In the autumn of 2022, Beijing’s Old Summer Palace will hold various fun activities. Friends can take advantage of this good opportunity to go shopping and enjoy the autumn! Then let’s take a look at some interesting autumn activities in Beijing’s Old Summer Palace. See below for details.
1. Viewing the Western Flower Sea
Have you taken a photo with the flowers this year? In the western scenic area of ??Yuanmingyuan, a variety of brightly colored flowers are used to create a sea of ??flowers and flower belts, enriching the visual landscape of the site. The total area of ??the flower sea is more than 10,000 square meters, with more than 10 kinds of herbs and flowers planted, such as zinnia, cosmos, sulfur chrysanthemum, cornflower, malachite, and colorful carnations. For those of you who like to take photos with Huahua, this is the best place!
Recommended viewing period: mid-September to late October
Location: deep in the cave, beside Qin Zheng Qinxian South Road, north of Zaoyuan Gate, etc.
2. Ginkgo and other colorful leaves viewing
Gold is of course the main theme of autumn, so ginkgo is a well-deserved C position! In late October, the ginkgo leaves will enter their best viewing period. The fallen leaves will slowly sweep over the Old Summer Palace, allowing the fallen leaves on the ground and the golden ginkgo leaves on the trees to create a poetic autumn scene. It is a perfect place to take photos in autumn. In addition to ginkgo, maple, ash, maple, cotinus and other highly ornamental colorful leaf tree species will also form multiple colorful leaf viewing areas in autumn.
Recommended viewing period: late October to mid-November
Location: Ginkgo Avenue, Lion Grove, Guanlan Hall, Desheng Pavilion, Yulinglong Pavilion, Kuoran Grand Duke, Natural Picture Scroll wait.
The autumn of 2010 to 2010 is also a good time to watch reeds. If you like free and easy, you can check it out! The water surface of the Old Summer Palace accounts for one-third of the entire garden area. Phragmites australis is one of the main plants growing in wetland environments. You can often see reed flowers swaying in the wind by the lakeside of Yuanmingyuan, which are smart and elegant.
Recommended viewing period: mid-October to mid-November
Location: Jade Linglong Pavilion in Fuhai Lion Forest
3. Reed viewing
In addition to summer, autumn is also a good time to enjoy lotus flowers! The flowering period of late-flowering varieties such as Yuanmingyuan's "National Day Red" can be extended to September or even October. This year, 100 ponds in the lotus variety base were cleaned and planted with lotus flowers, which can still be seen in full bloom in autumn.
Recommended viewing period: September
Location: Faqiao, Changchun Fairy Hall, Lotus Variety Base, and the ruins of the West Exit Line.
4. Autumn Lotus Appreciation
If you like poetry, don’t release your poetry here! Autumn in the Old Summer Palace is colorful, with golden ginkgo biloba, snow-like reed flowers, smart black swans, and heavy ruins, forming a poetic picture. During the golden autumn season, many poets are invited to visit the garden and create themes around the Old Summer Palace; poets and poetry recitation enthusiasts gather in the Old Summer Palace to recite and share poems about the Old Summer Palace and autumn, adding a poetic cultural experience to the Autumn Garden. The poems will be broadcast live on multiple platforms.
Time: Mid-to-late October
Venue: Multi-functional Hall
5. Poetry recital with the theme of "Colorful Golden Autumn, Full Ming Dynasty and Elegant Rhythm"
You like to listen to what the master tells you. This is the most important part you can’t miss! During the Golden Autumn Tour, we will continue to hold the Old Summer Palace Lecture Hall, invite experts and scholars to give historical and cultural lectures, and conduct live webcasts to allow tourists to visit the Old Summer Palace with historical knowledge, gain a better garden experience, and promote the spread of the Old Summer Palace’s history and culture.
September 21st, "Stone Carving Culture in Three Mountains and Five Gardens in the Qing Dynasty" by Chen Hui
October 12th, "Yuanmingyuan Style Thunder-Steel Sample"
October 26th "Looking for the Xichun Garden and Chunxi Garden among the Five Gardens of the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty" He Yu
6. Lecture Hall of the Old Summer Palace
An exhibition you can’t miss Got it! 9.26-10.25 The "Garden Painting Scenery" series of exhibitions, the Three Mountains and Five Gardens theme photography exhibition, will be held on the top floor of Zhengjue Temple in Yuanmingyuan. The exhibition extracts elements from the Old Summer Palace to create a theme from the artistic perspective of "one village, three mountains and five gardens". There are a total of 40 works on display, taking the four seasons of the Old Summer Palace as the main line: "walking in spring, looking at lotuses in summer, admiring chrysanthemums in autumn, and welcoming snow in winter", allowing visitors to experience the overall scenery of the Old Summer Palace in its heyday through the paintings.
Time: September 26th - October 23rd
Location: Upstairs of Zhengjue Temple.
7. Garden Painting - Three Mountains and Five Gardens Theme Photography Exhibition
If you believe in the power of books, don’t miss this place! Books and reading are the main carriers of civilization. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, inheriting and carrying forward historical civilization is an indispensable part. Reading is undoubtedly the best way to pass on civilization. "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" Reading Salon. "Memory" plans to invite authors to interpret and share books in depth in the salon, and conduct in-depth discussions with guests to enrich visitors' experience in the park and create a unique reading cultural space. The salon was broadcast live through WeChat video account and other platforms.
8. "Three Mountains and Five Gardens. Memory" Reading Salon
Photographer, look here! From September to November, the monthly photography contest is coming. Visitors and photographers are invited to take photos in the gardens. Through the perspective of the contestants, the unique garden landscape of the Old Summer Palace in autumn will be displayed, and the unique charm of the combination of the natural landscape of the Old Summer Palace and historical sites will be spread.
9. Yuanmingyuan Photography Monthly Competition
Maybe you are a painting master? Then you must not miss the sketching season competition from September to November! It is hoped that more than 100 Old Summer Palace ruins will be presented from the diverse perspectives of painting lovers, and the sense of history carried by the ruins and the unique charm of the Old Summer Palace Heritage Park will be spread.
10. Old Summer Palace sketching season competition
Would you like to take the Old Summer Palace home? Then don’t miss the DIY activity of “Autumn Memories” on Ginkgo Avenue. You can use the fallen leaves of the Old Summer Palace to carry out colorful leaf DIY crafts, such as leaf paintings, leaf specimens, plant cutting and extension, etc. You can take the handmade works home and leave a unique memory of visiting the Old Summer Palace in autumn.
Time: Ginkgo viewing period
Location: Ginkgo Avenue
11. “Autumn Memory” DIY activity
Don’t be afraid, silly friend! I have a beautiful map in my hand! The official Yuanmingyuan WeChat account mini program will release an autumn tour map, which contains a wealth of autumn tour routes and special autumn landscape viewing areas. You can check in and take photos at recommended places to win gifts or gift certificates, which makes it more interesting while enjoying the scenery in the park.
Time: During the Golden Autumn Tour