In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), on July 21st (15 August), Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled through the Summer Palace. On July 25th (1August 9th), Russian troops invaded the Summer Palace for the first time. Later, Japanese, British and Italian troops occupied it one after another. During the occupation of the Summer Palace, its treasures were looted by invaders and many buildings were burned again.
196 1 On March 4th, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Chengde mountain resort, Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden, which were announced at the same time, are also called the four famous gardens in China, and were listed on the World Heritage List in June1998+0/kloc-0. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected by world record association of China as the largest existing royal garden in China.
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Main attractions of the Summer Palace:
1, four states
The four states are located in the middle of Wanshou Mountain, and they are Sino-Tibetan buildings. The museum covers an area of 20,000 square meters and was built on the spot because of the mountain. In front of it is the spirit world of Xumishan (now a platform), with classic buildings 3 meters high on both sides, and behind it is Zongyin Pavilion in Xiang Yan, which is the main building of temples and temples. It is surrounded by four continents symbolizing the Buddhist world, namely, Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xi Niuhuozhou, Nanshan Buzhou, and Beiju Luzhou, and eight small continents built by towers of different forms.
2, the sea of wisdom
Wisdom Sea is a religious building at the top of Wanshou Mountain. It is a beamless Buddhist temple composed entirely of masonry buildings and arched vouchers. The outer layer of the building is decorated with exquisite yellow-green glazed tiles, and the upper part is covered with a small amount of purple-blue glazed tiles, especially more than a thousand glazed buddhas embedded in the outer wall of the temple.
3. Buddha Pavilion
Foxiang Pavilion is located on the mountainside in the center of Wanshou Mountain. It is built on a square abutment with a height of 2 1 m. It is a building with eight sides, three floors and four eaves. The pavilion is 4 1 m high, and there are eight huge iron rosewood Optimus Prime in the pavilion, which is a classic building with complex structure. After the original pavilion was burned down by the British and French allied forces in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), it was rebuilt in the seventeenth year of Guangxu (189 1) at a cost of 782,000 silver.
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