Talking about the atmosphere of the Summer Palace

The Summer Palace covers an area of about 290 hectares and is adjacent to Yuanmingyuan. It is a large-scale landscape garden based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, with Hangzhou West Lake as the blueprint and drawing lessons from Jiangnan garden design techniques. It is also the best preserved royal palace.

In the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), Emperor Qianlong rebuilt Qingyi Garden here with 4.48 million taels of silver, forming a royal garden area 20 kilometers long from Tsinghua campus to Xiangshan.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned by the British and French allied forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer amusement park. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was destroyed by "Eight-Nation Alliance" and its treasures were looted.

The Summer Palace covers an area of 293 hectares and is mainly composed of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake. There are more than 3,000 palace garden buildings in various forms, which can be roughly divided into three parts: administration, life and sightseeing.