Humanities angle: Dream's footsteps

The Daming Palace with an area of 3.5 square kilometers has seen numerous people left footprints here, from emperors and marshals to unknown civilians.

More than 100 years ago, Japanese tourists Kiroku Adachi and Jitsuzo Kuwabara set foot on this land, leaving for modern people the earliest records of images of the Daming Palace.

We do not know what kind of reverence feeling they carried from the bottom of their heart, when they sat down on the stone column bases of the Hanyuan Hall ruin site the late autumn of 1907. Whether they saw the glorious ceremonies of Tang dynasty in their mind and felt the grandeur of the ancient dynasty with their heart?

Of course, they were only passers-by.

"Japanese tourists" (Author: Kiroku Adachi, 1907)

"East Chaotang Hall Site" (Source: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 1980)

"Chongxuan Gate Site" (Source: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 1958)

"Wangxiantai Temple Site" (Source: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2009)