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The Summer Palace, the Imperial Garden of the Qing Dynasty, was formerly known as Summer Palace. It is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15km from the city. The park covers an area of 3.009 square kilometers, about three-quarters of the water, and the Yuanmingyuan adjacent. It is based in Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan Gardens to build a large-scale landscape garden. It is the most complete preservation of a Royal Palace Royal Garden, known as the“Royal Garden Museum.”. The Summer Palace is listed as the national five-a scenic spots.
On July 31st, the last day of July, we visited the summer palace in Beijing again.
I have been to the Summer Palace three times.
The first time I visited the summer palace was in 1987, when I came to Beijing to study. I was accompanied by my second sister, Liu Qi, who worked in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and my nephew, Jiang Ke. I saw all the imperial garden buildings in the summer palace.
The second time is the summer of 2007, my daughter and son-in-law accompanied us and granddaughter, a total of five people to visit the summer palace in Beijing. She was only six years old.
The third time was in early 2014, when my daughter took us and our grandson to visit the Summer Palace.That time, because my wife, and grandson were going to study abroad with my daughter, all four of us needed visas to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.After applying for a visa to go abroad, we came to the Summer Palace again.My grandson was only two and a half years old at that time.
今天是第四次游颐和园。
这一次是姑爷诚心邀我们再来北京游玩。因他工作单位迁京两年多了，两个外孙总念叨要去北京看望爸爸。现在上小学与幼儿园的外孙和外孙女都放了暑假。女儿这几天恰好有点空闲，答应孩子带他们去北京探望爸爸。同时邀我和老伴再游北京。
我想趁着腿脚还能走动，再来北京玩玩。主要是想去看看姑爷工作的地方，于是答应了邀请。
北京所有景区都要预约门票。女儿提前为我们预约了各个景区的门票。
上午九点半，我们到达颐和园的西门，预约了门票，只需扫一扫北京健康宝，就可进入颐和园内。
From the West Gate, you must take a large boat to the island in the middle of the lake. From the West Gate Pier, we took a boat across the Kunming Lake River to the other side of the park.
Kunming Lake, an important scenic spot in the Summer Palace, accounts for three-quarters of the park's area. All the royal buildings in the park are located around Kunming Lake. Scenic spots in the southeast, more dense ancient buildings, the northwest slightly sparse scenery.
由西门入，必须乘大船到达湖心岛，再过十七孔桥到东面的景点。否则绕湖岸边步行游玩，大约需要一个多小时步行。携带两个小孩子，显然是不行。于是我乘大船过湖。
To the north-west of Kunming Lake lies the broad lotus pond, near the shore. At this time, it was the blooming season of the lotus pond along the coast. The graceful red lotus and its bud stuck their heads high and peered through the thick layers of large green lotus leaves, self-appreciation of green leaves foil safflower charming. The lotus pond is really beautiful.
一会渡船抵岸，我们登上湖心岛。我望见旁边横跨于湖心岛与湖东岸宏伟的十七孔桥。这是昆明池中一个独特亮丽的风景。我拍下这一美景，然后登上十七孔桥到达湖的岸边。
我的外孙们来颐和园，不是为了欣赏颐和园的古代建筑以及颐和园的历史与文化。而是为了划船游玩昆明湖的水域，过一次水上娱乐之隐。因此，大人满足孩子们游玩娱乐需求。买了船票，但需要等候小船半小时。
Today, the weather is particularly muggy and hot.Let's find a shady place to cool off and wait for the boat.I took advantage of this spare time to go on a solo tour.
I pass through Wenchang Pavilion and get a closer look at Longevity Hill, Buddha incense pavilion. But I can't risk going to Longevity Hill, let alone the pavilion of Buddha incense. Also did not visit the long corridor painted beams carved pillars heritage and landscape, because time is too limited.
So in the limited time, I quickly visited the nearby Summer Palace Museum. I only went into the porcelain museum and the two museums where the ancient treasures are on display. I walked around in a hurry. I took a lot of photos, and I will enjoy them when I get home.
We have less than ten minutes to board. I hurried to where the children were waiting for the boat.
We waited in line for a few more minutes. At about 11:00 noon, we boarded our own six-person electric boat. The boat was driven by my grandson and granddaughter in turn, and we took a round trip around Kunming Lake to see the coastal scenery. It was really charming and relaxing!
The shore willows shade, peach trees full of finger-egg-sized small peach, the shore was full of tourists, some children took off their shoes, bare feet into the shallow water. I felt it was a dangerous act, but their parents didn't stop their children.
湖面有许多水鸟，可能是鸳鸯吧？对对鸳鸯戏水，在湖里自由自在的生活。外孙开船去近水鸟，它加快速度逃离。在船马上追上水鸟时，外孙正想伸手去抓住它，它却扑腾一声飞出水面，飞到很远的地方又落入水面。外孙大声说：＂它还能飞得这么远啊！＂
船游至湖西岸时，一小时的划船时间，已剩下的20分钟。我们必须返回码头。于是，我们穿过十七孔桥下中间最大的那个桥孔，向码头东岸划去。
At 12:00 noon, we came to the east gate of the summer palace. Visited the Renshou Hall, as well as the hall in front of the bronze kylin statue and birthday stone.
Then cool off under the ancient cypress trees and wait for my aunt here, drive alone outside the west gate and pick us up outside the east gate.
尽管这次以满足孩子娱乐为主，使我不能再仔细观看文物，了解清朝皇帝、皇后奢侈生活的历史，却也欣赏昆明湖上的无限风光，享受了湖面的一片清凉，不枉此行！
After the tour of the Summer Palace, go to Shangdi Street for lunch at about 1 noon.The children bought hamburger drumsticks and so on at the restaurant, took them to a Sichuan restaurant, and had a gourmet lunch with us.