With the popularity of the Story of Yanxi Palace and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, the ever-popular Forbidden City became more and more famous. As one of the greatest palace buildings in the world, the Forbidden City is worth seeing. This article is a survey and summary of seven special strategies to visit the Forbidden City, bringing you a different view of the Forbidden City.

Tip 1. How to get to gate of the Forbidden City fast?

Almost every visitor would visit the Forbidden City as it is a well-known scenic spot in Beijing. At present, the Forbidden City must be viewed from south to north. Visitors always choose the crowded Tian'anmen Gate to enter. Well, you can choose the Donghua men (East Prosperity Gate) which serves as the fast lanes. Then you can take a ferry or walk to the Wumen (Meridian Gate) and pass through security to enter the Forbidden City which can save an hour for your trip.

Tip 2. The Forbidden City without too many tourists

How to avoid the rush hours to visit the Forbidden City and enjoy the solemn and silence of the royal? The last entry of the Forbidden City is on 16:00 from April 1 to October 31, which means that after 4pm, there will be no tour group in the Forbidden City, and the area of the first three halls will be empty after 4:30.

Tip 3. The royal cat

There are over 100 registered royal cats in the Forbidden City, some of which are descendants of royal cats in the Qing dynasty, some of which were sneaked into the palace later, presenting an another scenery line in the palace. The staff of the palace also take special care of these cute little cats. You would know from their cute body shape that they have a good diet. The imperial cats in the Forbidden City are mostly scattered in the imperial harem under the shade of trees and the eaves. You can even see many sika deer in the Garden of Compassion and Tranquility.

Tip 4. Go to the icehouse while you are hungry and tired.

The icehouse boasts a small shop, a cafe and a dinner restaurant. The menu of the icehouse is full of imperial style such as Buddha's hand shaped shortbread, birthday peach, jujube flower shortbread cake, sesame shortcake and so on.

Tip 5. You should never miss these exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibitions of the Palace Museum such as the treasure hall and clocks hall in the area of six eastern palaces, the sculpture hall of Cining Palace, the painting and calligraphy hall and the book hall of Wuying Dian (Hall of Martial Valor), there also holds various exhibition and cultural activities in various venues from time to time. The special recommendation of this month is the high-tech interactive art show, "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival 3.0 ". Holographic images and art performances are totally integrated at this exhibition, enabling the audience to experience the prosperous social life of the Northern Song Dynasty thousands of years ago in the new media interaction. You need to book tickets at the Palace Museum's official website and make an appointment three days in advance as the exhibition is really hot!

Tip 6. The beautiful landscape of the City Wall

A few of visitors would go to the City Wall of the Forbidden City, therefore you can avoid the crowds peruse the beauty of ancient architecture. You can appreciate not only the Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People and the National Center for the Performing Arts, but also the layout of the buildings adjacent to the palace clearly. Besides, you can also see many exhibitions that cannot be missed in the grand meridian gate building, the Yanchi Building exhibition halls and the turret building.

Tip 7. The spectacle of the storm coming

There are a large number of special architectural components used for drainage in the three main halls of the Forbidden City, which are often designed in the shape of the head of dragon with a total of 1,142. So whenever there is a rainstorm, you can see the spectacular sight of spitting up the water from those components! You can also use the ground water of small area completely to take professional photos graphing in the Forbidden City.