This recent sexy photo shoot in China’s historic Forbidden City is causing quite the uproar in the Mainland. Read on to find out more.
The Forbidden City in Beijing, China has historically been the home of Chinese royals from the Ming Dynasty all the way to the last emperor that ruled in the Qing Dynasty. The Imperial Palace housed the Emperor of China and their households for nearly 500 years and only those who gained permission by the Emperor was allowed to enter or leave the palace.
Needless to say in the past for us mere peasants, entrance into the Forbidden City was near impossible up until only the last century or so. Flash forward about a hundred years, add a cultural revolution, and through in drastic social and political changes, you have a tourist friendly landmark in China which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987.
Since then access to the Forbidden City has been more available but still limited as most sites with incredibly historical significance are. But that has not stopped one risque visitor from using the Forbidden City as her own personal sexy photo shoot location.
The yet to be named model, recently blew up the Chinese interwebz by posting pics of her nakedly posing among China’s historical wonders.
God knows what she would have done if she visited The Hoover Dam.
Many have Chinese netizens criticized the photoshoot as “profaning” cultural artifacts and in general, done in poor taste. Especially the photo posted above which sees the nude model straddling an ancient marble dragon head since dragons in the Forbidden City were often used as the crest of the Emperor himself.
Gotta say next to the Panda reserve in Sichuan, this has been the most interesting part of our tour group.
So far the Palace Museum which has overseen the upkeep of the Forbidden City since 1925, has yet to respond to the perpetrators of the photoshoot or public outrage. However the photographer involved, Wang Dong, has rebuked the notion that their photoshoot caused cultural relics to be profaned.
“I was only doing my work, and did not affect anyone” stated Wang Dong. Little has been mentioned however about his feelings on his fantastically phallic name.
Many of his detractors have disagreed believing that such a photoshoot was inappropriate for not only a historic landmark, but also a location often filled with tourists and children.
But whether or not this photoshoot was done in poor taste or perhaps an example of China increasingly changing into a more liberal society is in the eye of the beholder. The Forbidden City mere centuries ago was off limits to everyone but a select few, and China’s society itself was closed off to such nonconformist thinking mere DECADES ago.Perhaps then such risque and forbidden public behavior may be seen in centuries to come as another relic of socially conservative and backwards times as the Forbidden City itself.
Or it could just be viewed as that one crazy time a naked broad went around the Forbidden City straddling dragon heads like it was going out of style. Who knows, what do we look like Confucius?
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Written by Editorial Staff