What is the largest existing royal garden in China?

The Summer Palace is the largest existing royal garden in China. Covering an area of about 5.6 million square meters, four-fifths of the natural mountains, the rest of the plains and lakes, surrounded by a 20-mile-long palace wall. The main gate of the villa in the south end of the palace wall, the door set with Chinese, Tibetan, Manchu, Hui, Mongolian five kinds of text engraved "LiZhengMen" plaque, the door of the nine courtyards composed of the emperor's daily life and deal with political affairs of the main place - the main palace. Summer Resort has actually become the second political center of the Qing government. Tanya Jingcheng Hall is the main building of the Palace, is held on the day of the festival where the ceremony, the entire Hall of wooden components all use hot wax nanmu, also known as nanmu Hall. The hall is nine rooms wide, with single eaves. Do not apply colorful paintings, and the scale of the beams and open questions are smaller than the scale of the inner court of the capital. After that is "according to the clear and open hall", is the emperor summoned courtiers place, the north has 19 halls and the door hall, the emperor's bedchamber "smoke wave to change the cool hall" that is in the door hall within. After the bedchamber, there is a two-story "Cloud Mountain Resort Building", and out of the Xiuyun Gate behind the building, you will enter the mountain and lake tour area of the villa. The main palace is dignified and elegant, with a friendly atmosphere of life, and the courtyards are scattered with rocks and pines and cypresses, which are quiet and pleasant, and have the flavor of a separate palace. The left side of the main palace is the consorts live "Songhe Zhai".

The southeast of the villa has a large lake, along the north shore of the lake, nine different styles of pavilions standing between the willow. The southern end of the lake out of the sluice gate built on the long pavilion and square pavilion three, called the water heart salute. A large island in the lake named Ruyi Chau. Chau built three courtyard-style building, surrounded by corridors, known as the moon color river sound, where the lake eddy, pine and cypress cover, is the emperor's summer reading place. Ruyi's northwest there is a small island of green lotus, between the island of the continent is only connected to a small bridge with a vermilion fence, the island of the smoke and rain building was built in the Qianlong period, modeled on the mood of the smoke and rain building in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Building two-story, red columns and green tiles, four sides of the gable corridor. In front of the building is a long and narrow courtyard, the left side of the Qingyang bookstore, the right side of the mountain lounge. West of the lake a group of buildings modeled on the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang and built, there is a curved corridor in front of the water, after the corridor to the west is the mirror water cloud Cen Hall, towards the south for the Tianyu Wei Chang Hall. Behind the two halls are stacked with stone mountains, towering six-sided three-story God's Pavilion, there are ladders in the pavilion, you can pick up the stairs. This is the high point of the Lake District building, looking over the fence, the entire mountain village of the mountains and waters as far as the eye can see.