The Summer Palace
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen:
My name is Joanne. I’m very honored to be youre guide. I do hope all
of you could like my guiding and enjoy everything on your pleasant
day. This morning we are going to visit the Summer Palace.
The Summer Palace is located on the northwest suburbs of Beijing,
about 20 kilometers away from the center of the city. So it will
take us about 1 hour to get there. Before we arrived at the Summer
Palace, I would like to introduce you a brief introduction of the
woderful imperial garden. The Summer Palace is the most beautiful
and the largest imperial garden existing in Chinan, and it is the
best-preserved imperial garden in the world. In 1998, it was placed
on the List of World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO.
The Summer Palace was first built as an imperial garden at the
beginning of 12th century in the Jin Dynasty.
The construction
continued to the Yuan and Ming dynasties. In the Qing Dynasty, the
building of imperial gardens reached its culmination. During Emperor
Qianlong’s reign, the famous ‘Three Hills and Five Gardens’ were
built on the northwest suburbs of Beijing. The Summer Palace was a
part of it and at that time was called the Garden of Clear Ripples.
In 1860, the Anglo-French Allied Forces invaded Beijing. The ‘Three
Hills and Five Gardens’ were burnt down to ashes.
In 1888, the Empress Dowager Cixi spent the navy fund having the
Garden of Clear Ripples rebuilt. And then she renamed it the Garden
of Nurtured Harmony (Summer Palace).
In 1900, the Allied Forces of Eight Powers invaded Beijing. The
Summer Palace was once again severely damaged. It was rebuilt again
in 1902.
In 1924, the Last Emperor Puyi was driven out of the palace, after
that, the Summer Palace was turnedinto a public park.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please look over there, in front of us is an
archway. It is called “Emptiness and the collection of excellence”,
and it is the first scenery of the Summer Palace. The two Chinese
words on the front side of the archway mean emptiness and refer to
everything in nature and in the scenery. The two words on the back
side mean Collection of Excellence and refer to the tranquility of
the beautiful scenery just within t
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