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The Mountain Resort (Chinese language|Chinese: ????????????, pinyin: B??sh?? Sh??nzhu??ng, literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat) or Ligong (Chinese: ??????, pinyin: L??g??ng, the Qing Dynasty's summer palace) situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei Province, China, is the world's largest existing imperial garden. Built between 1703 and 1792, the Mountain Resort took a total of 89 years to complete. It covers a total area of 5.6 square kilometers|km??, almost half of Chengde's urban area. It is a vast complex of palaces and administrative and ceremonial buildings. Temples of various architectural styles and imperial gardens blend harmoniously into a landscape of lakes, pastureland and forests. In addition to its aesthetic interest, the Mountain Resort is a rare historic vestige of the final development of feudal society in China. Qing emperors Kang Xi, Qian Long, and Jia Qing often spent several months a year here to escape the summer heat in the capital city of Beijing and the palace zone in the southern part of the resort was therefore designed to resemble the Forbidden City in Beijing. It consists of two parts: a court in front, where the emperor received high officials, nobles of various minority nationalities, and foreign envoys; and bed chambers in the rear, which were the imperial family's living quarters. True to its name, the Mountain Resort is known to be at least 3 degrees Celcius cooler than Chengde City itself. The Mountain Resort is most famous for the 72 scenic spots which was named fascinatedly by the emperors Kang Xi and Qian Long. Image:mountain resort1.jpg|thumb|200px|One of the scenic spots: Tower of Mist and Rain Many of the scenic spots around the resort's lake area were copied from famous landscaped gardens in Southern China. For instance, the main building on Green Lotus Island, "Tower of Mist and Rain," (Chinese: ?????????, pinyin: Y??ny?? L??u) is a copy of a tower in Nanhu Lake at Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. The resort's plain area possesses characteristics of the scenery of the Mongolian grasslands. Forested mountains and valleys are dotted with various building. In December 1994 the Mountain Resort was listed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites. Category:Qing Dynasty Category:World Heritage Sites in China Category:Palaces in China Category:Hebei ja:???????????? zh:???????????? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mountain Resort".
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