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Huguosi Snack is one of the representatives of Beijing local snacks near Beihai Park Beijing. It has various kinds, outstanding character and deep history culture deposits. The snacks include Aiwowo, snow balling usury, sesame ball, focal circle, ground beans drink and fried dought twist and so on more than eighty kinds. They collect the essences of Beijing snacks and welcomed by customers from all over the world. Many tourists in Beihai Park Beijing go to Huguosi Snack shop to have a taste since the shop is not far from Beihai Park Beijing.

To further show the snack culture and let the customers know more about old Beijing amorous feelings, the Huguosi snack shop creates special snacks banquet on the foundation of traditional Beijing snacks. “Snacks Banquet” is famous for its various varieties and special style. The snacks have exquisite raw materials and beautiful appearance with mane techniques. They are soft, crisp, salty or fragrant. They take the essence of hundred years Beijing snacks. At the same time, Beijing snacks pay more attention to collection and nutrition. It is a good choice for tourists in BeiHai Park Beijing. Travelling in BeiHai Park Beijing and having the delicious snacks is a good thing during your BeiHai Park Beijing trip.

There are many famous and beautiful spots in Beihai Park in Beijing. Qionghua Island is one of the famous ones. Qionghua Island whose short name is Qiong Island is also called White Pagoda Mountain. The island is 32 meters high and 913 meters girth. Qionghua means gorgeous jade and the name express that this island is built by beautiful jade. There is also a legend that Qionghua is the flower of the Qiong tree and it grows in Penglai Island. So it also means this island is built imitate the fairy island. In early Qing dynasty, there is firecracker platform and garrisoned by army.

Rockery Cave is another spot in Beihai Park in Beijing. It is located in the mountainside of north Qionghua Island. There are many jagged rocks of grotesque shapes, dangerous cliffs and deep ditches, caves. Even thought they are manmade but have natural beauty. The rockeries, stone caves and richly decorated jade palaces are built as the models of Celestial Mountain and cave mansion in Penglai fairyland. Tourists during the tour in Beihai Park in Beijing can have an experience here if you also want to visit the Penglai Pavilion.

These two spots are only part of the Beihai Park in Beijing. If you want to get more go to visit the Beihai Park in Beijing. The Beihai Park in Beijing will not let you disappoint.

The Beihai Park China is located in the center of Beijing city. The Beihai Park China is one of the imperial gardens which have long history and well protected. The Beihai Park China has thousand years history. The Beihai Park China covers 708,700 square meters area including 388,700 square meters water are and 320,000 square meters land. The lake in the park is spacious and the flowers and the trees are prosperous and green. There are many pavilions, terraces and open halls. It looks like a fairyland. Now let introduce the famous nine dragons’ wall.

The nine dragons’ wall built in 1756 is 5 meters high, 1.2 meters thick and 27 meters long. The whole wall is built with colorful glazed tiles and there are nine colorful dragons on each side of the wall. The dragons are playing in the cloud with pearls. They are lively with high technology. The wall is a precious creation for the national gazed building. The wall was built to drive evil. Entering the screen wall you will see the Dayuanjingzhi Palace. The palace has been rebuilt and it is majestic and lofty. The nine dragons’ wall in Beihai Park China is the elite of Chinese glazed building. There are totally three nine dragons’ walls in China: the largest and most long history is in Datong Shanxi and it was built in Ming dynasty Hongwu period; the special one is in Beihai Park China; the third one is in Imperial City in front of the Ningshou Palace.

The history of Beihai Park

Beihai Park is one of the best preserved imperial parks and has about millennium history. Beihai is closely related to the development of Beijing city. It was the original that Yongding River passed by. The course of the river naturally flowing to the south left bare land and a pond of water behind.

The construction of Beihai Park began at Liao Dynasty. Liaotaizong the second emperor of Liao Dynasty after found the capital of Yan city in 938 decided to build the palace in Beihai the northeast of the city. After Jin Dynasty captured Liao, the Yan city regained its name Zhongdu(the central capital of Jin). Wanyanliang in the year of 1150 extended Beihai. Jinshizong imitated the earlier Song Dynasty of bianliang (now the Kaifeng, Henan province) Genyue imperial garden and constructed Qionghua isle. He also carried considerable number of Taihu stones carved them into rockery cave. He also built Daningli temple centering Yaoyu (Beihai) in the northeast of Zhongdu. From that on, Beihai had the shape of today’s imperial palace and garden. With the soil that was from constructing site of Jinhai to make knoll and small hills. The isle is called Qionghua islet and the water called Xihua pond and rebuilt Guanghan palace.

