Unbelievable Facts About The Summer Palace🇨🇳

Опубликовано: 14 Февраль 2025
на канале: Priya Sharma

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The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.
In 1860, Qingyiyuan was burned and destroyed during the Anglo-French invasion. In 1888, Empress Dowager Cixi collected a large sum of money (5 to 6 million taels of silver, according to experts) in the name of raising funds for the navy, rebuilt the garden into a summer resort and renamed it Yiheyuan (the Summer Palace). The reconstruction was chaired by Lei Tingchang, the seventh generation of the Lei family of architects who produced the Yangshi Lei Archives.

In 1900, the Summer Palace was again destroyed by the Eight-Power Allied Forces and many treasures were looted. It was restored in 1903. Later, the Summer Palace suffered damage in years of the internal wars raised by warlords and during the reign of the Kuomintang. After 1949, the Chinese government continued to allocate funds for repairs. On March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was named one of the first Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level, and in November 1998, it was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. On May 8, 2007, the Summer Palace was officially approved by the National Tourism Administration as a national 5A-level tourist attraction. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest and best-preserved imperial garden in China by the China World Records Association. The Summer Palace has a number of honorary titles of being the best in the world and in China.

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