The Summer Palace
This is a beautiful spot with exuberant wood and grass at the foot of the West Hill in the western outskirts of Beijing.From the Ming Dynasty on,many high－taste nobles built their private gardens in this place.In the Qing Dynasty perhaps because the Manchu aristocrats who had just left their forests and grassland had not accommodated themselves to the environment of the palaces,they built great imperial gardens there.The Summer Palace that has survived calamities in history is one of those architectural masterpieces.This is a marvellous conception of a paradise on the earth.The Long Corridor and the Seventeen Arch Bridge are like ribbons.They frame the Kunming Lake and turn it into a beautiful picture.With the Buddha Fragrance Chamber on the Longevity Hill as the highlight,the lake and mountains become a lively whole.
The West Hill and the pagoda on top of the Jade Spring Hill blot out the limit of the garden and fuse it into an open expense.
Spring in the Summer Palace is merrily colourful,the summer is leisurely exuberant,the autumn sentimentally bright and winter sober,tranquil and clean.
I think the Summer Palace is a great historic site in our country.