Chengde >> Mountain Summer Resort

Attraction Typ: Amusement Park

Location: City Centre - Central

Recommend: 5 Star

Mountain Summer Resort

Chengde Summer Resort is honored as the largest imperial garden in modern China.

Mountain Summer Resort (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng) is a perfect combination of the architectural and gardening arts of north and south China. The Mountain Summer Resort and its surrounding temples were designated as a world Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1994.

Mountain Summer Resort is also known as Chengde Li Palace and Rehe Imperial Palace, located in the north part of the city center of Chengde, Hebei Province, honored as the largest imperial garden in modern China, twice large as the Summer Palace in Beijing, which was completed during the Qing Dynasty.

The Mountain Summer Resort features large parks with lakes, pagodas, and palaces ringed by a wall. Outside the wall are the Eight Outer Temples, built in varying architectural styles drawn from throughout China. The best-known of these is the Putuo Zongcheng Temple, built to resemble the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.

The Chengde Summer Resort can be divided into Palace area and park area. Palace area is the place where the emperor dealt with governmental affairs, held celebration and rest. Park area can be divided into Huzhou zone, plain zone and mountains zone. Huzhou zone features countless islands, ripple lakes, it is famed as a land flowing with milk and honey in south Changjiang River. In the northeast corner, located Qing spring, it is the famous Rehe spring. The west of plain zone is a land of green grass, it can remind you the landscape in Mongolia while to the east, the old trees are in dominant position, and it resembles the phenomenon of Great Xingan Mountains.

The entire Summer Resort is a collection of the natural landscapes throughout the country and it also is the biggest ancient emperor palace now existing in China.