Summer Palace information

The Summer Palace, a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, fifteen kilometers away from the city, covering an area of ??about 290 hectares, and adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace garden and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum" , is also a key national tourist attraction.

In the fifteenth year of Qianlong's reign (1750), Emperor Qianlong spent 4.48 million taels of silver to renovate this place into Qingyi Garden in order to honor his mother, Queen Xiaosheng. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French forces. It was rebuilt in the 14th year of Guangxu (1888) and renamed the Summer Palace. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was looted again by the "Eight-Nation Allied Forces". During the warlord wars and the Kuomintang rule, it was destroyed again.

On March 4, 1960, the Summer Palace was announced as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and was included in the World Heritage List in 11, 1998. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected as the largest existing royal garden in China by the China World Records Association.

Starting from January 1, 2019, the ticket revenue from the Summer Palace will be collected by the tax department.