About the Architecture of Yuanmingyuan

The main types of buildings in the Yuanmingyuan include halls, chambers, pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, pavilions, corridors, xuanxuan, lounges, rooms, boats, pavilions, halls, bridges, gates, walls, towers, as well as temples, Taoist temples, villages, markets, and so on, all of them.

The building styles in its heyday, but also almost all of the ancient Chinese architecture may appear in all the layout and modeling styles: both the common single-eave roofing gray tile roof, simple and elegant; and palace-style heavy eaves glazed tile roof, brilliant; both a two-room, two into the four compartments of the regular courtyard, but also flexible and varied architectural clusters.

There are 38 kinds of architectural layout ****, in addition to the common rectangular, square, round, I-word, concave and convex characters, hexagonal, octagonal, there are also a lot of unique and novel plane form, such as the eyebrow and moon shape, swastika shape, scroll shape, cross, field shape, curved shape, plum blossom shape, triangular, fan-shaped, and even the set of rings, Fang Sheng, etc., it can be said that the richness is incomparable.

The Yuanming Three Gardens*** has more than one hundred gardens and scenic architectural complexes, which is usually referred to as one hundred scenes. Set halls, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, halls and other garden buildings, *** about 160,000 square meters. Than the entire floor area of the Forbidden City more than 10,000 square meters.

The buildings in the garden, both absorbing the advantages of the successive generations of palace-style architecture, but also in the plane configuration, the appearance of modeling, group combinations of many aspects of the breakthrough of the official norms of the constraints of a wide range, a variety of forms.

Created many in southern and northern China are extremely rare architectural forms, such as the word Xuan, Mei Yue Xuan, Tianzidian, and fan-shaped, bow-shaped, round mirror-shaped, Gongzi-shaped, mountain-shaped, cross-shaped, Fangsheng-shaped, scroll-shaped and so on. In addition, the layout of the garden, due to the landscape with the situation, a variety of forms; the garden of the scenery and ring and set, layer by layer, forming a colorful, natural and harmonious overall beauty.

French missionary Wang Zhicheng, had a graphic description, he said: the Yuanmingyuan building, the form of more changes, and uneven, not the norm. Each of its smaller palaces seems to have been made according to a peculiar model, as if arranged at random, and none of them resembles the others. Everything is of such interest that one cannot take in the view at a glance, but must scrutinize it little by little.

Curiosities and Paintings in the Garden:

The Yuanmingyuan is a treasure house, or a royal museum and art gallery, which was the largest in the world at that time, and it housed a lot of treasures, books and masterpieces of art. It housed rare cultural relics such as paintings and calligraphy of celebrities, secret books, bells and tripods, gold, silver and jewels, concentrating the essence of ancient culture. Yuanmingyuan is also a garden of exotic trees and flowers, valuable flowers and trees up to millions of plants.

How many cultural relics were collected in the Yuanmingyuan is a mystery. Whether it is the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace or other cultural relics building, there will be relevant furnishing file, specifically to record the cultural relics owned by the building, only the Yuanmingyuan lack of furnishing file, because the total number of cultural relics in the Yuanmingyuan collection is not a clear record, and figure out how many cultural relics were lost to foreign countries has also become very difficult.

The French writer Victor Hugo once said, "Even if all the treasures of all the museums in our country together, can not be compared with this magnificent and magnificent Oriental Museum." The garden halls are decorated with uncountable rosewood furniture and display many rare cultural relics at home and abroad. Wenyuan Pavilion in the garden is one of the four major royal collections in China.