Chengde Mountain Resorl and Outlying Temples
承德避暑山庄与外八庙
Chengde City is located in the northeast part of Hebei Province,230km from Beijing. Announced among the first 24 historical and cultural cities of the nation, Chengde has the largest existing royal garden on his land： Mountain Resort and the outlying temples of various nationalities,which,in December of 1994,were inscribed in World Heritage List by World Heritage Committee of UNESCO.
承德位于河北省东北部,离北京230公里，是首批24个国家历史文化名城之一,承德现有最大的皇家花园：避暑山庄与外八庙，在1994年12月,联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会将其收录在世界遗产名录中。
The resort is also called “Tour Palace at Rehe Hot River”，first constructed in the 18th century during the reigns of Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong. It was a second political center apart from Beijing, for the emperor would stay here for about half a year to attend to political,military,ethnic,and foreign affairs.
山庄也被称为“热河行宫”,在康熙和乾隆统治期间第一个建于18世纪。它是除北京外的第二个政治中心,皇帝会在这里呆大约半年参加政治、军事、民族和外交事务。
The design of the resort takes advantage of the natural and wild scenes for the carefully constructed buildings of over 120 groups, which integrate the features of both the northern meadows and the southern waterscape, in a layout of lake in the southeast,mountain in the northwest,and plain in the northeast.
避暑山庄的设计利用自然和野外场景的精心构造了120多组建筑,其集成了北方草地和南部水景及布局在东南的湖,西北的山区,东北部的平原的特性
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