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The Qing like all dynasties that ruled China made much use of eunuchs in the Imperial Palace.<br/><br/> In China, castration included removal of the penis as well as the testicles. Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time.<br/><br/> The number of eunuchs in Imperial employ fell to 470 by 1912, when the practice of using them ceased. The last Imperial eunuch, Sun Yaoting, died in December 1996.
Empress Dowager Cixi (Wade–Giles: Tz'u-Hsi, 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years from 1861 to her death in 1908.
The Imperial City (Vietnamese: Kinh thành Huế) in Huế is a walled fortress and palace in the former capital of Vietnam. The grounds of the Imperial City were surrounded by a wall 2 kilometers by 2 kilometers, and the walls were surrounded by a moat.<br/><br/> The water from the moat was taken from the Song Huong (Perfume River) that flows through Huế. This structure is called the citadel. Inside the citadel is the Imperial City, with a perimeter of almost 2.5 kilometers. Inside the Imperial City is the imperial enclosure called the Purple Forbidden City in Vietnamese, a term which follows that used by the Chinese for their own Forbidden City.<br/><br/> The enclosure was reserved for the Nguyen imperial family.
The Qianling Mausoleum is a Tang Dynasty (618–907) tomb site located in Qian County, Shaanxi province, China, and is 85 km (53 miles) northwest of Xi'an, the former Tang capital.<br/><br/> Built by 684 (with additional construction until 706), the tombs of the mausoleum complex house the remains of various members of the royal Li family. This includes Emperor Gaozong of Tang (r. 649–683), as well as his wife, the Zhou Dynasty usurper and China's first (and only) governing empress Wu Zetian (r. 690–705).<br/><br/> The mausoleum is renowned for its many Tang Dynasty stone statues located above ground and the mural paintings adorning the subterranean walls of the tombs. Besides the main tumulus mound and underground tomb of Gaozong and Wu Zetian, there is a total of 17 smaller attendant tombs.