The Virtual Forbidden City
Imagine to have a visit into the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago? and watch how the Emperor did his daily job? or have a lesson with the archery teacher? or just desguised as a princess to play around the Royal Garden of the Forbidden City ?
Now the Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is available to download and you can visit some parts of the Forbidden City, and you also may chat with other visitors online.
The Download is about 203 MB in size, and available in XP/VISTA/MAC/LINUX files. You can register and login as an imperial boy or lady or some other servents, or maybe without registration just login as a visitor.
There are some tour guides scattered at different places, you may join in their tours around the Forbidden City. They will tell you something on site, but you have to fellow them most of the time.
If you will have a tour by your own, you can go into the QianqingGong, there is an emperor busy about his job.
Or you may even go very close to the emperor and take a look what he is doing.
Or just go outside, and have a view of the big courtyard, just like in the movie “Last Emperor”.
And in the royal garden, you will see someone is drawing a picture for the emperor, and some of the imperial boys are playing around.
As for the models are made very much close to reality, I put some real photos followed, as you can see the difference:
