The City of Chengde in North-Eastern Hubei Province lies just 4 hours travel from Beijing and is home to the famous Imperial Summer Mountain Resort, one of the largest preserved Imperial Palace Gardens in China today. This Book offers a Pleasant photograhic introduction to the main structures and architecture of this World Cultural Heritage Site. Hardcover Full Color Booklet.
The City of Chengde in North-Eastern Hubei Province lies just 4 hours travel from Beijing and is home to the famous Imperial Summer Mountain Resort, one of the largest preserved Imperial Palace Gardens in China today. Built through a period of 90 years under the Qing Dynasty, China's last Feudal Rulers, the Imperial Mountain Retreat consist of 3 area's. The impressive Imperial palace with it's magnificient, simple and elegant Pavilions, China's second seat of power, where Emperors lived and conducted State Affairs. The Large and regal surrounding Imperial Gardens with a beautiful scenery of Lakes, Mountains and plains. Gardens encompassing the 72 scenic wonders named by Emperors Qianlong and KangXi, and once gathering-place for meetings with local ethnic nobles. And lastly, on it's periphery,?the 12 surrounding Buddhist Temples from the multi-ethnic reign of the Qing Dynasty with Puning Jie, the Mini-Potala or Temple of Universal Peace, as a jewel at it's centre. Built in the Han and Tibetan styles, and a combination of the two, these splendid Temples symbolise the final peak of ancient chinese religious architecture and bear witness to the unity of the Qing multi-ethnic State. Home to the Largest Wooden Buddha in the World and best preserved Imperial Gardens, the Chengde Palace Resort and surrounding Temples have been named a World Heritage Site. This small photo-book with excellent photo's takes the reader past every magnificient site and artifact, giving full introduction to The Imperial Summer Mountain Resort and includes a detailed Map..
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