A card game

We are on our way to the Forbidden City, in central Beijing. It is the 'old town' of Beijing, and was literally a forbidden place for the general population The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. For almost five hundred years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government. We enter from the city side through the gates in the old wall, and walk the length of the old city, peering into a few of it's 980 buildings, exiting into Tiananmen Square. The name in Chinese means 'Gate of Heavenly Peace', the square is enormous and grand with multiple monuments, the newest the monument to the people.

This small group playing cards on our way into the Forbidden City caught my eye. The architecture of the City, the scale of the walls, the gates, the squares to grand to be interesting on film - and the simplicity of this shot is pleasing, amongst the chaos that is Beijing.