Summer Palace Beijing

Now the best time for traveling to Beijing is coming. With the gentle breeze and the warm sun shine, all the flowers are blooming in the early summer. As the capital city of China, Beijing enjoys countless tourist destinations. Besides the famous Great Wall and the Forbidden, Summer Palace is another attraction with very high reputation. Visiting the Summer Palace during the summertime, all the visitors will be lost in the charming scenery.

The Summer Palace is a veritable museum of garden type architecture of different styles from different regions in China, and is definitely a gem in the Chinese art of garden construction. Covering an area of 290 hectares, the Summer Palace primarily consists of the Wanshoushan (Longevity Hill) and Kunming Lake. More than 30 classical structures are scattering on the hill and around the lake.

If you are traveling with a few friends in tight time, there are many one day tour routes consist of the Summer Palace are ready for you. Among them One Day Private Tour to Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven is much popular. During the private tour, the English speaking tour guide will introduce the history and the story of the Summer Palace to all the travelers. The Summer Palace was reborn after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The government of New China has been funding to renovate most ramshackle buildings and scenic spots according to their original designs and to reappear their former grandeur. In 1998, the UNESCO inscribed the Summer Palace on the World Heritage List.

After the half day tour to the Summer Palace, in the afternoon tourists will visit the Temple of Heaven – the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests. The architecture of Temple of Heaven has two themes. One is “on the earth,” while the other is “in the heaven.” The square-shaped palace for fasting in the west of the temple appears like a “forbidden city” in smaller size. The circular shaped the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and the Circular Mound Altar are thought to have been connected with heaven.

After the tour to the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven, tourists will both enjoy the charming garden scenery and learn more about the history of Beijing. Welcome to Beijing during the summer vacation and have a nice trip!

The Summer Palace Suzhou Street palace market has very long history. The Suzhou Street in Summer Palace is carried on as Qianlong period. It is the unique imperial court temple fair with imperial cultural deposits and south China river countries’ amorous feelings.

The Summer Palace temple fair combines various elements together with the festive festival. The elements include south China river street, gardens beautiful scenery, imperial family culture, unusually brilliant folk custom performance. They reappear the happy and flourishing scene in Qing Dynasty. The Summer Palace temple fair give Beijing people and tourists in Beijing a cultural banquet with Qing Dynasty flavor, Beijing flavor, south china flavor and Spring Festival flavor.

The performances in this year outstands the happiness character. The dragon drum modeling performance out of Beigongmen in Summer Palace pulls open the temple fair prelude. You can feel the ardent and happy festive atmosphere when you are out of the Summer Palace. In the 2012 Spring Festival, there also blend the hundred years’ strains of music accompanied by drumbeats culture. The four sides auspicious drums, waist drums and Taiping drums were performed in the first day of the first Chinese lunar month. They deduce people’s happy mood and give good wishes to people.

On the Xumi Lingjing Square, there is the performance stage, free lion dances, acrobatic show and comic dialogue performances and so on. Tourists in summer Palace temple fair will have a feast for your eyes. There is Touhu game in Jiayin pavilion. Tourists can experience the throwing game played by ancient literati and officialdom in ancient time. Otherwise, the small ice wagon, art work made from powder and ferrule and so on interaction items add interesting to your Beijing trip in Summer Palace during the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, tourists can not only experience the court temple fair culture in Suzhou Street in Summer Palace, but also enjoy the winter sweet in Xiequ Garden.

There are plum potted landscape art exhibition in Summer Palace. You will enjoy the hundred years’ history potted landscape culture here. There are plum, winter sweet, winter jasmine, black pine, five-leaved pine and black bamboo and so on totally 13 kinds of potted landscapes.

Summer Palace not only has beautiful scenery, long historic culture, but also gives you happy temple fair trip during the Spring Festival. It is a good spot can’t be missed in your Beijing trip.

Now Beijing’s spring is coming and all the trees are sprout. Since the weather becomes warmer and warmer, it is excellent to have a tour in Beijing recently. With very rich tourism resources, visitors will get a lot of enjoyment during the trip.

