Information about the Summer Palace in Beijing

The Summer Palace is located in the northwest of Beijing, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, which means "supporting Taihe".

The current Summer Palace is the floorboard of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake, with a total area of 290 hectares. The layout of the whole area can be divided into three parts: political activity area, living area and scenic browsing area.

The political activity area, with Renshou Palace as the main body, is the place where ministers are convened and political affairs are handled. The scenic browsing area is centered on Wanshou Mountain and divided into three parts: Qian Shan, Kunming Lake and Houshan. Le Shoutang is its bedroom. The Summer Palace has more than 3,000 palace garden buildings in various forms, a 728-meter-long promenade and more than 8,000 colorful paintings, which are incomparable features and strengths of other gardens and gardens, and is listed as one of the top ten scenic spots in China.

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The Summer Palace in Beijing was built in A.D. 1750, severely damaged in the war in 1860, and rebuilt on the original site in 1886. Its pavilions, corridors, halls, temples, small bridges, natural mountains and rivers and open lakes are harmoniously and artistically integrated, which is a masterpiece of landscape architecture design in China.

The Summer Palace is a world-famous royal garden, centered on Renshou Hall. It is the place where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu sat in the hall to listen to politics and meet foreign guests. Behind Renshou Hall are three large quadrangles: Leshou Hall, Yulantang and Yiyuntang, where Cixi, Guangxu and Empress Dowager lived. Deheyuan Theater on the east side of Yiyun Pavilion is one of the three major theaters in Qing Dynasty.

Seen from the wisdom sea at the top of Wanshou Mountain, the Summer Palace consists of Buddha Pavilion, Dehui Hall, Paiyun Hall, Paiyun Gate and Yunhui Yuyufang, forming a distinct central axis. At the foot of the mountain is a "corridor" more than 700 meters long. There are more than 8,000 colorful paintings on the corridor, which is called "the first corridor in the world". In front of the promenade is the rippling Kunming Lake. The west dike of Kunming Lake is modeled after the Su Causeway of the West Lake.

The back of Wanshou Mountain and the back of Houhu Lake are towering, with elegant environment, Tibetan temples and Suzhou Creek Ancient Business Street. At the eastern end of Houhu Lake, there is a humorous garden built in imitation of Wuxi Jichang Garden, which is small and exquisite and is called "the garden in the garden". The whole garden art of the Summer Palace is ingenious and occupies a prominent position in the history of garden art at home and abroad. It is a rare masterpiece of garden art in the world.

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