Huaqing Palace is the Tang Dynasty feudal emperors traveled to the Palace. The back of the mountain face we, leaning on the Lixifeng mountain and built, the scale of the magnificent, architectural magnificent, building hall hall, all over the Lixi mountain up and down. The Tang poet Bai Juyi said in his poem "Lixiang Palace High": "There is a palace on the high Lixishan Mountain, with three or four buildings and purple halls". Qing Dynasty poet Qian Weiqiao wrote in his poem "Huaqing Palace": "The palace of Huaqing is at the foot of Mount Li, and the jade halls are connected to each other by thousands of weights". Mt. Li has pleasant scenery and hot springs to remove evils and diseases. Legend has it that the hot springs became a place of pleasure for the Zhou Emperor as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty, 3,000 years ago. At that time, the hot spring was called "Star Soup". The three Qin records: "the beginning of the first emperor, stone building, the name of the Lishan soup, Han Wu added modifications to the Yan". Northern Zhou Emperor Wu Di Tianhe four years, so that the big Tsuka Zai Yuwen Gui made Huang Tang stone wells. Sui emperor Kaihuang three years to plant thousands of pines and cypresses, repair houses and buildings. To the Tang Dynasty gradually formed a scale. Tang Taizong Zhenguan eighteen years, the edict of the left guard general Jiang Xingben, will be a master craftsman Yan Lide to build the palace rooms and pavilions, given the name "Tangquan Palace". The book of Yuan Gui ": " Zhen Guan twenty-two years in the first month of wuxu, the emperor such as wen tang. Dec. Mao, the imperial monument to show the qunchen". Tang Emperor Gaozong Xianheng two years renamed Hot Spring Palace. Room g biography"). Huaqing Palace in Mount Li, also known as Mount Li Palace, also known as the Palace of Li. Bai Juyi's poem "Lixiang Palace High" reads: "Lixiang Palace is high and into the clouds. Mount Li looks like a brocade like embroidery, an embroidery ridge, the palace because of the name of the mountain, also known as the embroidery ridge Palace. The Tang Dynasty poets Cui Tu, Li Shangyin, and Cui Daorong all wrote poems about Huaqing Palace with the name "Xiuling Palace". From the literature and the field of actual investigation, roughly know the scope of Huaqing Palace is: South to the first peak of the West Xiuling Lishan (i.e., Zhou Beacon Tower), north to the north of today's county town Shizi. East to the stone urn valley (temple ditch). West to the west of the Railway Sanatorium Mudan ditch. Gongcheng (i.e., Luo Cheng), south to the root of the mountain, north to the county town of South Shizi, east to the village of Dongyao, west to the swimming pool. 1967 Xinhua Bookstore in the Northwest corner of the South Shizi construction of the business building, the discovery of the north wall of the Palace of the wall foundation made of lapis lazuli. the spring of 1981, the city building units in the West Street, north of the dingzi-shaped road, but also found the same north wall foundation. 1982 winter in the village of Temple Gully south of the slope to probe the East Diao wall of the two segments. From the investigation and excavation of the remains and literature, Huaqing Palace, the architectural layout is rigorous, winding, grand scale. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty to the people's fat and wealth, built this luxury Palace, for their own pleasure, but once upon a time, "fishing drums" broke his dreams. Huaqing Palace building Tangchi, then gradually destroyed, since the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, its original building has been gone. Today, its remains, is to recognize my national culture, and as a reference, the establishment of a new era of scenic tourist areas for the general public to visit. The Tang Dynasty Huaqing Palace made full use of the favorable terrain, making it a structured, magnificent huge palace complex. The main halls were centered on hot springs, which formed the core of Huaqing Palace. Then to the mountain and down the hill to unfold, the use of topographic features, the layout of different types and uses of the pavilions, while there are pines and cypresses, Lychee Garden, Hibiscus Garden, Pear Garden, Pepper Garden, the East Garden and other distribution of the whole of the Huaqing Palace dress up extraordinarily enchanting. Huaqing Palace of buildings on the mountain facing the water, lined up, in addition to the Palace City (Luo Cheng), there are dazzling wall around. Outside the dazzling wall, but also listed a number of buildings, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong "Lintong County Records", said: "Tang Wells special name, different system of the temple, the beauty of the gardens and gullies, is not the human realm".

