Though the palace stands tall in a central position in downtown Taipei with countless people and vehicles streaming along the wide roads on all sides, the heavy guard of military police all around it has long made it an unapproachable, sternly mysterious forbidden territory in the eyes of the public.
儘管它巍峨屹立於台北市的中心位置，每天有無數人車在四周的大道上川流，但由於森嚴的憲兵警戒，在民眾心中，早已視之為凜不可近、威嚴神秘的禁區。