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Even the general maintainance of the gardens is a major task. YuanMingYuan. Also known as the Ruins of the Yuanmingyuan (the Garden of Perfection and Light), the Old Summer Palace is located northwest of Beijing and to the east of the present-day Summer Palace.The Garden was first constructed in the year of 1709 during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Old Summer Palace's Grand Gate Is Set to Open to Public in Beijing After Nearly 100 Years. google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_border = "000000"; However, some experts and scholars from the China Yuanmingyuan Institute, the State Archives Administration and Tsinghua University, Pekin University, support Xu and his replica. google_color_url = "0000EE"; In 1984, half a million cubic meters of water was diverted from the Miyun Reservoir into the renewed FuHai Lake. Reconstruction. Follow Yicai Global on. Almost no rebuilding of above-the-ground structures has been undertaken yet (except for some bridges). However, most of the lakes and waterways have been drained, tidied, banks rebuilt and refilled with water, while hills around the lakes have been cleared of brushwood, recreating long forgotten vistas. 146 years after Anglo-French Forces stormed into Beijing's Yuanmingyan and burnt it to the ground, a Chinese private foundation announced Thursday that it would build a replica of the famous royal gardens. The debate on the pros and cons of rebuilding continues. Ruan is not the only critic of the project. Under the order of Premier Zhou Enlai, YuanMingYuan became a park to remind the Chinese people and the world of the destruction wrought by European colonial powers to a harmless and priceless cultural entity that rightly belonged to all mankind. Some oppose rebuilding, considering that leaving the site in ruins can help teach future Chinese generations about the history of foreign invasion and destruction.

google_color_border = "000000"; google_ad_client = "pub-5222848495763360"; Funds will be raised in China and overseas to build the replica and collect cultural treasures from the garden, said Xu Wenrong, chairman of Zhejiang Hengdian Foundation for Chinese Cultural Development. Sunset. The designer said the new Yuanmingyuan will express "the artistic quintessence of Chinese gardens.". Western Style Palaces. google_color_url = "0000EE"; Li Jianping, a Yuanmingyuan expert, said both viewpoints seek "to protect China's great cultural heritage and enhance its position in world cultural history.". Photo: Courtesy of Beijing Re-Yuanmingyuan Company Limited A digital bird’s-eye view of the restored Old Summer Palace from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). google_ad_channel =""; YuanMingYuan was a wonderland of lakes and waterways, bridges, hills and pavilions. The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan (圆明园; 圓明園; Yuánmíng Yuán; 'Gardens of Perfect Brightness'), and originally called the Imperial Gardens (御园; 御園; Yù Yuán), was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, Beijing, China.It is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northwest of the walls of the former Imperial City section of Beijing. The Hengdian Social and Economic Federation led by Xu Wenrong won fame for a development featuring imitations of the Forbidden City in Beijing, a Qin Dynasty (221-206BC) palace and a prosperous Song Dynasty (960-1279) downtown street. Perhaps the western style palaces will be left as ruins and gradually some of the chinese style architecture will be rebuilt. After all this destruction, what was left was truely just an empty shell. Water-Lillies & Lotus Flowers.

After the devastation wrought by invaders, most of the site of the former imperial gardens was left abandoned and used by local farmers as agricultural land. The Maze. "If the replica is billed as a tourist attraction, it might lose a lot of money, given the huge funds needed for its construction," he said. "It would be better to spend the money on ancient cultural heritage sites which are in dire need of protection or build some modern mansions blended with aspects of ancient Chinese architecture.". google_color_text = "FFFFFF"; (prints, tshirts, bags ...),