2010年4月2日 星期五

Welcome to Summer Palace!!--part l



It was a really cold day that my friends and I decided to have a memorable adventure by ourselves who had been to Summer Palace first time. First, we chose the subway to be our transportation. It was convenient to find the signpost of Summer Palace when you walked out the station. Walking about ten to fifteen minutes, we found the entrance.


出發去冒險囉


從地鐵出來之後沿著這條路走15分鐘就會到頤和園


We found a tour guide to help me understand better about the Summer Palace because it is too big for us to walk around by ourselves. I thought we might get lost in it easily. It was easy to find a tour guide who always got together around the entrance to ask you needing a tour guide or not.


頤和園外牌坊

The Summer Palace is famous for the Kunming Lake(昆明湖) and the mountain(萬壽山). There too many palaces in the Summer Palace to introduce all of them to you, so I choose some famous and interesting to you. Here I have to say sorry to you that it’s not easy for me to find out the English name of these buildings and locations in the Summer Palace, so I will use Chinese to show the names.

The first one is 仁壽殿 that the emperor handled the politics, but Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) usually listen to the court here in the Qing Dynasty.


仁壽殿外的仁壽門


仁壽殿外的麒麟

The second one is Could-Dispelling Hall(排雲殿) which is used as a place for celebrating Empress Dowager Cixi ‘s birthday or holding some ceremonies. The whole place including the buildings is extremely luxury because it was build with a lot of jades and precious stones. The main hall of the Could-Dispelling Hall is the highest place of the Summer Palace.


排雲殿

Next we were going to the center of the mountain- the Temple of Buddhist Virtue (佛香閣). It is the biggest building in the palace and it had an octangle construction which was decorated with green edges and yellow Lazurites. Empress Dowager Cixi went here for worshiping Buddhist monthly.


佛香閣外的圍牆

佛香閣

TO be continue...

1 則留言:

  1. You had some brief pictures and many Chinese notes in this article. It's very suitable for us to understand.

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