What time does the Old Summer Palace close, and what time does the Old Summer Palace release tickets

The Old Summer Palace Ruins Park is open all year round at:

From January to March 15 and from October 16 to December:

Tickets for the Old Summer Palace are released at 9 a.m.

The reservation time for tickets for the Old Summer Palace is 9 a.m. every day, and reservations are generally made one day in advance. The appointment method can be made through the official ** or WeChat***, you need to select the appointment date and time period in advance, and fill in your personal information. After the reservation is successful, you need to arrive at the gate of the Old Summer Palace within the specified time to check in and enter the park.

Yuanming Disturbing Branch Garden, a large royal garden in the Qing Dynasty of China, is located at No. 28, Tsinghua West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, covering an area of more than 350 hectares, of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares, composed of the Old Summer Palace, Qichun Garden, Changchun Garden, and the largest of the Old Summer Palace, so it is collectively referred to as the Old Summer Palace (also known as the Three Yuan Ming Palaces). The Old Summer Palace not only brings together a number of famous garden scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but also transplants Western garden architecture, which is the culmination of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign gardening art at that time. It was one of the treasures of human culture, and it was the largest museum in the world at that time.

The Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty

1. Qichun Garden.

Located on the southeast side of the Old Summer Palace, Qichun Garden is composed of several small gardens of different periods, and the shape is irregular, so the gardens are generally loose, and each small garden forms a group, separated from each other by a wall, or scattered among the waterside mountains. The most prominent place in the Qichun Garden is the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, namely: Fuchun Hall, Qingxia Zhai, Hanqiu Pavilion and Winter Room.

2. Changchun Garden.

The southern part of Changchun Garden is dominated by a large water feature, and the overall layout is sparse and cheerful, and the density is appropriate. The garden gate is the palace gate of Changchun Garden, five wings, and there is a copper unicorn on the left and right outside the door (there is only one left, displayed in front of the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace). A shadow wall is built in the south of it.

The entrance is the Huai Hall, the nine wings, the top of the roll shed rests, there is the platform Dan Majesty in front, and the east and west are equipped with the five wings of the hall. The north of the main hall is the river bank, build a square pavilion, and there is a corridor to communicate with the main hall. In addition, there are Hanguang Room, Lixin Building, and Taste Book House.

Outside the east wall, there are buildings such as the buying and selling street.

3. Wenyuan Pavilion.

Wenyuan Pavilion is located in the north of the Old Summer Palace Scenic Area, on which should be the white mercury, representing water in the five elements. Wenyuan Pavilion sits in the north and faces south, the pavilion forehead and the posture in the pavilion are the Qianlong Emperor's imperial book, the roof is covered with black green cut edge glazed tiles, from the appearance of the upper and lower two layers, each layer is six rooms, double eaves rest on the top of the mountain. In fact, the internal structure is three floors, with front and back corridors.

Each ridge of Wenyuan Pavilion and the kissing beast and the beast are all green, and the glazed cloud sea of the main ridge is decorated with nine purple swimming dragons.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Old Summer Palace.