Summer Palace is located in Haidian District, 15 km away northwest of Beijing downtown. Summer Palace is based on Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, modeled on the scenic West Lake in Hangzhou, the draw of the Southern Gardens and built a large landscape park, which is also the well protected Royal Palace Regency.

Summer Palace in Beijing was founded in 1750 and in 1860 was seriously damaged in the war and repaired in 1886. The pavilions, promenade, palaces, temples and bridges and other artificial landscape and natural hills and open lake are harmony and artistic blend, so the Summer Palace is called a masterpiece design of Chinese landscape garden.

For many years, the Summer Palace management to impose a “culture to build garden” for the purpose, by King environment, Yamagata River, cultural relics, ancient buildings, vegetation, landscape as the Summer Palace’s core protected content, to establish the full protection of the Summer Palace management system. Especially since the reform and opening up, the Summer Palace to accelerate the pace of construction and protection, has invested heavily in the recovery of the Four Big Island, Suzhou Street, King Ming House, Dan Ning Tang, Farming and Weaving Picture. Besides, it actively participated in the transformation of the surrounding environment, continuation of the history of the human environment in the Summer Palace. Restored the cultural heritage of integrity and authenticity, the Wenchang Museum with the most advanced facilities is also built in the Summer Palace.

On March 4^th, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key protected institution of cultural relics. On December 2^nd, 1998, the Summer Palace with its rich historical and cultural heritage, beautiful natural environment, landscape, excellent protection and management was classified in the World Heritage List, hailed as one of the world’s great civilizations powerful symbol. In recent years, the Summer Palace has received the first batch of national civilized scenery tourist area demonstration site, the advanced unit of spiritual civilization, the first national AAAA level scenic spot and many honorary titles.

With such a high reputation and the most charming garden scenery, tourists of Beijing tour should not miss this world famous attraction.

Summer Palace is the largest and best preserved imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty extant in Beijing, as well as a famous classical imperial garden. With the beautiful scenery and the art of garden Summer Palace attracts large numbers of tourists and became the top attraction in Beijing. If you are interested in beautiful landscape and the garden art then Summer Palace will be the ideal place for you.

Beijing Jingyi Hotel is located in the heart of Zhongguancun Hi-Tech Park, upscale business hotel. Peking University, Tsinghua University and other major universities and research institutes gathered around the hotel. East to Asian Games Village commercial district, north of Beijing top attractions Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden and other historical sites, Beijing Jingyi Hotel enjoys very convenient transportation.

Beijing Jingyi Hotel is a five star luxury hotel located in No.9 East Great Bell Temple Road, Beijing Haidian District which was opened in 2008. From Beijing Jingyi Hotel to get to the Beijing Capital International Airport there are 30 kilometers away; to the Beijing Railway Station there are 14 kilometers away; 11 kilometers away from the Beijing West Railway Station to the hotel and 11 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square. Beijing Jingyi Hotel designed by the famous American designer, with unique magnificent courtyard-style lobby, the elevator on the tourist can enjoy the Chinese and Western architecture. Elegant and warmly decorated guest rooms, swimming pool, gym, billiards, table tennis and other recreational fitness sites are built in the hotel. The hotel restaurants, including a western restaurant and a restaurant serving dishes and local specialties official Chinese restaurant, adapted to the different needs of the guests from all over the world. And each room has free high speed internet to convenience the businessmen. 10 large and small conference rooms and facilities are available and the banquet hall can organize banquets and cocktail parties. Open meeting venues and outdoor activities could be held in outdoor garden. Hotel services include: disabled rooms, taxis, conference hall, business center, barber beauty salon, pick up service, currency exchange, front valuables safe, ticketing service, full-time porter, luggage storage service, laundry service, postal service and wake up service.

If you want to pay a visit to the Summer Palace and want to find a hotel not far from it, Beijing Jingyi Hotel is good for you. As very near to the Summer Palace, during one day trip tourists could also pay a visit to Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden.

