Yiheyuan - Summer Palace

Yiheyuan - Summer Palace ( )

Located in the northwestern outskirts of Beijing , the Yiheyuan occupies 290 hectares and is one of China’s largest parks. The park’s main features are Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake. Its natural beauty is set off by a multitude of highly decorative halls, towers, galleries, pavilions, kiosks and bridges. Especially noteworthy is the ingenious way in which the architects adapted the buildings to blend in with or accentuate the natural surroundings.

Bronze Ox

The bronze ox is known as "divine ox". Its back was casted with inscriptions.

Kunming Lake

The lake covers an area of more than 200 hectares. There are many scenic sports including Zhichunting, the long Causeway, the Seventeen-Arch Bridge, and Dragon-King Temple.

Jade Belt Bridge

The graceful fully-bowed bridge built from white marble looks like a jade belt.

Seventeen-Arch Bridge

The bridge is 150 meters long and 7 meters wide.

It has 544 stone lions of different sizes carved on its pillars.

Boat Tour – Kunming Lake

Boat tour of Kunming Lake.

Boat tour of Kunming Lake with my hostesses ¾ Professor Wang (middle) and Miss Wu (right). Both of Hebei University of Technology.

Qingyanfang

Also known as the "Marble Boat," it is a boat for pure banquets. The boat has two decks built from large stone blocks, stained glass windows, and elaborately carved marble facing.

The Long Corridor

This covered walkway is 728 meters long. Its beams are painted over 8000 paintings of birds, flowers and human figures from legends, folk tales and classical novels.

Sample of architecture.

Foxiangge ¾ Tower of Buddhist Incense

The octagonal tower is sixty-one meters high, including the base. It has three stories with double eaves and a round roof of glazed tiles. This tower is the park’s main attraction and also its symbol.

Overlook Kunming Lake from Foxiangge

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Bronze Ox
	The bronze ox is known as "divine ox". Its back was casted with inscriptions.

Kunming Lake
	The lake covers an area of more than 200 hectares. There are many scenic sports including Zhichunting, the long Causeway, the Seventeen-Arch Bridge, and Dragon-King Temple.
Jade Belt Bridge
	The graceful fully-bowed bridge built from white marble looks like a jade belt.

Seventeen-Arch Bridge
	The bridge is 150 meters long and 7 meters wide.

	It has 544 stone lions of different sizes carved on its pillars.

Boat Tour – Kunming Lake
	Boat tour of Kunming Lake.

	Boat tour of Kunming Lake with my hostesses ¾ Professor Wang (middle) and Miss Wu (right). Both of Hebei University of Technology.

Qingyanfang
	Also known as the "Marble Boat," it is a boat for pure banquets. The boat has two decks built from large stone blocks, stained glass windows, and elaborately carved marble facing.

The Long Corridor
	This covered walkway is 728 meters long. Its beams are painted over 8000 paintings of birds, flowers and human figures from legends, folk tales and classical novels.

	Sample of architecture.

Foxiangge ¾ Tower of Buddhist Incense
	The octagonal tower is sixty-one meters high, including the base. It has three stories with double eaves and a round roof of glazed tiles. This tower is the park’s main attraction and also its symbol.