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Laboring Peoples Cultural Palace
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
The Laboring People's Cultural Palace was known as the Temple for Ancestral Worship but was renamed in 1950. It is opposite to the Zhongshan Park and is located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Gates rear portion.The palace and the surrounding grounds cover an area of 140,000 square meters. It has 9,000 halls and rooms, containing many precious relics. First built in 1420 under the Ming emperor Yongle, it served as the imperial temple for ancestral worship in the Ming and Qing dynasties and now contains a park, a library, a gymnasium and other recreational facilities.
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