Jingming Garden ( zh, s=静明园, t=靜明園) is an imperial garden on the

Jade Spring Hill Jade Spring Hill () is located to the west of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. It was also formerly known as Jingming Palace (景明宫, "Jǐngmíng gōng"). It contains an imperial garden, the Jingming Garden and is named after the Jade Spri ...

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, China, west of the

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. It is one of

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History

Jingming Garden was first built in the

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and also called Lotus Palace (Furong Palace) and Jade Spring Pavilion. Yanhua Temple was built in Zhengde era of

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. The Clean Heart Garden was built in the 19th year of the Kangxi reign of the

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and renamed as Jingming Garden in the 31st year of Kangxi. It was burn down by Anglo-French Allied Force and

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in 1860 and 1900 respectively. It became Jade Spring Hill Water Company after the Revolution of 1911 and was opened to the public. After the

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was founded, Jingming Garden was the summer retreat of national leaders and was renovated. The plan to arrest the

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was formulated here. Jingming Garden is a Beijing cultural relics protection unit. It was listed in the 6th batch of

National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit A national priority protected site is the highest-level national protection for immovable cultural relics in China. The designation was first created under the 1961 Provisional Regulations on the Protection and Management of Cultural Relics, whic ...

by the State Council on 25 May 2006.

Features

*Jade Spring was named to be "the best spring in the world" by Qianlong. Spouting Jade Spring is one of Eight scenery of Peking. *Jade Hill Tower is in the main peak of Jade Spring Hill. It is an octagonal seven steps wood-like stone tower with height 47.7 meter, which well known by one of sixty scenery”Jade Hill Tower Shadow”. *Huazang Tower is an octagonal seven steps dense eaves type white marble stone tower. *Chengzhao Pass was crenelation connected with the height beyond 6 meter. *Lanka Cave is a cave with esoteric buddhism bas-reliefs on precipices with high artistic value.

References

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