What are the iconic attractions on the Peking University campus?

1. Weiming Lake

Weiming Lake, the largest artificial lake on the Peking University campus, is located in the north-central part of the campus. It is U-shaped. In the southern part of the lake, there is a sculpture of a stone fish with its tail turned over, and in the center there is an island in the center of the lake, which is connected to the north shore by a bridge. There is a stone boat at the south end of the island. On the southern shore of the lake there are Bell Pavilion, Linhu Xuan, Flower God Temple and Edgar Snow's tomb, and on the eastern shore there is Boya Tower. It is one of the iconic landscapes of Peking University.

2, Boya Tower

architecture, Peking University is famous for a tower lake map, which the tower refers to is located in Peking University next to the unnamed lake Boya Tower. Yanyuan architectural essence of "a tower lake map" of the "tower" - Boya Tower, is the use of function, artistic styling, environmental coordination of the three highly unified architectural masterpiece. Its silhouette in Lake Weiming is y imprinted in the hearts of Peking University students.

Boya Pagoda is located in the southeast of Lake Weiming on the hill, is modeled after the Tongzhou Lamp-Burning Buddha's Shariputra, taking the Liao Dynasty, the style of dense-eaved brick pagoda construction. It was originally the campus water supply tower, its ingenious design conception, is the construction of the Yanyuan Garden of the stroke of God.

3, Spoon Garden

Spoon Garden is a famous Ming Dynasty painter and calligrapher Mi Wanzhong (1570-1631) built in the Ming Wanli years, is the "Mi's three gardens" in the most famous one. It is the most famous of the "Mi's three gardens". Poets of the Ming Dynasty wrote poems and songs about it. In the early Qing Dynasty, Hong Ya Yuan was built on the former site of the Spoon Garden, for which Kangxi had inscribed a plaque. Qianlong, the British envoy Magalh?e to meet the Qing Emperor was stationed here.

After the Prince Zheng's residence, Jiaqing renamed Jixian Yuan, the Qing Emperor in the Yuanmingyuan dynasty, this is the ministers into the retreat food place. 1860, Jixian Yuan and Yuanmingyuan together for the British and French imperialism burned down.

Extended information:

Wei-Ming Lake used to be supplied with water from the Wanquan River, and the area around Wei-Ming Lake was part of Shuchunyuan during the Qing Dynasty, which was granted by Qianlong to his favored minister Heshen. In this large-scale construction, a **** construction of 64 buildings, pavilions and pavilions 357, thousands of rooms, extremely extravagant. Heshen was later raided, Shuchunyuan and changed its owner.

In the Qing dynasty is the Yuanmingyuan attached to Heshen's garden Shuchunyuan artificial lake. The stone boat was built according to the stone boat in the Summer Palace, but later the upper structure was burned down, and only the stone base remains today.

Becoming part of Yanjing University in the 1920s, the university asked designer Henry Murphy to plan the layout of the campus, and the lake was named Unknown Lake by Qian Mu.

In 1952, Yanjing University was administratively abolished, and Peking University moved from the city center to the former site of Yanjing University. Since then, the Unknown Lake has been part of the Peking University campus.

In 2001, the "Lake Weiming Yanyuan Architecture" was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Since then, students have called Lake Weiming, Boya Tower and the library "One Tower, One Lake".

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