Capture The Beauty Of The Forbidden City Palace, Thousands Of Beijingers Climb Jingshan Peak

View of the snowy Forbidden City Palace from the top of the Jingshan hills, Beijing, China (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Thousands of residents of the city of Beijing, China, flocked to climb the top of the Jingshan hills in the middle of a pouring snow, last Saturday.

They wanted to reach the top so they could capture the beautiful view of the Forbidden City Palace covered in snow.

Quoted from Antara, Sunday, until Saturday afternoon at 16.00 local time, the number of visitors to Jingshan Hill reached 4,953 people.

The tourists fight for a place in the main spot at an altitude of 45 meters that leads to the Forbidden City Palace regardless of the pouring snow. At the peak of Jingshan are several ancient buildings from the Ming Dynasty which reigned from 1368 to 1644 AD.

"The view of Gugong (the name for the Forbidden City) is very beautiful when seen from here," said a female tourist when she found the ideal place to take pictures after jostling with other tourists.

Not only the Forbidden City Palace, the snow-covered view of Beijing City was also clearly visible from the peak of Jingshan.

Likewise, the Beihai white stupa on top of the hills is also very beautiful to look at from the top of Jingshan.

Therefore, although the snow continues to fall with the air temperature between minus 4 to minus 8 degrees Celsius in the afternoon to evening in the last three days since Thursday, January 20, Beijing residents continue to flock to Jingshan.

This snowfall in Beijing was the first in 2022. The capital region had the last high-intensity snowfall on November 7, 2021.

Local people welcome the snowfall because this year Beijing will host the Winter Olympics.

The implementation of the Winter Olympics starting on February 4 will be overshadowed by the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, including in Beijing.