View from Jingshan Park

After strolling about the Forbidden City, the group moved on to Jingshan Park.

Jingshan Park was part of the Forbidden City until the early 1900s, when walls and several gates were torn down to make way for a road cutting between the park and the rear entrance to the palace complex.  There are five peaks in the park and it is worthwhile to climb a bit to get a view of the Forbidden City.

Or at least one could try to get that view.  As mentioned earlier, visibility was not great on that particular day.

Among other activities, one could choose to be photographed in full emperor regalia.

Or one could visit a statue of the Buddha although only the lower two-thirds are visible here.  Someone may have jostled HWMBO's elbow.

In the park, one can also see a plaque indicating where the center of the city of Beijing is located.

I wonder how that exact point was determined.  And when.