beihai park Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/beihai-park Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Beijing Travel Destinations http://toursmaps.com/beijing-travel-destinations.html http://toursmaps.com/beijing-travel-destinations.html#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:58:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230400 Leaving the Hall of Well-being and Longeviety and turning left, we soon reach a fenced-in courtyard where stands the Great Theatre. When it was built in 1891 it was the largest theatre of its time. The empress occasionally attended performances of the Beijing Opera which sometimes lasted several days. The three-storey stage, into which trap doors were built, is 21 m/68ft high and 17m/55ft wide. The empress sat in the Hall of Exhileration (Yile Dian) opposite during the performances. Slightly to the west of the Great Theatre is the Hall of Happiness and Longevity which stands on the north bank

The post Beijing Travel Destinations appeared first on ToursMaps.com ®.

]]> http://toursmaps.com/beijing-travel-destinations.html/feed 0