[00:00.00]UNIT 12 Lesson 46
[00:07.10]1.2 Beijing is a modern city,
[00:12.14]but it is also a city of a long history.
[00:16.52]Here are the three "must-sees"
[00:19.77]on every visitors'list of the capital.
[00:24.03]Between 1421 and 1912,the Palace Museum
[00:29.34]was the home of China's emperors
[00:32.21]and their families.
[00:34.49]There were about 10 thousand houses
[00:37.51]in the palace.
[00:39.61]The buildings in the Palace Museum
[00:42.51]are now for visiting.
[00:45.10]It is in the center of Beijing.
[00:49.83]The Summer Palace
[00:51.22]is in the northwest of Beijing.
[00:54.17]In the past,it was the summer home
[00:57.36]of the emperors families.
[00:59.59]It is the largest park in China now.
[01:03.34]The Temple of Heaven in Tiantan park
[01:06.68]is in the southern part of Beijing.
[01:09.46]The building are from the 15th century
[01:12.41]with a style of Ming Dynasty.
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