1, different locations
Yuanmingyuan is located at No.28, Tsinghua West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, covering an area of more than 350 hectares, of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares. It consists of Yuanmingyuan, Qichun Garden and Changchun Garden, and Yuanmingyuan is the largest, so it is collectively called Yuanmingyuan.
The Summer Palace is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 0/5km away from the urban area/kloc-0. The whole park covers an area of 3.009 square kilometers, accounting for about three quarters of the water surface, and is adjacent to the Yuanmingyuan.
2, the construction time is different
During the last years of Kangxi and Yongzheng, the Yuanmingyuan began to be built. In the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, the expansion project of Yuanmingyuan officially began. After Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he adjusted the landscape of the garden in Yuanmingyuan and added architectural groups.
Before the Qing Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, four large royal gardens were built in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong used 4.48 million taels of silver to rebuild this place into Qingyi Garden in honor of his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing. In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Qingyi Garden was burned by British and French allied forces. Guangxu fourteen years reconstruction, renamed the Summer Palace, as a summer resort.
3. Different architectural patterns
Yuanmingyuan is surrounded by 10 km, and consists of Yuanmingyuan, Qichun Garden and Changchun Garden, with Yuanmingyuan being the largest. In addition, there are many subordinate gardens distributed in the east, west and south of Yuanmingyuan, including Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan, Jingming Garden in Yuquan Mountain and Qingyi Garden.
From the wisdom sea at the top of Wanshou Mountain, the Summer Palace is composed of Buddha Pavilion, Dehui Hall, Paiyun Hall, Paiyun Gate and Yunhui Yuyufang, which forms a distinct central axis. At the foot of the mountain is a corridor with a length of more than 700 meters. There are more than 8,000 colored paintings on the beams of the corridor, which is known as the first corridor in the world. Before the promenade is Kunming Lake. The west dike of Kunming Lake is modeled after the Su Causeway of the West Lake.
The Value Significance of Yuanmingyuan
There are countless priceless treasures of various styles, extremely rare historical classics and rich and precious historical relics in Yuanmingyuan, such as paintings, gold and silver jewelry, Song and Yuan porcelain, etc. It is one of the treasures of human culture and the largest museum in the world.
The architectural site of Yuanmingyuan is the core and soul of the whole garden gardening art. The site of Yuanmingyuan includes all kinds of traditional architectural combinations, including pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and corridors. In the single building, the architectural techniques such as big wooden work, Joinery Work, masonry work, earth work, decoration, color painting work and tile work are also adopted.
In terms of construction technology, combined with the essence of China ancient traditional architecture, it has created the pinnacle in the history of China garden architecture. The history of Yuanmingyuan's architectural sites is also recorded in the Code of Internal Work of Yuanmingyuan and the sample mine drawings, which provides scientific data for studying the traditional architectural form and construction technology of China.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuanmingyuan.