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 built with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as its base sites and Hangzhou West Lake as its blueprint. It is a large-scale landscape garden that draws on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most completely preserved royal palace and imperial garden. It is known as the "Royal Garden Museum" and is a national key tourist attraction.

Kunming Lake is the largest lake in the royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty. There is a long embankment in the lake, the West embankment, that winds from northwest to south. The west embankment and its branch embankments divide the lake into three waters of varying sizes, each with an island in the center of the lake. These three islands form a tripod 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 it are consciously imitating the Su Causeway and the "Six Bridges on the Su Causeway" of the West Lake in Hangzhou. The blue waves and weeping willows around the Xidi area are open and the natural scenery is open. The beautiful mountain shape of Yuquan Mountain several miles outside the park and the shadow of Yufeng Tower on the top of the mountain are taken as part of the garden.

In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest existing royal garden in China by the China World Records Association.

Walking along Kunming Lake, you can see the beautiful scenery and the magnificent buildings are exquisite. All the scenery is built around Kunming Lake, which is the main body of the Summer Palace. The lake is undulating and undulating, and the lake and shore are beautifully decorated. Looking out from the perspective of the eye, tall, tall and lush weeping willows on the land circle the lake, surrounded by pavilions and pavilions, red walls and glass, and water pavilions and pavilions.

The Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, was built in 1750 AD. It was built by Qianlong to honor the 60th birthday of his mother, Empress Dowager Xiaosheng. It cost 4.48 million taels of silver. It covers an area of 3300 acres and is the largest existing royal garden in the world. It integrates the beautiful scenery of the country and famous buildings, integrates the masterpieces of the art of gardening in the north and south, and achieves the artistic effect of "although it is made for people, the garden is like heaven".

The Qing Yan Boat is commonly known as the stone boat. On the lake at the west end of the corridor, it is a large stone boat, meaning "Haiqing River Yan". It is the only Western-style building in the Summer Palace. Its predecessor was the release platform of Yuanjing Temple in the Ming Dynasty. When Qianlong built Qingyi Garden, it changed Taiwan to a boat and renamed it "Shifang". The stone boat is 36 meters long and is made of carved marble from ships. There is a two-story ship building built on the hull, the bottom of the ship is paved with tiled bricks, the windows are stained glass, and the top is decorated with brick carvings. When it rains, rainwater falling on the roof of the ship passes through hollow pillars at the four corners and is discharged into the lake through the four dragon heads of the ship

The promenade is located at the southern foot of Wanshou Mountain, facing Kunming Lake, and leaning against Wanshou Mountain in the north. It starts from Yaoyue Gate in the east and ends at Shizhang Pavilion in the west. It has a total length of 728 meters, with a total of 273 rooms. It is the longest promenade in Chinese gardens. It was recognized in 1992 as the longest promenade in the world and included in the "Guinness World Records". Each beam on the corridor is painted with color, and there are more than 14000 pictures in total, including mountains and rivers, flowers, fish and insects, characters and allusions, etc. The figure paintings in the painting are all based on Chinese classical classics

Wandering along the shores of Kunming Lake, at the end of the corridor, you can see pavilions and pavilions, various exquisite stone and bronze statues, and every unique landscape has a thought-provoking story.

According to historical records, in the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), the Dabaoen Yanshou Temple was built at the former site of Yuanjing Temple to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager. The following year, the mountain was renamed Wanshou Mountain. The buildings in Wanshou Mountain were once burned down by the British and French coalition forces, and the existing ones were rebuilt by order of Empress Dowager Cixi. Wanshou Mountain is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain, with a height of 58.59 meters and an altitude of 108.94 meters. It faces the vast expanse of blue waves of Kunming Lake. Wanshou Mountain is still towering under the sunset, and Kunming Lake is still clear. Covered with gorgeous towers and lush flowers and trees, tourists from all over the world are welcome here to enjoy sightseeing. More and more people will be like me, intoxicated in this peerless beautiful scenery that perfectly integrates nature and man-made!

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned down by the Anglo-French coalition forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), Empress Dowager Cixi used 30 million taels of silver to rebuild it in the name of raising naval funds, and renamed it the Summer Palace as a summer resort. In the 26th 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, during the war among warlords and the rule of the Kuomintang, it was destroyed again. After 1949, the government continued to allocate funds for repairs. On March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and was included in the "World Heritage List" in November 1998.

I stood next to the promenade and looked around. I saw the seventeen-hole bridge spanning between Nanhu Island and Longwang Temple. It is one of the famous attractions in the Summer Palace. The bridge is 150 meters long, like a colorful rainbow flying in the sky on the blue waves of Kunming Lake, or like a dragon floating on the lake, which amazed me.

The Seventeen-Arch Bridge is located on Kunming Lake, between the East Embankment and Nanhu Island. It is used to connect the Embankment Island and is the largest stone bridge in the park. The stone bridge is 8 meters wide and 150 meters long and consists of 17 bridge holes. More than 500 stone lions of different sizes and shapes are carved on the railings on both sides of the stone bridge. Jinguang Crossing Hole is a magnificent landscape presented by the Seventeen-Arch Bridge, the largest stone bridge in the Summer Palace in Beijing. It appears around the winter solstice every year. It is formed because the direction of sunset changes with the seasons. Before and after the winter solstice, at the sunset point where the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, the sun shines on the side walls of all the bridge holes of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge.

Overall, the Summer Palace is a good place, but it takes time to play slowly. I basically take a quick look at the scenery and can't deeply appreciate this good place for leisure. The main entrance of the Summer Palace is the East Palace Gate. In the past, this gate was accessible only to emperors.

"Hall of Benevolence and Longevity". It is the main hall where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu sat in court to hear government affairs and meet foreign guests. Originally known as Qinzheng Hall, it was rebuilt during the Guangxu period and renamed Renshou Hall. Facing east, it has a wide face with seven rooms, with north and south auxiliary halls on both sides. In front of it is Renshou Gate. Outside the door are the north and south Jiuqing rooms. The bronze dragons, bronze phoenixes, bronze tripods, etc. displayed are all beautifully carved. The gilded operation in the hall and the vermilion gate still reveal the majesty of the royal family.

The Summer Palace, a building during the heyday of the Qing Empire, represents 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 final struggle of the dynasty here, suffering, destruction...