In Beijing, we started where everyone else does: in Tiananmen Square, built in 1415 as the royal entrance to the Forbidden City, the imperial palace. The square was thick with Chinese tourists, and to their eyes my family must have been a novelty -- people insisted on taking photos with my blond husband and pulled my 5-year-old daughter, Talia, from her stroller for more shots. (I was invisible; perhaps brown-haired mothers aren't so remarkable.)

在北京，我们从其他每位游客都会选择做为出发点的地方开始游玩：天安门广场。它建于1415年，当时是作为皇室通往皇宫紫禁城的入口。广场上满是中国游客，在他们眼里，我们一家人一定很新奇－－人们坚持要跟我金发碧眼的丈夫合影，还把我5岁的女儿塔莉娅(Talia)从她的折叠式婴儿车上拉过来多拍了几张照。（我就是个透明人；可能棕色头发的妈妈不是那么能引人注意。）

The Forbidden City is beautiful and well preserved, from the gilded lions guarding the Gate of Heavenly Purity to the serene Imperial Garden. The kids recognized the complex from Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 film, 'The Last Emperor.' But little ones can only take so many halls of thrones and tapestries. ('Where is the princess?' my daughter asked our guide a number of times.) So we went to take a rickshaw ride through courtyard houses yet to be replaced by gleaming condos.

从守卫在干清门的镀金狮子到宁静的御花园，美丽的紫禁城保存完好。孩子们认出了这些建筑群就是导演贝纳多・贝托鲁奇(Bernardo Bertolucci)在1987年拍摄的电影《末代皇帝》(The Last Emperor)中所呈现的场景。但小孩子们也就只能意识到有这么多摆着龙椅和悬着挂毯的大厅，仅此而已。（“公主在哪儿呢？”我女儿问了我们导游好几次这个问题。）于是我们去坐了趟人力车，穿过了一家家四合院，它们现在还尚未被流光溢彩的公寓所取代。

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