As you can see, the Sacred Way is lined with huge animal and people statues, meant to guard the entrance and ward off evil spirits. Strangely, the Sacred Way is slightly curved in order to confuse the spirits as an additional entrance barrier, which seems pretty weak to me. The pretty path eventually leads to the great gate, which is the largest gate in China, which also serves as the visitor center.
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so, i'm kind of suprised that the communist chinese left all these places largely intact. it would seem that with a billion people they would have taken a place like this (or the forbidden city for that matter) and filled it up with people...didn't the russians pretty much do that?
Yes, and that almost happened with the Forbidden City but nobody could agree on what to do with it. For the Ming Tombs, nobody would ever live there, the Chinese are very superstitious about ghosts etc. and to live in a burial ground would be about their worst nightmare.
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