How about Beihai Park?

Beihai Park is a famous scenic spot in Beijing's cultural landscape.

Beihai Park is located in the downtown area, northwest of the Forbidden City. It is named after being called "Three Seas" together with the Sea of China and the South China Sea. Originally, it was an imperial palace gradually built in Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the oldest, most complete, most comprehensive and representative royal gardens in China. The layout of the whole park is based on the mythical Sanxian Mountain (Taiye Lake, Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou), with unique form and fantastic artistic conception.

Beijing Beihai Park was built in Liao Dynasty, and has been rebuilt and expanded in past dynasties. After the large-scale reconstruction during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, today's pattern was basically formed. It has a history of nearly a thousand years and is one of the oldest and best-preserved royal gardens in China.

Beihai Park has been a royal garden since the Revolution of 1911, covering an area of about 69 hectares and a water surface area of 39 hectares. The landmark building of the park is the Anji Baita on Qionghua Island.

The White Pagoda was built in A.D. 165 1 year, and it was eight years since the Qing Dynasty. It was built at the request of the Tibetan Lama angered by Han Mu. It is the most famous Lama Temple in Beijing. The whole building is beautiful and generous, which is different from other Lama temples. There is a bowl-covered mound under the tower, and there is an eye door on the front to worship the ten freedoms of Sanskrit. The pagoda consists of thirteen-phase wheel, sky disk, site, sun and moon, round light and flame sphere superimposed from bottom to top.

Because Emperor Qianlong never forgot the joy of gardens, he copied Jiangnan gardens on a large scale in Beihai, and there were countless treasures in the gardens. Unfortunately, when Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, it was looted with Yuanmingyuan, and the buildings in the park were damaged.

This royal garden used to be the queen's entertainment and rest place, which was restored and opened to the public in 1925. In recent decades, it has been continuously maintained and rectified. Now Beihai Park is a national 4A-level scenic spot, which is divided into five parts: Qiongdao Scenic Spot, North Shore Scenic Spot, Tuancheng Scenic Spot, East Coast Scenic Spot and Beihai Botanical Garden, each with its own characteristics. Famous scenic spots include Haopujian, Huafangzhai, Jingxinzhai, Tianwang Hall, Kuaixuetang, Jiulongbi, Wulong Pavilion and Xiaoxitian. The park is shaded by weeping willows, pines and cypresses, and pavilions and terraces are staggered.

The construction of Beihai originated from an ancient myth: it is said that there are three fairy mountains in the vast East China Sea, namely Penglai, Yingzhou and Abbot; Immortals live on mountains. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he sent alchemist Xu Fu to the East China Sea to look for the elixir of life, but found nothing. In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also dreamed of immortality, but the search was still fruitless, so he ordered to dig a big pool in the north of Chang 'an, named Taiye Pool, and three rockeries were piled up in the pool, named after Penglai, Linzhou and abbot respectively. Since then, emperors of all dynasties have liked to build royal palaces in the form of "one pool and three mountains". This is the form adopted by the North Sea-the North Sea symbolizes Taiyechi, Qionghua Island is Penglai, and the original "Tuancheng" and "Xishantai" in the water symbolize Yingzhou and the abbot. There are many immortal relics in the park, such as "Lvgong Cave", "Immortal Temple" and "Copper Immortal Bearing Dew Plate".

The earliest North Sea was just an ordinary water area, and the island was called "Yaoyu". The Jin Dynasty began to dig lakes and pile mountains, expanded Yaoyu Island, renamed Qionghua Island, built "Daxiong Hall" and "Guanghan Temple" on the island, and moved from Bianliang (now Kaifeng House) to Genyue Pile Rockery, and the North Sea began to take shape. In the Yuan Dynasty, Qionghua Island continued to expand and was renamed as "Long Live Mountain", "Wanshou Mountain" and "Dushan Mountain", and Dadoucheng was built around it, so there was a saying that "the North Sea came first, then Beijing". In the Ming Dynasty, Beihai became the back garden of the palace, called Xiyuan. It began to dig the South China Sea, piled up soil on the east bank, connected Tuancheng and Xishan terraces with the land, and built the "Jin Ao Yudong Bridge". In the Qing Dynasty, a pagoda was built on the site of Guanghan Temple, named "Baita Temple", later renamed "Ai 'an Temple", and Qionghua Island was named Baita Mountain. During the Qianlong period, large-scale construction was carried out on the North Sea, which lasted for 30 years. During the Guangxu period, Cixi rebuilt the North Sea with naval military expenses for her enjoyment.

After the Revolution of 19111August, 925, Beihai was opened to tourists as a park, but it gradually became barren due to poor management. On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has become a barren land with overgrown weeds and silt deposits. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Beihai Park was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and the Three Seas were dredged, the buildings were repaired and the facilities were added, making Beihai more colorful and becoming a resort for people to rest and visit. 1987 Beihai was rated as one of the six new scenic spots in Beijing/kloc-0.

