Introduction to the Summer Palace 50 words

The Summer Palace, the imperial garden of China in the Qing Dynasty, was originally named Qingyi Garden. It is located in the western suburb of Beijing, 0/5km away from the urban area/kloc-,covering an area of about 290 hectares (2.9 square kilometers) and adjacent to Yuanmingyuan. It is a large-scale landscape garden with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the background and Hangzhou West Lake as the basis, drawing lessons from the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most well-preserved royal palace and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum".

Before the Qing Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, there were four large royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), Emperor Qianlong spent 4.48 million taels of silver to honor his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing, and converted it into Qingyi Garden, forming a royal garden area 20 kilometers from Tsinghua campus to Xiangshan. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned by the British and French allied forces.

In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer amusement park. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was destroyed by "Eight-Nation Alliance" and its treasures were looted. After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace was destroyed again during the period of warlord melee and Kuomintang rule.

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Beijing is full of historical sites. The Summer Palace is one of the most famous historical sites. More than 260 years later, the story here is still fascinating.

The predecessor of the Summer Palace is Qingyi Garden, which was built during the Qianlong period. If you overlook the Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace from a high altitude, you will find that Kunming Lake looks like a peach.

If you look down at Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace from high altitude, you will find that Kunming Lake is shaped like a peach. This birthday peach is unusual. It was written by Master Qianlong.

The predecessor of the Summer Palace is Qingyi Garden, which was built by Qianlong for the birthday of his mother, Empress Xiao Sheng. Therefore, in order to get a good omen, Qianlong ordered Kunming Lake to be divided into "inner lake" and "outer lake".