The famous French writer Hugo.

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In a corner of the world, there is a miracle of the world. This miracle is called the Old Summer Palace. Art has two sources: one is ideal, which produces European art; the other is fantasy, which produces Eastern art. The Summer Palace is to fantasy art what the Parthenon is to ideal art. This is all that the imagination of an almost superhuman nation can produce.

Unlike the Parthenon, this is not a rare, unique work; it is an example of some kind of colossal scale of fantasy, if fantasy can have a model. Please imagine that there is a building that cannot be described in words, something like a moon palace. This is the Old Summer Palace.

Garden Features

The Old Summer Palace not only brings together several famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, but also creatively transplants Western garden architecture, integrating the culmination of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign gardening arts at that time. There are splendid palaces, exquisite pavilions and pavilions in the garden; there is the "Business Street" that symbolizes the bustling market; there are the mountain villages and countryside that symbolize the pastoral scenery; there are the autumn moon on the flat lake and the sunset on the Lei Feng that imitate the West Lake in Hangzhou, and the Lion Forest in Suzhou. of scenic spots.

There are also those built after the poetic and artistic conception of ancient poets and painters, such as Penglai Yaotai, Wuling Spring Color, etc. It can be said that the Old Summer Palace is the crystallization of the wisdom and blood and sweat of the Chinese people, and is also a model of the Chinese people's architectural art and culture.

Not only that, the Old Summer Palace also contains countless priceless treasures of various styles, extremely rare historical classics and rich and precious historical relics, such as calligraphy and painting of the past dynasties, gold and silver jewelry, Song and Yuan porcelain, etc., which can be called One of the treasures of human culture, it is the largest museum in the world.