Courtyard style
Chengde mountain resort is a typical representative of the palace architecture and gardens in China. On the basis of combining the natural landscape, it inherits and develops the tradition of royal gardens, is an outstanding representative of the natural landscape palace in China, and is the successful practice of China's traditional "Feng Shui" theory; Its superb gardening, architectural art and mature construction technology reflect the cultural characteristics of China, as well as the unified traditional etiquette thought of China in the18-19th century and China's aesthetic taste. As a representative of China's classical gardens, chengde mountain resort's gardening art once influenced Europe in the18th century and occupied an important historical position in the history of world garden design.
The concrete mode of courtyard
The Summer Resort was founded in the 42nd year of Kangxi (1703) and completed in the 57th year of Qianlong (1792), which lasted for 89 years. The whole park consists of palace area and garden scenic area, covering an area of about 564 hectares. The palace area of the summer resort is the place where the emperor handles political affairs and daily life. It adopts the layout of nine squares, progressive and in-depth development, showing the supremacy of imperial power.
Functionally, it can be divided into vestibule and backyard. The buildings in the palace area are not grand, mainly gray, with blue bricks and tiles and antique colonnade, which is consistent with the quaint atmosphere of the whole villa. The main building of the former dynasty was Lianbo Jingcheng Hall, commonly known as Nanmu Hall, which faced south, with seven rooms wide and three rooms deep. It's all nanmu structure, not painted. Every drizzle season, the fragrance of sandalwood is fragrant, quiet and elegant. Named after the artistic conception of "seclusion, enlightenment and harmony"
There is a row of 19 bungalows in the back, called "Long Live Hall", which is the boundary between the front and rear bedrooms. If the architectural features of the previous dynasty were spacious courtyards, magnificent buildings and solemn atmosphere, then the architectural features of the latter dynasty were compact buildings and quiet environment. The main building of the back bedroom is the "smoke cool" hall, which is a spacious and magnificent building with a width of five rooms. Two of them have the throne of the emperor, and the westernmost one is where the emperor stayed. The things in the bedroom have a small courtyard, called the East and West Courtyard, which is connected to the bedroom through a side door and is the residence of the empresses. The last entrance to the main palace is the "Yunshan Resort" building, which is a two-story building with five rooms wide. There is an artificial rockery in front of the building, and a path leads to the second floor instead of the building. Exquisite and diverse designs. As the end of the main palace, Yunshan Holiday Building is the transition between the main palace and the landscape.