1, different positions
Yuanmingyuan is located at No.28 Tsinghua West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, covering an area of more than 350 hectares, of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares. It consists of Yuanmingyuan, Qichun Garden and Changchun Garden. Yuanmingyuan is the largest, so it is collectively called Yuanmingyuan.
The Summer Palace is located in the western suburb of Beijing, which is15km away from the urban area. The whole park covers an area of 3.009 square kilometers, accounting for about three-quarters of the water surface, adjacent to Yuanmingyuan.
2, the construction time is different
In the last years of Kangxi and Yongzheng, the Yuanmingyuan began to be built. In the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, the expansion project of Yuanmingyuan officially began. After Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he adjusted the garden landscape of Yuanmingyuan and increased the number of architectural groups.
Before the Qing Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, there were four large royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong used 4.48 million silver to rebuild this place into Qingyi Garden in memory of his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing. In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Qingyi Garden was burned by British and French allied forces. Guangxu fourteen years reconstruction, renamed the Summer Palace, as a summer resort.
3. Different architectural models
Yuanmingyuan Fiona Fang 10 km, consisting of Yuanmingyuan, Qichun Garden and Changchun Garden, the Yuanmingyuan is the largest. In addition, there are many subordinate gardens in the east, west and south of Yuanmingyuan, including Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan, Jingming Garden in Yuquan Mountain and Qingyi Garden.
Seen from the wisdom sea at the top of Wanshou Mountain, the Summer Palace consists of Buddha Pavilion, Dehui Hall, Paiyun Hall, Paiyun Gate and Yunhui Yuyufang, forming a distinct central axis. At the foot of the mountain is a corridor more than 700 meters long. There are more than 8,000 colorful paintings on the verandah, which is called the first verandah in the world. In front of the promenade is Kunming Lake. The west dike of Kunming Lake is modeled after the Su Causeway of the West Lake.
The Value Significance of Yuanmingyuan
There are countless priceless treasures of various styles, extremely rare historical classics and rich and precious historical relics in Yuanmingyuan, such as paintings, gold and silver jewelry, Song and Yuan porcelain and so on. It is one of the treasures of human culture and the largest museum in the world.
Yuanmingyuan architectural site is the core and soul of the whole gardening art, which includes various traditional architectural combinations, including pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, pavilions and corridors. In the single building, construction techniques such as carpentry, Joinery Work, masonry, geotechnical, decoration, color painting and bricklayer are also adopted.
In terms of construction technology, it combines the essence of ancient traditional architecture in China and creates the peak in the history of garden architecture in China. The history of Yuanmingyuan architectural site is also recorded in Yuanmingyuan Internal Work Code and mine map samples, which provides scientific data for studying Chinese traditional architectural forms and construction techniques.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuanmingyuan.