What are the legends, stories, poems and couplets about the Summer Palace?

The legend of the Summer Palace-the bronze ox of heaven and earth

The bronze ox is a symbol of the cowherd in the sky. Emperor Qianlong compared himself to the Jade Emperor in the sky and Kunming Lake to the Tianhe River. There will be cowherd and weaver girl on both sides of the Tianhe River. There is a cowherd on the east bank of Kunming Lake, so where is the Weaver Girl? According to relevant historical records, there is a "weaving picture" on the west side of Kunming Lake, symbolizing "Weaving Girl". According to folklore, in a vegetable garden outside the west wall of Kunming Lake, traces of "weaving and ploughing map" were found. There is a white marble stone tablet engraved with the words "weaving plough", which is sealed by the imperial pen. What about the Weaver Girl outside the Western Wall? According to analysis, in 1860 and 1900, the Summer Palace was destroyed twice by imperialist powers because of corruption and incompetence in the late Qing Dynasty. Many precious cultural relics were destroyed, stolen and looted, and some were lost outside the park.

Qianlong compared himself to the Jade Emperor, to the pleasure-seeking Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, and to the Queen Mother. During the expansion of the Summer Palace, she issued an imperial edict to build the Summer Palace into heaven and earth. The Buddha Pavilion symbolizes the Heavenly Palace, and Kunming Lake is like Tianhe, Bafangge and Dragon.

The area around Wang Miao is human. Since there are heavenly palaces and the Milky Way, of course there will be cowherd and weaver girl. To this end, she saw that a bronze cow had been placed in the east embankment of Kunming Lake, which could symbolize the cowherd, so she built the Weaver Girl Pavilion next to the stone boat. The bronze ox faces east, and its head turns to northwest, just facing the direction of Zhinv Pavilion. Taking Kunming Lake (Tianhe) as the boundary, it coincides with the beautiful stories and legends of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

2. Couplets

Summer Palace Yixiu Bridge

Take a pill, and a silver basin floats in the glaze.

The scales are thousands of times, and the moon is full of gold waves.

Yi Yun Guandao Village in the Summer Palace

And cloud scanning

New green melon beds are hoed in the rain.

The Job Building in the Summer Palace

A path full of bamboo and clouds.

Half-curtain flower shadow moon cage sand