is Jingshan Park. The park has famous for the blossoming of peony flowers. Peony or also called Mudan has become a traditional flora symbol in China. Jingshan Park which covering an area of more than 230,000 square meters, there has a large scale of peony garden. Each year, a Peony Flower Show is held including hundreds of kinds of peony from home and abroad. The peony flowers often bloom in the early spring, from late April to early May.

Peony has its own symbolic meaning includes good fortune, wealth, honor, daring and masculine bravery. The peony originated in China, it has known as the national flower from long ago, from Qing Dynasty. In Jingshan Park, visitors could see how exotic and fascinating peony flowers that covered all of the park area. Grow the best during the cool weather, peony flowers have a big shape with pink and red color varieties as well as white and cream.

Hunting Antiques in Beijing at Panjiayuan Antique Market

Panjiayuan Antique Market is one of the traditional markets in Beijing popular among locals. This market has been classified as the old market because of its long history.. Located 100 meters in the southeast Panjiayuan Bridge, Chaoyang District, it was built in 1960. Lots of people have been selling the antiques from a long time ago, even there some community seller who sold the antiques from generation to generation. Some goods that sell in the market are the antiques or rare items. Some of them even are some furnishing items from the royal palace which have hundreds years old.

The opening time of Panjiayuan Antique Market is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Every day, here always crowded with a lot of visitors. Even this antique market has listed as the old and traditional market the enthusiastic from community still very high. Mostly visitors are looking for some hundreds years old ceramics or porcelain.

Besides porcelain, there also offers some other antiques for example, calligraphy, old comb, old spoon, vase, metals things and others. With so many precious things, here is also a suitable place for hunting some authentic Chinese souvenirs or accessories.

Visitors who have some interest to buy some antiques from this market, they should bargain it first, at least 10% from the first price. It can be said, the sellers have some tradition to sell the antiques 10 times higher from the normal price. So, same as other market in Beijing, visitors should be not tired and must be the patient one to bargain a lot.

The layout of the market is really unique. There even have some maps for something, so it will be very easy to find the certain things that you want. The buyers mostly are some antiques collector who have own hobby find the antiques that they want everywhere, even till around the world. In Panjiayuan Antique Market, there also occasionally hold antique auctions. The price also can be said very fantastic. Some antiques which must be a little bit expensive. So, not only Chinese people but also foreign collectors come to hunt some antiques that they want specially. 

The area of Panjiayuan Market is large and clean. Some cleaning service will always clean the market every afternoon. So because of that, in the morning this market has already come back clean again. If you don't understand antiques, just walk around and enjoy the design and the shape of Chinese antiques in this market.