Summer Palace Being is one of the best garden architecture in China with nearly 800 years of history. And it is one of the top attractions in Beijing among tourists. Based on Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, Summer Palace Being enjoys the very beautiful scenery. And also there are some cultural activities in Summer Palace Being. So when having a Beijing tour, tourists could not miss the chance to pay a visit to this Imperial Garden.

“Suzhou Street Spring Festival Temple Market” program began in 1992 and it is the maintained distinctive folk cultural activities in Summer Palace Beijing for many years. Suzhou Street, formerly known as trading Street and during the Qing Dynasty there were restaurants, wine shops, Banks, the paintings, four treasures, shoes, hats, cloth and other industries firms in the market. The eunuchs play businessmen and gungnyeos play the tourists leave to do business. After the reconstruction restore the original Suzhou Street firms of various industries, from service of the Qing Dynasty clothing business restaurants, wine shops and sale of real goods. In order to enrich the cultural life of the capital during the Spring Festival content, full of cultural characteristics of the Summer Palace Beijing.

“Suzhou Street Temple Market” is held from the first day to fifth day of the annual Spring Festival and during the Temple Market outside the North Gate of the Summer Palace Beijing hanging bunting around the night market traders facade decorated with lights. On the small square outside North Gate there are the teams of lions and drums which announce the opening of the Temple Market. Located at the entrance to the North Gate there set “Official Blessing” there posing as official days of service presented to the visitors “God of Wealth” or “good luck” auspicious calligraphy. And there are also some other cartoon characters who accompany visitors photography. Into the North Gate, the face is a Manchu characteristic of the “Peace Drum” dance and other excellent performances. In the Pine Hall the two bride sedans and the lively Yangge are cheerful that let people feel the happy festive atmosphere.

If you choose to have the Beijing tour during the period of Chinese Spring Festival, then you could choose Summer Palace Being tour to experience the happy festive atmosphere. The traffic is very convenient or you could join the group of one day bus tour to Summer Palace Being, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven.

Beijing is very rich in tourism resources. No matter you are interested in natural landscapes, you are interested in historical sites and the history or you want to experience the traditional culture, as the capital city with a long history, Beijing will meet all your needs. There are many famous attractions situated in Beijing very popular for tourists. If you are interested in natural landscape, the Summer Palace will be a good place for you.

Summer Palace was originally the Imperial Garden during the Qing Dynasty, which was founded in 1750 and completed in 1764. Summer Palace is located in Beijing Haidian District, 15 kilometers away from the central zone of Beijing, based on Kunming Lake, Longevity Hill and West Lake in Hangzhou, learning the design techniques and mood from the Southern Gardens, Summer Palace is a large natural landscape garden, also well preserved Summer Palace known as the Royal Garden Museum in China.

With the large scale, the Summer Palace covers an area of ​​2.97 square kilometers (293 hectares), mainly by Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake of two parts, which accounted for three-quarters of the water (about 220 hectares). The buildings in the Summer Palace regard Buddhist House as the center, surrounded by hundreds of other attractions in the building block, and different size of yards more than 20, 3555 ancient buildings with an area of ​​70,000 square meters. A total number of Pavilion, Taiwan, House, Club, Gallery, pavilion different form of building is more than 3,000. Old trees more than 1,600 strains are living in the Summer Palace.

The main attractions in the Summer Palace can be divided into three regions: the solemn majesty of Renshou Dian represented the political activities, the main site of the late Empress and Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty in internal affairs, diplomatic and political activities. To Le Shoutang, Yu Lan Tang, Yi Yun Museum and other area of life represented by the courtyard, is the Empress, Emperor Guangxu and Empress living place. The third part is based on Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake to compose the natural landscape spots.

Summer Palace pavilions, promenade, halls, temples and bridges and other artificial mountains and open landscapes and the natural harmony between the lake and art blend, the ingenious idea of ​​garden art, is a Chinese garden architecture, the culmination of a masterpiece, playing a important role in the garden art prominently both in China and throughout the world.

