Chapter 50 Section 2 Beijing Suburb Gardens and Chengde Palace

The Qing Dynasty also invested incalculable financial and human resources in the construction of gardens in the western suburbs of the capital.During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Changchun Garden was built on the former site of Tsinghua Garden of Li Wei, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Qingyi Garden (now the Summer Palace), Jingming Garden and Jingyi Garden were built in Shoushan Mountain), Yuquan Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain respectively.In addition, there are some other gardens belonging to the emperor's relatives, princes and ministers. Wengshan Pond has also been expanded to become Kunming Lake. The scenic spot in Yuan Zhongdao's "Ten Records of Xishan Mountain" has become a forbidden area for the royal family.

The Nanyuan in the south of Beijing also underwent further development in the Qing Dynasty, adding garden gates and building palaces, among which the Tuanhe Palace in the southwest corner of the garden is the most magnificent.In the Qing Dynasty, Nanyuan was also used as a place to practice soldiers and horses. Two military parade sites were built at the Killing Tiger Terrace in Xihongmen and the Yingying Terrace in Nanhongmen. Dozens. In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, and Nanyuan was also severely damaged.It is worth mentioning that there are still a group of elk (four different images) that have disappeared in other places, and they also disappeared. It was not until 1985 that our country accepted 20 donated by the British, and almost all of them were placed in the newly established natural elk in Nanyuan. protected area.Therefore, Nanhaizi in Daxing County appeared the place name Miluyuan again, and became the base for the ecological research of elk in my country.

1. Jingming Garden 5. Changchun Garden 10. Xichun Garden 14. Wanshou Temple Palace 19. Zhengbai Banner Yuquan Mountain 6. Wanchun Garden 11. Qingyi Garden 15. Bordered Red Flag 20. Bordered White Flag 2. Changchun Garden 7. Shu Spring Garden Longevity Hill 16. Zhenghong Banner 21. Zhenglan Banner 3. West Garden 8. Hongya Garden 12. Yihong Hall 17. Zhenghuang Banner 22. Xianglan Banner 4. Yuanmingyuan 9. Near Spring Garden 13. Quanzong Temple 18. Bordered yellow flag In the early Qing Dynasty, the Jehol Palace (or Chengde Li Palace) was built in Chengde today. Emperor Kangxi gave it an elegant name, called "Summer Resort".The palace area inside the villa is located in the southeast corner, and the rest are garden scenic spots. Kangxi and Qianlong each titled 36 scenes. The lake is sourced from Rehe Spring, and the west and north are surrounded by mountains. The scenery is beautiful and fresh.On the northeast side of the villa, there are eight temples, all of which are imitated from the famous temples in the frontier and inland, commonly known as the "Outer Eight Temples".Today's Weichang County, north of Chengde, used to be the royal hunting place. Emperors Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty spent most of their summer in the mountains and hunted in the paddock every year.Of course, hunting is also a way of training soldiers and martial arts, and it is also convenient to get in touch with the upper-class figures in Mongolia to jointly resist the southern invasion of Tsarist Russian forces in the north.