Summer Palace promenade

The summer palace is between the south foot of Wanshou mountain and the North Bank of Kunming Lake. It was first built in 1750, the 15th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. It was burned by the British and French allied forces in 1860 and rebuilt in 1888. The corridor starts from the inviting moon gate in the East and ends at the Shizhang Pavilion in the West. It passes through the paiyun gate in the middle. On both sides of the corridor are four octagonal pavilions with double eaves, namely Liujia, Jilan, Qiushui and Qingyao. It symbolizes spring, summer, autumn and winter. It is 728 meters long and has 273 rooms in total. The corridor is famous for its exquisite architecture, twists and turns, and rich color paintings. It is the longest corridor in ancient buildings and gardens in China. The gallery is also a colorful gallery. Each beam in the gallery is painted with more than 14000 colorful paintings. Its length and rich color paintings were included in the Guinness Book of world records in 1990. The contents of color paintings are mostly landscapes, flowers and birds, as well as the plots in the four classical Chinese Masterpieces (a dream of Red Mansions, journey to the west, romance of the Three Kingdoms, and outlaws of the marsh). Painters concentrate thousands of years of Chinese history and culture on this long corridor. Many of the landscape paintings are imitated from the south of the Yangtze River, which were drawn by painters according to the intention of Emperor Qianlong.

Summer Palace promenade

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The promenade of the summer palace is between the south foot of Wanshou mountain and the North Bank of Kunming Lake. It was first built in 1750, the 15th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. It was burned by the British and French allied forces in 1860 and rebuilt in 1888. The corridor starts from the inviting moon gate in the East and ends at Shizhang Pavilion in the West. It passes through the paiyun gate in the middle, symbolizing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The total length is 728 meters, with 273 rooms and 548 columns. The corridor is famous for its exquisite architecture, twists and turns and rich color paintings. It is the longest corridor in Chinese ancient architecture and garden. The gallery is also a colorful gallery. Each beam in the gallery is painted with more than 14000 colorful paintings. The contents of color paintings are mostly landscapes, flowers and birds, as well as the plots of the four classical Chinese masterpieces. Painters concentrate thousands of years of Chinese history and culture on this long corridor.

Basic introduction

The summer palace is between the south foot of Wanshou mountain and the North Bank of Kunming Lake. It was built in the 15th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty

(1750), burned by the British and French forces in 1860, and rebuilt in 1888. The corridor starts from the inviting moon gate in the East and ends at the Shizhang Pavilion in the West. It passes through the paiyun gate in the middle. On both sides of the corridor are four octagonal pavilions with double eaves, namely Liujia, Jilan, Qiushui and Qingyao. It symbolizes spring, summer, autumn and winter. The total length is 728 meters, with 273 rooms and 548 columns. The corridor is famous for its exquisite architecture, twists and turns, and rich color paintings. It is the longest corridor in ancient buildings and gardens in China. The gallery is also a colorful gallery. Each beam in the gallery is painted with more than 14000 colorful paintings. Its length and rich color paintings were included in the Guinness Book of world records in 1990. The contents of color paintings are mostly landscapes, flowers and birds, as well as the plots in the four classical Chinese Masterpieces (a dream of Red Mansions, journey to the west, romance of the Three Kingdoms, and outlaws of the marsh). Painters concentrate thousands of years of Chinese history and culture on this long corridor. Many of the landscape paintings are imitated from the south of the Yangtze River, which were drawn by painters according to the intention of Emperor Qianlong.

It is near Kunming Lake and Wanshou mountain. Gallery is the longest Gallery in the world.

On the corridor, there are carved beams and painted buildings. The colorful paintings make it gorgeous and charming. These paintings include peonies in the garden, lotus in the pool, birds in the forest, underwater fish, pavilions, lakes and mountains. But the most interesting is the vivid composition and lifelike figure story paintings.

characteristic

1. The long corridor, like a ribbon, connects the scenic spots of Qianshan Mountain tightly. Taking paiyun hall as the center, it naturally divides the scenic spots into East and west parts.

2. There are three pavilions on each side of the corridor. These pavilions not only have the function of scenery, but also have the function of supporting the corridor.

3. The gallery painting is the most precious work of art in the garden.

Gallery painting belongs to "Soviet style painting", which is the decorative art of Chinese wood structure architecture. Its characteristics are: the main picture is enclosed in the bracket of the large semicircle (called "the burden"); there is no fixed structure, all by the painter, the same subject can create different pictures. Corridor painting has a wide range of subjects, including mountains, flowers, birds, scenery and figures. Among them, the most fascinating one is figure story painting. There are more than 2000 figure story paintings, and no two of them are the same. In 1990, the gallery was named the longest Gallery in the world for its unique architectural form and colorful paintings.

