Ancient Chinese garden art ——the Summer Palace

   The art of Chinese garden architecture has a long history, which is unique and outstanding in the world horticultural history. For thousands of years, tens of thousands of exquisite gardens have been built on the land of China. The Summer Palace is a relatively complete large-scale imperial garden, which is representative of traditional Chinese gardens to a certain extent and plays an important role in the world's garden architecture.

    The architectural style of the Summer Palace is the quintessence of architecture from all over China. The palace area and neiting area in the east are typical of the northern siheyuan style. The southern lake district is hangzhou west Lake style; On the north side of Longevity Hill is a typical Tibetan lama temple. Suzhou Street in the north is a typical water town.

    In the Summer Palace, an ancient imperial garden, garden architecture is rich and colorful, and there are more than 40 pavilions of various kinds. Pavilion shape, size, are rich in variation, without the same. From the plane shape, there are square, hexagonal, octagonal, rectangular, round, set square and half pavilion; From the three-dimensional modeling, there are single layer, double layer; In terms of materials, those made of wood or cast in copper; roofing materials have clear water tile, glazed tile. They are either standing on the hills, or attached to the side of the building, or located in the bank of the pool, or hidden in the flowers and trees, with its beautiful and exquisite, colorful images combined with other buildings in the garden, landscape, plants, etc., constitute a vivid picture.

    Nowadays, more and more people around the world are interested in ancient garden architecture. Its unique beauty and artistic conception spread all over the world.