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1. 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, fifteen kilometers away from the city, covering an area of ??about 290 square meters hectares, adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden based on 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 and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum" , is also a key national tourist attraction.

Before Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, four large royal gardens were built in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong's reign (1750), Emperor Qianlong used 4.48 million taels of silver to renovate the site into Qingyi Garden in honor of his mother, Queen Xiaosheng, forming a 20-kilometer royal garden area from the current Qinghua Garden to Xiangshan. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French forces. It was rebuilt in the 14th year of Guangxu (1888) and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer entertainment place. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was again destroyed by the "Eight-Power Allied Forces" and all the treasures were looted. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace was again destroyed during warlord wars and Kuomintang rule.

On March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Together with the Chengde Summer Resort, the Humble Administrator's Garden, and the Liuyuan, which were announced at the same time, it was also named one of China's four famous gardens. It was included in the World Heritage List in November 1998. On May 8, 2007, the Summer Palace was officially approved by the National Tourism Administration as a national 5A tourist attraction. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest existing royal garden in China by the China World Records Association.

2. West Lake

West Lake, located to the west of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots in mainland China and one of the top ten scenic spots in China. It is one of the main ornamental freshwater lakes in mainland China. It is also one of the few lake cultural heritages in the "World Heritage List" and the only one in China.

West Lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, covering an area of ??about 6.39 square kilometers, about 2.8 kilometers wide from east to west, about 3.2 kilometers long from north to south, and a circumference of nearly 15 kilometers around the lake. The lake is separated by Gushan, Baidi, Su Causeway and Yanggong Causeway. According to the area, it is divided into five water surfaces: Waixi Lake, Xili Lake, Beili Lake, Xiaonan Lake and Yue Lake. Su Causeway and Baidi cross the lake, and Xiaoyingzhou Three small islands, Huxinting Pavilion and Ruan Gongdun stand in the center of the outer West Lake. The Leifeng Pagoda of Xizhao Mountain and the Baochu Pagoda of Baoshi Mountain are opposite each other across the lake, thus forming a "one mountain, two pagodas, three islands, The basic pattern of "three embankments and five lakes".