These are right next to each other. Tiananmen Square is the Chinese equivalent of Woodstock, with people taking pictures of each other against well-known scenery. The Forbidden City was madness -- there are people crowding around, and many things are badly lit. Since I wasn't there to do a documentary, and I thought it better to look at things without the camera, and to buy postcards for the lonely nights at home.
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Tiananmen Gate
From Tiananmen Square. The portrait over the entrance is Mao. The fog is real. |
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The Museum and Friendship Store |
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The Mao-soleum
Like Lenin and Sukhbaatar, he was away at the spa. |
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Heroic scuplture outside the Mao-soleum |
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Historical inevitability, as seen from the side |
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Stylite |
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The Honor Guard's Washing
Outside the front gate of the Forbidden City |
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Building just inside the Forbidden City |
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A courtyard |
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The Dragon Gate
There are 9 dragons, and the gate is much too wide to photograph. This is for texture. I started to photograph the sections so I could put it together, but there was a lady selling photographs that had been put together. It was a bargain. |
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The front of one of the halls
Again, for texture |