What is the Royal Garden for?

The imperial garden is a place for the queen to rest and have fun after tea, but it is also a place for offering sacrifices, retiring, collecting books and reading.

The Royal Garden is located on the central axis of the Forbidden City, behind the Palace of Kunning, also known as Hou Yuan Palace. There are many palaces for rest around the imperial garden, which are for the queen and concubines to rest when they are tired during the tour. There are many flowers and trees, rockeries and springs, and the environment is beautiful.

Introduction to Royal Gardens

The Imperial Garden is located at the northernmost part of Otani on the central axis of the Forbidden City in Beijing, behind the Kunning Palace. It was called the back garden of the court in the Ming Dynasty and the imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty. It was founded in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, and has been revised continuously since then. It still retains the basic model when it was first built. The whole park is 80m long from north to south and 140m wide from east to west, covering an area of 12000m2.

The main building in the park, Qin 'an Hall, is a double-eaved roof, which is located on the north-south axis of the Forbidden City and spreads to the front and sides with the pavilion as the center. The park is dotted with pines, cypresses and bamboos, forming an evergreen garden landscape. The garden is dotted with strange stones and lush trees, and its ancient cypress vines have a history of hundreds of years, which makes the garden full of interest.

There are more than 160 ancient trees scattered all over the park, with various rock bonsai. For example, a bonsai made of wood fossils placed in front of Jiang Xuexuan looks like rotten wood exposed to the sun at first glance, but it sounds sonorous when it is knocked. It's really stone, especially precious.

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