Humanistic Gathering and Landscape Blending

Beijing Beihai Park-A Landscape Painting

When we stepped into Beihai Park, red walls, green willows, clear water, white towers, golden tiles and long corridors came into view, just like walking into a landscape painting.

It is reported that Beihai Park, located in the center of Beijing, is a classical royal garden with a long history in China, with a history of several thousand years.

Beihai Park was built in the first year of Liao Huitong (AD 938). From the sixth year to the nineteenth year of Jin Dading (1 166 to 1 179), Sejong Wan built a large-scale royal detached palace-Taining Palace. Taihu Stone in Bianjing Genyue Royal Garden in the Northern Song Dynasty moved to Qionghua Island. In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1267), the ancestor Kublai Khan built the Yuan Dynasty Capital with Beihai as the center.

Qionghua Island and its lake were included in the imperial city, named Long Live Mountain and Taiye Pool, and Beihai became the cornerstone of Beijing. In the 18th year of Yongle (AD 1420), the Ming Dynasty officially moved its capital to Beijing, and Wanshou Mountain and Taiyechi became the royal gardens in the west of the Forbidden City, called Xiyuan.

In the Ming dynasty, the water surface opened to the south, forming a pattern of three seas. The Qing Dynasty inherited the Xiyuan of the Ming Dynasty, and during the Qianlong period, Beihai was expanded on a large scale, which laid the foundation for the scale and pattern of Beihai today. 1925 The park was opened to the public, and 196 1 was announced by the State Council as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units.

Beihai Park covers an area of 690,000 square meters, of which the water surface area is 390,000 square meters. The garden is lush with flowers and pavilions. Beihai is an artistic masterpiece of classical royal gardens and a rare treasure in the field of world garden art.

Here, we see the Nine Dragon Wall again. This Nine Dragon Wall was originally the shadow wall in front of the Great Round Mirror Wisdom Hall, which was built in the 21st year of Qing Qianlong (1756). It is 5.96m high,1.6m thick and 25.52m long. The city wall is built on the base of the green white stone, which is made of city bricks. It is surrounded by 424 colored glazed tiles. The top of the wall is in the form of a temple. There are nine colorful dragons flying in the sea of clouds on both sides of the wall. The front ridge, fork ridge, dripping water and hook of the wall.

There were three Nine Dragon Walls in ancient China, and the other two were in the Forbidden City and Datong. Only this one is a double-sided wall, which can be called the essence of China glazed architecture. We stood in front of the Nine Dragon Wall, enjoying ancient art and taking photos as a souvenir.

Not far ahead, I came to the iron shadow wall. This iron shadow wall is a relic of the Yuan Dynasty. The walls are brown and carved from neutral volcanic conglomerate. Because of its iron-like color and texture, it is called the iron shadow wall. The wall is 1.89 m high and 3.56 m long, with moire and animals carved lightly on both sides. The carving is simple and profound. The iron shadow wall was originally the shadow wall in front of an ancient temple outside Jiandemen (now Deshengmen). At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this wall was moved to Desheng Temple in Deshengmen (now Tieyingbi Hutong) to protect the country. 1947, the Great Wall moved to Beihai Park. 1986 Beihai Park found its pedestal in Tie Ying Bi Hutong, and finally restored this cultural relic.

Several pavilions extending into the sea are more beautiful under the shade of green weeping willows. There are a group of elderly men and women singing leisurely in the pavilion, which adds a little warmth and harmony to the beautiful scenery.

Walking, some buildings attracted us. These buildings are all painted tiles with red walls, which are very beautiful. This is about a small Buddhist paradise. It is said that this is a Buddhist holy land, and we have never set foot there.

Walking south, I saw the stone tablet of Wanfulou, which was built by Qianlong for his mother's 80th birthday. Founded in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty (1770), the stone tablet is engraved with four languages, namely, Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan. It does look like a monument, but the Wanfo Building has disappeared. This monument was moved here on 1987.

Walking along the coast to the east, looking at the white tower on Qionghua Island in the sea and the leisurely cruise ships dotted on the sea, everyone couldn't help singing a song that made us paddle.

On the fence by the sea, I was pleasantly surprised to see the poems of Emperor Qianlong, which I was eager to see when I came to Beihai this time. Just because I heard on TV that there are many pavilions in Beihai Park, and there are poems of Emperor Qianlong on each pavilion, I was surprised to see them here. Although I didn't see any poems on the pavilion this time, I hurried to take pictures.

One of them, Pillow Mountain Pavilion, was written in the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773). "Although it is a rockery, there are mountains, and the pavilion crown overlooks. If you look at the sky outside, look at Mimi Kao Sung. " Although I dare not comment on the emperor's poems, I can see that while enjoying the scenery leisurely, the emperor is also thinking about the agricultural harvest and people's life far away from the capital, and I can't help but admire the emperor Qianlong.

Walking to Qionghua Island under the shade of towering old trees on the east coast, spoonfuls of herbs and flowers on the roadside overflowed, attracting me to take pictures from time to time.

It takes about 20 minutes to reach Qionghua Island.

Qionghua Island, located in the center of Beihai, integrates various arts such as gardens, architecture and culture. The main landscape of Baita is a Tibetan Lama Pagoda. In front of the tower, there is the Hall of Good Cause, which contains the Buddha statue of King Kong of David, and 455 glass Buddha statues are embedded in the outer wall around it. The main building at the southern foot of Qionghua Island is Ai 'an Temple, which is built on the mountain and forms the central axis with the White Pagoda. There are Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Falun Hall, Zhengjue Hall and Pu An Hall in the temple, where statues of Sakyamuni, Zong Kaba, Eight Bodhisattvas and Eighteen Arhats, the ancestors of Tibetan Buddhism, are enshrined, forming a complete Lama Temple.

On the west side of the foothills, there are the Heart Yuetang and Qingyi Building. Xinyue Temple was the place where Qionghua Island of the Qing Emperor temporarily handled government affairs and summoned ministers. On lunar calendar1February 18, emperors boarded Aiqing Building to watch the ice show (ice show is a game of throwing balls on the ice). There are also four pavilions on Qionghua Island, such as "Winning the Game", "Clearing Fog", "Yi Yun" and "Yiyuan", which are unique and ingenious in architectural form.

Walking down the stone steps, there is a circular corridor. Walking along the corridor, there is a castle in the middle, called the wall light building. In front of the building is the middle reaches of the sea dock, and the curved promenade is carved with beams and painted buildings, which is very bright and beautiful.

The Grain Distribution Pavilion is the end of the corridor, and the high attic is also very imposing, resembling a turret. Passing through the tall doorway and coming to the west side of Qionghua Island, you can see pavilions built on the mountain, scattered at high places, looming among trees and rocks, revealing a kind of classical beauty and mystery.

Reading Gu Lou was built in the 18th year of Qianlong (1753) to preserve the stone carvings in Fa Tie, Sanxi Hall.

There are a pair of lovely mandarin ducks at the foot of the stone bridge, which surprised us.

On the way back, I also saw the pure tone tablet on Qiongdao, with two dragon sculptures covered with glass on the side. This Qiongdao Spring Shadow Monument, one of the eight scenic spots of Yanjing in Jin Dynasty, was built in the 16th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 175 1). The back of the monument is engraved with four characters, namely, Qianlong Imperial Book and Qiongdao Spring Sound, and the other three faces are engraved with Qianlong Poetry.

Beihai Park is like a picture scroll and a history book. I'm afraid I've only scratched the surface in a few short hours. History is always profound and needs to be read slowly.