In china, what happen to the so called '' the forbidden city'', and the very minority Manchu tribe.

Answer 1

The Forbidden City still stands in the middle of Beijing, only it is a museum now. Manchurians still live in Manchuria.

Answer 2

The Forbidden City is a palace museum now showcasing rare artifacts and treasures of the Manchu Dynasty. The Manchu tribe are now part of the Chinese minority group mainly found in China's northeast region -- Heilongjiang, Jilin and Lianing province.

Answer 3

for info on visiting the Forbidden City,and to get an online tour, go to the official website, http://www.dpm.org.cn/English/default.asp

from The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007,

Manchu (măn'chOO) [key], people who lived in Manchuria for many centuries and who ruled China from 1644 until 1912. These people, related to the Tungus, were descended from the Jurchen, a tribe known in Asia since the 7th cent. They were first called Manchu in the early 17th cent. Originally pastoral nomads in Manchuria, the Manchu (or Jurchen) swept into N China in the early 12th cent. but were forced by the Mongols to withdraw in the mid-13th cent. The Manchu settled in the Songhua River valley and developed an agrarian civilization. Under the emperor Nurhaci (1559–1626) they secured the allegiance of many tribes and increased their territory. The Manchu claim of relation to the Ch'in dynasty of China was the justification for conquering China in the 17th cent. and establishing the Ch'ing dynasty. The Manchu tried to keep themselves from being absorbed by the Chinese, but when the dynasty was overthrown in the 20th cent. these efforts failed; gradually, they have become part of the general Chinese population.

from Encyclopedia of Modern Asia


The Manchus (or Man) are a minority people concentrated in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjian, Jilin, and Inner Mongolia in China. In the 1990 national census, the number of Manchus in China was 9.84 million. The Manchus are descended from a group of peoples of northeast Asia collectively termed the Tungus. The Manchus also claim descent from rulers of the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1126–1234). In the late sixteenth century, the Manchu tribes were organized into a collective nation under the rule of the greatest of their chiefs, Nurhaci (1559–1626). Nurhaci's successor, Abahai (1592–1643), changed the name of his people to Manchu in order to remove the historical memory that as Jurchens they had been under Chinese rule. The Manchus continued to grow in military power in the border region northeast of the Great Wall and eventually overthrew the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and established China's last imperial era, the Qing, or Manchu, dynasty (1644–1912). The Manchus remained an important symbolic people in China during the twentieth century, as was demonstrated by their being named in 1912 as one of the five races that constituted the new Chinese Republic.
Robert John Perrins

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Answer 4

the Forbidden City is a national museam. the Manchu are called 'Man' now, and go about their lives as quietly as possible.