In the fifteenth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong spent 4.48 million taels of silver to rebuild Qingyi Garden in the western suburbs of Beijing, forming a royal garden area 20 kilometers from Tsinghua campus to Xiangshan.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Qingyi Garden was burned by British and French allied forces. Guangxu fourteen years reconstruction, renamed the Summer Palace, as a summer resort. /kloc-in 0/900, the Summer Palace was destroyed by Eight-Nation Alliance and its treasures were looted by Eight-Nation Alliance.

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The Summer Palace covers an area of 293 hectares and is mainly composed of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake. There are more than 3,000 palace garden buildings in various forms, which can be roughly divided into three parts: administration, life and sightseeing.

The administrative district centered on Renshou Hall is the place where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu sat in the hall to listen to politics and meet foreign guests. Behind Ninjuji are three large quadrangles.

Leshoutang, Yulantang and Yiyuntang are the places where Cixi, Guangxu and Empress Dowager lived respectively. Deheyuan Theater on the east side of Yiyun Pavilion is one of the three major theaters in Qing Dynasty.

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