The master plan of Qingyi Garden is based on the West Lake in Hangzhou. At the same time, Jiangnan gardens and scenic spots are widely imitated, such as Phoenix Wharf imitating Taihu Lake, Jingming Building imitating Yueyang Tower, Wang Chan Pavilion imitating Yellow Crane Tower, Houxihu Commercial Street imitating Suzhou Water Street, and Xisuo Commercial Street imitating Yangzhou Twenty-four Bridges.
The main building in the park is yanshou temple, which is a big newspaper with a long corridor of more than 700 meters. Its architecture and decorative paintings are quite wonderful and have artistic value, and there are many sightseeing buildings. There are few buildings in Qingyi Garden of Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace, both political and residential. Emperor Qianlong visited Qingyi Garden that day and never lived in it.
At its peak, the Summer Palace was large, covering an area of 2.97 square kilometers. It is mainly composed of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake, of which the water surface accounts for three quarters (about 220 hectares).
The buildings in the park are centered on the Buddha Hall. There are more than 0/00 scenic buildings/kloc-,more than 20 courtyards, 3,555 ancient buildings, covering an area of more than 70,000 square meters, and more than 3,000 pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions and pavilions. Among them, Buddha Pavilion, Promenade, Zhou Shi, Suzhou Street, Seventeen-hole Bridge, Humorous Garden and Grand Stage are representative buildings. Old and famous trees 1600.
After Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Qingyi Garden was gradually abandoned due to the weakness of national strength. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was destroyed by the fire of the British and French allied forces. From the tenth year to the 21st year of Guangxu (1884 to 1895), Empress Dowager Cixi retired to recuperate and ordered the reconstruction of Qingyi Garden in the name of Emperor Guangxu.
Due to limited funds, I concentrated my financial resources to restore the Qian Shan complex, and built a wall around Kunming Lake, renamed the Summer Palace and became the detached palace. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the buildings and cultural relics in the park were destroyed by Eight-Nation Alliance and restored in the 28th year of Guangxu (1902). Although the Summer Palace has completely restored the landscape of Qingyi Garden, many of them have declined in quality.
Due to the shortage of funds, many high-rise buildings have been forced to shorten and shrink. For example, Wenchang Pavilion Tower has been reduced from three floors to two floors, Leshou Hall has been changed from double eaves to single eaves, and there are also heightened buildings, such as the Grand Theatre. Suzhou Street was burned down and never recovered. Because Cixi prefers Soviet-style color paintings, the color paintings of pavilions in many houses have also changed from Hexi color paintings to Soviet-style color paintings, which changed the original appearance of Qingyi Garden in detail.
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Before Qingyi Garden was completed, its predecessor, Wengshan West Lake, was a famous scenic spot in the northwest suburb of Beijing. In particular, Wengshan Park (West Lake) is a wonderful natural landscape, which not only becomes a good place for Beijing people to enjoy the scenery, but also attracts rulers and dignitaries to wander around. Around the West Lake, rice fields, temples and villages are scattered all over the place, which together with mountains, rivers and lakes form a beautiful picture just like the south of the Yangtze River.
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