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Photos of Lu Xiaobo and her friend immediately went viral and raised a lot of eyebrows

staff at one of China's top attractions, apologized to the seemingly to a wealthy woman, on the heavily guarded site.

Social-media-users-Lu Xiaobao released photos of yourself, a friend, and your car in the emptiness of the forbidden city in Beijing.

Although she has since deleted, they quickly went viral, and people urged the Website offers an explanation.

The Website for The Palace Museum said it was "deeply saddened and sincerely apologize to The Public ".

in A statement, confirmed that The Incident happened on Monday.

The Forbidden city was China's former Imperial Palace , between The Years 1420 and 1912. It is a world heritage site And One of The Most heavily guarded areas of China.

How could this happen? Beijing is one of China's top tourism sites, during the Spring Festival

When Social Media users saw the images uploaded to the popular Sina Weibo microblog by Ms. Lu on the 17th of January, in the interior of the empty place on a clear day, people can quickly ask questions began.

Currently, it is spring Festival, one of China's biggest holidays, when mass migration in China, to popular tourist destinations. Beijing and its attractions at This Time of year are notoriously flooded with people.

Ms Lu posted several pictures on her Weibo account, saying "On Monday, The Palace Museum is closed, so I hurried, hidden from the masses and went on to play in the forbidden city. "

Weibo users were stunned to see just the pictures of Ms. Lu and her friend, on a blank page, but also your large Luxury Car that they drove to The Complex .

The Forbidden city often closes on Monday to allow for maintenance and renovation Work .

19 million people visited the Forbidden city in the year 2019 Who is she?

Today, the hashtag #DrivingIntoTheForbiddenCity has quickly went viral, and has been used hundreds of thousands of times.

the user acknowledge that Ms has been deleted Lu your original images, but as a user, whose comment was shared More Than 400,000 times,: "the Deletion of the images is useless; the entire Chinese nation has seen. "You wanted to explain to The Palace -Museum.

Many users have speculated that The Woman is from a wealthy background, given that the previous posts show on your account, you yacht on a luxury.

her Weibo account says she is a Flight Attendant with Air China , but the airline responds to media to say the questions that you "left The Company for A Number of years".

Influential, says local newspaper the Beijing News that a woman claiming to be her boyfriend, says she was invited by The Palace Museum to attend an event.

Ms Lu himself has not commented publicly.

Why is the controversial?

The Forbidden city is a large complex of significant cultural and historical importance. From courtyards, palaces and gardens, it is home to Imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art and artifacts.

It is common to see soldiers around the entrance to the Forbidden city

the main entrance is famous for a portrait of Mao Zedong , The Founder of the Chinese Communist party, and in addition to the Government Building , the Great hall of the people, and the symbolic Tiananmen Square .

China has strict laws on the protection of cultural relics, and has so far blacklisted, people for vandalising important locations.

This is not the First Time , the Forbidden city is Under Fire for the controversial images on the Website.

In June 2015, images in circulation.

The official newspaper China Daily said at the time that the model, it could be for a few days in detention, but also questions about the "ethical and moral" behavior to a "historical site".

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