In addition, signs and name plates were made bilingual (Chinese and Manchu),[REF] and the main part of the Empress's official bedchamber, the Hall of Earthly Tranquility, became a Shamanist shrine [REF].
After being home to twenty-four emperors, fourteen of the Ming Dynasty and ten of the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City ceased to be the political centre of China in 1912, with the abdication of Puyi, the last Emperor of China.