Forbidden City offers rare night tour

By Wang Kaihao | China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-19 07:08
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The Palace Museum is lit up on Monday evening for a rehearsal of rare nighttime public tours on Tuesday and Wednesday for visitors who were able to snag the free tickets. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]

When night falls, do things at Beijing's Palace Museum come alive like in the museum depicted in Hollywood's Night at the Museum movies?

That may be the hope of lucky guests who snagged tickets for rare nighttime visits by the public to parts of the former Forbidden City for this week's Lantern Festival.

It has long been a legend that the imperial complex, China's center of power from 1420 to 1911, is haunted by supernatural spirits at night.

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