Beijing is the ancient capital of China and a lot of ancient palaces are preserved very well; a lot of palaces constructions are open to public and attract a lot of tourists from all over the world. The ancient viewpoints for Beijing tour are rich resort, such as the classical Forbidden City tour, Qianmen Street and the typical garden tour of Summer Palace and so on. Beijing Forbidden City was the main living palaces of ancient emperors during Ming and Qing dynasty. The Beijing Forbidden City is a great constructions group of Ming dynasty and was added during Qing dynasty; the Beijing Forbidden City is the typical representation of China tour. Tourists in Beijing Forbidden City cannot the important palace named Palace of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing Gong). Palace of Heavenly Purity is located inside of Qianqing Gate and is the first position of the behind three palaces. The Palace of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing Gong) is an important part of Beijing Forbidden City. The great Palace of Heavenly Purity was a place where was used by Ming and Qing emperors to live and deal with day to day affairs of the place. Beijing Forbidden City tour will give people a good opportunity to know more about China ancient palace life conditions. After the Forbidden City tour; to have a Qianmen Street tour or Summer Palace tour maybe are good choices next.

The Qianmen Street is connected to the Dashilan Commercial Street and Xianyukou Alley. Dashilan Street is formerly known as Langfang Sitiao in Chinese in ancient Beijing City, the history of Beijing Dashilan can be dated back to nearly 500 years ago. Dashilan is located south of Tiananmen Square, west of Qianmen Street; from the East Side to West Side has a length of 275 meters. Now, Beijing Qianmen and Dashilan is popular Commercial Street in Beijing city; a lot of tourists like to have a visit during their Beijing travel. If tourists want to visit ancient palace garden, the Summer Palace is a good place to enjoy. Tourists can get the Summer Palace from Qianmen zone take the subway line 2 the transfer to the subway line 4 and get off in Xiyuan Station. Beijing Summer Palace is an ancient palace garden which was built in the period of Qing dynasty. During Qianglong emperor period, a lot of typical constructions were added in the garden. Now Summer Palace in Beijing is very popular and famous viewpoint and a lot of Beijing tour lines include the Summer Palace tour.

In recent years, Beijing tour has become more and more popular. Since Beijing is rich in tourism resources, it is the ideal place for you to spend your holiday. Beijing has a lot of world famous attractions among which the Summer Palace is the beautiful place really worth visiting during your Beijing tour. The Summer Palace is one of the best garden architecture in China. With about 800 years of history, Summer Palace is the valuable historical sites with ancient Chinese garden art. If you want to find a good hotel near to Summer Palace Crowne Plaza Zhongguancun Hotel may be suitable for you.

Crowne Plaza Zhongguancun Hotel is a five star hotel and is located in No. 106 Zhichun Road, Haidian District very close to subway station Haidianhuangzhuang. It is very near to the famous imperial garden-the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace. All rooms in Crowne Plaza Zhongguancun Hotel are available at a glance the city and equipped with business and leisure facilities, such as high speed broadband Internet access, 37-inch LCD TV, mini bar, electronic safe and separate shower room with sunlight and bathroom. Four distinctive restaurants and bars aim to meet different customer food preferences.

Crowne Plaza Zhongguancun Hotel also has a banquet hall covers an area of ​​480 square meters, can accommodate 300 people, two multi-purpose hall and eight meeting rooms 30 to 100 square meters, in order to fully meet the needs of different size meetings. All meeting rooms are equipped with professional-grade audio, video, high-speed Internet access and projection equipment. Meanwhile, the hotel’s professional conference services team, could more successful holding of various events to provide reliable protection.

Many tourists prefer to live in Crowne Plaza Zhongguancun Hotel during their tour to Summer Palace due to the good services. Services: taxi, business center, wireless Internet access available in public areas, parking fees, pick-up service, currency exchange service, free tourist traffic map, automatic teller machines, full-time porter, luggage service, laundry service, disability room, wake up service. Dining: Chinese restaurant, Western restaurant, barbecue, coffee shop, lobby bar, room service throughout the day; leisure: fitness room, indoor swimming pool, sauna, etc.

