The Story of Beijing Summer Palace Corridor

Legend has it that after the completion of the Summer Palace, Cixi will spend more than half of her time here every year. At the beginning, Cixi liked the Jiangnan scenery of the Summer Palace very much, but after a long time, she felt nothing new.

One day, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to go out for a walk again, and all the officials were busy obeying and accompanying her. When the party went to the south slope at the foot of Wanshou Mountain, it was raining all the time. Eunuch Li hurriedly stepped forward to hold up an umbrella and took advantage of the situation to observe Cixi's face.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Cixi's face turned from cloudy to sunny, and Li was wondering. Cixi spoke: "The umbrella is really good. It can shelter me from the wind and rain and let me see another scenery." They don't understand.

When Cixi returned to her bedroom, she immediately summoned the craftsmen and told them what she thought. Soon, a long corridor appeared between the south slope of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake.

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Artistic features of the promenade:

1, the promenade mostly adopts warm colors such as red, khaki or white, and the painting is flexible and has a wide range of subjects. There are as many as seven to nine layers of smoke clouds, and various lifelike auspicious birds and animals are usually drawn at the head-seeking place.

2. It is colorful, elegantly decorated and increasingly rich in content. Bo Gu artifacts, landscapes, flowers and birds, and people's stories are all-encompassing.

3. The composition of the promenade often draws decorative patterns between two plain hoop heads, drawing flowing clouds or black green flowers. The component of drawing clouds is a green hoop head with a blue background; The part painted with black bougainvillea has a green background and a green hoop. The background color of the pad is red and the flower quilt is painted blue.

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