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M The streets of BJ look like a ocean of bicycles. 北京真是一个自行车的海洋啊 W 是的，这个城市大约有一大半的人骑自行车，全市有900多万辆自行车 More than one half of people here ride bicycles, there are more than 9,000,000bicycles here. M I also want to ride bicycle, do you know where I can buy one? 我也想骑自行车。哪里可以买自行车? W您在北京停留时间不长，不必买车。楼下可以租车，一天10块钱 You are not staying long in Bj, there is no need for buying one. You can rent one downstairs for 10yuan one day. M Great. Let’s rent one, and ride to the palace museum, then to Beihai park.太好了，那就租一辆。先去故宫，再去北海公园 W好的。不过故宫里不能骑车 Ok. But cycling is forbidden inside the Palace Museum. M I know that. But we can leave it in the bicycle parking load at the gate.我知道。我们可以把车放在门口的自行车管理处 W现在我们来到了天安门广场，这是北京的中心 Here we are in Tian’an men Square. This is the center of Bj. M I hear it is the biggest square in the world. What are the buildings around the square? 我听说它是世界上最大的广场，你能给我介绍一下周边建筑吗 W 西边是人民大会堂，南面是毛主席纪念馆，东面是中国历史博物馆和中国革命博物馆，中间是人民英雄纪念碑。北面是天安门。天安门原是明清两代皇城的正门，由此进入故宫，现在天安门是新中国的象征。 To the west is the Great Hall of the People, to the south is the Memorial Hall of chairman Mao Zedong, to the east is the China history museum and China revolution museum, in the middle is the Monument to the Peoples Heroes. To the north is Tian’an Men, which means the gate of having peace. It’s used to be main gate to Palace Museum of the Ming and Qing dynasty through which we can go into the museum, now this gate has become the symbol of the people’s republic of China. M I read books about CiXi and the last emperor PuYi. They used to live in the imperial palace.我曾经读过关于慈禧太后和末代皇帝溥仪的书，他们曾经住在故宫里。 W故宫过去叫紫禁城，是中国古代最后两个封建王朝明清两代的皇宫。故宫建于明朝永乐年间，始建于1406年，1420年基本建成，现在有近600年历史，这里先后住过24个皇帝。明清两代多次重建和扩建，现在仍然保持原来的布局。这座昔日的皇宫已经成为一座博物院，藏有我国历代珍品和宫廷文物，共计90多万件，都是研究明清两代历史及历代艺术的重要资料. The imperial palace was originally called the Forbidden City. It was the imperial palace of Ming and Qing dynasty, which were the last two feudal dynasties in Chinese history. The palace was built during the reign of e