Editing Palace (section)

===China===
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[[File:Hall of Supreme Harmony (20241127120000).jpg|thumb|The [[Hall of Supreme Harmony]] in [[Beijing]], China]]

[[File:景山公园 (19687188164) - panorama.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|The [[Forbidden City]] took form as a grand complex of pavilions enclosed within square walls]]

[[File:Mukden Palace drone view 5 (cropped & rotated).jpg|thumb|Drone view of the [[Mukden Palace|Shenyang Imperial Palace]]]]

A famed example of Chinese palaces is the [[Forbidden City]], the imperial palace of the Chinese Empire from the [[Ming dynasty]] (since the [[Yongle Emperor]]) to the end of the [[Qing dynasty]]. Located in [[Beijing]], it is the largest palace complex currently in existence in the world.<ref name="ForbiddenCity1">{{cite book|last1=Bhutoria|first1=Sundeep|title=China Diary|year=2019|publisher=Pan Macmillan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWa5DwAAQBAJ&q=forbidden+city+largest+palace&pg=PT31|isbn=9781529045284}}</ref><ref name="ForbiddenCity2">{{cite book|last1=Bushell|first1=Stephen|title=Chinese Art|year=2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2iU0EJGudQC&q=forbidden+city+largest+palace&pg=PA41|page=41|publisher=Parkstone International |isbn=9781780429243}}</ref><ref name="ForbiddenCity3">{{cite book|last1=Bandarin|first1=Francesco|last2=van Oers|first2=Ron|title=The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century|year=2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6VSbUHXYzAC&q=forbidden+city+largest+palace&pg=PA17|page=17|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781119968092}}</ref> The palace complex exemplifies traditional [[Chinese architecture|Chinese palatial architecture]].<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/439|title=UNESCO World Heritage List: Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=4 May 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505084440/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/439|archive-date=5 May 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Another example is the [[Summer Palace]] located in the northern suburb of Beijing and the [[Mukden Palace]] in [[Shenyang]]. The [[Presidential Palace (Nanjing)|Presidential Palace]] in [[Nanjing]] and [[Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo|Imperial Palace of Manchukuo]] in [[Changchun]] display European architectural influences.

The [[Weiyang Palace]] built during the [[Han dynasty]] was the largest palace complex ever built in the world,<ref name="WeiyangPalace">{{cite book|last1=Spilsbury|first1=Louise|title=Ancient China|year=2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc9-DwAAQBAJ&q=largest+palace+ever+built+weiyang+palace&pg=PA20|page=20|publisher=Capstone |isbn=9781515725596}}</ref> but it was destroyed during the [[Tang dynasty]].

Chinese palaces are designed in regular square grids and arranged in a formal layout consisting of main buildings and a number of [[pavilion]]s enclosed within walls. Unlike massive single-structured European palaces or castles, Chinese palaces are a multitude of complexes containing several larger and smaller structures with parks and courtyards.