The Summer Palace Being is one of the best garden architecture in China. With about 800 years history, Summer Palace Being is the valuable historical sites with ancient Chinese garden art and became a top attraction in Beijing. If you are interested in the beautiful landscapes, Summer Palace Being is the place you should not miss during your Beijing travel.

There are many attractive scenic spots located in Summer Palace Being. Longevity Hill in Summer Palace Beijing belongs to the Yanshan Mountains with the height of 58.59 meters. Based on the mountain, the buildings on the former Longevity Hill regarded the octahedral three storey four eaves of Buddhist House as the center. From the foot of the “Yunhui Palace” arch, by the row of Cloud Gate, the Second Palace, Paiyun Palace, Dehui Temple, Buddhist Pavilion, until the top of the wisdom of the sea form a layer increasing axis. On the east of Longevity Hill, there are “wheel Tibet” and “Longevity Hill Kunming Lake” stone. On the west side, there are five copper Baoyun Court Houses. In the back of the mountain there stand the Tibetan Buddhist buildings and the colorful glass pagoda with green trees. There are also GyeongBokGung Court, Chongcui Pavilion, the Autumn Pavilion and other middle pavilions on the mountain, boarding to overlook the lake view, you will feel amazing. The southern slope of Longevity Hill also called formerly Hill is very near to Kunming Lake. Hills connect with lake constitutes a very cheerful nature. Former Hill in Summer Palace Beijing is near to the main entrance and the palace of the emperors which is more convenient for travelers. As overlooking Kunming Lake, the main scenic spots of Summer Palace Beijing are situated here. Here the lake, mountains, islands, the embankment and the constructions, with a garden outside by the King to form a continuous rate to start, just as the embroidered landscape picture.

While the landscape in the back mountain is very different where is full of rustic charm of the natural environment of mountains, lush forests, Hill bend, the scenery is deep and quiet. In addition to the central temple, the buildings are concentrated at a number of self-contained, with the surrounding environment composed of exquisite small garden.

When visiting Summer Palace Being, you could both enjoy the beautiful scenery and learn more about Chinese garden art at the same time. The wonderful experience in Summer Palace Being will surely leave you an unforgettable memory.

With a long history, Beijing has a large amount of beautiful natural landscapes and many historical sites which really attractive to the tourists from all over the world. If you are interested in natural landscapes, Summer Palace Beijing will meet your needs. Many foreign tourists regard Summer Palace Beijing as one of the must visit places during their Beijing tour because besides the beautiful scenery, they could also enjoy the garden art at the same time.

Kunming Lake is the main lake in Summer Palace Beijing, accounting for three-quarters of park area, about 220 hectares. South of the former lake rippling blue waves, facing west toward the ups and downs, while to the north there stand pavilion groups. In the middle of the lake there is an embankment where full of peach and willows. 17-hole Bridge is lying on the lake. Three islands are on the lake with different forms of classical architectures. During Qing Dynasty, Kunming Lake is the largest lake in the royal park. The lake causeway is winding south from the northwest. The embankments divided Kunming Lake into three sizes and each has a lake island waters. The three islands are symbols of ancient Chinese legend three mountains of the East China Sea, Penglai, Abbot and Ying Chow. As the dike separating the island, the lake level appears to avoid the monotony. The embankment of the six bridges is a conscious imitation of the West Lake of Hangzhou, so that increasingly bore a striking resemblance Kunming Lake. The willows along the blue water formed the beautiful natural scenery. a few miles outside the beautiful mountains of Yuquan and Yufeng Peak of an inner row from tower shadow was taken as the closing part of the landscape.

Visiting Summer Palace Beijing, you will not only feel relaxed and comfortable but also amaze at the ancient garden art. So the experience in Summer Palace Beijing will leave a wonderful memory to you.