This place has a history of more than 3,000 years as a palace for ancient emperors and tourists. Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang and other emperors have built palaces in this area to travel. In winter, the hot spring water is circulated within the walls to make warm air, and whenever snowflakes flutter, snow falls here as frost, so it is called Flying Frost Hall. According to legend, King Yu of the Western Zhou Dynasty built his palace here. Qin, Han and Sui Dynasties successively re-built, to the Tang Dynasty and several times added. It was called Tangquan Palace, later renamed Hot Spring Palace. To the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and the big construction, the treatment of wells for the pool, around the mountains in the palace, at this time only called Huaqing Palace. Because the palace in the hot springs above, so also known as Huaqing Pond. Tang Dynasty Huaqing Pond is the emperor concubines travel banquet Palace, October each year to this, the next spring before returning. After it was expanded in the sixth year of Tang Tianbao, Emperor Tang Xuanzong, the seventh emperor of the Tang Dynasty, brought Yang Guifei here every year to bathe in the winter and enjoy the scenery here. It is recorded that Emperor Tang Xuanzong came here 36 times in the 41 years from the second year of Kaiyuan (714) to the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755). The Hall of Flying Frost was originally the bedchamber of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762) and Yang Guifei. Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Hatred" reads: "The spring cold gives a bath in the Huaqing Pond, where the hot spring water is slippery and washes away the gelatinous fat. The water of the hot springs is slippery and washes away the fat. The attendant helps her up and makes her feel weak, but it is the time when she receives new favors". According to historical records, the hot springs here were discovered about 3,000 years ago during the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, the emperor and nobles built villas here. In the Tang Dynasty, the magnificent "Huaqing Palace" was built here. The name "Huaqing Pond" is derived from this. After generations of war, the original buildings have been destroyed. They were rebuilt in 1959 according to the layout of the historical records.

Today's Huaqing Pond, the famous mountains and water more obvious odd, natural scenic area is divided into three, the eastern part of the bathing place, with Shangshi soup, Shaoyang soup, long soup, surf bath and other high-grade health care bathing place, the western part of the garden tour area, the main building Flying Frost Hall Hall, the Yichun Hall, around the matching. The southern part of the garden is a protected cultural relics area, where the Lishan Hot Spring is located.

Huaqing Pond gate above the "Huaqing Pond" plaque written by Guo Moruo. Entering the gate, you can see two tall cedars standing tall, two palace-style buildings of the bath symmetrical left and right, behind the new bath, from the new bath to the right, through the dragon wall is the Nine Dragons Lake, the surface of the lake is as flat as a mirror, the pavilion reflections, willows on the shore, the east bank of the lake is the Yichun Hall, the north bank is the Flying Frost Hall as the main building, the Sinking Hall and the Temple of Yichun, east and west, and the west bank is the Nine Quarter Cloisters. From north to south over the dragon stone boat, and then through the morning Pavilion, Nine Dragons Bridge, Evening Pavilion, it will be imitation of the Tang Dynasty "Princess Pond" complex.

"Lotus soup" is the place where Emperor Xuanzong bathed, covering an area of 400O, is a dual-purpose pool that can be bathed and swam in, which fully demonstrates the supremacy and majesty of the imperial power. Pool bottom pair of about 30cm inlet had been equipped with a double lotus nozzle at the same time to the outside water spray, and the stone lotus flower symbolizes the love of Emperor Xuanzong, Guifei.

"Begonia soup", commonly known as "Guifei Pond", was built in 747 AD, the plane shape of the pond is quite similar to a blooming begonia, hence the name, dedicated to Yang Guifei bathing. In Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hate", he wrote, "Spring cold gives a bath in the Huaqing Pond, and the hot spring water is slippery and washes away the gelatinous fat. The servant helped her up and made her feel weak, but it was the time when she received the new favor", Yang Guifei bathed in this flower-like bath for nearly ten spring and autumn. "Star soup" was built in 644 AD, is dedicated to Tang Taizong Li Shimin bathing pool, pool wall modeling is the south cliff north soft, preliminary speculation is that the artisans simulate the natural world of mountains and rivers modeling construction. Legend has it that the original site above and around no shade, bathing visible stars in the sky, hence the name. There are hot springs behind the star soup ancient source.

"Prince soup" is dedicated to the Prince bathing pool. "Shangshi soup" is designed for Shangshi Food Bureau officials to bathe in the soup.

Out of the Princess pool forward into the Lake Tower, first see the lotus pond and then through the Feixia Pavilion, legend has it that this pavilion is the Princess bath after the view and drying hair place. Nine dragons soup is the name of the Tang Xuanzong bathing pool, Guifei Pond is the place where Yang Guifei bathed. In order to adapt to the development of the tourism situation, Huaqing Pond has added the Chinese and foreign calligraphy monument forest, pear garden and other art pavilions. Constitutes a set of tourism, cultural relics, gardens, bathing, entertainment, food and beverage, as one of the comprehensive cultural relics excursion place. Can be called the model of the northern royal garden.

With the archaeological excavations, in the Tang Huaqing Palace within the scope of protection of the discovery of the Tang Pearly Garden site, cleaned out the "Lotus soup" (Royal Soup), "Begonia Soup" (Concubine Pool) and other five royal pool sites and a large number of building materials. At the same time in the Tang and Han culture layer under the discovery of the Neolithic era of sand sand clay pottery pieces, for the study of the history of Huaqing Pond provides a valuable physical basis.