Yuanmingyuan was mainly built in the last years of Kangxi and Yongzheng. In the 46th year of Kangxi (1707), Emperor Kangxi gave his fourth son Yong Zhengdi a garden in the northwest suburb of Beijing.

Yuanmingyuan has inherited the excellent gardening tradition of China for more than 3,000 years, which is both elegant in court architecture and euphemistic and diverse in Jiangnan gardens. At the same time, it absorbs European garden architecture forms and blends different styles of garden architecture, making people feel harmony and perfection in the overall layout.

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As big as Yuanmingyuan, several emperors expanded and rebuilt one after another. Coupled with the influence of the decadent consciousness of feudal emperors, it is still insufficient from any angle. However, on the whole, Yuanmingyuan is indeed an excellent garden. It can be said that it has brought together the excellent gardening art of China for thousands of years and pushed the classical gardens in China to a new height.

At that time, people who witnessed its grand occasion said it was really good. Some westerners' impressions of China gardens began in Yuanmingyuan. In a word, Yuanmingyuan won the honor for China, an ancient civilization, and was once the pride of the Chinese nation.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuanmingyuan (a famous royal garden in Qing Dynasty)