It is interesting to stand and look with my own eyes at something so iconographic and to realize that in person it looks just like the photos, but there are about a million people all jostling for their turn to look.
Cindy, our tour guide, was a great story teller. It was perfect for the kids (and for me). Her stories made everything come alive! We learned that when entering the city, the left arch was for officials, the right was for the emperor's family. The center was reserved for the emperor himself. I thought that the paths for the emperor were amazing. The stairs are for the servants carrying him, his sedan chair passed over the carved path.
I really thought it was funny how the Chinese do not have the same social rules about photographing strangers and their children.
No one seemed to think posing as lions was unusual either.
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