Gugong (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Gugong is the Chinese name for the Forbidden City
in Beijing
.
Gugong literally means "former palace", and can also refer to:
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum...
in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
.
Gugong literally means "former palace", and can also refer to:
- Mukden PalaceMukden PalaceThe Mukden Palace or Shenyang Gugong , also known as the Shenyang Imperial Palace, is the former imperial palace of the early Qing Dynasty of China....
in Shenyang, also known as "the Shenyang Gugong" - National Palace MuseumNational Palace MuseumThe National Palace Museum is an art museum in Taipei. It is the national museum of the Republic of China, and has a permanent collection of over 677,687 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of...
in Taipei, also known as "the Taipei Gugong" - Ming Palace, NanjingMing Palace, NanjingMing Palace in Nanjing, present day Jiangsu province, China was the 14th century imperial palace of the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.- History :...
, also known as "the Ming Gugong" or "the Nanjing Gugong" - Gugong (film), a 2005 large scale documentary series about the Forbidden City produced by China Central TelevisionChina Central TelevisionChina Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
- Gugong Danfu, Zhou Dynasty ancestor