Beijing s Yuanmingyuan Park is determined to play a positive role in the passing down of traditional culture and to meet the growing need for public cultural offerings.
Archaeologists have fully unveiled a key site at the ruins of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing that tells of past imperial glory and demonstrates a painful moment in Chinese history.
The ruins were found in the northwest section of Yuanmingyuan at the Danbo Ningjing (literally Simple and Calm) site. Completed in the fifth year of the Yongzheng Emperor (1727).
The remains of a razed royal rice field and its related buildings were discovered in the northern section of Beijing s Yuanmingyuan Park, or the Old Summer Palace, during a recent archaeological excavation, providing new materials for the study of agricultural technology and imperial garden architecture during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
China Daily/Asia News Network
More than a century and a half after its destruction, a site in the ruins of Yuanmingyuan - the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) royal resort also known as the Old Summer Palace - has been unearthed in Beijing.
New findings were announced on Tuesday (Dec 15) by an archaeological team working on the site, which comprises researchers from the Beijing Archaeological Research Institute, Peking University and the administration of the Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park.
Built in 1727 during the reign of Yongzheng (1723 - 35), the site covers about 26,000 square metres and was where Qing emperors held farming ceremonies.
It was called Danbo Ningjing, literally to live in serenity and without many desires , which comes from a famous line of Zhuge Liang (181-234), a master strategist and a prime minister.