The first is unique style.
You can't see the overall shape of the 728-meter-long corridor from the ground, but if you sit on the plane and look from the air, you will find that it is shaped like an inverted bat. Why build it into a bat shape? Because our country has the custom of painting and carving bats on buildings, and the implication of bats hanging upside down is blessing.
The second is feng shui.
The promenade faces Wanshou Mountain in the north and Kunming Lake in the south. From the climate point of view, in winter, Wanshou Mountain blocked the cold wind in the north; In summer, a cool breeze blows from Kunming Lake in the south. So no matter how hot it is in summer, it is cool and breezy in the promenade. From the environmental point of view, the promenade is surrounded by mountains and waters, which constitutes a beautiful picture. When people walk in the promenade, they will find that the beautiful scenery in the garden moves with the water waves and changes with the seasons. It is really endless.
The third is structural.
The promenade is a bucket arch structure, all made of wood, without a nail. This is the exquisite skill left by our ancestors. Among the 273 corridors, one scene, one scene and one painting, the scenery changes harmoniously. It is true that people walk in the corridor and the scenery moves around them.
Secondly, the promenade also divides the landscape of the Summer Palace into two halves, which constitutes the main theme of the Summer Palace, becomes a model of architectural aesthetics and enjoys a high reputation in the world.
Third, the beauty of the promenade is still very beautiful. Those paintings on the promenade. In 273 corridors, there are14,000 colorful ink paintings everywhere.
These paintings are for a reason. When emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River to travel, he was still wanting more. He is very attached to the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and even often dreams about it. So, let the painters draw many beautiful Jiangnan scenery on the promenade. Later, many flower-and-bird landscape paintings were added as decorative foil. Figure painting is the last one, and the rich and vivid stories in it are even more fascinating, including stories in folklore, stories in literary masterpieces and stories in myths and legends. ...