How a Chinese imperial garden was restored
Updated On: 18 March, 2015 07:52 AM IST | | Hassan M Kamal
Listen to a presentation on how a splendid imperial garden in the Forbidden City in China that was destroyed in a fire nearly 90 years ago, was restored to its former glory
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Forbidden City
In June 1923, a year after the Last Chinese Emperor Pu-Yi was married, a fire destroyed portions of the Palace of Established Happiness, a royal garden built within the Forbidden City in the 18th century. Located in the northwest precinct of the Forbidden City, the palace garden was the first to be built by Chinese emperor Qianlong in 1742. Qianlong went on to build several other gardens within as well as outside the Forbidden City.

An aerial view of the Palace of Established Happiness
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