You will visit the two must sees of beijing in the afternoon to avoid crowds being the largest city center square in the world tiananmen square has been the symbol of china for almost 600 years especially after the founding of new china in 1949 the forbidden city also called palace museum is the largest and best preserved imperial palace in the world which was used by 24 chinese emperors as the working and living place walking through the gigantic buildings with red wall and yellow glaze