The Forbidden city

 This was the famed Forbidden city that we were finally allowed in to see. It is a whole city in and of itself, the scale is just immense. I have a confession, it is the most boring place I've ever visited. As the excitement mounts after we purchased our tickets to get in, once inside all I saw was every building looks the same. While they may have different function but they were built and decorated in the same way, therefore it lacked any charm. It was a huge anti climax. Sometimes as travelers, we may be guilty of hyping certain places because others before us have thought of them highly. Not for me, if I didn't care for anything, I'll express it.

Henry Puyi, the last emperor of China, in his memoir, wrote of the yellow tiled roofs and the red buildings that he was surrounded with all the time he lived in the Forbidden city.

Yellow is the color of the Emperor. The Chinese word, 'hwang' means yellow and also king. King and yellow are the same word in Chinese. In ' the last Emperor of China', Henry Puyi wrote, 'his cousin, one of his companions while he was young wore yellow in court one day, he was given a very severe beating...' Only the Emperor wore yellow!