Palaces
Chinese Palaces are some of the most elaborate facilities that have been ever constructed. There is a long history of imperial rule in China, and the palaces were the sites where the royal court resided, as well as many government bureaucrats and functionaries.
Chinese palaces are different from post-Renaissance European palaces because that they are not made up of one building only. Instead, Chinese palaces are huge spaces surrounded by one or more walls and moats and containing large separated halls for ceremonies and official business, as well as smaller buildings, temples, towers, residences, galleries, courtyards, gardens, and outbuildings, more like the Roman or Carolingian palatium.