Visit Forbidden City is one program that almost all visitors will do when they tour Beijing, Forbidden City is known in Chinese as Gu Gong, which means the “Former Palace”. The museum, which is built based on those buildings, is known as the “Palace Museum”.
It was the Chinese imperial palace, which was home to 24 emperors of Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1644–1911). It is now situated in the center of Beijing, served as political center of China