Beijin, Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square or "天安门广场" in simplified chinese has great cultural significance in chinese history, but outside china it is most widely know for the Tianmen Square protests of 1989. Inside Tiananmen Square is the Forbidden City. It house many royal dynasties throughout china's history and is one of the great examples of chinese architecture. To enter there you must go through the Tiananmen Gate or Gate of Heavenly Peace. Its pretty easy to find since right above it is a huge portrait of Mao Zhedong, and believe me it is BIG. Theres alot of things to see here, maily buildings and sculputures, but we werent allowed to go into some of the buildings. We walked for around 3 hours just looking at things before fainly making to the end through the Shenwu men Gate or Gate of divine Prowess, I guess I know why the call it "Prowess" since it took alot of leg strength before reaching it to the end.

Boy, there was alot of people there. They were everywhere and not just chinese people, alot of english speakers too. It felt as though I never left America. They were kinda of funny too, some were very confused and had no idea what they were doing. It makes since though since this is summer and the Beijing Olympics is happening, of course there would be alot of people. There alot of Beijing Olympic merchandise, T-shirts, Hats, Medals, and alot of commercials about the Olympics too.