Why do a large number of tourists flock to the Summer Palace recently?

In recent afternoons, the 17-hole bridge in the Summer Palace will have a magnificent sight that is rarely seen every year-the afterglow of the sunset illuminates the side wall of bridge opening, and from a distance, it looks like the bridge opening is full of bright lights, and the golden lights reflect the 17 bridge opening. This scene is called "golden light piercing the hole" or "red light filling the hole". In contrast to this scene, there are photographers gathered on the west side of the 17-hole bridge. Since the recent period is the best time to shoot "Golden Light Piercing the Hole", many photographers have prepared "long guns and short guns", waiting for you to seize the excellent position of the bridgehead. Many trash cans in the shape of a seventeen-hole bridge in the Summer Palace also "chafed" and were photographed by many tourists.

It is understood that the famous 17-hole bridge of the Royal Garden Summer Palace was built in the fifteenth year of Qing Qianlong, namely 1750. The bridge deck is 8m wide, 7m high and150m long. The whole bridge gives a magnificent feeling. The big hole in the middle of the bridge is exactly "9" from both ends of the bridge. "9" is called the extreme yang number, which was the favorite auspicious number of feudal emperors in the past, so the bridge was built into seventeen holes. The 17-span bridge, with bridge opening of different sizes, is spectacular on Kunming Lake, with a deck like a bow and a colorful rainbow flying frame in the sky.

This 17-hole bridge will present the spectacle of red light passing through the bridge hole in winter solstice. When the ancient people built the bridge, they mastered and applied the knowledge of astronomical geography. When the sunlight reaches the lowest point in the afternoon from winter to the day before yesterday, it will penetrate the whole of bridge opening, presenting a natural wonder of "red light piercing holes", which is also a clever pen of landscape designers.

The landscape of "golden light piercing holes" is not the latest discovery. At the beginning of the seventeen-hole bridge in the Summer Palace, the ancients discovered its magnificent landscape at dusk. In recent decades, around the winter solstice, the 17-hole bridge of the Summer Palace will surely lock the "focus" of countless photographers. Only at sunset in this season, all the bridge opening of the Seventeen-hole Bridge will be stained with golden light by the sunset, and at first glance, it seems as if a lamp is lit in the bridge opening. People call this phenomenon "golden light piercing the hole" and give it many beautiful meanings.