This is a beautiful spot with exuberant wood and grass at the foot of the West Hill
in the western outskirts of Beijing. From the Ming Dynasty on, many high－taste
nobles built their private gardens in this place. In the Qing Dynasty perhaps because
the Manchu aristocrats who had just left their forests and grassland had not
accommodated themselves to the environment of the palaces, they built great imperial
gardens there. The Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) that has survived calamities in history is one of
those architectural masterpieces. This is a marvellous conception of a paradise on
the earth:
The Long Corridor and the Seventeen Arch Bridge are like ribbons. They frame the
Kunming Lake and turn it into a beautiful picture. With the Buddha Fragrance Chamber
on the Longevity Hill as the highlight, the lake and mountains become a lively whole.
The West Hill and the pagoda on top of the Jade Spring Hill blot out the limit of the
garden and fuse it into an open expense.
Spring in the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) is merrily colourful, the summer is leisurely exuberant,
the autumn sentimentally bright and winter sober, tranquil and clean.
The beauty of the Imperial Palace is kaleidoscopic. First you enter spacious
courtyards. Their owners have long passed away, but the peonies, crabapples and
magnolias that have survived them still beam in elegance.
Walking out the grandiose imperial courtyards, through the Long Corridor while
enjoying the misty lake, along the scarcely traversed West Dike and the ride in the
forest, you suddenly spot the dream－like Jade Belt Bridge...
With elapse of time those roaming around the Kunming Lake are no more imperial
relatives or nobles, but the common people. The beauty of the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City), however,
is timeless. Year after year people greet the spring with the willow branches at the
Spring Discerning Pavilion, sink into meditation facing lotus in a kiosk of the
Garden of Harmonious Delights, and whisper with the frosted leaves at the tranquil
back hill... Rain or shine, the Imperial Palace is always enchanting.
The beauty of the Imperial Palace is, of course, deliberated. The pavilions, kiosks,
terraces, bridges, dikes, corridors are crystallisation of the thousand－year old
Chinese landscape gardening. The scenic spots contain a nation? profound
philosophical and aesthetic tradition. The Imperial Palace was not built for public
benefit, but through the turbulent century, the Imperial Palace has been displaying the
height a civilisation once reached to people of different times and origins.
On 2 December 1998 the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) was listed in the World Legacy of United
Nations.
The council of the World Legacy remarked, Chinese imperial gardens with the Summer
Palace as a representative is a convincing symbol of one of the great world
civilisations.
in the western outskirts of Beijing. From the Ming Dynasty on, many high－taste
nobles built their private gardens in this place. In the Qing Dynasty perhaps because
the Manchu aristocrats who had just left their forests and grassland had not
accommodated themselves to the environment of the palaces, they built great imperial
gardens there. The Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) that has survived calamities in history is one of
those architectural masterpieces. This is a marvellous conception of a paradise on
the earth:
The Long Corridor and the Seventeen Arch Bridge are like ribbons. They frame the
Kunming Lake and turn it into a beautiful picture. With the Buddha Fragrance Chamber
on the Longevity Hill as the highlight, the lake and mountains become a lively whole.
The West Hill and the pagoda on top of the Jade Spring Hill blot out the limit of the
garden and fuse it into an open expense.
Spring in the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) is merrily colourful, the summer is leisurely exuberant,
the autumn sentimentally bright and winter sober, tranquil and clean.
The beauty of the Imperial Palace is kaleidoscopic. First you enter spacious
courtyards. Their owners have long passed away, but the peonies, crabapples and
magnolias that have survived them still beam in elegance.
Walking out the grandiose imperial courtyards, through the Long Corridor while
enjoying the misty lake, along the scarcely traversed West Dike and the ride in the
forest, you suddenly spot the dream－like Jade Belt Bridge...
With elapse of time those roaming around the Kunming Lake are no more imperial
relatives or nobles, but the common people. The beauty of the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City), however,
is timeless. Year after year people greet the spring with the willow branches at the
Spring Discerning Pavilion, sink into meditation facing lotus in a kiosk of the
Garden of Harmonious Delights, and whisper with the frosted leaves at the tranquil
back hill... Rain or shine, the Imperial Palace is always enchanting.
The beauty of the Imperial Palace is, of course, deliberated. The pavilions, kiosks,
terraces, bridges, dikes, corridors are crystallisation of the thousand－year old
Chinese landscape gardening. The scenic spots contain a nation? profound
philosophical and aesthetic tradition. The Imperial Palace was not built for public
benefit, but through the turbulent century, the Imperial Palace has been displaying the
height a civilisation once reached to people of different times and origins.
On 2 December 1998 the Imperial Palace(The Forbidden City) was listed in the World Legacy of United
Nations.
The council of the World Legacy remarked, Chinese imperial gardens with the Summer
Palace as a representative is a convincing symbol of one of the great world
civilisations.
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