The national imperial park “summer palace” in Beijing

This is one the most popular and visited after the Great Wall of China and Forbidden City. You can find here very cool in the summer time and very fun and entertaining place somewhat like that. It was first time initiated to build a summer palace kind of imperial garden for living king and its imperial relatives in it.


its major parts and complete construction was done in the 1750 giving its name “Garden of ripples”. Misfortunately it had faced many foreign force invasions and got severely damaged in 1860 by Anglo-French forces and 1900 eight allied forces. Its restoration works had been started in the 1886 in Qing dynasty by using the public money and forces as labor and in the 1900 due to second time attacks. You can find lots number of things to do in the garden of ripples and 2/3 area of it is water, numerous temples, pavilions and ponds, garden lawns and much things to do.

Some of important fact about the summer palace:
• It was first built in the 12th century as an imperial palace for the king.
• The summer palace in northwest suburban Beijing is the largest and most complete imperial garden existing in China.
• Two thirds of the area of the Summer Palace is water. If the waters of the Kunming, West and Back lakes were still, it was seen as a sign that the nation was stable.
• The summer palace is known as the mother of all imperial retreats, Garden of Clear Ripples and in Chinese it is called Qingyi Garden.
• The summer palace is divided in to 3 groups the administrative area, residential area and scenic area.
• The Sea of Wisdom temple is covered with 1,100 terracotta Buddhas.
• In 1860 and 1900 it was destroyed by European troops.
• It is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world.
• CURRENT RESTORATION projects are due for completion in 2010.
The summer palace has declared by World heritage of world by the NESCO in 1990 and often is quoted as Garden of gardens. You must visit and realize all about by yourself.