Identifier: pekingoverlandro00thom (find matches)
Title: Peking and the overland route
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas Cook Ltd
Subjects: Beijing (China) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Shanghai : Thos. Cook
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ie of old age. The high priests of thistemple have for centuries been rated among the Courtfunctionaries and have exercised no little influence inpolitics. Immediately north of the temple is a fragnient ofthe wall of the old Liao dynasty capital, built in the 8thcentury. Aniile west of the Po Vun Ssu there is a golf clubwith well kept links, which numbers about 50 members,and half an hours walk beyond is the Peking race coursewhere a good sized community of summer cottages isgrowing up. FIFTH DAY, MORNING. (27) The Summer Palace, (Wan Shou Shan MmlU),known to the Chinese as the Moimtain of Ten ThousandAncients, was for the last fifty years of the lately deposedChing dynasty, the only summer resort available to theImperial household, and was occupied up to 1909 fornearly six months out of the year by the Imperial familyand the majority of its retainers. The palace, which isstill scattered over a vast area, is only a fragment of aroyal resort laid out by Kang Hsi and improved upon by 77
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78 his various successors iu the 17th and 18th centuries, andeven to the time of the Em)jeror Tung Chihs death inI860 was only one of several resorts to which the courtcould re)mir when the heat became oppressive in mid-summer. Other residences, equally elaborate, were main-tained at the Yuan Ming Yuan, and at Jehol, and lodgesat Tangshan. Nanyuan, and other attractive spots werefrequently visited. Domestic politics and trying foreignrelations, however, limited the scope of the Imperialfamilys movements, and the result was that particularpainsand much wcjilth were lavished upon the presentSummer Palace, so thut it was the most beautiful residence,and is now the most delightlul pleasure ground in China. The ))alace, or rather succession of palaces, stretchesalong the border of the lotus-grown lake Kun Ming, atthe foot of a detached hill near the Western Hills, a littleless than seven miles north-east of Peking. By motorcar it is about three quarters of an hour from the LegationQuarter.

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