Why the Summer Palace is one of the four major forest gardens

It is a World Heritage Site.

In the Summer Palace, an ancient royal garden, the garden architecture is rich and colorful, and there are more than 40 pavilions of various kinds. The shape and size of the pavilion are full of changes, and none of them are the same. From the plane shape of Huaihu absolutely beautiful, there are square, hexagonal, octagonal, rectangular, round, set square and half pavilion; From the perspective of three-dimensional modeling, there are single layers and double layers.

The roof form has a single eaves, heavy eaves, and a spire and a hilltop.

roll shed roof; In terms of materials, there are wooden structures and copper casts; The roofing materials include clear water tiles and glazed tiles.

They either stand on the hill, or cling to the side of the building, or sit on the side of the pool, or hidden among the flowers and trees, with their beautiful and exquisite, colorful images and other buildings, landscapes, plants, etc. in the garden, forming a vivid picture.

In classical Chinese gardens, whether it is the royal garden in the north, the private garden in the south of the Yangtze River and other styles of buildings, their colors are extremely distinct. The buildings of the Summer Palace are colorful and gorgeous. Glazed tiles, red columns, and colorful paintings show the atmosphere of the royal garden.

From the architectural development process of the Summer Palace, we can see that the garden concept with the aesthetic characteristics of ancient Chinese expressed in the garden of the Huangzi family is not only limited to the visual experience of shape and color and the psychological description of human conquest of nature in a general sense, but more importantly, it is the inevitable product of cultural development. Old Summer Palace.

The garden architecture is integrated with national cultural elements to form a unique charm.

The use of axes is one of the characteristics of the imperial gardens of the Qing Dynasty, such as the Old Summer Palace, the West Garden, and the Summer Resort.

All have local axes, but the axis of the Summer Palace is more obvious. However, their presence does not weaken the natural atmosphere of the garden, but brings about a change of order and rhythm, and more importantly, strengthens the echoing relationship between the buildings on the mountain and the scenic spots on the lake. The main building on the mountain wraps and covers the mountain, and the subordinate buildings are hidden in the mountain, forming a scenic spot for viewing the lake.

Similarly, if you look up the hill from the middle of the lake, you can see the undulating buildings.

The biggest feature of the Summer Palace is that it looks very stunning, and many of the designs are ingenious, which can highlight the ancient Chinese garden temperament.

The Summer Palace was the most gorgeous royal garden at that time, and the architectural style was the common blue bricks, red tiles, green trees and red walls in ancient China, and the room was also extremely luxurious.

The building is very luxurious, the environment is very beautiful, the area is very large, the preservation is very complete, it is a royal garden.

The Summer Palace is known as the Royal Garden Museum. Located in the western suburbs of Beijing, the Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, covers an area of about 290 hectares and is adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. Based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and built by absorbing the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens, it is also the most well-preserved royal palace.

There is an Weng Mountain in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, and at the foot of the Weng Mountain, there are four lakes: Qilili, Dabo Lake, Wengshanbo and West Lake. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), in order to prepare for the 60th birthday of his mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaosheng, the Qianlong Emperor ordered the West Lake to be widened, and the earthwork of digging the lake was piled on the Weng Mountain, and the lake and the mountain were renamed Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain respectively, and the grand Qingyi Garden was built on the basis of this lake and a mountain. During the Second Opium War, Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French forces.

During the Guangxu period, the Empress Dowager Cixi rebuilt the Qingyi Garden in order to recuperate for the heavenly years, and renamed it "Summer Palace" with the meaning of "Yiyang Taihe".

1153 (the first year of the reign of Kim Jeong).Finish the face brightlySet it as a palace, the Ming royal family changed to a good mountain garden, in 1750 (the fifteenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty) rebuilt, named Qingyi Garden. In 1860 (the 10th year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty), it was destroyed by the British and French forces. 1888 (the 14th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty) Cixi.

Misappropriation of naval military spending.

It was rebuilt and changed to its current name as a summer resort.

Kunming Lake expanded by the original Wanshou Mountain and dredging.

It covers an area of about 290 hectares and has more than 3,000 palaces and garden buildings. It is divided into three parts: the lake, the flat front bench and the Wanshou Mountain.

Scenery

The main scenery of the lake is the Dragon King Temple, the West Embankment, the Six Bridges of the West Embankment, the East Embankment, and the Seventeen-Hole Bridge.

Wait. The main building of the flat land is the palace in the east of the garden, which is the place where the emperor listens to the government and lives in the place where the god repents, and there are Renshou Palace, Dehe Garden, etc.

Wanshou Mountain is the main body of the whole park, and many buildings are built according to the mountain, mainly including Paiyun Gate, Paiyun Palace, and Buddha Xiang Pavilion.

Wisdom Sea, Wheel Collection, Baoyun Pavilion, Liuliduo Pagoda, Gyeongbokgak, Painting Midstream, etc. The whole garden is green and green, the pavilion towers over the corridor, the gold is splendid, it is the culmination of the ancient gardening art, and has a very high position in the history of Chinese and foreign garden art.

Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, was built in the fifteenth year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1750 AD), which took 15 years to complete, and was the last one built in the famous "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" (Xiangshan Jingyi Garden, Yuquan Mountain Jingmingyuan, Wanshou Mountain Qingyi Garden, Yuanmingyuan and Changchun Garden) in Beijing. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860 AD), during the Second Opium War, the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, which was also seriously damaged. In the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886 AD), it began to be rebuilt, and in the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888 AD), Cixi embezzled the military funds of the navy (raising funds in the name of naval military expenses) to repair this garden, and renamed it "Summer Palace", which is the meaning of "Yiyang Taihe".

In the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895 AD), the project ended. The Summer Palace became the most important center of political and diplomatic activities of the supreme ruler of the late Qing Dynasty outside the Forbidden City, and was an important witness to China's modern history and the place where many major historical events took place. In 1898, Emperor Guangxu met with Kang Youwei, a reformist thinker, at the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace to inquire about the reform of the law; After the failure of the Wuxu reform, Guangxu was imprisoned in the Yulan Hall buried in Zheng Garden for a long time; In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900 AD), the Summer Palace was sacked by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the following year, after Cixi returned to Beijing from Xi'an, she again used a huge amount of money to repair the garden.

In 1924, the Summer Palace was opened to the public.

The Summer Palace, an ancient imperial garden in Beijing, formerly known as Qinghu Liquid Huiyi Garden, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of about 290 hectares, adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden built on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and absorbed the design techniques of Jiangnan garden, and is also the most intact royal palace garden, known as the "Royal Garden Museum", and is also a national key tourist attraction.

The Summer Palace, a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of about 290 hectares, adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden built on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and absorbed the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens.

In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), Emperor Qianlong used 4.48 million taels to honor his mother, Empress Xiaosheng, and rebuilt it into Qingyi Garden here. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was looted by the "Eight-Nation Alliance". During the warlord melee and the rule of the Kuomintang, it was broken and ruined.

On March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in November 1998, it was included in the World Heritage List. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest surviving royal garden in China by the China World Records Association.

Since January 1, 2019, the revenue from admission to the Summer Palace has been collected by the tax department.