Related Legends

It is said that after the summer palace was built, Cixi would spend more than half of her time here every year "enjoying her life".

In the beginning, Cixi liked the scenery of the summer palace in the south of the Yangtze River. However, after a long time, she felt nothing new. In particular, Cixi took a walk by the lake every day from the palace hall. At first, she took a look at the water on the left and the mountains on the right. Later, she was so tired that she didn't want to see anywhere. Cixi thought: at a glance, the landscape is all in front of me, and the four seasons are the same. It's really boring. If only I could build something by the lake, and let me see a scenery in one step. What about building something? She didn't think about it for a moment.

One day, the depressed Cixi was going out for a walk again. The princes and ministers were obedient and accompanied by him. When they came to the south slope of Wanshou mountain, it rained all the time. Eunuch Li Lianying hurriedly put up her umbrella and observed Cixi's face. Unexpectedly, Cixi's face turned from overcast to sunny. Li Lianying was wondering. Cixi said: "the umbrella is very good. It can not only protect me from the wind and rain, but also give me another view. "People don't understand.

After returning to the palace, Cixi immediately summoned the craftsman and told him what she thought. Soon, a long corridor appeared between the south slope of Wanshou mountain and Kunming Lake.

The fantasy of a generation of queens has made a beautiful corridor. Let's follow history and walk in the corridor of reality

"Dragon dance in the long corridor": it is said that when Cixi ascended the Buddhist Pavilion, he looked down and felt that there was something wrong with the Kunming Lake. He turned back and asked an old craftsman who built the garden, "is there no dragon in the lake or by the lake?" Seeing Cixi's calm face, the old craftsman quickly said, "back to the old Buddha, there is only" Fengwei corridor "in the Buddhist Pavilion, and there is no dragon in the lake..." Cixi was very angry, and his face turned pale. He ordered: "call the people who play dragon nearby and let them dance by the lake for a few days. Don't stop! I want to see the dragon. " It's hard for those dragon dancing farmers. They worked hard from morning to night, and from night to morning. Countless people are tired. One group fell down, the other gritted their teeth. Cixi only watched for half an hour a day, but never asked the Dragon charmers to stop. The old craftsman thought that because of his negligence, he had affected everyone, like a thousand arrows through his heart. I thought hard for three days and nights, but I didn't come up with a way. That night, as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw an old man coming in and asking for food from the old craftsman. When the old craftsman saw that he was a beggar, he quickly brought a bowl of meat noodles. The white haired old man looked at the meat noodles for a while, sighed and said, "I'm so flustered that I can't eat it!" Then he put the meat noodle bowl on the table, took out some noodles from the bowl and put them around the bottom of the bowl, sighed and left. The old craftsman suddenly woke up, it was a dream. He recalled the old man's face and behavior. The more he thought about it, the more he looked like the legendary master Luban. He thought about the bowl on the table and some noodles beside the bowl... Suddenly, his heart brightened: the rice bowl facing the sky is like longevity mountain! The noodles beside the bowl are like a dragon, winding around the "mountain". The noodle soup splashes on the side of the noodles, which is like Kunming Lake! Why not try to build a long corridor like a dragon! The old craftsman quickly reported to Cixi that she could see the Dragon by the lake in three months, and asked the poor people to let the dragon dance. Cixi immediately released the dragon lantern dancers and immediately ordered the first-class craftsmen to gather here. Three months later, when Cixi boarded the Buddhist Pavilion, she suddenly found that there was a long "dragon" beside Kunming Lake, which was the 273 corridor. Cixi rewarded the old craftsman with satisfaction.

Some books say that Qianlong built the corridor for his mother to enjoy the rain and snow of Kunming Lake. Qianlong was the fourth emperor of Qing Dynasty after entering the pass. He loved garden art and was very filial to his mother. In the 15th year of Qianlong's reign, in order to celebrate his mother's 60th birthday, he expended a lot of manpower and material resources to expand Kunming Lake, build Qingyi Garden, and build the temple of Dabaoen Yanshou on Weng mountain. After that, Weng mountain was changed into Wanshou mountain. Qianlong's mother often visited the garden. In order to protect her mother from the rain, snow and sunshine, and enjoy the rain and snow of Kunming Lake, Qianlong designed and built a long corridor on the Bank of the junction of Wanshou mountain and Kunming Lake.

It is said that Emperor Qianlong's mother liked to listen to stories and often asked the palace maids to tell her all kinds of stories while touring the corridor. Some of her favorite stories were told repeatedly by the maids in waiting. For a long time, the palace

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