Summer Palace | A Royal Garden
Stroll through it to enjoy the scenery of lakes and mountains, ancient architectural complexes, and famous old trees, and feel the tranquility and elegance of the ancient royal gardens.
The Summer Palace is also an important carrier of Chinese history and culture, where one can appreciate the cultural heritage and historical legacy of the Chinese nation.
📍: No. 19, New Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing
🎫: 20 (Students 10)
🔴The Long Corridor
The longest corridor in the world, with its beams and rafters carved with stories from the Four Great Classical Novels and the Tale of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea.
🔴The Tower of Buddhist Incense
Situated on Longevity Hill, it overlooks the Seventeen-Arch Bridge. Facing Kunming Lake to the south, Empress Dowager Cixi once prayed and burned incense here.
🔴The Marble Boat
At the end of the Long Corridor by the lakeside, there is a large stone boat, symbolizing 'clear seas and peaceful rivers,' the only Western-style architecture in the Summer Palace.
🔴The Grand Theatre
One of the three major theatres of the Qing Dynasty and the largest in scale. It consists of a three-story opera building and a two-story dressing building.
📝Tips:
✔️The restrooms in the Summer Palace are crowded but relatively clean, and there is hot water for washing hands.
✔️There is a subway station right at the entrance of the Summer Palace, but parking is difficult if driving; the parking lot opposite the North Palace Gate is usually full, and you are advised to park near the New Palace Gate, where there are P6 and P7 parking lots.
✔️The attractions of the Summer Palace are concentrated in the north, and basically, each shop is fenced off.
✔️The Summer Palace is vast, and touring it requires considerable physical effort.
This is an attraction in the scenic area of Beijing Summer Palace, it is refreshing and cool. It is a cool place on the shore of Kunming Lake, which is located between Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake! [View] Unique, [Interesting] Ming and Qing Palace Garden, [Cost-effective] Super high!
The promenade of the Summer Palace is the world's artistic treasure, the total length is 728 meters, the most powerful is the above more than 14,000 paintings, these words have strange flowers and grass, peaks and rocks, there are "Water Tree", "Travel to the West", "Three Kingdoms", as well as historical stories, opera stories and myths and legends. These paintings are as flexible as life, very beautiful.
Traveling to Beijing, I came to the Summer Palace to play. The corridor of the Summer Palace is a selling point. It is not a general long. The total length is 728 meters. With 548 pillars, the corridor was once returned by the eight-country coalition. It was rebuilt in 1888. There are colorful galleries in the corridor. There will be color paintings on each beam. More than 14,000 pictures are very beautiful, each one is different.
Along the mountain in front of the mountain in Shandong, there is a three-open hall called "Yi Chi Yun in". It is backed by mountains and stones, winding paths, surrounded by lush trees, and very quiet, a summer cool place in the Summer Palace. "Yi Chi Yun is in" is taken from Du Fu's "Jiangting" poem: "Water flow heart does not compete, cloud cares about the late". It means "Although the water flow, but the heart does not want to compete with the world; although the white clouds are in the sky, but do not want the Qingyun straight up." Expressed a leisurely seclusion mood. Here you can see the scenery from all sides, mountain view, autumn view, winter view, passing by may inadvertently, look back, it is still a very artistic place. Thirty-seven, Ku (ku) Ruting Kuruting is located on the east embankment south of the newly built palace gate of the Summer Palace. The common name is Bafang Pavilion. It was built in Qianlong in 17 years (1752), and was rebuilt when Guangxu. It is lined with the 17-hole bridge and Nanhu Island in space. The construction area is 384.95 square meters, the plane is octagonal, each side is 3, surrounded by corridors, heavy eight ridges, pointed round treasure top, a total of 42 pillars in the pavilion. There is a wooden raft on each side of the pavilion (8 pieces), Shangyu Qianlong Royal Poetry. From March 2019, the Summer Palace took temporary closure measures for the first time on the interior of the Kurru Pavilion, which lasted until October.
Traveling to Beijing, I came to the Summer Palace to play. The corridor of the Summer Palace was built in Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty for 15 years. It was burned by the British and French coalition forces and was later rebuilt. The corridor is 728 meters long and has 548 pillars. The corridor is also famous for its exquisite buildings and rich color paintings. It is the longest corridor in ancient buildings and gardens in China. In summer, sitting on the corridor will feel the coolness. Although the sun is fierce outside the corridor, it is a different feeling in the corridor, so many tourists like to enjoy the coolness here.