1. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Aim/Goal: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing Dynasty? Do Now: Have your parents ever forbidden you do to something? What was the outcome or consequences? Homework: Write “a day in the life” of some one who would live in the Forbidden City.

2. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Stats on the Forbidden City The Forbidden City is built on 180 acres (Central Park is 800 acres). There are 9,999 rooms in this series of exquisite palaces inside the City. Nine is a lucky number for the Chinese. The walls are 32 feet high The moat is 165 feet wide Took over 14 years (1407-1420) using 200,000 laborers to build.

3. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Enter the Forbidden City

4. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty?

5. The Forbidden City

6. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Floor Plan

7. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? View from Above

8. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Who lived in the Forbidden City 18th century 9000 people lived within the Forbidden City guards, servants, eunuchs, concubines, civil servants and the Royal Family. The inner sanctum rooms were forbidden to women except to the Empress on her wedding day

9. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Guards

10. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Servants

11. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Eunuchs

12. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Concubines

13. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Civil Servants

14. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? The Royal Family

15. Aim: What was life like within the walls of the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty? Group Activity You will be assigned one person from the Forbidden city. You will draw a picture of that person. –What would that person feel being in the Forbidden City? –What would that person hear? –What would that person see?