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21/10, leave Beijing for Chengde by bus at 8:00 am. In Chengde, after lunch visit the famous Pumin Temple.
22/10, in the morning visit the beautiful imperial Mountain Summer Resort ¨CBisu Shanzhuang in Chinese, which was built in Qing dynasty. In the afternoon, visit the Minor Potala Palace. At 3:30 pm, go back to Beijing by bus.
Notice: participants for this tour need to come to Beijing one day before the tour. At 8:00 am on the 21st of October, all the participants need to meet at the Lobby of Beijing Continental Grand Hotel and the tour will set off from there and will be ended there too.
Chengde Mountain Resort: It was the summer residence of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) imperial family. Extending over 5.64 million square meters in the urban area of Chengde, it is the largest imperial park extant in China. The construction of the resort began in 1703, or the 42ad year of the Qing Emperor Kangxi¡¯s reign and last for 90 years. Scattered across the Mountain Resort are some 130 groups of structures built in different styles and totaling about 100,000 square meters in floor space. The Mountain Resort combines the delicacy of private gardens in south China and the elegancy of imperial gardens in north China. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1994.
The Mountain Resort¡¯s Outlying Temples:Located northeast of the Mountain Resort is a group of
temple buildings in the styles of different ethnic groups of Han, Tibetan and Mongolian. The Temples are magnificent and spectacular and they set off the Mountain Resort as stars set off the moon. Together with the Mountain Resort, they were inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1994.
Pule Temple (Temple of Universal Joy):The temple was built in 1766 and covers an area of 24,000 square meters, facing west. Xuguangge (Pavilion of the Rising Sun), its principle structure, 23 meters in height and 21.68 meters in diameter, is a replica of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests in Beijing¡¯s Temple of Heaven.
Temple of the Potarake Doctrine £¨ÆÕÍÓ×Ú³ËÃí£©£º The Temple is also known as the Lesser Potala Palace. Built within more than 4 years from 1767 to 1771, the temple is situated north of the mountain Resort it is also named ¡°Lesser Potala Place.¡± The entire temple encompasses 220,000 square meters. It was built by Qinglong to celebrate his 60th anniversary, empress¡¯s 80th anniversary and to host the upper strata personages of the minority peoples form Mongolia, Qinghai and Xinjiang who came to join in his birthday celebrations. The temple has a special artistic value. A crystallization of the style and characteristics of ancient Tibetan architecture, the temple is made up of 50 Buddhist halls, scripture-reciting halls, monks¡¯ living quarters, red terraces, white terraces topped with one or five pagodas and glazed ceremonial arches which rise and fall with the mountain slopes in a variable rectangular disposition. The red terrace is 42.5 meters high and 59.7 meters in width. It is the main structure within the temple and imposing. The rockeries, adding solemnity to the ambient atmosphere.
Temple of Universal Peace £¨ÆÕÄþË£©
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