Few universities are like Tsinghua, built on the royal garden completed at the same time as the book A Dream of Red Mansions.
The predecessor of Tsinghua Campus, Xichun Garden, is located in the royal gardens of Qing Dynasty. In the distance, Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain spread from near to far, and the distant mountains can be seen from Tsinghua on sunny days.
Tsinghua has a vast territory, and it is difficult to find exits for nearly ten school gates. More than a dozen canteens are dazzling, covering an area of 4,424.38 million square meters, equivalent to two Monaco and eight Vatican cities. The campus is a blend of China classical gardens, Western-style architecture and modern landscape architecture, and it is a blend of classical and modern, rational and literary, restrained and interesting.
Tsinghua's landmark building-Erxuemen, blue brick and white column archway, combines foreign column architecture with China archway style, dignified and atmospheric, forming a whole. The word "Tsinghua Campus" inscribed by Na Tong, a great scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, has become an indelible symbolic mark of Tsinghua. At the school gate stands a condensed modern history of China.
Passing through the second school gate, you see a lush grassland. There is a sundial in front of the striking lawn, and the base is engraved with "Actions speak louder than words". On the vast lawn, there is an auditorium with European architectural style, which is the gathering center of Tsinghua students, with a height of 44 meters. The dome of the ancient Roman art style and the white marble porch of the Ionian column bring people back to the classical European world of the Italian Renaissance in minutes.
To the southwest of the auditorium is the Science Museum, designed by the famous American architect Murphy and built in April 19 17. Advanced building materials, finely carved beams and columns, magnificent domes and dark red brick walls constitute this simple and dignified three-story European building, which combines classical and contemporary elements.
He also founded the West Gymnasium, one of the four early buildings in Tsinghua. The granite colonnade in the front hall makes the building full of western classical forms, and the back hall is skillfully connected with the front hall and integrated with the open west playground, which has a unique formal beauty.