Imperial Garden

At the northern end of the Forbidden City is the Imperial Garden, where emperors and their consorts could retreat to read, relax, sip tea and stroll among the tightly woven landscape of rockeries, walkways, pavilions and ancient, carbuncular cypresses.

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