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Located
in the northeast of Hebei Province, 230 km from Beijing, Chengde
is a famous tourist city in China. Surrounded by mountains
and rivers, exuberant forests and trees with beautiful scenery,
it is an ideal place for holidays and vacations.
In this charming place, natural scenery and artificial scenes
mingle together, with Mountain Resort and Eight Outer Temples
as the center, like "ripples" spreading to all directions.
The Mountain Resort of
Chengde
As one of China's ten top scenic spots and the world's extant
largest imperial garden where emperors of the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911) used to spend their summer vacations and engaged
in political activities, the resort is also known as the temporary
palace away from the capital.
The Eight Outer Temples
The Eight Outer Temples were built in groups on the eastern
and northern slopes of the Mountain Resort. The glistening
gilded tiles and grandiose construction show a harmonic combination
of many architectural styles.
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