Beihai Park has delicate pavilion with long and winding veranda. The whole park was built according to the tale of “one pond with three immortals” (Taiye Pond, Penglai, Fangzhang, Yingzhou) with its unique structure, vivid in color and feel like you are in artistic conception. There is open water with the reflection of a pagoda in it, the evergreen pine and cypress steadfast nobility, the fragrant trees and flowers, the various and special pavilions and pagodas and the caves and stones all are gorgeous with various shapes. Walking inside you feel like you are in illusion. Qiong Island has a white Tibetan pagoda whose height is about 67 meters and was built in 1652. Besides, it also includes what the emperor Qianlong had mentioned the jade islet stele one of the eight seneries of Beijing, artificial hill and caves. At the northeast part there are sites of Huafang room, Haopujian, Jingqing room, emperor temple, five-dragon pavilions, nine-dragon wall and so on. The northern part is Beihai round city with trees and flowers and the delicate Chengguang temple inside them.

The Imperial Cuisine, in brief means the foods that is only for emperors. The cuisines of the Ancient Chinese emperor each holds its unique taste, but one thing in common is that the emperors of any dynasties, was very severe to the taste and used their power gethered all the famous chef from all over China, collected all the cuisines and developed delicate, luxurious imperial cuisine. Introduce the features, sources and stories of the cuisine for free. It is a place for celebration, marriage and the KTV here is for free.

Cuisine: Beijing cuisine, Emprial cuisine, Lu cuisine

Seats: 360

Private Rooms: Five

Location: Beihai Park, Wenjin Road 1^st , Xicheng District

Telephne: 64041088

Located at the northwestern corner of the compound in Beihai Park, the Tower of Ten Thousand Buddhas was built in 1771 in honour of the 80th birthday of Emperor Qianlong’s mother. The tower contained 10,000 niches, each holding a gilded Amitayus Buddha. It is a pity they were looted when the Allied Forces of the Eight Powers invaded Beijing in 1900.

Haopujian(As Between the Hao & Pu Streams)

It was first built in 1757. The place is surrounded by rocky formations, covered with trees, decorated with winding stone bridges and spacious halls in an environment of quiet seclusion. Sometimes Empress Dowager Cixi came here to spend her summer days and listen to traditional story telling.

Yonganqiao (Bridge of Eternal Peace) is a pathway to the southern bank. Situated in the southern part of Qionghua Islet in Beihai Park, this pathway, built in the early days of the Yuan Dynasty, leads to the southern bank of the lake. This is a threearched bridge with exquisitely carved frieze panels and balusters, its gentle gradient footpath paved with stone slabs. On both ends of the bridge are timber archways, each supported on four red columns. and with a roof of green cylindrical tiles. On the horizontal boards of the archways are the characters “Duiyun” (Clouds Piling Up) and “Jicui” (Massing Green) written in gold on a blue ground.

Jingxinzhai (Heart-Ease Study) is a fascinating garden located on the northern shores of Beihai. The whole garden is surrounded by a gilded and painted zigzag corridor that follows the shape of the hills. The gagden was first named Jingqingzhai (Clear Mirror Study) built with fine workmanship in 1758 and was known as the “miniature garden of Qianlong.” The Qing emperors and empresses used to come here to relax after worshipping Gods at Xiaoxitian(Little Western Sky) in Beihai. Empress Dowager Cixi made it her favourite resort because of its quietness and seclusion and a special narrow-gauge railway line was built from her residence at Zhongnanhai right down to the entrance of the garden. In 1913, this place was renovated and renamed Jingxinzhai.

The garden combines the special feature of gardening in ageas both north and south of the Yangtze River. It is ingeniously designed, novel in style, made up of three courtyards and consists chiefly of rockeries.

Behind the elegant north gate of the garden is a pond that takes up one whole courtyard and has water lilies in its clear water. In the pond stands an exquisite piece of rock from Lake Taihu and the spacious Jingxinzhai stands right behind the pond.

East of Jingxinzhai is a small courtyard. The main building facing south is Baoshu Study, said to be the study of the crown princes of the Qing Dynasty.

On the eastern side of the Islet in Beihai Park stands a tablet known as the Jade Islet Spring Shade, one of the eight beautiful scenes in ancient Beijing. The others are Yuquan Baotu (Leopard Leaping Fountain of Yuquan), Taiye Qiufeng(Autumn Wind of Taiye), Jimen Yanshu (Fog Tree of Jimen), Xishan Qingxue (sunny or Snowy Days of Western Hills), Lugou Xiaoyue (Morning Moon over Lugou Bridge), Jintai Xizhao (Sunset of Jintai)and Juyong Diecui (Layers of Green Mounts Near Juyong Pass).

Qing Emperor Qianlong was so fascinated by the beautiful scene here that he wrote a poem and an inscription that reads Jade Islet Spring Shade. The inscription was later carved on the facade of the tablet and the poem on the back. The tablet is enclosed by marble balustrades. Closed by the tablet a path leads to the top of the hill.