Entering the park from the south gate and stepping on the Yong 'an Bridge built in the early Yuan Dynasty, I saw two painted archways named Duiyun and Jicui, facing Qionghua Island, the center of the whole park. The island is shaded by trees, and the halls and pavilions are connected. Opposite is Baita Temple, which was built in the eighth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (165 1). In the eighth year of Qing Qianlong (1743), it was changed to Ai 'an Temple. The main buildings are Falun Hall, Zhengjue Hall, Pu An Hall, Attached Hall, Gallery, Bell and Drum Tower, etc. Bottom-up, built on the mountain. After visiting the park, the emperors often came to the temple to burn incense and worship the mourners. There are four pavilions in front of Zhengjue Temple: Diqing, Yinsheng, Yi Yun and Yiyuan, which are symmetrical, elegant and beautiful. From here, I climbed the steps leading to the White Pagoda. The White Pagoda was built in the eighth year of Qing Shunzhi (165 1). This Tibetan Lama Tower is 5.9 meters high and its body is vase-shaped. The upper part of the pagoda is covered with two layers of copper umbrellas, with a gold-plated pagoda brake at the top and a corner-folded sumeru pagoda seat at the bottom. There are Lama scriptures, a cloak and two Buddhist relics in the tower. There is a small and exquisite kindness hall in front of the tower.

To the west of Qiongdao, it used to be an amusement hall for the Qing emperors to rest, discuss or hold banquets when they visited the park. The green building behind the temple is the place where Emperor Qianlong accompanied his mother to watch the ice throwing competition in winter. In the northwest, there is a place to study Gu Lou. There are 340 legal posts, more than 2 10 inscriptions and 495 stone carvings in the building. Sanxi Hall Fa Tie, which is embedded in the inner wall of the Forbidden City, can be called Mo Bao, which is an original work of the Qing Dynasty. There are Guang Lin Hall, Yannan Fumigation Pavilion and "Copper Fairy Exposed Plate" on the mountainside.

There are towering old trees on the northeast slope of Qiongdao, which is one of the "Eight Scenes of Yanjing" and "Spring Shadow of Qiongdao". Walking along the path next to the "Qiongdao Spring Shadow Monument" inscribed by Emperor Qianlong, you can directly reach the winding "Seeing the Spring Pavilion" and "Seeing the Gallery". The scenery in front of us is like a natural landscape painting, which is beautiful. There are secluded caves outside the gallery, and the stone chambers piled up by lakes and stones are ever changing.

At the foot of the mountain in Hubei, there is an Yilan Hall, which used to be a place for the emperor to fish, rest and eat after rowing. Now there's another imitation restaurant. In the east of Tang Yilan, there are two groups of buildings, namely "Haopu Room" and "Fanghuazhai", which are exquisitely arranged and have a quiet environment, forming a garden in the garden. Emperors and ministers of the Qing Dynasty often held banquets in Haopu. Huafangzhai is one of the royal palaces in Qing Dynasty, and it is also the place where the emperor invited famous painters to paint. Outside the door is a place to review archery. In the south is the "Spring Rain Forest Pond" Hall, in the east is the "Mirror Fragrance Room" and in the west is the "Curious Room".

In its northwest, there is a small courtyard built by water, named "Small Linglong", which is connected with the curved corridor. From this, you can enjoy an 800-year-old pagoda tree in front of the "Guest Pavilion" in the northeast. Further north, there is a square "silkworm altar", which is the place where concubines sacrificed to the silkworm god in the Qing Dynasty and one of the nine altars in Beijing. Westbound from the silkworm altar, not far from Jingxinzhai, with an area of 4,700 square meters. It turned out to be the Qianlong Emperor Bookstore, called Qianlong Small Garden. Later, it became the prince's study. To the west of Jing Xin Zhai is Tianwang Temple. Daxiong Hall is a nanmu building, where the Tripitaka is translated and printed. The glazed pavilion at the back is a coupon-issuing beamless hall structure, and the walls are covered with glazed Buddha statues, which is dazzling. On the west side of Tianwang Temple, there is a nine-dragon wall made of 424 seven-color glazed bricks. It was built in the 21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1756). It is 25.86 meters long, 6.65 meters high and 1.42 meters thick, making it the best of the three famous Nine Dragon Walls in China. Southbound along the Kowloon Wall, there is an "iron shadow wall" with a length of 3.56 meters and a height of 1.89 meters. Its color and texture are like iron casting, with moire and monsters carved on both sides, which is the treasure of relief art in Yuan Dynasty. North of the iron shadow wall, there are three courtyards. The main building used to be the dressing room and amusement hall before and after the ceremony of Emperor Qianlong. In the forty-fourth year of Qing Qianlong (1779), a courtyard named "Fast Snow Hall" was built to protect Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post on Fast Snow". There are five pavilions along the lake in the west, which were built in the eighth year of Qing Shunzhi (165 1).

The five pavilions are distinguished from each other, and the golden light is flying, which looks like five dragons floating from a distance, so it is called "Five Dragon Pavilion". This is a playground for the Qing emperors to enjoy the moon, fish and watch fireworks. In the west corner of the exhibition hall, there is a large building complex called "Little Western Heaven". Among them, the "Ten Thousand Pagodas" and the "Elysium" are the main buildings, which were specially built by Emperor Qianlong to pray for the birthday of his mother, Empress Xiao Sheng. Go back to Yong 'an Bridge, go south, and board a tour outside the park.

Beihai Park has inherited the gardening tradition of China in past dynasties, borrowed gardening skills from other places, combined the grandeur of northern gardens with the graceful charm of private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, and accumulated the splendor of imperial palaces and the solemnity of religious temples. It is a treasure of China garden art.