介绍景点的导游词【1】The summer palace(颐和园 HIstory: It has a history of over 800 years, which goes back to the Liao& Jin Dynasty.Firstly in Jin Dynasty, it was built to be a temporary palace, named Golden Hill and Golden Water Pond; Then in Yuan Dynasty, the Emperor Kublai Khan(忽必烈可汗 intent to develop the water transportation system, to response, water was brought from Shenshan Mountain to the Jade Spring Hill and then to Jar Hill Pond; In Ming Dynasty, as the 10th emperor was quite fond of the outstanding sceneries here, he ordered to build an imperial residence by the lake. From then on, the beautiful place with natural hill, neat pond and colorful botany became an ideal place for emperor. The name of “The summer palace” was indeed given by express Cixi, who loved here very much. She embezzled the navy funds to have the palace rebuilt under the excuse of setting up a navy academy inside. This led to big budget deficit in economy and what was worse resulted in Chinese defeat in the Sino Japanese War in 1894.To avoid war in 1902, Cixi escaped to Xi’an with the emperor Guangxu. The summer palace, as we can image, was badly destroyed and ransacked at that moment. When Cixi returned after the war, she spared no effort to rebuild the palace and came to live here every year from April to October. The summer palace today is more or less the same look as it was rebuilt in 1903.
