Long Corridor
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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 14 May 2018 22:37
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The Long Corridor
 The Long
Corridor was first built in 1750, when the Qianlong Emperor commissioned
work to convert the area into an imperial garden. The corridor was constructed
so that the emperor's mother could enjoy a walk through the gardens protected
from the elements. Like most of the Summer Palace, the Long Corridor was
severely damaged by fire which Anglo-French allied forces laid in 1860 during
the Second Opium War. It was rebuilt in 1886. As a part of the Summer Palace,
the Long Corridor was included on the UNESCO World Heritage
List. It measures seven hundred and twenty-eight metres and
has an amazing fourteen thousand paintings depicting birds, flowers, landscapes
and stories from Chinese literary classics. Four octagonal, double-eaved
pavilions, “Clear and Carefree”, “Autumn Water”, “Harmonising with the Lake” and
“Mesmerising Scenery” were built intermittently along the corridor.
 Taking the Hall of Dispelling Clouds as the centre, the Long Corridor
stretches symmetrically to the east and west along the foot of the hill and the
lakeshore.................
 ............linking all the structures
scattered along Longevity Hill into a
whole.
  The Long
Corridor starts from Yaoyue (Inviting the Moon) Gate
in the east and ends at Shizhang (Stone Old Man) Pavilion in the west. Some
pictures along the way.
                 
ALL IN ALL QUITE EXTRAORDINARY A VERY CROWDED COVERED WAY, BEAUTIFUL IN ITS DAY |