Hit costume drama boosts popularity of places in Palace Museum

But this has not dampened the rising popularity of these venues in the Palace Museum this summer.

Lin, a visitor from Shandong province, said she especially flew to Beijing to visit the Yanxi Palace after watching the drama. However, the real one exceeded her expectation.

"The palace doesn't look like what I had imagined. I didn't expect a Western-style architecture, really beyond my imagination," the visitor said.