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Summer Palace-a masterpiece of oriental royal garden art
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The Summer Palace, a royal garden in the western suburbs of Beijing, China, is a masterpiece of Chinese garden art and one of the world's cultural heritages. The Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, was built in the fifteenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1750). It was built by Emperor Qianlong to honor his mother and Chongqing Empress Dowager. This garden is based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, modeled on the landscape of Hangzhou West Lake, and integrated the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens to form a large-scale landscape garden. The Summer Palace covers a vast area of about 3.009 square kilometers, of which the water occupies a 3/4 area.