[Travel To China] Beijing Summer Palace

The Summer Palace located at Beijing northeast Haidian District, is apart from the town center the approximately 15 kilometers, for Qing Dynasty's temporary palace garden, its named “takes care of too and” righteousness originally. In garden corridor, construction being possible be called world construction culture and so on Shi Fang, Buddha fragrant Chinese style pavilion, valuable cloud Chinese style pavilion, big stage platform, ten seven orifices bridge, jade belt bridge valuable things. Has the extremely high status in the Chinese and foreign botanical garden art history. 　　After the entire garden divides the long life outlying hill, Kunming Lake, Mt. Hou, lake three parts. The outlying hill take the Buddha fragrant Chinese style pavilion as a center, composes the giant main body architectural complex, magnificent grand, with overpowering momentum. The ocean waves ripple the Kunming Lake even shop in the long life Shannan foothill, approximately composes the entire garden area 3/4. In the lake has a Lake Nanhu island, is connected by the beautiful ten seven orifices bridge and the ashore. West the lake has a west dike, in the dike repairs has six shape exquisite bridges. After Mt. Hou, lake blue Shui Yinghui, the ancient pine is towering, the environment is quiet and beautiful.

Jenshou palace in Summer Palace front door crown prince in gate. Is Cixi, Guang Xu sits the main hall which the dynasty administers the affairs of state. Old name diligence palace, when Guang Xu reconstructs, renames the Jenshou palace. East to, surface extravagant seven, the both sides has the north and south side hall, first has the Jenshou gate, the wrong side of the door for the north and south nine chief ministers room, the institute Chen's copper dragon, the copper phoenix, the copper tripod with two handles and so on, carves the system extremely to be fine.

The happy temporary resting place for coffin pending burial faces Kunming Lake, the east side has German and the garden big stage platform, west meets the corridor, is place which Cixi lives, “the happy temporary resting place for coffin pending burial” the black bottom gold character inscribed horizontal tablet writes personally for Guang Xu, before the hall, has the wharf which Cixi goes by boat. In the garden transplants the magnolia, the flowering crab, the peony and so on precious flowers and trees, takes “the mansion riches and honor” meaning.

Jade billows hall in the Kunming lakeside. Is Emperor Guang Xu's imperial palace. Lobby palace which extends in all directions for a group. The main hall jade billows hall, has the thing two side halls, east the famous rosy cloud profuse room, west calls the affiliation fragrant pavilion. The latter eave and two side halls build the brick wall and the outside isolation, is in the Summer Palace important historical traces.

Mt. Wanshou, is Yanshan -odd arteries, the height 58.59 meters. The architectural complex according to Shan Erzhu, the Mt. Wanshou outlying hill, take eight three four double-eaved roof's Buddha fragrant Chinese style pavilions as a center, composes the giant main body architectural complex. From the foot “the cloud splendor palace of the immortals” the decorative archway, after the row of cloud gate, two imperial city gates, the platoon cloud palace, the German splendor palace, the Buddha fragrant Chinese style pavilion, until the summit wisdom sea, has formed the axle which layer upon layer rises. The east side has “runner Tibet” and “the Mt. Wanshou Kunming Lake” the stele. The west side has five Fang Ge and the brass casting valuable cloud Chinese style pavilion. Mt. Hou has the splendid Tibetan Buddhism to construct and to stand erect in the green grove all colors colored glaze multi-pagodas. On the mountain also has Jing Fuge, the heavy green jade pavilion, to write tower pavilion Chinese style pavilions and so on fall porch, picture middle reaches, ascends a height to get a broad view may in the bird's eye view Kunming Lake's scenery. wisdom sea in long life summit. Is one completely the non-Liang Buddhist temple hall which builds by the bricks and stones, by the arch construction which vertically and horizontally alternates with is composed. Uses the five colors colored glaze bricks and tiles to decorate all over the body, the color is gorgeous, the design is fine, You Yiqian in palace outer wall surface thousand colored glaze Buddha richer characteristic.