The Summer Palace is a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China. It is located in the western suburbs of Beijing and is a 5A-level national scenic spot. The Summer Palace is a large-scale landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, based on the West Lake of Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace and royal garden. It is a national key tourist attraction.
Kunming Lake is the largest lake among the royal gardens in the Qing Dynasty. A long embankment in the lake, the West Embankment, meanders from the northwest to the south. The West Dike and its branch dikes divide the lake into three water areas of different sizes, and each water area has an island in the middle of the lake. These three islands stand in a row on the lake, symbolizing the three sacred mountains of the East China Sea in ancient Chinese legends—Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. The West Causeway and the six bridges on the causeway consciously imitate the Su Causeway and the "Su Causeway Six Bridges" of the West Lake in Hangzhou. The blue waves and weeping willows along the West Causeway, the natural scenery is open, and the beautiful shape of Yuquan Mountain several miles outside the garden and the Yufeng Pagoda on the top of the mountain stand out, and they are taken as part of the garden landscape.
In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest existing royal garden in China by the China World Records Association.
Walking along the Kunming Lake, looking all the way, the beautiful scenery is breathtaking, the magnificent buildings are ingenious, all the scenery is built around Kunming Lake, and Kunming Lake is the main body of the Summer Palace. The lake water undulates slowly, and the lake surface and shore are beautifully decorated. Looking as far as the eye can see, the tall, tall and lush weeping willows on the land walk around the lake, with pavilions, terraces, pavilions, red walls and glass, waterside pavilions and pavilions hidden among them.
The Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, was first built in 1750. It was built by Qianlong in honor of his mother, Empress Dowager Empress Dowager’s 60th birthday, at a cost of 4.48 million taels of silver. . It integrates the beautiful scenery and famous buildings across the country, integrates the great achievements of gardening art in the north and south, and achieves the artistic effect of "although it is made by man, the garden is like nature".
Qingyan Boat, commonly known as Stone Boat, is a large stone boat by the lake at the west end of the promenade, implying the meaning of "Haiqing River Yan". It is the only Western-style building in the Summer Palace. Its predecessor was the release platform of Yuanjing Temple in Ming Dynasty. When Qianlong built the Qingyi Garden, he changed the platform into a boat and renamed it "Shifang". The stone boat is 36 meters long and is made of carved marble. There are two-story ship buildings on the hull, the bottom of the ship is paved with tiles, the windows are stained glass, and the top is decorated with brick carvings. When it rains, the rainwater that falls on the top of the boat passes through the hollow pillars at the four corners and is discharged into the lake through the four faucets on the hull.
The promenade is located at the southern foot of Wanshou Mountain, facing Kunming Lake, with Wanshou Mountain in the north, Yaoyue Gate in the east, and Shizhang Pavilion in the west, with a total length of 728 meters and a total of 273 rooms. It is the longest corridor in Chinese gardens. It was established in 1992. It is recognized as the longest promenade in the world and included in the "Guinness Book of World Records". There are more than 14,000 paintings on every square beam in the corridor, including landscapes, flowers, birds, fish and insects, allusions to characters, etc. The figure paintings in the painting are all based on Chinese classics
Lingering on the banks of Kunming Lake, at the end of the promenade, there are pavilions and pavilions everywhere, all kinds of exquisite stone and bronze statues in various poses and with different expressions, and every unique landscape has a thought-provoking story.
According to historical records, in the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), in order to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager, the Dabaoenyanshou Temple was built at the former site of Yuanjing Temple, and the mountain was renamed Longevity Mountain the next year. The buildings on Longevity Hill were burned down by the British and French allied forces, and the existing ones were rebuilt by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Wanshou Mountain is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain, 58.59 meters high and 108.94 meters above sea level, facing the blue waves of Kunming Lake. The Longevity Mountain in the setting sun is still majestic, and Kunming Lake is still clear. Covered by gorgeous buildings and lush flowers and trees, it welcomes tourists from all over the world to come here to enjoy sightseeing, and more and more people will be like me, intoxicated by the In this peerless beauty that perfectly blends nature and man-made!
In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French allied forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), the Empress Dowager Cixi used 30 million taels of silver to rebuild it in the name of raising funds for the navy, and renamed it the Summer Palace as a summer playground. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was destroyed by the "Eight-Power Allied Forces" and many buildings were burned down. It was restored in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903). Later, it was destroyed again during the warlord melee and the Kuomintang rule. After 1949, the government continued to allocate funds for repairs. On March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In November 1998, it was included in the "World Heritage Site". Heritage List.
I stood beside the promenade, looked around, and saw the Seventeen-Arch Bridge spanning between Nanhu Island and the Dragon King Temple. It is one of the famous scenic spots in the Summer Palace. The bridge is 150 meters long, like a colorful rainbow in the sky flying over the vast expanse of blue Kunming Lake, and like a dragon floating on the lake, I am amazed.
The Seventeen-Arch Bridge is located on Kunming Lake, between the East Causeway and Nanhu Island, and is used to connect the causeway island. It is the largest stone bridge in the garden. The stone bridge is 8 meters wide and 150 meters long, and consists of 17 bridge holes. There are more than 500 stone lions of different sizes and shapes carved on the railings on both sides of the stone bridge. The golden light piercing hole is a magnificent landscape presented by the largest stone bridge in the Summer Palace in Beijing - the Seventeen-Arch Bridge, which appears around the winter solstice every year. It is formed because the orientation of the sunset changes with the seasons. Around the winter solstice, when the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn at the sunset point, the sunlight just hits the side walls of all the bridge openings of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge.
Generally speaking, the Summer Palace is a good place, but it takes time to play slowly. I basically just watch the flowers on horseback, and I can't deeply understand this good place for leisure. The main entrance of the Summer Palace is the East Palace Gate, which used to be accessible only to the emperor.
"Hall of Renshou". It is the main hall where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu sat in court to listen to politics and meet foreign guests. Originally known as Qinzheng Hall, it was rebuilt during the Guangxu Period and renamed as Renshou Hall. Facing east, it is seven rooms wide, with north and south side halls on both sides, Renshou Gate in front, and north and south Jiuqing houses outside the door. The bronze dragons, bronze phoenixes, and bronze tripods displayed are all exquisitely carved. The gold-plated surgery in the hall and the vermilion gate still reveal the majesty of the royal family.
The Summer Palace, originally a building in the heyday of the Qing Empire, represented the highest level of gardening art in the Qing Dynasty. With the decline of the dynasty, it was ruthlessly destroyed by the invaders. It witnessed the last struggle and suffering of the dynasty here. ,destruction...
