Royal treat

From the luxurious bedrooms of the mothers of kings to personal worship areas filled with Buddha statues, the Palace Museum is showing us a different side of imperial China. Deng Zhangyu reports.

Visitors to the Forbidden City can now get a glimpse of how the mothers of emperors lived. They can view luxuriously decorated bedrooms and a private worship hall among other treasures of the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The Cining Palace complex in the western part of the Forbidden City was opened on Saturday to the outside world for the first time as part of the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the museum.