What are the main features of the Yuanmingyuan in garden architecture

The three main features of the Yuanmingyuan Garden in terms of garden architecture are:

1. It was built after the famous places of interest in different places;

2. It was built according to the poems and pictures of the ancient poets;

3. It was built by absorbing the essence of Western architecture.

The Yuanmingyuan is situated in the western suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, and consists of the Yuanmingyuan, Changchunyuan and Qichunyuan, so it is also called the Yuanming Three Gardens. In addition, there are many small gardens, distributed in the east, west and south of the Yuanmingyuan, the stars like a moon around the Yuanmingyuan. Yuanmingyuan is one of the famous royal gardens in the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of more than 5,200 acres and more than 150 scenic spots. With a building area of 160,000 square meters, it is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". Qing emperors came here every summer to avoid the summer heat, listen to politics, deal with military affairs, so also known as the "Summer Palace".

Yuanmingyuan was built in 1709 (Kangxi 48 years), initially the Kangxi emperor to the fourth son of Yin Zhen's. 1744 Yongzheng became the throne, expanding the original garden, and in the garden south of the additional Hall of Great Light and Hall of Diligence and the Cabinet, the six ministries, the Office of Military Affairs of all the value of the room, the Royal "to avoid noisy listening to the government". In addition to the Qianlong emperor during his reign on the Yuanmingyuan local additions, alterations, but also in the immediate east of the new Changchunyuan, in the southeast of the neighboring and into the Wanchunyuan. The pattern of Yuanmingyuan was basically formed. Jiaqing dynasty, mainly on the qi chunyuan repair and expansion, make it one of the main garden living place. Daoguang dynasty, the national affairs of the decline, insufficient financial resources, but would rather withdraw Wanshou, Xiangshan, Yuquan "three mountains" furnishings, strike hot summer and Mulan hunting, still do not give up the Yuanmingyuan alterations and decorations. 1860 Anglo-French allied forces ransacked the Yuanmingyuan, the cultural relics were looted, with the emperor wanted to restore the Yuanmingyuan, and then because of financial difficulties, was forced to stop, and rebuild the Other buildings. After the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and by the bureaucrats, warlords clever destruction of the blow, and finally turned into a ruin.

The Yuanmingyuan inherited China's more than 3,000 years of excellent gardening traditions, both the elegant and luxurious palace buildings, but also the elegance and colorful gardens of Jiangnan, while drawing on the essence of the European garden, the different styles of garden architecture into one, by the French writer Victor Hugo known as the "ideals and art of the paradigm".