May Day Beijing travel guide must-visit attractions

Must-visit attractions for May Day travel in Beijing: Badaling Great Wall, Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, Beihai Park, and the Forbidden City in Beijing.

1. Badaling Great Wall

The Badaling Great Wall is located at the north entrance of Guangou Ancient Road, Jundushan, Yanqing District, Beijing. It is an important part of the Great Wall, a great defense project in ancient China, and a pass in the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The Badaling Great Wall is an important outpost of Juyong Pass. In ancient times, it was said that "the danger of Juyong is not in the pass but in Badaling."

The Badaling Scenic Area is a national demonstration site for civilized scenic tourist areas. It is famous for its majestic landscape, complete facilities and profound cultural and historical connotations. It is a world-famous tourist attraction.

2. Summer Palace

The Summer Palace, a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, and covers an area of ??3.009 square kilometers ( Among them, the Summer Palace World Cultural Heritage Area covers an area of ??2.97 square kilometers), with water accounting for about three-quarters, and is adjacent to the Old Summer Palace.

It is a large-scale landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace garden. Known as the "Royal Garden Museum".

3. Old Summer Palace

Old Summer Palace, a large royal garden in China’s Qing Dynasty, is located at No. 28 Qinghua West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, covering an area of ??more than 350 hectares, of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares. It consists of the Old Summer Palace, Qichun Garden and Changchun Garden. The Old Summer Palace is the largest, so it is collectively called the Old Summer Palace (also known as the Three Old Summer Palaces).

The Old Summer Palace not only brings together a number of famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, but also transplants Western garden architecture, integrating the culmination of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign gardening arts at that time. It can be called one of the treasure houses of human culture and was the largest museum in the world at that time.

4. Beihai Park

Beihai Park is located at No. 1 Wenjin Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. It is adjacent to Jingshan Park to the east, Zhongnanhai to the south, and Shichahai to the north. The entire park covers an area of ??68.2 square meters. Ten thousand square meters (including 389,000 square meters of water area and 293,000 square meters of land area), it was opened as a park in 1925.

Beihai Park is centered on Beihai. Palaces were built here in the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and imperial gardens were established in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is an ancient Chinese royal garden.

5. The Forbidden City in Beijing

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. It was formerly known as the Forbidden City and is located at the center of the central axis of Beijing. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on the three main halls, covering an area of ??about 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??about 150,000 square meters. There are more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the largest and best-preserved wooden structure ancient buildings in the world. It is a national AAAAA tourist attraction. In 1961, it was listed as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In 1987 It was listed as a World Cultural Heritage in 2006.

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Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing