Nine roads with lights and shadows, thousands of doors with moonlight. On the 15th and 16th of January this year, the Palace Museum will be painted three times for the first time, becoming the 'brightest' scenic spot in the capital - the first 'lantern fair' held in the 94 years since its establishment. For the first time, the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City are lit on a large scale in the evening, and are open to the booking public free of charge in the evening for the first time. At that time, the audience strolled on the palace walls to watch the lights and enjoy the paintings such as "thousand li River and mountain scroll" projected on the golden glazed tiles. Even if you don't enter the palace, you can also watch the kilometer red light 'point' to light the city wall.
Lantern Festival of the Forbidden City in 2019
Activity name: the night of Shangyuan in the Forbidden City activity time: February 19, 2019 (the 15th day of the first month), February 20, 2019 (the 16th day of the first month) activity location: the Meridian Gate exhibition hall of the Palace Museum, Taihe gate square, the east wall of the palace Museum, Shenwu gate and other areas
Way of visit: free of charge, limited number of places, until about full.
Night tour route
1. Before entering, you can watch the night view of Wumen tower and East and West Yanchi tower;
2. After entering the west side of the Meridian Gate, you will see the lighted Taihe gate square;
3. Then climb the Meridian Gate Tower from the West horse road of the Meridian Gate and visit the exhibition of "Celebrating the new year in the Forbidden City";
4. After the exhibition, walk along the wall covered with red lanterns to the southeast corner building;
5. Walking through the east wall of the Forbidden City and the exhibition hall of Donghuamen ancient building, you can see that some ancient buildings near the west side of the wall are also lighted;
6. After arriving at the Northeast turret, go to shenwumen. In this area, you can watch the paintings such as the picture of Qingming River on the roof of the building and the picture of Qianli River and mountain on the south side of the wall;
7. After leaving the shenwumen city building, the corner restaurant and corner coffee on the East and west sides of shenwumen gate are open for you.
Appointment notice
1. "The Forbidden City Shangyuan night" open reservation time:
The reservation is open on February 17 on the 15th day of noon (February 19) (at present, the ticket grabbing is over)
Reservation will be opened on February 18 on January 16 (February 20) (please rush for tickets)
2. This booking only covers the cultural activities of "Shangyuan night in the Forbidden City". You need to make an online appointment to participate in this activity. Each certificate (ID card / passport) is limited to one ticket for the night of Shangyuan.
3. Visitors who have filled in the second generation ID card number when booking tickets can be admitted to the hospital directly at any gate on the west side of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City (gate 1-12) with ID card or the original account book on the day of admission, without exchanging paper tickets.
4. When a multi person order is checked, if any one person checks the ticket successfully, all the audience in the order shall be deemed to have checked the ticket, but others shall still show their certificates for the second check.
5. Children with height of more than 1 m2 need to make an appointment. Children with height of less than 1 m2 do not need to make an appointment alone. Only parents can make an appointment. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by at least one parent. Parents need to make an appointment.
6. Special groups (soldiers, disabled people, the elderly, retired cadres) need to make an appointment online.
7. Please enter the site in strict accordance with the reserved time to avoid early arrival or late arrival. Visitors who fail to arrive at the scheduled time will be deemed to give up the visit automatically. The first group of reserved visitors will start to check tickets at 18:30, the second group will start to check tickets at 19:00, the third group will start to check tickets at 19:30, and the admission will stop at 20:00 in the evening. Work Personnel will be adjusted according to the actual number of visitors on that day. Please follow the arrangement.
8. As there is no parking space in the Palace Museum, in order to provide better experience for visitors, it is not recommended that visitors drive to visit. Please understand.
9. Please observe the visiting regulations, follow the guidance of the staff, the internal light is dark, please pay attention to the personal safety of yourself and others, do not make noise, fight, run and jump.
10. Please cooperate with the hospital security check. Food, liquid, fire source, inflammable, explosive, self timer and other articles, as well as all prohibited articles endangering public safety are prohibited. The night of Shangyuan is not suitable for luggage storage. Large luggage (40cm wide and 30cm high) is not allowed.
11. Please take good care of the equipment and facilities in the palace, do not pat the facilities in the palace, do not use sharp objects to depict the wall, and do not take any articles out of the palace.
According to the plan, the Forbidden City is open today to make an appointment for the evening activities on the 20th, but at about 11:50, the webpage could not be opened. At present, the official ticketing website of the Forbidden City has resumed its normal visit, and all tickets for the 'Shangyuan night' activity in the Forbidden City have been booked.