Located in the northwest suburb of Beijing, the Summer Palace is mainly composed of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake. As early as the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it became a famous tourist attraction with its beautiful and natural pastoral scenery. Today's Wanshou Mountain is a famous Weng Mountain in Yuan Dynasty, named after an old man dug a stone urn full of treasures on the mountain. There is a lake called Wengshanpo in front of the mountain. A.D. 1292 (in the 29th year of Yuan Dynasty), scientist Guo Shoujing dug Tonghui River, and collected the spring water from Changping and Xishan into the lake and injected it into the palace wall to help transport water. Wengshanbo has become a reservoir for water use in Beijing. From this to the Ming Dynasty, many influential temples appeared around the lake, especially the "Dacheng Tian Shu Temple" on the northwest bank of the lake, with the largest scale and magnificent architecture. The white marble diaoyutai extends into the lake, where emperors of Yuan Dynasty often go boating and fishing. In the Ming Dynasty, Wengshanpo was renamed West Lake, which is "ten miles around the lake and a county with beautiful scenery". Every year, when the peach blossoms and willows are green, Beijingers help the old and take care of the young, vying to go to the West Lake to enjoy the spring, which is called "playing around the scenery of the West Lake". At that time, people still had the reputation of "Ten Temples of West Lake" and "Ten Scenes of West Lake".

The Summer Palace was originally the palace and garden of the Qing emperor, and its predecessor was Qingyi Garden. It is the last garden built among the three mountains and five gardens. It was built in 1750 and built in 1764, with an area of 290 hectares, and the water surface accounts for about three quarters. Before Qianlong succeeded to the throne, four large royal gardens had been built in the western suburbs of Beijing. The four gardens from Haidian to Xiangshan are self-contained, lacking organic connection with each other, and the "Wengshanbo" in the middle has become an empty place. In the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), Emperor Qianlong transformed it into Qingyi Garden, connecting the four gardens on both sides, forming a royal garden area 20 kilometers from Tsinghua campus to Xiangshan. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned by the British and French allied forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), Empress Dowager Cixi rebuilt it with 30 million taels of silver and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer resort. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was destroyed by "Eight-Nation Alliance" and many buildings were burnt down. It was restored in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903). Later, during the period of warlord melee and Kuomintang rule, it was destroyed again. After 1949, the government continued to allocate funds for maintenance. 196 1 On March 4th, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 10 was included in the World Heritage List. On May 8, 2007, the Summer Palace was officially approved by the National Tourism Administration as a national 5A-level tourist attraction.

2. Opening hours:

Peak season (April 1 to1October 1) 6:30- 18:00 (gate) 8:30- 17:00 (garden) off-season (/kloc-0)

3. Traffic overview:

Bus: Take Metro Line 4 and get off at Beigongmen (Beigongmen). You can also get off at Xiyuan and walk 500 meters west of Tongqing Street to the East Palace Gate (main entrance) of the Summer Palace.