Jingming Garden (Jade Spring Hill) is a culture relic protection site of Beijing Municipality. It is located in the west of Kunming Lake of the Summer Palace in Haidian District, northwest of Beijing. Jingming Garden is with an area of 75 hectares, of which 13 hectares is covered by water. It is a member of the “Three Mountains and Five Gardens”.

First built in the Jin Dynasty, it was called Lotus Palace (Furong Palace) and Jade Spring Palace then. Huayan Temple was built here in under the reign of Emperor Zhengde (1506-1521) of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Clean Heart Garden was established in the 19th year (1680) under the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty and renamed as Jingming Garden in the 31st year (1692). During the Qianlong period, the large-scale expansion gave the birth to the "Sixteen Scenes of Jingming Garden", which was the heyday of the Jingming Garden. It was burn down by Anglo-French Allied Force and Eight-Nation Alliance in 1860 and 1900 respectively. Then, it became Jade Spring Hill Water Company after the Revolution of 1911 and was opened to the public. After the People's Republic of China was founded, Jingming Garden was the summer retreat of national leaders and was renovated at large-scale. The garden features abundant sceneries and representative examples include the Jade Spring which was named to be "the best spring in the world" by Emperor Qianlong, the Spouting Jade Spring under Rainbow, one of Eight Scenes of Ancient Yanjing in the Jin Dynasty, the Jade Hill Tower in the main peak of Jade Spring Hill, a 477m octagonal seven steps wood-like loft style stone tower, the Shadow of Tower on the Jade Peak, one of Sixteen Scenes of Jingming Garden, the Huazang Tower, an octagonal seven steps dense eaves type white marble stone tower, the 6m-high Chengzhao Pass, and the Lanka Cave, a cave with esoteric Buddhism bas-reliefs on precipices with high artistic value. As an ancient architecture of Qing Dynasty, Jingming Garden was listed in the 6th batch of Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level by the State Council on 25 May 2006.

Address: west of Kunming Lake of the Summer Palace, outside the east gate of Jade Spring Hill Scenic Area, Haidian District 海淀区玉泉山小东门外，颐和园昆明湖西