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Why is Yani allowed to play in the Forbidden City?
How can I put it? It is related to the special background of the times. First of all, Yani was already a world-famous musician at that time, and his Athens concerts were well known by the world including China.

Secondly, at that time, China was in the rapid process of reform and opening up, and all novel things were being introduced to China; Finally, I think the China administration is trying to promote cultural exchanges between China and the United States.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing's central axis. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of about 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses.

The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), becoming the palace of twenty-four emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties.

On the 14th National Day of the Republic of China (1925 10/0/010), the Palace Museum was formally established and opened.

The length of the Forbidden City in Beijing is 96 1 meter from north to south and 753 meters from east to west. Surrounded by a wall with a height of 10 meter, there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city. There are four gates in the Forbidden City, the meridian gate in the south, the Shenwu gate in the north, the Donghua gate in the east and the Xihua gate in the west. There is a graceful turret at the four corners of the city wall, and there is a folk saying that there are nine beams, eighteen columns and seventy-two ridges to describe its complex structure.