Name: The Old Summer Palace

Star Rating:4A

Admission: 10 Yuan

Opening Hours:7:00-19:30

Phone:010-62628501

Address: No.28,Qinghuaxi Road,Haidian District .

Description: Originally built in the Kangxi Period of the Qing Dynasty, the Old Summer Palace is a large imperial palace in China. It is located at Haidian, the western suburbs of Beijing and comprised of the Old Summer Palace, Garden of Everlasting Spring, and Garden of Blossoming Spring with a total area of 350 hectares. Emperor Kangxi named it in person and wrote a tablet for it. Here "Yuan" refers to excellent integrity and ethics of persons surpassing the average persons without any defects, "Ming" refers to outstanding political achievements, perfection and wisdom. Therefore, it can be said that the two Chinese characters "Yuan Ming" is an ideal standard of the ancient Chinese open-minded emperors.

Featured Attractions: Surrounded by rivers and mountains, the picturesque Old Summer Palace once carried the excellent garden creation art with a history of more than three thousand years in China, and gathered the famous sceneries in nationwide well-known gardens, so it was not only graceful and elegant as a royal building, but also as charming and attractive as the gardens in the south of the lower reaches of the Yangze River. Meanwhile, the Old Summer Palace also blended some architecture with styles in European Revival of Learning era and the Chinese Daoism architectures and perfectly integrates several different architecture styles into one. The Old Summer Palace was also a comprehensive art treasure and a grand royal museum, because many celebrity calligraphy works, paintings, ancient books, bells and vessels, gold, sliver, jade and other cultural relic were collected and on display here, all of which concentrate China's several thousand years' splendid culture essence.

Recommended Time: all year

Transportation: Bus 65,432,498,656,664,717,743,814,982,963.